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  15. 1% of abortions occur after 21 weeks in America and they are the most heart breaking moments in the world because of the intense loss and grief. My friend lost the heartbeat at 8 months. She had a dead foetus inside her. She would have died of sepsis otherwise. She had what is considered an abortion. They cut the membrane. She vaginally gave birth to a dead child. The cruelty of suggesting that such a woman is using abortion as birth control. It's just not happening. Third trimester abortions are very rare, to save the mother or another foetus or because foetal anomalies mean a stillbirth is inevitable. I had another friend who had an ectopic pregnancy. The foetus was developing in her oviduct and not her uterus. She would have painfully died without an abortion. When you are sitting with someone bleeding out and the blood is gushing out of them it is overwhelming and terrifying. Abortion care is required to save the parent's life. 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriages before Roe vs Wade these women often died. Abortion care is required to save their lives. The lie of post birth abortions is a Republican talking point which came from an interview with a paediatrician who talked of a baby being born without a skull and who would be given pain relief for the few hours that they lived. If a child is born, without most of their brain, or a damaged heart or with a foetal anomaly and has only a few hours to live. It is compassionate to give pain relief but that is not the same as killing the child. Rich white women will always be able to obtain abortion care. Before Roe vs Wade was overturned America already had the worst maternal death rate in the OECD for Black women. It is First Nations, Queer, poor white, immigrant, Latina, refugee women who will die from a lack of abortion care. 64,000 pregnancies resulting from rapes have occurred in the red states that have abortion bans. Girls or women should not have to give birth to their rapist's babies. They should not have to justify their choice to have an abortion. Great show as always!
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  135. If Tim and Margaret are going to educate and inform, they need to invest a little time to educate and inform themselves. Understanding some pregnancy basics means you can speak with knowledge underpining reproductive health care conversations rather than ignorance underpinning your conversations. How can Tim and Margaret not know these basic facts about abortion? It's not pro-life it's anti-choice. 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriages and before Roe vs Wade these women often died. (Some research says up to 40% of pregnancies end in miscarriages but will happen without women knowing that they are pregnant). Rick Wilson did a solid podcast where he actually talks about "so much blood". You are failing to convey compassion or you are missing the physical reality of a woman bleeding out on the bathroom floor. Be in that situation once and you will have a very different idea of reproductive health care is. If a foetus dies in utero a woman will die of infection if that foetus is not removed. The woman needs reproductive health care which is exactly the same as an abortion. 64,000 pregnancies resulting from rapes have occurred in the red states that have abortion bans. Tim and Margaret can Google this. Only a handful were able to get abortions. Those without financial means face a terrible situation. The lack of exceptions for rape and incest are something you seen to completely miss. Once someone finds out that they are pregnant from their rapist you are dealing with many complications including increased risk of self harm. Women can die from ectopic pregnancies. Ectopic pregnancies can also diminish fertility, remove the ability to have further pregnancy or create complications such as sepsis. If a woman dies the foetus dies too. Many don't seem to this basis fact. The reproductive heath care required is abortion care. It's time people talking about abortion being on the ballot start to understand the basics. Black women had the worst maternal death rate in the OECD before they over turned Roe vs Wade. Can you imagine how much worse it is going to get? Rich women are always able to obtain abortions. So you are talking about a lack safe reproductive health care for poor white women, First Nations, Brown and Black women. Prior to Roe vs Wade there were wards in hospitals of women with sepsis and abortion related injuries. Talk to women in their 80s what it was like before abortion is legal. You are talking about the abortion in such a shallow and pedestrian way. It is concerning. Before 21 weeks the loss of a pregnancy is called a miscarriage and after 21 weeks it is called a stillbirth. 1% of abortions occur after 21 weeks in America and they are the most heart breaking moments in the world. It can take a woman or a couple years to get over a late term pregnancy loss. To discuss these abortions as cavalier or birth control is either wilful ignorance or sadistic. There is an uptick of suicidal ideation among women who hear these discussions who have been through this terrible experience. A woman who is 8 and a half months pregnant and who finds that there is no heart beat is the depths of despair. Some women do not recover from this loss, and a few attempt suicide. You can easily fact check this information with a few Google searches. Please do better. You don't have to discuss what I am talking about but it would stop a lot of pain for women who have had miscarriages and still births if you can discuss reproductive health care with an underpinning of some knowledge. You don't have to sound so uninformed.
