President-elect Trump's appointments part II
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“I think our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge,” he claimed. “You should try to cast aside your family, you should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place.”
“Don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man,” the vice president continued. “Because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends or because you’re competitive.”
At that point the crowd chimed in to endorse his ideas with loud applause.
“The cultural message,” Vance went on to claim, is that today’s culture wants to turn both men and women “into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same and act the same.”
“We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we are going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”
I don't think this guy could be any more unlikable.
Having a beer with friends or being competitive are not 'male specific' activities.
Lol at the 'like to tell a joke' part.... that just code for like to tell offensive misogynistic jokes like it's Mad Men in 1950's
What is this guys obsession with Heterosexual mating?
There are BILLIONS of humans on earth and we are in zero danger of going extinct due to not making enough babies.
This guy is DYING to turn America into 'A Handmaids Tale'
What a knuckle dragging Neanderthal.
“I think our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge,” he claimed. “You should try to cast aside your family, you should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place.”
“Don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man,” the vice president continued. “Because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends or because you’re competitive.”
At that point the crowd chimed in to endorse his ideas with loud applause.
“The cultural message,” Vance went on to claim, is that today’s culture wants to turn both men and women “into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same and act the same.”
“We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we are going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”
I don't think this guy could be any more unlikable.
Having a beer with friends or being competitive are not 'male specific' activities.
Lol at the 'like to tell a joke' part.... that just code for like to tell offensive misogynistic jokes like it's Mad Men in 1950's
What is this guys obsession with Heterosexual mating?
There are BILLIONS of humans on earth and we are in zero danger of going extinct due to not making enough babies.
This guy is DYING to turn America into 'A Handmaids Tale'
What a knuckle dragging Neanderthal.
I spent quite a bit of time in Southern Brazil on the border with Argentina and Uruguay. It is some of the most beautiful sparsely populated areas in the America's. One reason that makes Uruguay attractive is a modern banking system that allows US Dollar denominated accounts.
I am frankly too old to consider now and am not proficient in Spanish but it remains an attractive destination.
The beachfronts there are absolutely beautiful.
You probably have an advantage even without being fluent in Spanish by just being really familiar with the area and afaik most countries use a lot of bilingual signs with English for navigating.
Plus with smartphones translation is at our fingertips.
I studied Spanish in HS for 2 years but unfortunately I forgot it all in probably 2 months after graduation.
I forgot to mention earlier that I've studied Japanese for a while and am at an intermediate level and I also started studying Korean a few months back so I'm still a beginner there. Once I get to at least an intermediate level there I might try a 4th language.
I guess I'm saying it's never too late to try to learn a new language if it's something that might be fun....I'm in my late 40s and never thought I could learn a 2nd language until a few years ago.
Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stopping a successful flu vaccination campaign that juxtaposed images of wild animals, such as a lion, with cute counterparts, like a kitten, as an analogy for how immunization can help tame the flu.
The news was shared with staff during a meeting on Wednesday, according to two CDC staffers who spoke with NPR on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, and a recording reviewed by NPR.
During the meeting, leadership at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases told CDC staff that the Department of Health and Human Services had reviewed the campaign and advised that it would not continue.
The move comes during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first full week on the job as head of HHS.
The "Wild to Mild" flu vaccination campaign sought to encourage people to get the flu vaccine. In particular, the campaign aimed to communicate that flu vaccination can lessen symptoms and the chance of getting severely ill, even if it doesn't prevent someone from catching the flu.
The Trump administration's decision to pull the campaign comes in the midst of a brutal flu season that's still raging. More than 50,000 patients were admitted to hospitals for influenza during the week ending Feb. 8, the highest level in 15 years.
Paid media for the ad campaign was ending on Wednesday, according to one of the current CDC staff members who spoke to NPR.
On Wednesday, the webpages for the "Wild to Mild" vaccination campaign were entirely offline. On Thursday a link came back online, but it now directs to a webpage with older material, rather than the previous pages that contained shareable images from the 2024 campaign.
The new chief economist at OMB was the CEO of Coalition for a Prosperous America, the trade group/think tank arguing that a 10% across-the-board tariff would increase Americans’ real incomes by 5.7%.
Abbey Gate terror suspect charged and extradited to the US
The U.S. has in custody a key figure in three major terror attacks, including the deadly August 2021 suicide bombing targeting U.S. soldiers at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan.
abcnews.go.com
The U.S. now has in custody a key figure in three major terror attacks, including the deadly August 2021 suicide bombing targeting U.S. soldiers at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. military service members and 160 civilians as the U.S. sought to withdraw from that country.
The fun part for my wife and me - as we move to semi-retirement in the near future - is to take extended vacations to (in part) scout the places where we may want to live for several months a year. SE Asia will probably be the ultimate choice so my wife can easily visit family and friends in Vietnam. But we also want to travel a lot more to Europe. We are penciling in a trip to Germany for 2026. I would love to go back to Italy and Spain too. Heck, there aren't too many places in the world we'd decline to visit. It's just a matter of lining up the time to go. We've been trying to do a medical/surgical mission (and extend that with some tourist time) to Kenya for years, but it's a tough pull. One day ...
