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I never really considered the issue outta my general liberal stance for most things of "whatever".
The whole issue is a great example of overboard liberal thinking,,,,Progressives to be exact.....Civil rights has evened out quite well (note Mahers progressaphobia)and now progressives seem to have to go after more extreme things to be outraged about even breaking the point of common sense......
All the while the biggest issues the American public face are dismissed and even ignored....
To the trans rights bit in sports,,,,,,It works against women's rights they fought hard to attain....And libs helped them get there.....Similar to libs going against workers they once helped attain workers rights and equity to fall in line with corporate greed....Note also their extreme immigration stance has real consequences, not of bigotry, but ramifications in a modern world, now they feel it in the once protected cities............Crime is another issue, petty crime to be exact, decriminalize shoplifting and no bail and the cities are unbearable to the point of a business exodus......Look at the homelessness that now is prevalent,, now add evicted migrants..........It's all how we end up in the world as it sits today and the pumpers will twist any truth, bashers,, as always point out truths painted over that cost the many........Did I mention free speech? Here is one I saved for ya...........https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jk-rowlings-dehumanizing-misgendering-post-reported-to-uk-police-tv-personality-says/ar-BB1jwH6J
You spoke of happiness, note Gallop's Happiness ranking for the US now...
Call it the pendulum swing in all things, dems and progressives have gone to extremes counterintuitive to their old values.....Extremes beget extremes......
Like education,,,,,,US now 23rd in 'Happiness'......."Life, Liberty and the pursuit of.....Happiness " ?
Boomers who paved the way for the US economic decline are happy as you know what.......Youth and 30 something young families feel the real world economics boomers left in their wake....
U.S. drops in new global happiness ranking. One age group bucks the trend
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/20/1239537074/u-s-drops-in-new-global-happiness-ranking-one-age-group-bucks-the-trend
How happy are you? The Gallup World Poll has a simple way to gauge well-being around the globe.
Imagine a ladder, and think about your current life. The top rung, 10, represents the best possible life and the bottom rung, 0, represents the worst. Pick your number.
Researchers use the responses to rank happiness in countries around the globe, and the 2024 results have just been released.
This year, Finland is at the top of the list. Researchers point to factors including high levels of social support and healthy life expectancy, to explain the top perch of several Scandinavian countries.
North America does not fare as well overall. As a nation, the United States dropped in the global ranking from 15th to 23rd. But researchers point to striking generational divides.
People aged 60 and older in the U.S. reported high levels of well-being compared to younger people. In fact, the United States ranks in the top 10 countries for happiness in this age group.
Conversely, there's a decline in happiness among younger adolescents and young adults in the U.S. "The report finds there's a dramatic decrease in the self-reported well-being of people aged 30 and below," says editor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, a professor of economics and behavioral science, and the director of the Wellbeing Research Centre at Oxford University.
This drop among young adults is also evident in Canada, Australia and, to a lesser extent in parts of western Europe and Britain, too. "We knew that a relationship existed between age and happiness, but the biggest surprise is that it is more nuanced than we previously thought, and it is changing," says Ilana Ron-Levey, managing director at Gallup.
"In North America, youth happiness has dropped below that of older adults," Ron-Levey says. The rankings are based on responses from a representative sample of about 1,000 respondents in each country.
There are a range of factors that likely explain these shifts.
De Neve and his collaborators say the relatively high level of well-being among older adults is not too surprising. Researchers have long seen a U-shaped curve to happiness.
Children are typically happy, and people tend to hit the bottom (of the U) of well-being in middle age. By 60, life can feel more secure, especially for people with good health, financial stability and strong social connections. Living in a country with a strong social safety net can also help.
"The big pressures in life, [such as] having small children, a mortgage to pay, and work, have likely tapered off a bit," De Neve says. But what's so unexpected he says is the extent to which well-being has fallen among young adults.
"We would expect youth to actually start out at a higher level of well-being than middle-age individuals," De Neve says.