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  315. I struggled a lot with this as well. How could so many Americans like Trump. As a teacher I have seen hungry children in the classroom so I did have that insight, the more I looked into it I found. Republicans & Democrats conpired together to use "Poverty as a Policy Choice," when you work 2-3 jobs, and can't pay rent and buy food for your children, and have to "volunteer" to qualify for food stamps, you are not living in a republic or a democracy. If you are watching friends and family die from simply treated health complaints due to no health cover, you don't feel like you have a lot of freedom. 60% of Americans can't get $500 together for an emergency. They are living paycheck to paycheck. There are two of the top people who have more money that the bottom 60%. When you are working 2-3 jobs you don't have a lot of time to read and sift through the news to work out what is going on. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level, they have not progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. They don't have critical thinking skills. They get their news from headlines which are often misleading and clickbait. I realised that as I have enough to eat and I have stable housing, then I had no understanding of the stress that 60% of Americans are living under. Which let me to thinking sometimes you might just get angry enough to vote to burn the whole place down, desparate for someone to be punished even if it is your self. Trump has rat cunning, he is able to exploit the amygdala's of these vulnerable Americans. He hijacks them into fight, flight, freeze and fawn, where biologically your brain has shut down and your pre frontal cortext has shut down. Your biology literally stops you from rational thihnking. Trump's rallies provide a sense of belonging and the way the MSM clips his speeches is very different from the way his crowds experience his comments. It is really confusing. I agree. But I do understand now why so many voted for him. Trump is their retribution, even if he is their biggest enemy in so many ways.
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  670. Half of Americans can't get $500 together for an emergency. This is "Poverty as a Policy Choice" that both Democrats & Republicans conspired together to use & this is the deep state that many living in poverty rightly wanted to destroy. This means they are working 2-3 jobs and are still unable to pay rent and buy food for their children.They have to "work" for food stamps. Intergenerational poverty causes trauma, a lack of nutrition means in utero a child's brain doesn't develop properly. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of them are reading and writing at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete thinking to critical thinking. That they don't know who Murdoch is, what he owns and how he manipulates the American public. Neoliberalism which shifts folks from being citizens in a country with rights and responsibilities to consumers in a market place who have to purchase the right life, even if they don't have a trust fund. Neoliberalism brings about profound social disconnection and loneliness. The place where neoliberalism began, England, is the loneliest places on the planet. Rather than making fun of these people, who know that they are being ripped off and taken for a ride, though they might not be able to articulate their distress in a way that engenders your compassion, maybe think about ways you could be part of the solution rather than making fun of people living terribly sad and tough lives. They are desparate for someone to be punished, even if it is themselves. Can you get how sad that is?
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  1613. Harris lost because she went to the middle and had time for Liz Cheney but not her own base. So much time and money was spent on providing a permission structure for Republicans to vote for a Democrat, but she didn't reach out to her base. Her own base did not find a permission structure to vote for Harris. Folks brought up genocide and were told to shut up. That Trump would be worse than Harris on Gaza. So Anti Zionist Jews, Irish diaspora, etc and all the Democratic base stayed home. Both Democrats and Republicans conspired together to use the neoliberalist "Poverty as a Policy Choice" for the last 40 years. 66.2% of Americans are living pay check to pay check. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. They are extremely time poor. If they take a shift off their children don't eat.  60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. They didn't have the skills to decode the corporate media is sanewashing. Ridiculing folks who are low information voters, Independents or Undecideds was not sensible. It meant folks tuned out. If you are working 6-7 days a week means that you don't have time to read the news or do a deep dive. Both Democrats and Republicans conspired together to use "Poverty as a Policy Choice". Folks are skipping meals so their children can eat. Poor people don't vote because they are still having to work 6-7 days.  America couldn't afford a living wage now America can't afford to have a democracy.  Harris lost because she went to the middle and had time for Liz Cheney but not her own base. So much time and money was spent on providing a permission structure for Republicans to vote Democrats, but she didn't reach out to her base. Republicans were on the stage of the DNC but other groups were left out.
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  1734. I don't think that is a useful way to think about what's happening. 66.2 %of Americans are living pay check to pay check. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" for food stamps. They are time poor and often do not engage with media. 60 %of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. This means that they haven't got critical thinking skills. They do not know about billionaire media owners and their agendas. How they want Trump tax cuts. Both Republicans and Democrats conspired to use neoliberalism's "Poverty as a Policy Choice". Neoliberalism shifts a citizen of a country who has rights and responsibilities, a sense of belonging and purpose to being a consumer in a market place who is to blame if they do not purchase the right life despite not having a trust fund. The shaming and humiliating of the poor is a feature of neoliberalism. Folks who are vulnerable become desperate to scapegoat others which feels like a huge relief that they are not the at the brunt of the scapegoating. Intergenerational Trauma, poverty and illiteracy makes folks vulnerable to cults and manipulation. Trump and FOX news use amygdala hijacks, that is they play on fear responses or fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses. If you are in fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses your rational mind or prefrontal cortex has shut down. Biologically your capacity to think has been shut down. There's no capacity to rationally think things through. Without access to adequate food, housing, stable employment and education folks don't have the capacity to process and engage in moral thinking.
