No surprise; white women vote Republican nearly as much as white men.

“Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/election-trump-harris-women-voters

The city of Phoenix shouldn’t exist. It’s a monument to American hubris.

Because they want to privatize all aspects of living so that a handful of exorbitantly wealthy people can build larger hoards. There’s no end to it; it’s a mental disease, enabled by Capitalism and the death of real Labor laws and rights.

Every industry should have unions that actively work to dismantle owner authoritarianism, but for 40 years Boomers have been paving the way for every awful piece of shit “business owner” to have some idolized place at the top of our society. And of course, the knock-on effect of that over time is that the pieces of shit have carved into the legislative and political arenas that provided even a modicum of worker/commoner protections. The digital divide is just a coefficient on the slippery slope.

Then he banged his best friend’s sister.

“ass to ass, ass to ass”

Greenwashing is a fraud.

Which is perfectly congruent with their ignorant jackassery given that USPS delivers magnitudes more mail than UPS and Fedex and DHL. The private alternatives are vocally upfront that they could never cover the slack, should USPS cease to exist.

Not one Republican ever argues a point in good faith.

This guy is single-handedly reversing the trajectory of nerd bullying.

Well, the free market would dictate that they should go out of business then.

Shitty companies don’t deserve to continue as going concerns if they continue to be shitty companies.

They took the money and gave it to the Sheriff’s department.

100% this.

The children of Confederate losers have been stropping their knives for decades, undermining our institutions, and fomenting dissent along every avenue. They are a cancer.

John Carter suffered from an awful title.

“Princess of Mars,” would have resonated better with marketing. And is actually one of the book titles.

A couple hundred years ago, they probably had very effective ways to deal with people who willfully failed their duties like this.

Tax every single one of them. Churches shouldn’t be tax exempt to begin with.

That’s exactly what happens; crisis capitalism wherein the upper wealth layer scoops up assets for pennies on the dollar, which it then uses to extort more wealth from the less advantaged. So even when the greater economy “turns around,” there are more people who have less access to the mechanisms that have historically allowed upward economic mobility.

The 2008 financial crisis is a perfect example, and much of what we are still suffering today stems from that manufactured catastrophe. Ultimately, none of the perpetrators were held accountable, while wealth simply flowed upward, concentrating even further at the top, while the average American has seen almost none of the benefits of our productivity growth, 17 years later. Big businesses, on the other hand, had nearly 14 years of open purse monetary policy from the Fed, and could therefore operate on nearly free debt. This long period of finance junkyism has created a capability trap of today, where most businesses don’t actually have many capabilities, ie don’t produce, service, or generate any real commerce, AND largely refuse to invest in their employees or business functions, which is why we have been gliding downward in a spiral of enshitification and massive inflationary pressure.

Ultimately, the “good jobs” of yesteryear have been dismantled through outsourcing, arbitrary job requirements, collapsing white collar work, and decades of demonizing trades and union busting, while further roadblocks have been erected through insane education costs and a dearth of the “starter homes” that Boomers used 50 years ago to launch themselves in financial prosperity. They promptly pulled up the very ladders they climbed afterwards, ensuring no successive generations would be able to participate. Boomers mortgaged their children and children’s children’s futures for their own well-being. Which has continued to today.

This is glorious

Narnia

The ol’ three card Del Monte

lol, you completely missed all that advice.

*the cat will help if it is so inclined. -cat