When a man calls a woman nasty when she was prepared, appropriately confident, and took an offensive position what he really means is her competence frightens him. https://t.co/D9l4fhdgRt— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) February 20, 2020
Category: Politics
Medicare for All
Medicare for All – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
(more…)Sympathy and Support
If you want the announcement of your potentially fatal disease to be met with universal declarations of sympathy and support, don't spend your entire adult life being a toxic asshole.— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) February 4, 2020 I don’t wish ill health on lousy people.I also don’t feel the need to show empathy for people … Continue reading “Sympathy and Support”
What refutes science
Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets and Universal Basic Income
The Trump Administration
it's Goodfellas, but with morons— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) January 16, 2020
Partial Trade Deal
Could they have done this partial deal last year without a Trump trade war and without spending 30 Billion dollars to subsidize farmers for what it cost them? https://t.co/s5QoyDshL9— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) January 15, 2020
Transactional Approach
NEW: Trump demanded human rights groups be admitted to Iran to monitor treatment of protesters. But hours later when a human rights official from the U.S. was barred entry to Hong Kong, Trump was silent, the latest example of his transactional approach. https://t.co/MI2Sxuh1z7— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) January 14, 2020
Nepotism Money Train
STATE MEDIA: “The Left's Nepotism Money Train.”Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Donald Trump, Jr.Ivanka TrumpEric TrumpJared KushnerMeghan McCainLiz CheneyBetsy DeVosMatt GaetzGeorge W. BushFranklin GrahamJerry Falwell, Jr.Fred Trump's kid, Donald pic.twitter.com/FwjqTNZuih— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) January 10, 2020
Anti-intellectualism
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” Isaac Asimov, born on this day in 1920 pic.twitter.com/ijhBkxkMfO
— Ray E. Boomhower (@RayBoomhower) January 2, 2020