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  1787. MSNBC have just been involved in a two week feeding frenzy on Biden when you could have been investigating Project 2025. American media, pundits and podcasters are contributing to the end of Republic and voting in America. This is not fair and balanced coverage. Most Americans do not even consider that the Campaign has started yet. David Cay Johnston's comments that the "The New York Times" have written 196 articles about Biden's mental status, (read speech impediment and intense dislike of the media), whilst Trump has had a handful of articles (6-10) written on him, despite Trump claiming he won against Obama, when Trump never ran against Obama. The NYT has even admitted their bias against Biden because he didn't do sit down interviews with them. The American media needs to stop pretending Trump is subject to the same scrutiny that Biden is subjected to, right back to backgrounds on Clinton and Trump in the NYT, which Johnston challenged them on. The American media could take stock and stop creating the stories via their speculations (and potential book deals by having the "scoop") but actually get back to reporting on what is going on. Project 2025 is what has been going on. The American media, pundits and podcasters don't get to decide who the American president is, and they should stop being biased against Biden, or at least be honest you are not covering Trump as closely because you are scared of his followers. You have to stop misinforming and character assassinating Biden, someone who has a speech impediment, without holding Trump to the same standards that Clinton was and Biden is being held to at this time. Stop pretending that you are fair and balanced. You are making big waves with your lacklustre analysis and clickbait. The clickbait might pay off for you but not the majority of Americans. The majority of Americans don't know what Project 2025. Quite a few don't even consider the campaign to have started.
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  1993. Harris lost because she went to the middle and had time for Liz Cheney but not her own base. So much time and money was spent on providing a permission structure for Republicans to vote for a Democrat, but she didn't reach out to her base. Her own base did not find a permission structure to vote for Harris. Folks brought up genocide and were told to shut up. That it would not be an issue and everyone would fall into line. That Trump would be worse than Harris on Gaza. So Anti Zionist Jews, Irish diaspora, etc and all the Democratic base stayed home. Both Democrats and Republicans conspired together to use the neoliberalist "Poverty as a Policy Choice" for the last 40 years. 66.2% of Americans are living pay check to pay check. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. They are extremely time poor. If they take a shift off their children don't eat. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. They didn't have the skills to decode the corporate media is sanewashing. Ridiculing folks who are low information voters, Independents or Undecideds was not sensible. It meant folks tuned out. If you are working 6-7 days a week means that you don't have time to read the news or do a deep dive. Both Democrats and Republicans conspired together to use "Poverty as a Policy Choice". Folks are skipping meals so their children can eat. Poor people don't vote because they are still having to work 6-7 days. America couldn't afford a living wage now America can't afford to have a democracy. Harris lost because she went to the middle and had time for Liz Cheney but not her own base. So much time and money was spent on providing a permission structure for Republicans to vote Democrats, but she didn't reach out to her own base. Republicans were on the stage of the DNC but many other Democratic groups were left out.
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  1998. Jon Stewart thinks that Trump has been covered as much as Clinton and Biden were, so he's not understand that his knowledge of Trump is not the same as other American's knowledge of Trump. David Cay Johnson (Pulitzer Prize Winner) has talked about how Clinton had a hatchet done on her, but The New York Times, didn't background Trump in the same way because as New Yorkers, they assumed everyone knew what Trump has done. David Cay Johnston has recently discussed how The New York Times has run 196 negative articles on Biden vs 6-10 negative articles on Trump. So there isn't the same level of coverage on Trump as there is Biden. Trump is not held to the same standards. David Cay Johnston also discusses in a recent podcast that 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level, and that 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing like an eight year old. This means that they don't know who Murdoch is, or what he owns. It also means that folks have not moved from concrete thinking to abstract thinking. It means that the amgydala hijacks of Trump and Fox are not experiences that they can unpack. When someone enters fight, flight, freeze and fawn, their prefrontal cortex shuts down and biologically they are unable to rationally think. So if information isn't presented at the intellectual level that they are functioning at, they are not getting the information. So Jon Stewart is misinformed when he recently said that "Trump has been covered for the last ten years!" He enabled unfair coverage of Biden to continue when Trump was held to no such standards. His lack of knowledge of fellow American's reading skills and access to information is quite alarming.
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  2183. Bingo! 60% of Americans can't get $500 together for an emergency and they work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to work to get their food stamps. They are very low information voters. They have no time. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level this means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking and they don't know who Murdoch is or what he owns. Neoliberalism shifts a citizen in a country who has rights, responsibilities, belonging and a purpose to being consumers in a market place where they have to "purchase wisely" their own lives, even if they do not have a trust fund. Both Republicans and Democrats conspired to use Poverty as a Policy Choice and then they scapegoated the poor for being poor. A living wage would have prevented the rise of Trumpism. Desparate folks vote for Trump because someone needs to be punished even if it is themselves. Intergenerational Trauma, poverty and illiteracy creates a population who are vulnerable to cults, strongman and misinformation. When you feel that you are fighting for your life you are in fight, flight, freeze or fawn. This literally means that you can not think. Your pre frontal cortex is shut down. Biologically there is no ability to think. Trump and Fox engage in amgdala hijacks of fight, flight, freeze or fawn. They manipulate vulnerable people. The vulnerability of these folks means that they feel relieved that someone else is being scapegoated and not them.