"People are hearing that the world is going to hell in a handbasket and the young especially are feeling more threatened by it," says John Helliwell, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, and a co-author of the study.
He says many younger people may feel the weight of climate change, social inequities, and political polarization which can all be amplified on social media.
But hope is not lost, Helliwell says.
He points to countries in eastern Europe where levels of well-being are on the rise among young people.
He says the older generations in the countries that make up the former Yugoslavia, tend to be less happy. "They are bearing the scars of genocide and conflict," he says.
But he says the younger people are looking beyond this history. "A new generation can put it in the past and think of building a better future and feel that they can be part of that," Helliwell says.
Dems have enabled Trump right back to a dead even race.......Let me count the ways,,Lol
Being dismissive, fummbumbling along and breeding more division like no one sees them and their actions....Its a pure politics world, not one of reaching out and understanding the American public......Governing in a bubble is the opposite of what the country can rally behind...
Dems.....2 impeachments, 91 counts, 2 high dollar judgements against.....
And you're losing to that record....Even at best. Not much more can be added to him that hasn't already been said, What dems don't understand that not much can be added about them either....
but Won’t Vote for Biden Either,,,,,,,,'never' the exact word
Dems are leaving out a bit, as usual, both parties care little about truth and will take anything and spin it... Severe lack of integrity in politics, now more than ever...Its not debate class....Pence wont endorse Trump (kudos) and he may or may not vote for him....But he also said, ,'he'd never vote for Biden....
Pence Says He Won’t Endorse Trump, but Won’t Vote for Biden Either
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/politics/mike-pence-trump-endorsement.html
“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” he told Martha MacCallum on her show “The Story.”
The former vice president declined to say whether he would vote for Mr. Trump in the November election, but answered, “I would never vote for Joe Biden.” He also ruled out running for president as a third-party or independent candidate, saying he remained a Republican.
Riley Gaines among more than a dozen college athletes suing NCAA over transgender policies
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/riley-gaines-college-athletes-lawsuit-ncaa-transgender-policies/
We know some of the topics dems have seen as national priorities over the past 3 yrs........This one is off to the courts
It would have made a great epilogue to his book......Biden was President for 7mos prior....He had generals who warned him in no uncertain terms and Milley is no slouch is he?
Let parties spin it all they want to their advantage, and to their own embarrassment.....Its not a partisan issue and the whole world watched it too....
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/73268-biden-books-go-to-flatiron.html
Afghan Withdraw Hearing.....Generals Milley and McKenzie were able to speak freely for the first time.....But as the 2 generals spoke with honesty, the two parties engaged in more of the same old, trying to spin everything to the narrative they want to sell.....So just more of the two parties partisan idiots doing everything but listening to 2 generals that hold no bias and were now free to tell the truth...
Different when its in Dems backyard isn't it....
Chicago begins evicting migrants from shelters as residents decry a 'lack of respect'
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna143961
CHICAGO — Chicago has begun evicting some migrants from its shelters, a controversial policy that had been delayed for months but appeared haphazard, a migrant told NBC News on Monday.
Migrants who have been evicted, as well as those who face a rapidly approaching deadline, said there has been widespread confusion about the process and frustration with being forced to leave while they still lack the resources to find their own places to stay.
NYC now evicting migrants from shelters and hotels
Migrant families begin leaving NYC hotels as first eviction notices kick in
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-migrant-families-nyc-hotels-eviction-2695569da82a91c9f802108919b28c71
NEW YORK (AP) — Migrant families were moved out of a midtown Manhattan hotel on Tuesday as part of Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to ease the pressure on New York City’s strained shelter system by imposing a 60-day limit on shelter stays.
Dems getting a taste of reality......
If you let a bully, bully people (Putin) all the other bullies see it....unintended consequence maybe, but real all the same...And it even started as early as Georgia with Bush and Crimea with Obama,,,,,,,,,The Ukraine invasion should have been the line in the sand.....