ETA: There is apparently a Hangover tour in Bangkok. Not sure if it involves getting drugged and hooking up with a ladyboy.
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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells Fox viewers to buy Tesla stock
Trump pulls Elise Stefanik's nomination after last-minute panic
Good.
The one who sold her soul for 30 pieces of Trump silver goes down, which I like. This is the woman who despite voting with Trump FAR LESS replaced Liz Cheney and became the kind of pompous windbag who could use a good throat punch.
There are bus stop pedophiles more qualified for some government work than a number of the yahoos Trump has submitted.
Good.
The one who sold her soul for 30 pieces of Trump silver goes down, which I like. This is the woman who despite voting with Trump FAR LESS replaced Liz Cheney and became the kind of pompous windbag who could use a good throat punch.
There are bus stop pedophiles more qualified for some government work than a number of the yahoos Trump has submitted.
Except that this was for her to keep her congresional seat.
Yes sir, I'll confess the first story I read on this wasn't clear on that point.
That being said - how bad trouble is your party in if they can lose that district?
She's never had a close election, and Trump just won it by 21 points (in a state he lost by 12.5).
The House is currently 218-213 with four vacancies. Two of them are for Democrats who died. Both seem to be very safe for them.
The other two are in Florida. One is Matt Gaetz’ seat. He won with 66% of the vote in November against the same person who is running for the Democrats in the special election. The Republican running has the advantage of not being Matt Gaetz so he should win.
The other is for Michael Waltz’ seat. Waltz also had 66% so it shouldn’t be a problem for the new guy.
Both Florida special elections are Tuesday. The other two have one in Texas with no set date yet and one in Arizona set for September.
Stefanik got 62% so her seat is pretty safe.
The Democrats are making a lot of noise about having a chance in Florida. But unless Trump does something monumentally stupid this weekend (not impossible) I don’t see them being close.
So worrying about one seat seems a bit overblown.
The other two are in Florida. One is Matt Gaetz’ seat. He won with 66% of the vote in November against the same person who is running for the Democrats in the special election. The Republican running has the advantage of not being Matt Gaetz so he should win.
The other is for Michael Waltz’ seat. Waltz also had 66% so it shouldn’t be a problem for the new guy.
Both Florida special elections are Tuesday. The other two have one in Texas with no set date yet and one in Arizona set for September.
Stefanik got 62% so her seat is pretty safe.
The Democrats are making a lot of noise about having a chance in Florida. But unless Trump does something monumentally stupid this weekend (not impossible) I don’t see them being close.
So worrying about one seat seems a bit overblown.
You know, I "get" that the job of political consultants it to LIE to donors and LIE to the press and LIE to the candidate until Election Day when you tell them they never had a chance, but I don't how many times I've watched this same movie - and most of the time it's always a Democrat whose going to win a district where the Republican can have sex with under age girls and still win a landslide.
I mean, I chose an apt metaphor for Gaetz's district, the most Republican in Florida btw.
Let's be clear: Florida 1 isn't going to be close, and if it is, the GOP has serious problems. But this is the same thing I live through every election cycle since I moved to Texas in 2001 - "this is the year Texas goes blue." I watched people who should know better say, "Texas is in play!" last fall and cite the "look at all the people Kamala is drawing in Houston" (ignoring Beyonce' was the draw). Beto O'Rourke became a star because he lost a close election to the most unpopular Texas Senator in maybe forever. That wasn't Texas turning blue, it was Republicans who hate Ted Cruz.
Me suspects Trump wanted her out of the leadership because someone mentioned her previous lack of loyalty, but he lacked the spine to just tell them to dump her, so he went through the charade. For all of his reality TV "you're fired," the man is an utter coward who never fires anyone face to face.
Well, one seat when your margin is narrow CAN BE a big deal, but I think part of the problem overall is that everyone thinks about politics too "rationally" and thinks the world works in such a way where if you just give them "facts" (always selectively of course), the voters will make what the presenter thinks is the rational, right position.
That's never been true.
And I also think too much is made of special elections (and even the midterms) NOT because control is at stake but there's this magical thinking that says that if a state is won by your party's governor or both senators, it translates to the Presidential race - which is ridiculous. I could provide data point after data point, but just look at this as a prime example:
1995 Large State Governors
1) California - Pete Wilson, R
2) New York - George Pataki, R
3) Texas - George W. Bush, R
4) Pennsylvania - Tom Ridge, R
5) Illinois - Jim Edgar, R
6) Florida - Lawton Chiles, D
7) Ohio - George Voinovich, R
8) Michigan - John Engler, R
9) New Jersey - Christie Todd Whitman, R
10) Georgia - Zell Miller, D
In the 1994 midterms, the GOP wiped out the Dems in both Houses and had 8 of the 9 largest states with GOP governors. Two years later, Clinton won EVERY SINGLE ONE of the top 9 states EXCEPT Texas (he had won GA in 92 but lost it).
Our entire system of elections and coverage is built upon political myths like that.
Reagan carried 49 states in 1984, but the Democratic Governors were in charge of NY, TX, FL, OH, and GA.
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