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  2190. To my way of thinking it is Intergenerational Trauma, poverty, illiteracy and a complete lack of time to engage with the media which makes folks very vulnerable to cults and manipulation. There's some statistics that are worth knowing. 66.2 %of Americans are living pay check to pay check. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" for food stamps. They are time poor and often do not engage with media. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. This means that they haven't got critical thinking skills. They do not know about billionaire media owners and their agendas. How they want their Trump tax cuts. Both Republicans and Democrats conspired to use neoliberalism's "Poverty as a Policy Choice". Neoliberalism shifts a citizen of a country who has rights and responsibilities, a sense of belonging and purpose to being a consumer in a market place who is to blame if they do not purchase the right life despite not having a trust fund. The shaming and humiliating of the poor is a feature of neoliberalism. Folks who are vulnerable become desperate to scapegoat others which feels like a huge relief that they are not the at the brunt of the scapegoating. Intergenerational Trauma, poverty and illiteracy makes folks vulnerable to cults and manipulation. Trump and FOX news use amygdala hijacks, that is they play on fear responses or fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses. If you are in fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses your rational mind or prefrontal cortex has shut down. Biologically your capacity to think has been shut down. There's no capacity to rationally think things through. Without access to adequate food, housing, stable employment and education folks don't have the capacity to process and engage in moral thinking.
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  2317. To my way of thinking it is Intergenerational Trauma, poverty, illiteracy and a complete lack of time to engage with the media which makes folks very vulnerable to cults, lies, disconnection, disinformation and manipulation. There's some statistics that are worth knowing. 66.2% of Americans are living pay check to pay check. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" for food stamps. They are time poor and often do not engage with media. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. This means that they haven't got critical thinking skills. They do not know about billionaire media owners and their agendas. How they want their Trump tax cuts. Both Republicans and Democrats conspired to use neoliberalism's "Poverty as a Policy Choice". Neoliberalism shifts a citizen of a country who has rights and responsibilities, a sense of belonging and purpose to being a consumer in a market place who is to blame if they do not purchase the right life despite not having a trust fund. The shaming and humiliating of the poor is a feature of neoliberalism. Folks who are vulnerable become desperate to scapegoat others which feels like a huge relief that they are not the at the brunt of the scapegoating. Intergenerational Trauma, poverty and illiteracy makes folks very vulnerable to cults, lies, disconnection, disinformation and manipulation. Trump and FOX news use amygdala hijacks, that is they play on fear responses or fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses. If you are in fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses your rational mind or prefrontal cortex has shut down. Biologically your capacity to think has been shut down. There's no capacity to rationally think things through. Without access to adequate food, housing, stable employment and education folks don't have the capacity to process and engage in moral thinking.
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  2330. To my way of thinking it is Intergenerational Trauma, poverty, illiteracy and a complete lack of time to engage with the media which makes folks very vulnerable to cults and manipulation. There's some statistics that are worth knowing. 66.2 %of Americans are living pay check to pay check. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" for food stamps. They are time poor and often do not engage with media. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. This means that they haven't got critical thinking skills. They do not know about billionaire media owners and their agendas. How they want their Trump tax cuts. Both Republicans and Democrats conspired to use neoliberalism's "Poverty as a Policy Choice". Neoliberalism shifts a citizen of a country who has rights and responsibilities, a sense of belonging and purpose to being a consumer in a market place who is to blame if they do not purchase the right life despite not having a trust fund. The shaming and humiliating of the poor is a feature of neoliberalism. Folks who are vulnerable become desperate to scapegoat others which feels like a huge relief that they are not the at the brunt of the scapegoating. Intergenerational Trauma, poverty and illiteracy makes folks vulnerable to cults and manipulation. Trump and FOX news use amygdala hijacks, that is they play on fear responses or fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses. If you are in fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses your rational mind or prefrontal cortex has shut down. Biologically your capacity to think has been shut down. There's no capacity to rationally think things through. Without access to adequate food, housing, stable employment and education folks don't have the capacity to process and engage in moral thinking.