When the world, especially the US and UK, stood back and let Putin invade Ukraine, they sent a message not only to Putin but every dictator in the world........
Not to mention no country in the world in its right mind would ever sign a security agreement with the US (or UK) again and have any confidence that we'd keep it after we get what we want......
Why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons — and what that means in an invasion by Russia
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-putin-invasion
Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize.
In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum.
On to say you can't just give speeches and sound tough with no teeth and think dictators will cower in fear....
Biden's, (The US's) latest red line is Navaloly,,,,,Tough talk didn't stop Putin from killing him did it....Saying 'Don't' didn't stop the Houthis (nor did Biden's meagre deterrence).... Think Biden's (The US) new red line with Netanyahu is going to stop 'him?
The most hollow speech ever given by a US president
'beyond reproach'.....Enough said
SHE is indeed......And most likely will remain on the case but the DA is the face of the case...
So, the facts will remain, but the prosecutor prosecuting it is stained.......let that sink in with the politics involved
This case is not as simple as just the facts of it is it........Like an asterisk next to a sports record and this is a historic case in The US.......
Its stained,, believe what you will for your own purposes....So goes politics as the other side will believe as they will to
What's bad is the door was left open for the other side by not giving the case the respect it deserved.....
Was that anyone's point on the matter?....Its the staining of the case and the unprofessional manner in which Fani conducted herself.......
The case deserved Integrity.....Damage done
Fulton County DA Fani Willis case against Trump can continue if she or special prosecutor Wade remove themselves, judge rules
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna139810
........The judge also found there was no "actual conflict" brought about by the relationship, a finding that would have required Willis to be disqualified. "Without sufficient evidence that the District Attorney acquired a personal stake in the prosecution, or that her financial arrangements had any impact on the case, the Defendants’ claims of an actual conflict must be denied," the judge wrote.
“This finding is by no means an indication that the Court condones this tremendous lapse in judgment or the unprofessional manner of the District Attorney’s testimony during the evidentiary hearing. Rather, it is the undersigned’s opinion that Georgia law does not permit the finding of an actual conflict for simply making bad choices — even repeatedly — and it is the trial court’s duty to confine itself to the relevant issues and applicable law properly brought before it,” he added.
The judge did, however, also find “the prosecution is encumbered by an appearance of impropriety.” "As the case moves forward, reasonable members of the public could easily be left to wonder whether the financial exchanges have continued resulting in some form of benefit to the District Attorney, or even whether the romantic relationship has resumed," he wrote. "As long as Wade remains on the case, this unnecessary perception will persist."
McAfee made his decision,,,,,,The 2 sides will both still make hay though.....Im sure Wade and Willis will do the right thing.......
Janice,,,,,Those old talking points of being a corporate and big money election apologists, you used to use no longer work now, so you have little to say.....And thats probably dems biggest mistake,,,,,,,, Not understanding times had changed......
He just wants to blame the Dems for everything that isn't going his way. I just don't understand why.
You understand just fine........Call it stubborn pride or just people living in a bubble, its easier not to admit fault and thats human nature.......Sadly, people will ride it all the way down more often than not........
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A key part of cognitive dissonance is the psychological tension created when previously held attitudes conflict with new information, explains Ashwini Nadkarni, M.D., the associate vice chair of wellness and assistant medical director of psychiatric
People with cognitive dissonance may experience?, according to Dr. Scott:
Embarrassment over feeling wrong about the beliefs they previously held
Shame or regret about past actions or decisions
Guilt for hiding or something they believe is wrong
Discomfort for doing something that contradicts what they believe
What Is Cognitive Dissonance? Signs, Symptoms And Triggers
https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/what-is-cognitive-dissonance/
Cue 'Times they are a changing'.....Dems should have figured out times had changed and why, 3 yrs ago......The People whom you accuse of cognitive dissonance don't suffer from it, dems do and have.....Its why you can no longer debate..
