An angry black lady
The author below could probably win a prize for overgeneralization. She generalizes about "men", with minimal awareness that there are all sorts of men. If most of her experience is with black men, however, I do to an extent understand her anger. An awful lot of impulsively destructive behaviours do seem to emanate from black men in NYC
The article is basically a lecture to the men she deplores. It aims to get them to see themselves as the losers they are. It is unlikely that any of them will read it, though. And will her anger ever be cured? I doubt it. She needs a warm relationship with a good man for that. But it is compromise and giving, not anger, that is needed to create it
If you don’t know by now I live in NYC. While, this city is the city of dreams for outsiders, I’m from here and I hate this city. I’m moving out in a few months once and for all and the universe knows I cannot wait. Part of what I hate about this city is that this city is a major representation of how a lot of men in the world are. Every income bracket and every male mindset can be found here in NYC.
I have grown up here, moved to other parts of NY, moved out of NY and moved back. When I write about men and how they are, I know from both personal and professional experience having lived and still live in the city where every type of man can be found, as well as having experienced them outside of the city and state. Oh and the internet just helps to confirm what I write about because men tell on themselves here.
Why I Hate NYC
The other day a delivery worker got killed because the customer did not get enough duck sauce. He was killed by an out of control male customer. Over the weekend another man was killed when he accidently dropped a prize in front of another man’s foot inside of the Times Square arcade. That man was also killed by an out of control man. An Asian woman was randomly attacked by a male and chased down the street for no reason. A man sitting inside of his Mercedes was found dead Saturday afternoon, shot in the head following an argument with another man about a woman.
What do all of these have in common? They are all examples of men, of all races losing their tempers over the stupidest and most random shit. What happened to the self-control? Why do men nowadays have no self-control? All men should be embarrassed that themselves and their fellow brethren have little to no self-control.
I’ve written in the past how many women, of all races, are choosing not to deal with men any longer. A lot of women are choosing to stay single, not date, not get married and certainly not have children. While men having bad hygiene is definitely a part of that, the other part is that most of these same men have absolutely terrible tempers and no self-control.
Men with tempers as wild and out of control as rabid dogs!
I’ve listed men getting killed by other men in my above examples and one woman but the fact is that these men have out of control tempers for both men and women. Statistics are currently showing that crime is up 60% in every crime category around compared to 2021, with the majority of the crime in each category being done by males. Everything from assault to hate crimes, which is up 79%, the majority is done by males. NYC is also statistically the epic center of what goes on in other big and small cities.
Out of control, savage ass males! You men should be embarrassed!
A woman wrote an article recently asking for advice on Reddit because her husband who isn’t working threw a temper tantrum after she moved his gaming equipment out of the only spare room in the house because her job went remote. A temper tantrum. If men aren’t throwing temper tantrums for not getting sex, they are throwing temper tantrums over video games now. He threw a tantrum like a three-year-old over a video game system. Grown ass man with children, threw a tantrum like a child.
Y’all men should be embarrassed!
The world is well aware of how you men have absolutely no self-control over yourselves. If y’all aren’t making the news, y’all are being recorded on other people’s phones or women are getting on the internet complaining about y’all and asking people for advice on how to deal with y’all out of control asses. Y’all are grown ass men losing your minds for no damn reason. Getting mad quicker than a Porsche can go from 0 to 60. It’s ridiculous.
Forget just poor men deserving no pussy, out-of-control men deserve no pussy!
I don’t understand how y’all think that watching this, reading about this or making the news about this is a turn on for women. It’s not! Men nowadays have to have personality and be decent human beings to get women and most of y’all have absolutely no personality and its obvious to the blind that y’all aren’t decent human beings.
Here’s the thing, y’all are grown ass fuck. This is not something that one’s mother or parents can be blamed for. While one can’t control their childhood, they can control their adulthood and as an adult if you’re constantly flying off the handle or going from 0 to 60 faster than a luxury car, you have a problem and need to see someone about that.
This stupidity of getting a criminal record because you’re too lazy and trifling to see someone about your temper is dumb as fuck. At this point, I think most men want to be in jail. They want to be criminals because nothing else makes good sense. I don’t understand why one knowing they have a temper and knowing what the consequences are for having that temper would not want to get therapy and learn techniques on how to deal with that temper and lack of self-control.
Also, why are you a grown ass man still throwing tantrums and are okay with that?
I don’t understand how y’all men have a tantrum and then when you’ve calmed down knowing you threw a tantrum just go on about your day like it was nothing. You go out play golf, go to the store, watch a football game as if you didn’t just behave like a three-year-old child and are okay with that. I do not understand how you men are okay with yourselves knowing that you just acted like a child.
