Political Discussions

Obviously, I will sarcastically, half seriously retort.

Isn’t birth control an outdated medium? I don’t know the answer.

I ask, because isn’t Plan B the new, improved, easier, no fuss method of birth control? It’s on every shelf of just about any type of food and liquor market (at least in my state).

@silvermouse apologies for inserting my hypothetical analysis that skews off the intention of the article. Just taking from the playbooks of V2 (v squared) brothers @Vision and @VegasFrank

@peter4jc said:
That's only because Trump fired the lady who puts the numbers together and replaced her with someone who would tell him what he wants to hear.

Or maybe he fired her because her numbers were so flawed?

if the majority voted for less government this should be a bit disconcerting. Yes, it is from the NYT but there is some validity in the observation:

"When he was running for president last year, Donald Trump and his allies promised to increase the power of the presidency over the rest of the federal government. He has moved aggressively to keep that promise, clashing with courts and steamrolling Congress as he works to stamp out pockets of independence.

But it’s not just that Trump wants more power over the federal government. He is also trying to give the federal government more power over society itself."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/trump-presidential-power.html

Going after domestic violence would make America look bad?

Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with "current administration priorities."

I should have said domestic extremist violence. I interpreted it to mean American citizens who blow up stuff or kill people because they think it is acceptable given their grudges or political views.

Didnt read the whole article. It's a good thing Trump is fixing this woke, leftist nonsense if it supported by taxpayer money. The weirdos and invaders can pay for their own radical agenda.

Focus on mental health with deliberate objective truths and you’ll get a safer country, state and local community.

Follow up- Yes, I am thinking about the mass shooting. Didn’t Reagan f*** this up for us? Do the hard thing and start locking up the nuts again.

some people are born inter sexed and assigned to one gender or the other at birth, sometimes incorrectly.

@silvermouse said:
some people are born inter sexed and assigned to one gender or the other at birth, sometimes incorrectly.

True, and in those very rare instances we need to respect the decision of the individual, and the individual needs to accept the limitations of societal norms. Basically it boils down to this, XX = female, XY = male, and then there's the rare anomalies such as XXY = Klinefelter's syndrome, single X = Turner's syndrome, and another anomaly wherein Xy has female attributes, but enhanced testosterone production that somehow didn't promote full-on male genitalia etc.

It's not fair for Xy to compete against XX in tests of strength and endurance, things like that.

Then there are those who for other reasons wish to pretend that they are one or the other. I'm fine with that, but the hysteria over being "misgendered" when someone addresses you as Sir, with your stubbly beard and heavily muscled self is wearing a dress, is ridiculous. My last 25 years in the work force I was a nurse, over 6 ft, beard and mustache, and I was "misgendered" on a weekly basis because of my chosen profession. Who cares?

What bathroom do you want to use? As long as you behave yourself, who cares?

However, changing all cultural norms to accommodate the XY all male rapist who now wishes to identify as female in order to gain access to the female prison, or locker room, or whatever is not a cause to be championed. These are the kinds of issues that are problematic.

Lastly, those who wish to destroy all cultural norms are using these issues to divide and destroy our culture, here, now, today. The current trope is that "There are an infinite number of genders", based on expression or desire of the individual at any given moment.

I, for one, cannot accept that as a biological scientific fact. Is it a sociological fact? Maybe. However, what it seems to have boiled down to is the idea that because there are an infinite number of haircuts therefore there an infinite number of genders.

Baloney.

If someone shaves one side of their head, dyes the rest of their hair pink and makes love to their toaster that does not make them a new gender. That makes them crazy. I'm OK with their fetish, as long as they do it in the privacy of their own home, but I don't think we need to build a new set of bathrooms in every public facility for them. Use whichever bathroom suits you, behave yourself in there.

Absolutely. SOME need or needed to change. Not every one of them, though. As I said, I spent a couple decades as a professional nurse. There were times when that would have been much harder, or impossible. At the very least I would have been paid less for the same work, in fact, that is what happened when I was first hired by an XX female who preferred XX females. Didn't stop me. Examples abound. That doesn't mean each and every norm is wrong, misguided, or inappropriate, and that IS the view being espoused by many today, That's all I'm saying.

Workers hang a large photo of Donald Trump on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters in Washington DC, 27 August 2025. Photograph: Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Images

A glass parking lot would be nice, too.

@silvermouse said:
I wonder who will benefit of this comes to pass, lol

Postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration envisions 'voluntary' relocation of entire population
It's not clear that the 38-page prospectus — which calls for turning Gaza into a trusteeship administered by the United States for at least 10 years while it is transformed into a tourism resort and manufacturing hub — is what President Donald Trump, who has vowed to "take over" the enclave, has in mind. But major elements of it, according to two people familiar with the planning, were designed to make real the president’s vision of a “Riviera of the Middle East.”

Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.