Nope, pointed out the repubs and what they do....... you may have noticed a term I use pretty often, RWnuts...
Its just amazing how dems keep feeding it, I never could have foreseen it....CO was another, as said before....
Even then I saw the corporate mess coming,,,,,,,Dads company went straight to outsourcing and downsizing....The new wave CEO got millions in bonuses and stock.....As is the corporate way since and now...
We also talked about the unspoken contract between workers and corps......That went out the window with the end of stakeholder theory and Shareholder Theory began....
Then to bring us up to date, dems jumped in the fun.....You had that 50 trillion dollar transfer of wealth,,,,now, not just the people who felt consequences of it all along.......The consequences have surfaced and effect you too....All all of us
No fun now is it,,,in the end I don't think folks will think it worth it
The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That’s Made the U.S. Less Secure
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
That explanation of not to indict caused a lot of raucous,,,,, Not just for biden,,,but the right plays it 'they let Biden off the hook'.....
Its just another muddled case now.......Had Biden just been a victim of staffing and moving boxes as was declared for over a year by dems, it would all be different,,,,But dems 'fibbed and so did biden, thats what heats the water...
Call it an unforced error
Grew up around Ohio State University...... N High St was the place to be on the weekends....
I had actually hoped you collage types would step it up over the last three years.....So its not like you didn't have your chance.....
No, he had a case, but wasn't sure he could get a conviction,,,,,Hence his explanation of why he didn't go ahead..
Wrong doing was found, he knowingly and willingly kept docs and shared them with the writer........
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And........I fully believe DOJ should have used the Mueller report to indict as soon as trump left.....Might have saved a lot of grief considering.......Instead we are were we are....
Playing the gaslighting game ;) It had nothing to do with FDR....
I said that too.............Biden's biggest mistake was telling his ghostwriter about the docs and the writer deleting audio about it.......He knowingly keep it and referenced it for the book.....Afghan related
It happens everyday,,,post some facts here or the news reports on the facts of the Hur case (ie) and dems sure enough go to lengths
And I might add, go to lengths and try and discredit credible sources and facts....Its beyond ridiculous, even dangerous now..."
Need a link for the circus of dem (and repub) politicians trying to twist the facts at the Hur hearing,,,,,or the spin afterwards.........And how it inflames division on top of it....
Its sport now, facts be damned,,,,,,,,
Yeah, Biden kinda a fibbed a little eh....Only on the most important facts though ;)
GN
You need links to write lists for you? Sure see a lot of opinion posted and when I need links to confirm facts that is easy.....Hope the opinion isn't censored though, but that would prove yet another point about dems too ;)
Dems just didn't step up to the times
Mueller, A case in point on how dems over state and end up with egg on their political face...
Instead of half the charges dems have charged him with, those were ignored although the investigation was done....Charging trump with anything is now a political circus (with added dem folly) and that/Mueller helped set the foundation...
Dem touting falls on deaf ears now because of over stating their outrage to the point nausea on issue after issue....All during the people's concerned are ignored......Dems obsession made things worse, action to meet the times would have made him a non issue and footnote.......Wake call answered........................Nope
Saw that but my list keeps dems from gaining ground against your list......
Look at the list you posted....That guy is beating you.....Dems have had 3yrs to wake the f up....
No, its not simple but is it simplistic.......Current events look just as bad for dems..
Add a general tone deafness that persists, political maneuvering continuing and election rhetoric kicking in....Its the same old, same old and its painfully obvious and even glaring to people now, its what sickens them about politics.....Only this time and in these times of all times people get added bonus of missteps along the way that stain the party dem, biden and all to often fuel the political divide.......Its all thing you can't change at a time change is needed and dems grow almost desperate to change the subject daily and come up with new spin and distractions,,,,,,,And that has become glaringly obvious now too.......
Biden running when 70% didn't want him to.