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  2435. I understand your frustration but it's more complicated than that. Don't be conned by superficial analysis. 66.2% of Americans can't get $500 together for an emergency. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. It is the Democratic and Republican neoliberalist use of "Poverty as a Policy Choice". A living wage could have prevented the rise of Trumpism. If you are working 6-7 days a week you don't have time to read the news. You barely have time to think. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at a an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. This means that they do not have critical thinking skills. So I would argue that a combination of Intergenerational Trauma, racism, poverty and illiteracy leave folks disengaged, extremely time poor, desparate and vulnerable to cults like the MAGA cult. Trump and FOX news use amygdala hijacks. This means that they activate a fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses. This literally means that the rational thinking part of the brain is shut down. It is used by strong men figures to create an environment of racism, sexism, homophobia, Antisemitism and hatred of the other. That hatred of the other is dangerous see authoritarian leaders. Those doing the othering have been othered by poverty, illiteracy and not belonging. To disregard their suffering by thinking it's about stupidity is to miss the cultural moment. It is to alienate those that we desperately need to build bridges with. It leaves us powerless and helpless. If we can see why folks might want to burn things to the ground then we can interact with them and build coalitions
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  2453. DNC! Wow! What a great opportunity! Congratulations! Fantastic podcast! I love your focus on anti racism and that you are pro all kids, it means a lot. This might interest you two. 60% of Americans can't get $500 together for an emergency and they work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" for food stamps. They are not really living in a democracy. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. They do not have critical thinking skills. They do not know who Murdoch is or what he owns. These people do not understand amygdala hijacks that Fox news and anger politics exploits, that is Fox news and anger politics activates fight, flight freeze and fawn. It helps them sell products, hate and anger politics. This means that their pre frontal cortex has shut down. This means that they haven't biologically got the ability to think rationally. Neoliberalism is shifting a person from being a citizen in a country who has rights and responsibilities with a sense of belonging and purpose to being a consumer in a market place who has to purchase the right life, even if you don't have a trust fund. This is why there is no living minimum wage. This is why 12 Republicans voted against lunches for children. If you keep folks hungry and poor, you can emotionally manipulate them, and harness their anger, shame and humiliation against others. They can get away with corporate welfare and corruption. Both Republicans and Democrats conspired to use neoliberalism's "Poverty as a Policy Choice". Democrats and Republicans used neoliberalism to blame folks for their lack of choices. Those people are desperate to scapegoat others. They are desperate to punish anyone or anything, even themselves. Intergenerational Trauma, poverty, illiteracy, neoliberalism and shame have destroyed folks sense of belonging in community. It's why there's an opiod crisis. It is why folks hate, because angry and hate belonging is still belonging.
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  2506. Musk is lying about the American elections.Musk is lying about the American elections. He is pretending that Trump didn't say he would terminate the American Constitution. Republicans are engaging in election interference with voter suppression and racial gerrymandering. Trump is going ng to steal the election. He's already saying this. Musk is not being honest. There's no way to steal votes or elections. Fox news lied about this and paid 3/4 of a billion dollars for slander. Trump's man investigated and said 2020 was the most secure election in American history. Trump did 60 election challenges in the courts. In front of Republican judges and he lost all 60 court cases. There was no vote changing. There was no election stealing. Musk has a brilliant mind there is no way he does not know this. Musk has a vested interest he receives billions of dollars in American taxpayers money and governmental subsidies. He wants his Trump tax cuts. Elon Musk is lying at rallies he is holding on Trump's behalf. On X Musk is amplifying white supremacists, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, white replacement theorists and Nazis. Either Elon Musk never had ethics or he has completely lost his moral centre. Musk was an illegal immigrant initially when he came to America. He was like the 11 million Undocumenteds. Elon Musk is naive. Trump will take Musk's wealth just like Putin did in Russia. Where ever you stand on Musk it will be sad to see his downfall. He is pretending that Trump didn't say he would terminate the American Constitution. Republicans are engaging in election interference with voter suppression and racial gerrymandering. Trump is going ng to steal the election. He's already saying this. Musk is not being honest. There's no way to steal votes or elections. Fox news lied about this and paid 3/4 of a billion dollars for slander. Trump's man investigated and said 2020 was the most secure election in American history. Trump did 60 election challenges in the courts. In front of Republican judges and he lost all 60 court cases. There was no vote changing. There was no election stealing. Musk has a brilliant mind there is no way he does not know this. Musk has a vested interest he receives billions of dollars in American taxpayers money and governmental subsidies. He wants his Trump tax cuts. Elon Musk is lying at rallies he is holding on Trump's behalf. On X Musk is amplifying white supremacists, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, white replacement theorists and Nazis. Either Elon Musk never had ethics or he has completely lost his moral centre. Musk was an illegal immigrant initially when he came to America. He was like the 11 million Undocumenteds. Elon Musk is naive. Trump will take Musk's wealth just like Putin did in Russia. Where ever you stand on Musk it will be sad to see his downfall.