No wonder women don’t want to deal with y’all. Y’all can’t deal with yourselves!
No way y’all should be okay with that but it seems that y’all are and that is why women who are single wish to remain as such. No woman with good sense after seeing this foolishness wants to keep dealing with that. Once is more than enough. It is a complete turn off. No woman with good sense wants to watch the news and see men acting like out-of-control dogs and says, “Ooh that’s sexy.” Not. At. All. They are turned off by the lack of self-control.
There is absolutely no excuse for a grown ass man to have a temper, lack self-control and be throwing tantrums. None. Y’all all should be embarrassed. If you have self-control, not a temper and aren’t throwing tantrums, then you should be checking your male friends and family members for their behavior instead of just saying what y’all usually say, “That’s just …..” No. Absolutely not. Y’all all look terrible.
The “good” men are suffering with the bad because there are so many men acting like savage beasts. Too many and it is embarrassing or at least it should be. Y’all gonna keep suffering with singleness too because y’all just accept mediocrity amongst yourselves and your brethren. It’s disgusting. It’s ridiculous. It’s pathetic and it should be embarrassing. Sadly, for too many of you, it is not. Ugh.
https://medium.com/@lishoneandassociates/all-men-should-be-embarrassed-by-this-1214e05d2cfc
*******************************************************The Right Resistance: Ohio GOP primary proved Donald Trump’s still got the golden touch
The leader of the charge may not be in power any longer, but the movement’s not dead.
This much was evident last week in the Ohio Republican Party primary, where former president Donald Trump endorsed candidates cleared the board on Tuesday night. While the vast majority of the establishment media’s attention remained focused on the Supreme Court and the possibility/likelihood of Roe v. Wade being tossed into the dustbin of history (along with the corpses of tens of millions of aborted babies) -- and the Democrats’ over-the-top reaction to the realization that their precious federal abortion “right” might not be around much longer -- the Buckeye State results were pushed to the side.
The biggest headline grabber was 37-year-old J.D. Vance of “Hillbilly Elegy” fame prevailing in the race to replace longtime Ohio GOP establishmentarian Rob Portman in the U.S. Senate. Vance still has to win in November’s general election, but he’ll be a heavy favorite to do so over Democrat Tim Ryan, whose main claim to fame was a short-lived 2020 presidential run and rumored challenge to Nancy Pelosi for the Speaker’s gavel last decade.
Vance had lingered in semi-obscurity until Trump opted to throw his considerable name recognition and sway with the grassroots behind the man who’s barely old enough to hold the senate office. J.D. certainly talks a good game and appears to push all the right anti-establishment buttons, but many conservatives felt more comfortable going with a more proven political commodity, second place finisher Josh Mandel, in the primary.
The Yale Law educated “Hillbilly” author has a lot to live up to when and if he goes to Washington. All eyes will be watching to see whether the one-time Never Trumper really changed his views or if he’s merely an opportunist who looks the part (full beard and Appalachian pedigree) but suddenly and unexpectedly morphs into a DC swamp creature.
Trump had a great night overall, with all of his endorsements coming through with victories, including those in the Indiana primary next door. For those establishment media sources who’d crowed about Trump being finished and the muscle of his name doesn’t mean as much any longer, they should take a good look at Ohio, which revealed just the opposite.
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Utah Was Warned Racial Rationing of COVID Drugs Was Illegal. It Did It Anyway
More disgusting racism from the Leftist establishment
Utah public health officials were warned that allocating COVID drugs based on race violated federal law, but did so anyway with the backing of the Biden administration, emails and documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.
Utah’s points-based system for prioritizing COVID patients, which allocated more points for being non-white than for having congestive heart failure, troubled two law professors specializing in bioethics. They informed the doctors who designed the system in September 2021 that it was probably illegal.
"The use of non-white race really set off alarm bells," Teneille Brown, a professor at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law, said in an email.
The "consensus among legal academics," Brown's colleague Leslie Francis added, is that a system like Utah's would "violate federal law."
This piece is based on materials obtained via a third-party public records request and shared with the Free Beacon.
The doctors Brown and Francis emailed were part of the state's Crisis Standards of Care workgroup, assembled by the Utah Hospital Association at the behest of the health department. When COVID surged in November 2020, the health department asked the group to develop a system for allocating scarce therapies. The group conceded its approach hadn't been "reviewed legally." But, they assured the law professors, it did have the blessing of the Biden administration.
