American Politics 3.0 - Back to Brunch

[Puppet Guy]

Originally Posted by nik-

If your VP candidate didn't have to kill his competition in unarmed combat to secure the nomination, do you really even want them?

This is how presidential elections should be decided.

[SutterBrother]

VD Vance is such a POS. Trashing childless women is so much garbage.

Clearly this dipsh-t has know idea how much trauma is involved in trying to conceive when you're faced with medical challenges.

Years of IVF, surgery, medical procedures, massive personal expense, and precisely zero guarantees. At the end of it you can walk away with nothing.

F-ck JD Vance.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by SutterBrother

VD Vance is such a POS. Trashing childless women is so much garbage.

Clearly this dipsh-t has know idea how much trauma is involved in trying to conceive when you're faced with medical challenges.

Years of IVF, surgery, medical procedures, massive personal expense, and precisely zero guarantees. At the end of it you can walk away with nothing.

F-ck JD Vance.

Isn't that piece of #### all about family? What is the issue with IVF?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Isn't that piece of #### all about family? What is the issue with IVF?

It's unnatural. God above all else. Welcome to 'merica

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

It's unnatural. God above all else. Welcome to 'merica

What's unnatural is having sex with a couch.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by SutterBrother

VD Vance is such a POS. Trashing childless women is so much garbage.

Clearly this dipsh-t has know idea how much trauma is involved in trying to conceive when you're faced with medical challenges.

Years of IVF, surgery, medical procedures, massive personal expense, and precisely zero guarantees. At the end of it you can walk away with nothing.

F-ck JD Vance.

If you follow the "we need more births at all costs" rhetoric it all goes back to the person funding all of these Senate campaigns: Peter Thiel. You've got a ton of those youngish weird men like Blake Masters, to Josh Hawley, Kris Kovach, etc. They all get fed this stuff about needing more babies and women needing to stay home.


Caution, the writer of this piece seems to be madly in love with Thiel and this nonsense:

https://unherd.com/2022/12/peter-thi...of-progress-2/

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Isn't that piece of #### all about family? What is the issue with IVF?

Strict anti-abortion laws can make some of things done in IVF treatments illegal. Things like selective reduction which is done to not have multiple births, and mishandling of embryos could be considered murder if those embryos are given personhood rights.

The risk means that doctors who do IVF will probably stop or leave the state instead of risk getting caught up in an overzealous prosecution.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

What's unnatural is having sex with a couch.

Depends, is it real leather or the fake stuff?

[KelVarnsen]

Vance hates women. It's just the simple.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Depends, is it real leather or the fake stuff?

I prefer a Corderoy as it’s ribbed for my pleasure.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

What's unnatural is having sex with a couch.

That’s what love seats are for.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

What's unnatural is having sex with a couch.

Objectophilia is unusual to most people, but pretty normal in the kink community. It's also something that can be associated with some people with certain forms of autism. If they aren't harming anyone or animals, go nuts for all I care. Have relations with a couch. I won't mock anyone for it. It's just hypocritical that his political party wants to stick their noses into the bedrooms of other people to promote traditional conservative ideals of relationships while it sounds like he has his own thing going on.

[Ped]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Objectophilia is unusual to most people, but pretty normal in the kink community. If they aren't harming anyone or animals, go nuts for all I care. Have relations with a couch. I won't mock anyone for it. It's just hypocritical that his political party wants to stick their noses into the bedrooms of other people to promote traditional conservative ideals of relationships while it sounds like he has his own thing going on.

The vast majority of sex scandals (at least the ones we hear about) are Republicans who moralize to everyone else what to do, but can't do it themselves. That's probably why we hear about it.

[opendoor]

A bad jobs report out today has sent the stock market and bond yields down sharply, and now the market is pricing in 1.25-1.5% in interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve this year.

If that continues, that's going to make Harris' job a lot harder. A big part of the administration's message has been that the economy is fundamentally strong. And while you can point to stagnant real wages and high inflation, those things aren't insurmountable and Harris could probably argue that they will continue to improve. But if it starts to look like the bottom is falling out, then that's a whole other matter.

[PsYcNeT]

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https://twitter.com/user/status/1819380719283851752

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by opendoor

A bad jobs report out today has sent the stock market and bond yields down sharply, and now the market is pricing in 1.25-1.5% in interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve this year.

If that continues, that's going to make Harris' job a lot harder. A big part of the administration's message has been that the economy is fundamentally strong. And while you can point to stagnant real wages and high inflation, those things aren't insurmountable and Harris could probably argue that they will continue to improve. But if it starts to look like the bottom is falling out, then that's a whole other matter.

The one good thing is that the stock market isn’t the economy and the market itself was getting a little bubbly anyway and unemployment is still historical low. It will be time to worry if a lot of people start losing their jobs in the next 90 days.

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by Bonded

The one good thing is that the stock market isn’t the economy and the market itself was getting a little bubbly anyway and unemployment is still historical low. It will be time to worry if a lot of people start losing their jobs in the next 90 days.

Yeah, the stock market itself doesn't really mean a whole lot for voters directly. But if economic conditions decline and people fear losing their jobs, it could have an impact. Particularly given that people's opinion of the economy is already relatively low.

In terms of the economy, the best scenario for Harris would be the fundamentals remaining strong so she could stress that and argue that wages and inflation would continue to improve. But if people already hate the economy and then things like unemployment, economic growth, and the stock market support that narrative, then it's a harder case to make.

All that said, it's totally possible that conditions don't get too bad and then people see lowering inflation and interest rate cuts and their opinion of the economy actually improves. Hopefully that's what happens.

[Dion]

I wonder what Trump will use as an excuse to not debate Harris

https://twitter.com/user/status/1819424186797846726

[Dion]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1819345905511805256

[Paulie Walnuts]

If Vance hates women and loves couches, is he a closest homosexual?