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  2960. Corporate media gave Trump $6 billion dollars in free coverage in 2016. Recently the New York Times ran 196 negative articles on Biden's mental decline vs 6-10 negative articles on Trump's mental decline during the same time period. Democrats do not trust the New York Times (or the Washington Post) anymore. The corporate media is owned by Trump billion dollar media owners who want their tax cuts. Kamala Harris owes them nothing. You are two of the best journalists in Australia but you are two of the whitest dudes who have not paid attention. I have got to say I am a huge fan of Planet America and I am often surprised that you two are on top of so many nuances. But you missed the bias against Biden by the New York Times and the backlash against it. If you ever get a chance to interview David Cay Johnson, he nails this media coverage. After Kamala Harris introduced Tim Walz she walked off the rally stage and 15 minutes she was being interviewed by Roland Martin. There is not only white journalists in the white corporate media but a wide range of other media platforms for Harris to utilise. Kamala Harris has been campaigning on reproductive health care for over 12 months. You can see her with journalists and podcasters in many cultures and communities. Not only white folks like you can report. There's Indigenous, Native, Black, Asian and Hispanic media platforms to engage with. A lot have stopped watching CNN, MSNBC, etc. I watch them for basics but then move on. Harris has sponsored and co-sponsored pieces of legislation which anyone can look up. Harris has committed to running on restoring reproductive health care which is significant. Maybe not to two men, but it is life saving 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriages before Roe vs Wade these women often died. For women Harris has been hitting out of the park. There's been 64,000 pregnancies resulting from rapes which have occurred in the red states that have abortion bans. You have not covered the abortion to your usual level of analysis. Harris also worked on the Child Tax Credit which raised 50 per cent of Black children out of poverty. She was part of the Chips Act and Infrastructure bill which are worth googling. Folks can find everything is online easy to find. Also finally Trump is shooting himself in the foot. Campaign strategy 101 is don't interrupt your enemy when he's self destructing. Even Trump shut up when the Democrats were hand wringing about Biden stepping down. Finally the combination of Trump's racism and sexism means the Harris campaign is not going to let her be scapegoated and vilified. They will not allow a media lynching. To recap Harris is appearing just not in your spheres. Corporate media given who it is owned by is not trusted. You two are my favourites in the Australian media, I mostly consume overseas media. However you lack of a female's perspective of what abortion means. You also are missing out on the cultural diversity of media in America. You nailed it that Harris she will be represented as not knowing. Very astute comments.
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  2963. Part of the reason folks were vulnerable to the MAGA cult was because they felt like that they didn't belong. 60% of Americans can't get $500 together for an emergency and they work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Living in neoliberalist "Poverty as a Policy Choice" is not living in a Republic. David Cay Johnston, talked with Rick Wilson and discussed at the end of "The Enemies List" podcast that 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. That 1 in 3 of these people are reading and writing at an 8 year old level.  Rick Wilson didn't seem that curious or interested in these facts. Rick didn't seem interested in Johnston's solutions either, which surprised me. Rick Wilson has brilliant analytic skills. I am a massive fan. But he has this one blind spot which puzzles me. This means that these Americans haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. They don't know who Murdoch is or what he owns. They are at a 6th Grade level level. It makes them vulnerable to the spectre of the strong man, authoritanism and cults. Food insecurity and housing insecurity have a profound effect on attitudes and mental health of folks. Prejudice and scapegoating others becomes a way of relieving and manage profound insecurity and anxiety. These folks could be microtargeted by Rick Wilson and his great team of ad makers. Trump and Fox are good at the amygdala hijacks, either fight, flight, freeze or fawn. For those already feeling lost and overwhelmed this alleviates massive anxiety by watching the scapegoating of others. This provides comfort because that are not the target. Amygdala hijacks literally means their pre frontal cortex is shut down. Biology prevents rational thinking. They are literally feeling their lives are on the line. A 6th Grader doesn't think about things in a sophisticated manner. A human's nervous system reverberates with anxiety and it can't tell what is here now from what is on TV.  Both Republicans and Democrats conspired together to use "Poverty as a Policy Choice". Shaming folks for being poor and making them work for food stamps when they are already working 2-3 jobs makes them highly vulnerable to anger, rage, despair, resentment, cults and/or the strong men who will save them and tell them what to do. . A living wage could have prevented the rise of Trumpism.  Access to health care could have prevented the rise of the desparate MAGAs. Republicans and Democrats not using neoliberalism which has the side affects of not just poverty but also loneliness, disconnection and a lack of a community to belong to could have prevented the rise of Trumpism. Addressing "Poverty as a Policy Choice" that shamed so many people for being poor would end the Republican and Democratic gaslighting that made folks so vulnerable to MAGA in the first place.
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  2985. The majority of Americans won't pay attention to the presidential elections until after Labor Day. You are among a minority of engaged folks. There's a few other complicating factors if you are interested. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. They have not developed any critical thinking skills. 60% of Americans can't get $500 together for a medical emergency. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. They have to "volunteer" to get food stamps. They are not analysing the news, they read headlines (which are usually click bait). They are extremely low information voters because of their combined too poor Intergenerational illiteracy and poverty impacts folks in profound ways.  Neoliberalism shifts a citizen in a country who has rights and responsibilities as well as a sense of belonging and purpose to being consumers in a market place. Consumers have to purchase wisely their own lives and it's their own fault if they do not have a trust fund. Neoliberalism has destroyed the psyches of so many people. The poor are blamed for their own situation.  Fox News engages in amygdala hijacks that is it activates the fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses. This literally means that their pre frontal cortex has shut down. They don't have the ability to engage in rational decision-making and thinking.  So those feeling profound shame about their lives engage in scapegoating others. They are desperate to vent and punish someone even if it is themselves.  A living wage, enough to eat and pay rent may well of staved off the rise of Trumpism.
