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Again, a lie. An outright lie. I am not insulting women. I have, at best, "insulted" a role by correctly identifying it as less ambitious and less achieving. If anything I am aggrandizing women. Because they should be ambitious and dream big and chase those dreams.

Well, I kinda am. People who have the potential to do a lot more and opt to stay home instead of putting their talents to work in the world are largely wasting themselves. I definitely judge that negatively, the way I would any elective underachievement. And I absolutely resent anyone who tells a group of smart, educated women that they shouldn't aspire to more--that personal achievement is a diabolical lie. Cooking and cleaning and caring for children is part of being a parent, but only part. Parents are also powerful models of behavior, and if people aren't showing their children how to be engaged, active members of the world then that becomes a disservice. Every animal on the planet has a reproductive "strategy" for perpetuating the species one generation to the next. One of the ways humans are special is that we also aspire advance the species as a whole. Not just men, but men and women. And if we tell half the brains and talent on the planet that they should stay on the bench we do the individual--and the rest of humanity--a disservice.

If I wanted to read bad fan function I'd look for something more exciting.

Macro. I mean it's an input, not an output. Not a measure of economic strength. Specifically taking about the US economy. Different story in Kuwait. 😃

Sure, tourists just wandered into the building because the doors happened to be broken open. They didn't even realize that they were part of storming the Capitol to overthrow an election. Just caught up in the wrong crowd, I guess.🙄

Fark off, liar. I have not insulted "women."

A. I don't think Trump has ever said "no" to anyone working a donut counter. B. The world is full of men who have the integrity not to cheat on their wives. Trump, however, takes his marriage vows as seriously as he takes the Presidential Oath of Office.

Because Trump will stage another coup?

Eh, it's working exactly as intended. It only has to last long enough that Trump can cash out and take the investor money before the facade collapses. Grifters gonna grift.

You're not fooling anyone. That's absolutely his message. He didn't say that being a homemaker was a great option. He told those with other ambitions that they had been told a "diabolical lie." 🤪 You are welcome to agree with him, but don't pretend he didn't communicate exactly what he's been accused of communicating.

The RNC has cracked the code! -- When you give households a whole bunch of extra "free" money, nominal net worth of households goes up! And when they go around spending all that free money inflation follows. Meanwhile, what did we get for our money? Oh, that's right, we avoided economic collapse. BTW, that graph will close significantly at 42 (and eventually) 48 months.

See, in response to facts, you reply with second-hand opinion. That effectively sums up your knowledge on these topics. And rather than being chastened and learning something, you'll be right back making the same demonstrably false claims again. Just as you continue to do with " the war on fossil fuels" nonsense. Domestic oil production has been at all-time record levels, and you continue to ignorantly claim that this is causing high gas prices.🙄

Gas prices are not an economic indicator. They do not reflect economic health except at the margins, but rather are mostly decided by Sheiks half a world away acting on their own interests. POTUS has very little influence outside of extreme actions. But the price of gas as an input can influence the economy. A low interest rate is traditionally a response to a weak economy--or in the case of Trump taking office, the desire by the Fed to avoid disrupting the Obama recovery. They arguably kept their foot on the gas a bit too long. When economies get hot, central banks raise interest rates to slow spending and keep the economy from overheating into bubbles and inflation. The rates are set in response to economic conditions. So, again not an economic indicator. Unemployment, finally, is a reasonable economic indicator, but dig deeper there and you'll see that Trump's low unemployment number comes with caveats. The first is that he started on third base. He inherited a robust and growing economy. Job creation didn't change at all under Trump--well actually it slowed just a bit. He didn't accelerate the curve at all. The second caveat is that under Biden, who inherited a financial crisis, unemployment actually dropped lower than even Trump's best month, and has sustained far longer. Biden's record on jobs is objectively better than Trump's. It's Biden who owns the best jobs market since the 60s. So you're 0 for 3 in an effort to support your claim. Because it's a silly claim.

Do you seriously think quoting him again and again is going to change the meaning? It's not. He said what he said and was quite plain about it. And you continue to lie. It's NOT demeaning a category to say they are equally capable of doing great and amazing things with their lives and that they don't have to settle for facilitating the lives of others. I think less of people who choose to do less, who do not try to achieve their potential. Women, men, non-binary, alien, whatever.

Why do you people say this? It's stupid. Not remotely true. Are you abjectly ignorant of economic history, just parroting a Trump boast? Or do you know it's a lie and just hope that other people are dumb enough to believe it?

Oh, I don't know about that. Seems like they both work pretty hard to achieve government spending.😜 Given that similarity, I'm significantly persuaded by what they want to spend on.

Butker told a crowd of women that they had wasted their time educating themselves to pursue the "diabolical lie" of career ambitions and that he and Jesus think a woman's place is cooking and cleaning. Like that's all they are good for. Now that's farking demeaning. I, on the other hand, think women are capable of doing and being all the great things they dream of achieving and should be supported in those efforts. Like little boys, they should dream big and shoot for the stars. And have faith that they can achieve. And they need all the support they can get, because all along the way they are going to meet a-holes like Butker who will tell them not to be astronauts and not to cure cancer and not to become leaders, that they'll be much more fulfilled if they abandon those dreams and follow god's plan to cook and clean and breed. The conversation definitely has something to do with women, but you lie when you claim that I demean women. I demean all the patriarchal bullshit that would sideline half the world's brains and talent and turn them into a servant class.

I take it back. Maybe you're not playing stupid. I don't know how to say it slower or more simply. It is a fact that I hold "homemakers" (parents or otherwise) in lower regard than many other occupations. There is no specificity whatsoever to women. Again, an analogy for the particularly slow: I don't respect liars. Lying is a behavior. People of Hispanic descent (among every other category of humanity) are capable of lying. To apply your specious logic, you would then say that I am demeaning Hispanics when I say that I don't respect liars. Obviously this is false. I have said nothing to demean Hispanics by identifying a behavior that I don't respect. If you can't understand how that is logically invalid and dishonest, I don't know how you tie your shoes in the morning.

What's dishonest about it is pretending you have an actual question. What's "ignorant" about it is your Gish gallop of nonsense ranging from demonstrably false to unsupported opinion to conspiracy crazy. The fact is that country has enjoyed a rather dramatic upward trajectory since Biden took office. Oh, and the leading alternative tried to stage a coup and end the Republic as we know it. So it's not a difficult choice in the least.

You can say I demean a choice or behavior, but it's an outright lie to say I demean women as a category. And it's not that I don't respect them at all. I respect them less. Because they are doing less. Literally and objectively.

I don't think those examples hold up. Gore, Clinton and Biden all won the popular vote. A slim loss in the electoral college isn't the people crying out for change.

That's nonsense, and you know it. Those are criminals plain and simple. This "people's house" meme is as stupid as people who take cop cars for joyrides and then pretend it's fine because it was purchased with "their tax money." A howling mob assaulted police, smashed doors and windows, broke into a closed facility, chased lawmakers through the building and threatened to kill the vice president--all in an effort to overturn a democratic election. Every single person involved is a criminal and a traitor. Don't do the crime if you can't pay the time. Fark 'em.

What was there to rebut? As usual, you have nothing to add. You just hang around to wave your pom-poms for "the team." I guess everyone needs a hobby.

You're just doubling down on the dumb? Okay. Again, criticizing a choice any gender can make is not demeaning any specific gender. It's "demeaning" the choice. This is true and obvious, and your lies won't change that. I don't respect liars. Women are capable of lying. Oh no, in your specious argument I'm "demeaning" women again!🙄 Stop digging.

Get back to me after you learn the difference between "fairing" and "faring."