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Trump can't cope with the truth can he:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360866136/see-ad-trump-says-hes-ending-trade-talks-canada-over
Brilliant-thanks Anne.
Truth is a very subjective concept for Trump.
For instance, take the new ballroom being constructed (without going through due planning process) at the White House. Trump said the existing East Wing building, now being demolished, would not need to be touched.
This is an issue that all Americans will understand and will surely cost him many votes in the mid-terms. This video, one minute, explains why.
What mid-terms? I repeat my prediction (made several times before, here and elsewhere) that they won't take place in any meaningful sense.
Indeed.
@MarcoFoster_
Steve Bannon: “Well he’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ‘28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ‘28.”
https://xcancel.com/MarcoFoster_/status/1981432802768994579
mmm…there are too many sensible people in the USA to let that happen…remember Trump won narrowly 49.9 versus 48.4 and would lose if there was an election today.
They will not be under the same rules as those in 2024.
House vote 2024
Dem
47.83% 215
GOP
50.56% 220
Dems polling 2.6% ahead in the generic Congress vote at the moment….but agree it is tight, especially with Trump gerrymandering furiously.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/state-of-the-union/generic-congressional-vote
Charming.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWLbq7PlrIA
(Helen Andrews | Overcoming the Feminization of Culture)
We have met the enemy of civilization, and it’s women.
Not individual women, mind you. Because any given individual woman can possess masculine characteristics. And certainly not homemakers — those are the women who are doing the job they’ve done for millenniums, taking care of the family.
No, the challenge to civilization is presented, in the view of Helen Andrews, a writer and editor who served as a senior editor at The American Conservative, by the women who are entering the workplace in such great numbers that they now make up large portions or majorities of their professions. In that case, the supposed feminine commitment to “empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition” manifests itself as the dread wokeness and ultimately destroys institutions and professions.
That’s the core thesis of an essay by Andrews that was based on a speech she gave at the National Conservatism conference in September.
https://archive.li/WjQbX (David French, NYT)
Any business with a high dependency on electricity should have generator backup. I hope all these find their way to supporting vital public infrastructure. Some of these dairy farmers have been crying poor me when a few thousand of their high recent profits would have protected their business and the health of their cows (mastitis)
https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/hercules-flying-generators-southland
Automated milking is probably common because they are recent conversions to dairy.
Catering to business (fast track processes & to be given rights to compensation if investment profit is blocked by regulation), with taxes on the public to manage the problem.
If only taxation was not just GST and income tax – but also included stamp duty, CGT, estate tax and gift duty, windfall profits tax on banks etc.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360865707/time-greater-extremes