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  2987. It is much deeper than the price of eggs. Don't be conned by surface analysis. 66.2% of Americans can't get $500 together for an emergency. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. It is the Democratic and Republican neoliberalist use of "Poverty as a Policy Choice". A living wage could have prevented the rise of Trumpism. If you are working 6-7 days a week you don't have time to read the news. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at a an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. This means that they do not have critical thinking skills. So I would argue that a combination of Intergenerational Trauma, racism, poverty and illiteracy leave folks disengaged and vulnerable to cults like the MAGA cult. Trump and FOX news use amygdala hijacks. This means that they activate a fight, flight, freeze or fawn. This literally means that the rational thinking part of the brain is shut down. It is used by strong men figures to create an environment of racism, sexism, homophobia, Antisemitism and hatred of the other. That hatred of the other is dangerous see authoritarian leaders. Those doing the bothering have been others by poverty, illiteracy and not belonging. To disregard their suffering by thinking it's about egg prices is to miss the cultural moment. It is to alienate those that we desperately need to build bridges with. It leaves us powerless and helpless. If we can see why folks might want to burn things to the ground then we can interact and build coalitions
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  3038. Many are living under this already. The police can take anything of yours if you are poor. See John Oliver's shows on that. 60% of Americans can't afford to get $500 together for an emergency. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" for food stamps. That's not living in a Republic, that is not having access to democracy. Democrats and Republicans conspired to use "Poverty as a Policy Choice". They used neoliberalism to blame poor people for being poor. Neoliberalism shifts folks from being a citizen in a country who has rights and responsibilities and a sense of belonging and purpose to being consumers in a market place, who are expected to purchase wisely their own lives without a sense of belonging and purpose. Who are blamed for not being born into wealth. That loneliness and being scapegoated is crushing. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. They do not know who Murdoch is or what he owns. Trump and Fox news, in the way they rant, comment, advertise, pontificate and scapegoat engage in amygdala hijacks. That means they are in a state of fight, flight, freeze or fawn state. That literally means that their prefrontal is shut down. The prefrontal cortex is where thinking takes place. Biology prevents them from thinking. If you are terrified of becoming homeless and you feel powerless. Then you want someone to be punished even if it is themselves.
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  3583. ​ @Fourleggedfreak Often child marriage allowed the girl to be married to her rapist. It enabled a man to avoid rape charges. There is an amazing book written about it. See below. Nicholas L. Syrett wrote "American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States" Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking history of youthful marriage in America. Focusing on young women and girls--the most common underage spouses--Syrett tracks the marital history of American minors from the colonial period to the present, chronicling the debates and moral panics related to these unions. Although the frequency of child marriages has declined since the early twentieth century, Syrett reveals that the practice was historically far more widespread in the United States than is commonly thought. It also continues to this day: current estimates indicate that 9 percent of living American women were married before turning eighteen. By examining the legal and social forces that have worked to curtail early marriage in America--including the efforts of women's rights activists, advocates for children's rights, and social workers--Syrett sheds new light on the American public's perceptions of young people marrying and the ways that individuals and communities challenged the complex legalities and cultural norms brought to the fore when underage citizens, by choice or coercion, became husband and wife.
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  3662. There's a few types of undecideds. I want to talk to you about one type. Most folks don't pay attention to the Presidential election until after Labor Day. These folks are just starting to pay attention to the Presidential election. Jeering and mocking them turns them off. Poverty is a huge influence on the undecideds. 66.2 % of Americans are living pay check to pay check. They cannot get $500 together for an emergency and they work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" for food stamps. They do not see politics as relevant to their lives. Intergenerational Trauma, poverty and illiteracy causes folks to disengage from politics. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level this means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. They do not know who Murdoch is or what he owns. Trump and FOX news use amygdala hijacks to manipulate and overwhelm folks. That means that they activate the fight, flight freeze or fawn responses in folks. If you are in fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses your prefrontal shuts down a person's rational thinking. You are biologically unable to think. Undecideds are not choosing between Trump and Harris. They are choosing whether to vote or not in a system where they will still be living in poverty living pay check to pay check. Political junkies, and those with secure housing, enough food to eat, access to health care and are not working 2-3 jobs are aware of the issues. Most folks don't pay attention to the Presidential election until after Labor Day. These folks are just starting to pay attention to the Presidential election and mocking them turns them off. If Democrats and Republicans hadn't conspired to use the neoliberalist "Poverty as a Policy Choice" yes folks would have time to read, listen or engage with the news. The New York Times ran 196 negative articles on Biden's mental decline vs 6-10 negative articles on Trump's mental decline during the same time period. When Undecideds tune in the corporate media is treating Trump like he's a normal candidate. The mainstream media is telling both sides of a lie. The billionaire media owners want their Trump tax cuts so there is a media bias than many don't have the critical thinking skill set required to adequately interrogate or the time, mental energy to start to sort it out. When talking to Trump voters I notice that another person in their social network has died due to lack of medical treatment. The Undecideds seem to be living in perpetual grief over the last of friends family, workmates and acquaintances. Having the critical thinking skills, secure housing, enough food to eat and some actual time to engage in politics is a luxury that many Americans can't afford or don't have access to and they are turning up now. Ridiculing those who are traumatised by their lives isn't going to talk them out of racism, sexism and homophobia. It just leaves them feeling alone and disconnected. Multinationals have pitted us against each other whilst stealing our water, air, natural resources and our cultural identity and citizenship. Those fighting the culture wars are not stupid. They may not know it but they are resisting neoliberalism. They are trying to get their rights, responsibilities, the sense of purpose, of belonging to a community or a nation back. Neoliberalism shifted us from being citizens in a country who has rights and responsibilities, a sense of purpose and belonging to being consumers in a market place who is to blame if they do not have a trust fund. The culture wars keep us at each other's throats, which suits fossil fuel companies and folks like Elon Musk keep us fighting for a piece of toast rather than realise whilst very different from each other we can knead bread together will sharing our varying views and ways of doing, being and seeing.
