Demovictory9
Demovictory9's JournalSome pundits on the right have decided that unmarried women are at fault for the GOP's electoral dys
https://www.thebulwark.com/blame-all-the-single-ladies/https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1590571257262903296
https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1591095294732558336
The reasons are many and complicated, and have little to do with the Stepman/Berry/Vance caricature. It would be interesting, for one, to further break down the results by race and ethnicity. Black women are less likely to be married than white women by 30 percentage points (32 percent vs. 62 percent in 2018), and they vote Democratic even more reliably than black men.
Comparisons between single women and single men are also affected by the fact that for some time now, women have been more likely than men to attend college, another key predictor of voting Democratic. By 2019, 33 percent of single women but only 26 percent of single men had completed at least a bachelor’s degree. (Obviously, education is not the sole determining factor, since married women are even more likely to have a bachelor’s degree, at 43 percent.)
Single women are also the lowest-earning marital demographic, and lower-income voters are more likely to vote for Democrats.
But obviously, this year, the gender gap—particularly stark among singles—has also been driven by the backlash against Dobbs and anti-abortion legislation in many red states. Contrary to the “all they want is the right to kill their babies” rhetoric, women for whom abortion is the dominant issue tend to frame it not as a matter of their own right to get an abortion but as a “war on women” in which abortion opponents are motivated primarily by fear and hatred of female autonomy. I believe, despite being pro-choice, that this is far too simplistic an interpretation of right-to-life advocacy. But when conservatives respond to unfavorable election results with imprecations against single women and start to echo the more fetid corners of the online “manosphere” with slurs about “cat ladies,” it doesn’t exactly do a lot to rebut the charge that the right’s real agenda is to restore patriarchy and bring those pesky independent females to heel. “It’s the misogyny, stupid” is a message that comes through loud and clear.
Unarmed Bystander vs assault rifle
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/yv6zu4/guy_tried_to_shoot_up_a_methadone_clinic_in/Rightwing talk radio this morn: host "election results not that bad" callers "disaster!"
Jay leno in burn center with severe face burns..care related fire
https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/14/jay-leno-car-fire-burn-center-serious-injury-cancel-vegas/The GOP may have reached the political limit of abortion extremism
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3731229-the-gop-may-have-reached-the-political-limit-of-abortion-extremism/...
Buoyed by high inflation and a Democratic president whose popularity is hovering around 40 percent, Republicans hyped a red wave that would lead to huge gains in both Houses of Congress and in statewide races nationally. Yet, this red wave amounted to more of a trickle, in no small part because of the new abortion landscape that has emerged in wake of the Dobbs decision.
The overturning of Roe was broadly unpopular — my organization, Public Religion Research Institute, found last month in our 2022 AVS Survey that just 35 percent of Americans favored this decision. More importantly, Democrats are now more likely than Republicans to say they would only vote for candidates who shared their position on abortion, 35 percent to 21 percent, respectively. This finding is a striking reversal from 2020 when Republicans (32 percent) were more likely than Democrats (17 percent) to say they would only vote for a candidate who shares their views on abortion.
The survey was conducted in September among a representative sample of 2,523 adults (age 18 and up) living in all 50 states who are part of Ipsos’s Knowledge Panel.
Making abortion illegal in all cases is an extreme position that finds virtually no support nationally — just 8 percent of Americans agree with this position according to the 2022 AVS Survey. Yet, the nomination of many Republican candidates who supported outright bans on the procedure hurt GOP chances more broadly — and was also likely unpopular among many Republican voters, too. While most Republicans have historically opposed widespread access to abortion, support for complete abortion bans has recently decreased among Republicans. In just two years, the percentage of Republicans nationally that favored making abortion illegal in all cases fell from 23 percent to just 11 percent — a dramatic decline.
MAUREEN DOWD The Emperor of Chaos Has No Clothes
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Republicans are blaming Donald Trump for anointing wacky candidates and then using campaign rallies to promote his upcoming presidential announcement. Republican lawmakers privately say those self-indulgent rallies cost them Senate and House seats because many normal Republicans and independents have had their fill of Trump and his crazy train.
The third time should be the charm. Since winning in 2016, Trump helped Republicans lose the House in 2018 and lose the White House and the Senate after the 2020 elections. Now he seems to have rescued Democrats from the traditional midterm shellacking — Republicans are barely within reach of a House majority and are watching their chance of controlling the Senate slip away. Trump has been poison for his party.
Polls showed that even many people unhappy with Joe Biden voted Democratic, a sign that Trump fatigue has finally set in. It’s so bad, the Murdoch empire has turned on its former fair-haired boy.
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The moment feels reminiscent of Jan. 6 and its immediate aftermath. Republicans go crazy on Trump, say “enough is enough,” as Lindsey Graham did at that juncture, and act as if they’re ready to toss him aside. But it didn’t take long for “my Kevin,” as Trump called McCarthy, to make a groveling pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/opinion/trump-election-midterm.html
Ex-NYPD commissioner's rookie son promoted to detective age 23 after just 18 months as cop
https://nypost.com/2022/11/12/ex-nypd-commissioner-dermot-sheas-rookie-son-promoted-to-detective/Former NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea’s rookie son landed a promotion after just 18 months as a cop — in a surprise move that has some in the department crying foul.
Richard Shea, 23, is getting moved from patrolman to a detective unit in NYPD’s 23rd precinct in East Harlem effective Monday, according to an internal NYPD memo obtained by The Post.
Shea joined the department in November 2020 and completed his six months at the police academy last May, according to his NYPD officer profile.
Since he began working his beat as a patrolman he’s racked up 32 arrests. He’s also received no awards and no additional training.
The fast-tracked promotion of a rookie fresh out of the police academy to an investigative unit is virtually unheard of, sources said.
“Nobody gets it that fast unless there’s an exceptional circumstance,” a police source told The Post. “You get into a shootout and your partner gets killed and you kill the bad guy. Then they’d probably bump you to detective. But he’s just out of the academy. What could he possibly know? It’s bullsh–t. You can’t get it in a year and a half.”
Candace Owens turns on Trump
'Trump needs to take a good look in the mirror': Now former Trump supporter Candace Owens turns on him - and tells former president to stop attacking Ron DeSantis, says 'he's too old' and reveals he was 'rude' to her
Candace Owens appears to be the latest conservative influencer to have given up on former President Donald Trump
Owens, speaking on her Daily Wire show after the midterms, suggested she was off the Trump train and that he had previously been rude to her
She said Trump reached out to her after a she claimed she the ex-president was in favor of the COVID vaccine and was 'out of touch' with his base
Candace said that Trump was 'mad' and then had someone 'egging this on' to express how mad he was at Candace
She said that 'this is not being a leader' and that he refused to understand that his base was not in favor of the COVID-19 vaccine
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11421249/Candace-Owens-latest-high-profile-backer-jump-Trump-train.html
She says he is too angry and resentful to be a leader and that true leaders can admit they got some stuff wrong.
What are the 5 Dodds voting SCOTUS thinking now?
Freeperville is a sad place right now..quiet too as many logged off
Upset about the House. Some blaming Trump. 🥺🥺🥺😭
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