His age catching up with him
Touting worthless economic statistics
The border stunt that didn't work
Colorado,
Over the top sotu speech
The truth about Biden's docs
Georgia circus continuing
And more us against them language
Simple? No,,,,,,,,,,But its not complicated either
Dems have and are doing that as we speak.....1 dollar an hour labor overseas with no benefits or protections and flooding the country with cheap labor who have no benefits or protections .......
Sorry, Urban Coastal Elites that are out of touch with probably 60% of the country... Whoever coined the Urban Coastal Elite thing nailed it pretty good
Proof is in the pudding as they say,,,,2 things can be right, but they aren't..... Dems are the ones that sold the working class out.......Maybe if you hadn't helped sell off American industry out from under the country and became rich, you may have an argument..... Dems became rich by selling out their old constituents, and taking the new technologies for themselves.......
Two things can't be true in this case, you can't be the arsonist that started the fire and say you want to help by throwing more fuel on it... O for 2 as it stands today....And it maintained the last three years as the third straight K shaped recovery the country has endured is still on going....
F up the middle and working class, call them a slew of names then bitch they no longer like you and wont vote for you...You created this scenerio, now we are all feeling the consequences..... Especially in politics (not that literally as in economically doesn't apply too)..........The least you could do is say is.....oops.
Now its the Urban Coastal Elites that can stuff it, as all too many see it...
Dramatic realignment swings working-class districts toward GOP
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/12/house-democrats-winning-wealthier-districts-middle-class-gop
Nine of the top 10 wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats, while Republicans now represent most of the poorer half of the country, according to median income data provided by Rep. Marcy Kaptur's (D-Ohio) office.
Why it matters: The last several decades have ushered in a dramatic political realignment, as the GOP has broadened its appeal to a more diverse working class and Democrats have become the party of wealthier, more-educated voters.
Was lucky... the US 'was' lucky to have the dems....Its an off and on relationship they have with this country..... After they quit being the racist party of the south (off) and joined the progressive repubs from Teddy's movement taking up for workers and fighting the greed of big business (on) they turned off again during the 70s and 80s....
Now they represent the rich (back to the 9 out of 10) and take as much corporate cash they can get their hands on...
So 'was lucky', now they are part of the problem, call it 50% of the problem as we are a 2 party country whether we like it or not........Dems just feed off division like the other side and do nothing except pander to their base, just like the other party........
So then you say, bbbbbbut we are the least of the 2 evils, you have to vote for us. Attitudes like that only lead to more trouble.....Keeping you in the Not so Lucky category....... Just pure arrogance thats matched by the other team.....
Sweeping generalizations like,,,,,All Trump voters are racist, All red states are shitholes, Anyone that disagrees with border policy makes one a bigot a bigot.....All people that disagree with trans athletes you're trans phobic.....Free speech......... The list is long about progressives and 'their sweeping generalizations....
The generalization about progressives that they are way out of line and just plain nuts now, have far too much power as opposed to the other 85% of the country and are to far too narrow in their perceived needs for the country as a Whole....Fits like a glove...So the generalization of progressives seems to fit much better than theirs of everyone else, whom they've accused of just about everything.......
Note the writing about progressives of the past I posted.....The key to their success over the yrs was they had a broad range of issues about a broad range of people...Not so these days....
Progressives everybody is wrong and we're the only ones right just doesn't hold any weight.....According to progressives everyone is wrong about everything....Which people are responding to with Really?! Given dems are down to 25% and progressives are less than half of that, they may what to rethink their tactics and extreme views. But they go on to just ignore all facts to the contrary of their talking points, just like the extreme of the other party.....
My bad girl, I was focused on Biden and Trump.....You are right...
Yep, on that note Ill bid you a good night......
Good, nor the core of the case but its a black eye on top of the disqualification hearing and judgement to come...
Either way, it has been complete political fodder for the other side and calls into question the integrity of the DA and the competence of.........