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  3718. To my way of thinking it is Intergenerational Trauma, poverty, illiteracy and a complete lack of time to engage with the media which makes folks very vulnerable to cults and manipulation. There's some statistics that are worth knowing. 66.2% of Americans are living pay check to pay check. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" for food stamps. They are time poor and often do not engage with media. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at an 8 year old level. This means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. This means that they haven't got critical thinking skills. They do not know about billionaire media owners and their agendas. How they want their Trump tax cuts. Both Republicans and Democrats conspired to use neoliberalism's "Poverty as a Policy Choice". Neoliberalism shifts a citizen of a country who has rights and responsibilities, a sense of belonging and purpose to being a consumer in a market place who is to blame if they do not purchase the right life despite not having a trust fund. The shaming and humiliating of the poor is a feature of neoliberalism. Folks who are vulnerable become desperate to scapegoat others which feels like a huge relief that they are not the at the brunt of the scapegoating. Intergenerational Trauma, poverty and illiteracy makes folks vulnerable to cults and manipulation. Trump and FOX news use amygdala hijacks, that is they play on fear responses or fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses. If you are in fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses your rational mind or prefrontal cortex has shut down. Biologically your capacity to think has been shut down. There's no capacity to rationally think things through. Without access to adequate food, housing, stable employment and education folks don't have the capacity to process and engage in moral thinking.
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  4155. Both Republicans and Democrats conspired to use "Poverty as a Policy Choice", this is "The Deep State" that many rightly want to destroy. Americans are so stressed, frustrated, and angry. They are so outraged that they have a desperate need for someone to be punished even if it ends up being themselves. As Michael Moore said voting for Trump was the biggest '"F@ck you" in American history"'. Wealth equality is profound and visceral issue for so many. There is Intergenerational despair, anger and rage. Two people have more wealth than the bottom 60% of Americans. 60% of Americans live pay check to pay check. They cannot get $500 together for an emergency. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and/or buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" to get food stamps. They muffle their grief watch family and friends die for a lack of medical treatment. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level this means that they haven't progressed from concrete thinking to abstract thinking. This means that they haven't got critical thinking skills. They have, however, a well developed sense of injustice and if voting for Trump upsets those who have kept the gates closed from them having a living wage, then they want the scapegoats to be someone other than themselves. Let those with money, access and a platform start to feel the stress that permeates every facet of their lives. A living wage from one job and access to health care would have prevented the rise of Trump. Not scapegoating poor people would have prevented the rise of Trump. Democrats and Republicans conspiring to keep Americans poor using "Poverty as a Policy Choice" rightfully brought rage, anger and despair that had to be answered in some way, Democrats and Republicans brought this on America.
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  4159. Often child marriage allowed the girl to be married to her rapist. It enabled a man to avoid rape charges. See the great book below. It's well researched and written. Nicholas L. Syrett wrote "American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States" Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking history of youthful marriage in America. Focusing on young women and girls--the most common underage spouses--Syrett tracks the marital history of American minors from the colonial period to the present, chronicling the debates and moral panics related to these unions. Although the frequency of child marriages has declined since the early twentieth century, Syrett reveals that the practice was historically far more widespread in the United States than is commonly thought. It also continues to this day: current estimates indicate that 9 percent of living American women were married before turning eighteen. By examining the legal and social forces that have worked to curtail early marriage in America--including the efforts of women's rights activists, advocates for children's rights, and social workers--Syrett sheds new light on the American public's perceptions of young people marrying and the ways that individuals and communities challenged the complex legalities and cultural norms brought to the fore when underage citizens, by choice or coercion, became husband and wife.
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