The Department of Health and Human Services "has lauded our approach," said Mark Shah, the director of Utah's Disaster Medical Assistance Team and a member of the group. In February 2021, Shah's colleague Brandon Webb presented the race-based allocation system to HHS, according to power point slides reviewed by the Free Beacon. HHS subsequently listed the system as a "promising practice" for other states to consider.
Such race-conscious policies proliferated throughout the pandemic, sparking both moral outrage and legal scrutiny. Like Utah, Minnesota and New York prioritized non-white residents for monoclonal antibodies. Vermont did the same for vaccines. Some states, including Utah and Minnesota, scrapped their policies in the wake of political backlash—and amid threats of legal action from conservative nonprofits.
The emails suggest Utah was ground zero for many of these schemes. The state initially defended its system by invoking guidance from the Food and Drug Administration, which lists race as a risk factor that can qualify patients for monoclonal antibodies. But according to the emails, it was Utah that inspired that guidance in the first place.
"The FDA reviewed our Utah Risk Score and used it as precedent for including ‘race and other risk factors' as qualifiers," Shah told the group in June 2021. Minnesota in turn used that precedent to justify its own allocation system.
The emails reflect the race-conscious consensus that has taken hold of medical bureaucracies across the country. As that consensus has consolidated at every level of government, it has emboldened public health officials to flout anti-discrimination law, which they assume won't be enforced.
The gap between law and policy widened with the pandemic, which provided an emergency pretext for suspending civil rights. Nondiscrimination, the emails suggest, was seen as an obstacle to crisis management.
"I'd prefer just using the ‘we're too busy trying to save lives during the surge' excuse," Webb, an infectious diseases specialist at Intermountain Healthcare, emailed his colleagues after some back and forth with the law professors.
That utilitarian mindset extended to Utah's Republican governor Spencer Cox, who in January 2022 told health officials to modify the allocation system, a spokesperson for the governor said—but only after it became clear that the drugs weren't reaching minorities. The problem wasn't that the system discriminated by race; it was that the discrimination didn't work.
"Despite the inclusion of race and ethnicity," the spokesperson told the Free Beacon, "communities of color did not receive monoclonal antibodies proportionate to their share of COVID-test positives."
"I'm frankly surprised that this has not yet been subject to a legal challenge," Webb wrote the law professors. He added that in 2020, the group asked "the Office of Civil Rights" for guidance on the use of race but didn't receive a response.
It is unclear to which office Webb was referring. A draft copy of the group's inquiry includes no date or letterhead, and Roger Severino, HHS's director of civil rights at the time, said it never came across his desk.
"Had this been brought to my attention," Severino told the Free Beacon, "I would have told them they risked violating Title VI and would have merited my office investigating them had they gone through with such explicit race based rationing."
Reached for comment, Webb said Shah was the one who sent the inquiry. Shah did not respond to a request for comment.
The group, which developed the system in November 2020, took for granted that all racial minorities should receive special treatment. It borrowed heavily from an allocation system used by the Cleveland Clinic, which prioritized African Americans for monoclonal antibodies. The "only knock" against that system, Webb wrote the group, is that "it only gives disparity weighting to black race rather than recognizing elevated risk associated with other race/ethnicities."
Utah's system was based on an analysis of 20,000 COVID patients between March and October 2020. Though some minorities are at higher risk than others, according to the state's own data, the analysis lumped all of them together, comparing hospitalization rates between "white" and "non-white" Utahns.
The result was a "risk score calculator" that gave "non-white race or Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity" two points—more than it gave hypertension, chronic kidney disease, or shortness of breath. Utahns needed to score a certain number of points to be eligible for monoclonal antibodies.
The calculator was first used by the Intermountain hospital system, which employed many members of the group, including Webb and Shah. By September 2021, it was causing controversy among COVID-stricken patients.
"We have been forced into a defense of the scoring system as now constituents are reaching out to elected leaders asking why they are not eligible," lamented Kevin McCulley, the Preparedness and Response director for the health department.
As pushback mounted, the department's main concern was semantic rather than substantive. Officials spent days wordsmithing an online "self-screening tool" based on the calculator, in part to ensure it didn't run afoul of progressive sensibilities.
"Latinex should have the ‘e' removed (Latinx)," Matthew Plendl, a member of the health department, said of an early draft.
Some exchanges read like parodies of progressive racecraft, with officials attempting to sort out who would count as "non-white."
The calculator lets "someone select more than one race category," noted Jenny Johnson, a member of the health department's communications team. "Would this mean anyone who marks ONLY White would not meet the criteria? And those who mark at least one race category that is not White does meet the criteria?"
