@BadMedicalTakes Just as an aside, there are dangerous anaerobic bacteria that survive (but don't reproduce) while in honey. An adult's digestive system is too acidic an environment for them to survive, but an infant's is not. That is why honey can be hazardous to infants.
@feelsdesperate Ron Klain was the White House Chief of Staff and general "shot caller" until January 2023. Jeff Zients took over from him then. Look at their careers: Their connections say a lot.
@micah_erfan To test my theory that increased immigration was responsible, rather than decreased abortion availability, I compared Texas' infant mortality to California's. California has a comparatively low infant mortality rate, but saw a rise in infant deaths in the same period as Texas.
@micah_erfan Another relevant factor is the increase in illegal immigration. In years with more immigration (legal or not), border states see increased infant mortality rates.
@micah_erfan The US and Texas experienced a drop in infant mortality from 2016-2020. Texas continued dropping from 2020-2021, but then rose more sharply than the rest of the US. This suggests that their findings are a statistical artifact, rather than due to decreased abortion availability.
The reason Democrats cannot connect with men is because Democrats have a cartoon-level understanding of masculinity.
They think masculinity is defined by the stereotypical trappings of many working class men (ball caps, fixing cars, lifting weights, football, etc.) while never realizing that true masculinity transcends those stereotypes.
Actual masculinity is:
-Selfless.
-Confident but not prideful.
-Full of a sense of duty.
-Being able to recognize justice and injustice, and being ready to fight for justice.
-Strong, both physically and mentally.
-Being able to laugh at yourself.
-Always being focused on providing for your family and protecting it from danger, and possessing the will and the skills to accomplish both.
-Knowing when to be gentle and when to be fierce.
-Deeply respecting women and knowing they have incredible strengths men do not.
-Being willing to give up your life to protect your family.
Democrats have spent so much time and effort demonizing masculinity that they no longer know what it it is.
They think if Tim Walz puts on a Special Forces ball cap, that means he is "masculine."
It's like saying anybody who eats sushi is Japanese.
Makes no sense.
@BadMedicalTakes The doctors never ask whether my wife has been abusive. There are just as many abusive women in the US as abusive men. Men are more likely to inflict major injury, since most are larger and stronger, but treating such things as being men's fault makes men unwilling to seek help.
@RantyAmyCurtis but that's what makes it so funny... he wakes up from
his weekend at Bernie's nap just in time to damage
Kamala... he's still pissed that he was forced to drop out of race
@Mrgunsngear By the way, BoJ statistics show that unarmed resistance is literally the most likely approach to get you hurt or killed in an attack. Get a gun instead.
Let us summarize the current situation, shall we?
- America's war against Russia is going catastrophically poorly, and all the western oligarchs who bought land in the Ukraine (and who are major donors to the politicians) are freaking out, and with cause.
- Appalachia is drowning, and Washington could not care less, and is, it seems, actively rooting for the total destruction of the region.
- America is a month from an election that will be the last even superficially legitimate one if Kamala wins.
- America's president, who was a mediocre mind and a known criminal at his peak, is sitting on the beach with mush for brains, but his handlers will not let him resign so as to preserve the fig-leaf of Kamala's deniability of the ruinous failure of his administration's policies.
- The Executive power is now run by committee, with each fiefdom acting in competition with the other, and not a one concerned about the nation.
- The Biden/Harris administration is openly airlifting Haitian invaders into the US and carpet bombing small GOP cities into oblivion.
- The USD has reached the debt-snowball phase, and now cannot be rescued. The implications of this for global commerce and finance are endless and, except for America's many enemies, universally terrible.
- America's navy is figuratively sinking and literally burning under the burden of grift and DEI suicide.
- There is a massive and crippling strike in all the East Coast ports, which could have been averted by the president, were he not sitting on the beach watching his final neurons rot.
- The situation in western Asia is going from bad to worse, and Washington's proxy cannot overcome the human weight of their enemies. Given that Israelis had the greatest uptake of mRNA vaccines in the world, and given the demonstrated infertility this biological weapon causes, the massively lobsided demographics will only get far worse. There is a non-zero chance that the Israelis will find themselves where their enemies wish them, with their backs to the sea and nowhere to go. If this happens, the probabilities that nuclear war will result are significant indeed.
- America's satrapies in Europe are crumbling, economically, demographically, and socially, with deliberate replacement of their indigenous population with savage hordes from Africa and Central Asia.
... What have I forgotten?
@monsterhunter45 Iran's aggression after hearing her ominous words is completely unprecedented. Just compare it to Russia's response when she negotiated with them to keep them from invading Ukraine. They were clearly intimidated...
For about three days, then they invaded.
@monsterhunter45 "Assault Weapons Ban" = A ban on whatever guns the public can be convinced are the scariest. Basically, anything with black plastic on it.