U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) celebrated the Presidents’ Day by calling for red and blue states to separate in a “national divorce.”
“We need a national divorce,” Greene tweeted Monday morning, barely weeks after calling President Joe Biden a “liar” in the nationally-televised State of the Union. “We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this.”
Greene also called Democrats “traitorous,” and angrily accused them of shoving down Republicans’ throats “sick and disgusting woke culture issues.”
“From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”
Some blasted Greene’s choice to make her remarks on the national holiday, officially Washington’s Birthday, some noted she sits on the Homeland Security Committee, while others noted blue states contribute more to the federal coffers than red states, which are more likely to be supported by blue states.
This is the Republican Party. You may find it hard to believe, but let them say it in their own words. Is this a person you would invite over for dinner? Me either.
Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. Credit: Loren Holmes / ADN
JUNEAU, ALASKA – Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman sparked outrage online after asking whether there could be economic benefits from the death of abused children.
Eastman asked a series of questions during a MondayHouse Judiciary Committee hearing on adverse childhood experiences — such as physical and sexual abuse on children or growing up in a household marred by domestic violence — and how they can negatively affect a person throughout their lives.
EditSign given to legislators estimated that when child abuse is fatal, it could cost the family and broader society $1.5 million in terms of trauma and what the child could potentially have earned over their lifetime.
Eastman said that he had heard an argument, on occasion, that when child abuse is fatal, it could economically benefit a society.
“It can be argued, periodically, that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those […]
This report tells the story of a powerful change in American culture, one that is not even recognized by most people, and yet which is shaping U.S. society in myriad ways.
A depressed single man. Credit: Daily Mail
More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women, signaling a larger breakdown in the social, romantic and sexual life of the American male.
Men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. They stand at the vanguard of an epidemic of declining marriage, sexuality and relationships that afflicts all of young America.
“We’re in a crisis of connection,” said Niobe Way, a psychology professor and founder of the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity at New York University. “Disconnection from ourselves and disconnection from each other. And it’s getting worse.”
In the worst-case scenario, the young American man’s social disconnect can have tragic consequences. Young men commit suicide at four times the rate of young women. Younger men are largely responsible for rising rates of mass shootings, a trend some researchers link to their growing social isolation.
Here is another major change in American culture. Combined with the data from the previous story one see clearly see that gender status and relationships are undergoing major and little recognized changes. This is what is driving MAGAt world crazy.
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While that’s just a small increase from 2021 numbers — 7.1% — the 2022 Gallup data reflects an overall upward trend. In 2012, when the analytics giant began measuring LGBTQ identification, only about 3.5% of adults self-identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or something other than heterosexual and cisgender (meaning they identify with the sex they were assigned at birth).
Researchers credit the younger generations — especially those born between 1997 and 2004, or Generation Z — for the continuous increase.
Nearly 20% of Gen Z adults identified as LGBTQ. That rate is considerably lower (11.2%) among millennials (adults born between 1981 and 1996). Only 3.3% of Generation X adults, those born between 1965 and 1980 identified as LGBTQ.
Data for the survey came from phone interviews with more than 10,000 adults. Gallup researchers asked respondents if they identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or another identity. Some of the volunteered responses included pansexual, asexual or queer. Respondents could also choose multiple identities.
Have you noticed? The Republicans don't have any programs or projects that are designed to foster wellbeing. What they are doing is cultivating and fostering racism and White supremacy. Why? Because they think enough Americans are racists that they can use white supremacy as their ticket to stay in power. Just how bizarre this strategy has become is illustrated by this article.
The Fox propaganda operation’s leading White supremacist and liar, Tucker Carlson. Credit: Gage Skidmore
In East Palestine, Ohio, residents have complained of headaches, nausea, skin rashes and other symptoms following the early February derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals. A combination of Democrats, liberals and environmentalists have been vehemently critical of Norfolk Southern’s response to the disaster, arguing that the company needs to be way more proactive about a problem that it caused.
Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist famously portrayed by Julia Roberts in a hit 2000 movie, has urged the Biden Administration to “get more involved” in the crisis. To liberals and progressives —as well as some Never Trump conservatives — East Palestine is facing an environmental nightmare that merits a forceful, aggressive response.
But far-right MAGA Republicans who include Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk view East Palestine as a racial issue, claiming that Democrats are indifferent to the crisis because the town’s residents are mostly white. And liberal Washington Post opinion […]