Particularly vexing was the status of Hispanics.
"Someone with a high level of cultural competence should help us wordsmith this," McCulley wrote his colleagues. "Is your race Non-white or Hispanic/Latinex Ethnicity? I don't think Hispanic is a race."
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The usual Leftist war on reality
That was not this mum's experience - instead she had a fellow parent accuse her of 'enforcing gender norms' with her gift for young guests.
Posting to Reddit, the mum explained that she had decided to purchase some "cute lunchbox sets" for her six-year-old's birthday party, after finding the bargain items on sale.
"Instead of having plates of food set out and the kids grabbing stuff, I thought it'd be fun if each kid got a lunchbox filled with food and juice in the bottle, and they could take the box/bottle home," she wrote in her post.
The options available were Frozen-themed lunchboxes, which she intended to give to the girls, and Spiderman-themed lunchboxes, which she intended to give to the boys.
"The day came, all the kids had a blast and when it was time for lunch I gave them the lunch sets.
"I did grab a couple extras in case the kids wanted the other lunchbox (so if a girl wanted spider man, vice versa) but no one said anything and they all seemed over the moon with it," she adds.
But the lunchboxes became an issue when one of the mums arrived to pick up their child.
"She went on to say that I was 'enforcing gender norms on impressionable young children' and 'stuck in the 1900s'," the mum recalls.
"At this point, I was a bit baffled and said that it was not my intention at all, and if her daughter wanted the Spiderman set I would be more than happy to give it to her since I had extras," she adds.
"She said that's not the point and I shouldn't have been giving out things based on gender in the first place."
The mum has appealed online to ask if she really was in the wrong, but most seem to be on her side.
"You even bought extra to accommodate a boy who wanted Frozen or a girl who wanted Spiderman, so I don't get where you are "enforcing" anything," wrote one user.
"I'm a mum of two and would have no issue at all with this and think you had a really cute idea," they added.
"I mean obviously, you should have just given them all plain grey lunchboxes to represent the void of future reason, but what can ya do..." another person joked.
Another person agreed that the mum hadn't done anything wrong, but did point out that pop culture has had an impact on members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Middle class but sinking economically
Middle-class U.S. families have been treading water for decades—weighed down by stalled income growth and rising prices—but the runaway inflation that has emerged from the pandemic is sending more than a ripple of frustration through their ranks. The pandemic seemed at first as if it might offer a chance to catch up; they kept their jobs as the service sector laid off millions, their wages started climbing at a faster rate as companies struggled to find workers, and they began saving more than they had for decades. About one-third of middle-income Americans felt that their financial situation had improved a year into the pandemic, according to Pew Research, as they quarantined at home while benefiting from stimulus checks, child tax credits, and the pause of federal student- loan payments.
But 18 months later, they increasingly suspect that any sense of financial security was an illusion. They may have more money in the bank, but being middle class in America isn’t only about how much you make; it’s also about what you can buy with that money. Some people measure it by whether a family has a second refrigerator in the basement or a tree in the yard, but Richard Reeves, director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative at the Brookings Institution, says that what really matters is whether people feel that they can comfortably afford the “three H’s” —housing, health care, and higher education.
Over the past year alone, home prices have leaped 20% and the cost of all goods is up 8.5%. Families are paying $3,500 more this year for the basic set of goods and services that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) follows than they did last year. Average hourly earnings, by contrast, are down 2.7% when adjusted for inflation. That squeeze has left many who identify as middle class reaching to afford the three H’s, especially housing. In March, U.S. consumer sentiment reached its lowest level since 2011, according to the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers, and more households said they expected their finances to worsen than at any time since May 1980.
“The mantra has been: work hard, pay your dues, you’ll be rewarded for that. But the goalposts keep getting moved back,” says Daniel Barela, 36, a flight attendant in Albuquerque, N.M., who is exquisitely aware that his father had a home and four kids by his age. Barela and his partner made around $69,000 between them last year, and he feels as if he’s been jammed financially for most of his adult life. He lost his job during the Great Recession and, after a major credit-card company raised his interest rate to 29.99% in 2008, he had to file for bankruptcy. “No matter what kind of job I’ve held and no matter how much I work, it never seems to be enough to meet the qualifications to own a home,” he says.
Even if people Barela’s age, who make up much of the middle class today, earn more money than their parents did, even if they have college degrees and their choice of jobs, even if they have a place to live, an iphone, and a flat-screen TV, many are now sensing that although they followed all of American society’s recommended steps, they somehow ended up financially fragile. “Our income supposedly makes us upper middle class, but it sure doesn’t feel like it,” says Swope. “If you’re middle class, you can afford to do fun things—and we can’t.”
TIME talked to dozens of people across the country, all of whose incomes fall in the middle 60% of American incomes, which is what Brookings defines as the middle class. For a family of three, that means somewhere between $42,500 to $166,900 today. Here’s what we heard:
Many mentioned resentment toward their parents or older colleagues who don’t understand why this younger generation don’t bear the hallmarks of the middle class, like a single- family home or paid-offcollege debt. “Boomers could literally work the minimumwage job, they could experience life— go to national parks or have children and own homes. That’s just not possible for us,” says Julie Ann Nitsch, a government worker in Austin who, when the home she rents goes up for sale in May, will no longer be able to live in the county she serves.
They have a point. Homeownership has become more elusive for each successive generation as real estate prices have outpaced inflation. More than 70% of people ages 35 to 44 owned a home in 1980, according to the Urban Institute, but by 2018, fewer than 60% of people in that age group had bought a place to live. The soaring value of owner- occupied housing, which reached $29.3 trillion by the end of 2019, has created a divide, enriching the older Americans who own homes and shutting out the younger ones who can’t afford to break into the market.
Millennials and younger generations came of age in the worst recession in decades, entered a job market where their wages grew sluggishly, and then weathered another recession at the beginning of the pandemic. Through it all, costs continued to rise. Median household income has grown just 9% since 2001, but college tuition and fees are up 64% over the same time period, while outof- pocket health care costs have nearly doubled. Just half of all children born in the 1980s have grown up to earn more than their parents, as opposed to more than 90% of children in the 1940s. Both millennials and Generation X have a lower net worth and more debt when they reach age 40 than boomers did at that age, according to Bloomberg.
Their worries matter for the larger American economy. As Joe Biden said in 2019, “When the middle class does well, everybody does very, very well. The wealthy do very well and the poor have some light, a chance. They look at it like, ‘Maybe me—there may be a way.’”
If the middle class is feeling left out of one of the strongest economies in decades, when the unemployment rate is at a historic low, it’s a grave sign that social discord is coming. Right now, there’s no Great Recession, no tech meltdown, no collapse of complex real estate investment products to explain away why things are tight. On the surface, the economy looks buoyant. But like Swope’s slowly cooking frog, lots of middle-income earners are realizing that they’re in hot water and going under.
“It’s not like this volcano came out of nowhere,” says Reeves, the Future of the Middle Class Initiative director. “To some extent, we’ve seen these longterm shifts in the economy like sluggish wage growth and downward mobility. It can take some time for the economic tectonic pressure to build sufficiently— and now the volcano is erupting.”
The costs of all three H’s have soared over the past few decades, but it’s the cost of housing—usually the largest and most crucial expenditure for any family—that is fueling so much of the current discontent. Housing prices have climbed steadily for decades, with the exception of a dip from 2007 to 2009, but growth reached a fever pitch in the past year. Few places are immune; more than 80% of U.S. metro areas saw housing prices grow at least 10%. In the Atlanta metro area, where Swope and Greene live, the median listing price is $400,000, up 7.5% from last year. (They think they could afford a house that costs $300,000.)
The rising prices are driven by a legion of forces, including a lag in building in the wake of the Great Recession, a rise in short-term rentals, speculation by institutional investors who own a growing share of single-family homes, a shortage of construction materials, and labor and supply-chain issues. They’re exacerbated by growing demand from families looking to spend the money they’ve saved, boomers who are aging in place rather risking life in a facility during the pandemic, and millennials anxious to start a family.
The recent scramble to buy homes has been well documented, but in many places, renters are in a worse position than buyers. Rents rose almost 30% in some states in 2021, and are projected to rise further this year. David Robinson, 37, was born and raised in Phoenix and now lives with his girlfriend and three children in a modest three-bedroom apartment in Maryvale, which he considers a low-end part of town. In September, their rent went from $1,200 a month to $2,200, with extra fees, after, he says, “some property- management company based out of Washington [State]” bought the building. His rent now represents about 50% of his income as a utilities surveyor.
“It’s kind of hard to do anything with your family,” he says. “After buying clothes, food, and [paying] the other bills like electricity, water, stufflike that, the financial cushion wears really thin. I’m pretty much working to pay someone else’s bills.” He crosses his fingers that their cars hold out a little longer, not to mention their health.
More here:
https://time.com/6171292/middle-class-falling-behind-economy/
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