Intersectional Feminism: Self-Petarding
By Mitch Berg
Jezebel is to feminism what Facebook is to human communication.
That said:
The proposed Berg’s 21st Law – “With progressivism, yesterday’s joke is today’s demand and tomorrow’s policy”.
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July 30th, 2019 at 7:21 am
Conservative prankster: “Democrats want free abortions for illegal immigrants”
[Right on cue]
Ilham Omar: No one should fear receiving medical care because they are undocumented. We must ensure that all people in our country have access to reproductive health – July 22, 2019
July 30th, 2019 at 9:34 am
Policy? Or tomorrow’s mandate?
July 30th, 2019 at 10:16 am
Trump has increased federal aid to US farmers hurt by his self inflicted trade war with China. The 2nd round of bailout payments will cost $16 billion — in addition to the
$12 billion in bailout money previously paid out.
‘A few billion here a few billion there pretty soon you’re talking about real money’. ~ Everett Dirksen
What’s the point of being an autocrat if you can’t hand out (buy votes) freebies to your buddies in coal, steel and soybeans? I thought conservatives were against handouts — what a joke!.
July 30th, 2019 at 10:30 am
What’s the point of being an autocrat if you can’t hand out (buy votes) freebies to your buddies in coal, steel and soybeans?
Right. Especially when it’s at the expense of a
high school drop out trying to raise 5 fatherless shortiesstruggling mom.July 30th, 2019 at 10:39 am
As Dennis Prager has said, you cant make jokes about leftists anymore because they have gone so crazy things in the past your were sure were jokes could be real these days. I mean 10 years ago could anyone of any political stripe think its fair or reasonable for biological boys to compete against girls in athletic competition? Its only a matter of time before we get the first transgender WNBA player. On the plus side that might actually make the WNBA watchable and entertaining instead of being a prop for NBA teams and owners
July 30th, 2019 at 10:40 am
Leftist reprobates have been fomenting racism for the last 40 years, but they’ve tripled down on the hate component the last 10.
Now, they’re all bent because people have picked up their narrative and started chanting it back at them. They don’t want to abandon a bread and butter part of their agenda, but the cognitive dissonance is becoming impossible to manage among people of such meagre cognitive abilities.
I’m sure there is a generously funded Soros think tank working right now on a new angle.
July 30th, 2019 at 10:41 am
Also it brings up another great point, the left has no humor because there are so many things they “cant” make fun of which defeats the purpose of comedy.
July 30th, 2019 at 10:44 am
POD, I will purchase a jersey with the number of the 1st tranny to join lesbian sportsball.
July 30th, 2019 at 11:04 am
Free at last….
“The African American community is so thankful. They’ve called me and they’ve said, ‘finally somebody is telling the truth.’ ~ Donald Trump
July 30th, 2019 at 11:05 am
Hey he got calls from BOTH Diamond AND Silk!
July 30th, 2019 at 12:01 pm
Remember Cleavon Little trying to join the outlaw gang in ‘Blazing Saddles?” “Where de white wimmins at?” It was hilarious because both the question and the response were such blatant stereotypes.
Nowadays, it’s Jezebel’s latest hate. Blow that dog whistle, people! Blow it!
July 30th, 2019 at 3:21 pm
Uh Emery……..(never mind)…….(oh well, I’ll bite)….
Trump haters read the NYT and WAPO or watch MSNBC or CNN.
Farmers check commodity prices. Prior to the Chinese corn tariff, corn was selling at an average of $3.64, now it is up to $4.20.
Do you have anymore thoughts on the matter? I am sure there are tens of thousands of grain farmers throughout the Midwest who are relying on your wisdom.
July 30th, 2019 at 3:27 pm
These subsidies are unsustainable, and farmers know it. Their long term interests are being sacrificed to enable Trump to pursue an incoherent trade policy that ultimately will achieve nothing for the country or its agricultural sector. They are like soldiers being asked to die in a war that has already been lost.
July 30th, 2019 at 3:37 pm
Greg, I’m sure E’s next comment will get into what an “incoherent trade policy” comprises. As well as how they’re dying – I live in farm country and interact w/ farmers and I haven’t seen or heard about any deaths as of yet. I see new equipment tho’ – farmers hate that.
July 30th, 2019 at 5:48 pm
If there’s one thing Emery is an expert on, it’s incoherence.
July 30th, 2019 at 7:55 pm
To some people everything is about Trump, even the contradictions inherent in “wokism.”
The reason Trump’s trade protectionism isn’t news is because the bad thing about protectionism is that consumers pay the price, but, golly gee, consumers aren’t paying the price for Trump’s protectionism. Consumer price inflation, even on tariff goods, remains low. It’s almost like the free-traders don’t know what the !@#$% they are talking about.
The smart anti-Trump guys should be asking themselves why Trump has proven them wrong about the things that they were certain of (beginning with his election).
July 30th, 2019 at 8:48 pm
Hey Emery,
I have farmers in my family in SW Minnesota. One just got done painting “TRUMP 2020” on the side of his barn. Driving through farm country, there are far more Trump signs than there are for any DemonRats. In fact, I didn’t see one for a DemonRat. Visiting the coop elevator at a sugar beet processing plant with my cousin, everyone I spoke with, supports Trump and the tariffs, because, in their words, “It’s about time someone called out the Chinese for cheating and illegal actions”. I was also told that tariffs have not affected Chinese demand for sugar and no one has taken any subsidies, either. You and your brother need to get out of your mommy’s basement more often, quit listening to your left wing media masters and go into the real world to learn the truth. Your continued parroting of lsocialistic talking points is getting old.
July 30th, 2019 at 10:16 pm
Greg wrote: /”Farmers check commodity prices. Prior to the Chinese corn tariff, corn was selling at an average of $3.64, now it is up to $4.20… Do you have anymore thoughts on the matter?”/
The USDA predicted the lowest domestic corn crop in four years in its first estimates to account for relentless rains that delayed planting across the Midwest.The government forecast that 9% less than the 15bn bushels (381.8m tons) it estimated just last month.
The Agricultural Market Information System, cut its forecast for the US corn crop by 45m tons to 330m tons.
As such July-delivered corn futures rose 2.8 per cent to $4.275 a bushel.
https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2019/06/persistent-adverse-conditions-disrupt-crop-production-outlook/
“Do you have anymore thoughts on the matter? I am sure there are tens of thousands of grain farmers throughout the Midwest who are relying on your wisdom.”
July 31st, 2019 at 1:20 am
I listened to #nevertrumper Jonah Goldberg’s “Remnant” podcast today. His guest was an economist from Cato (a libertarian think tank). They spent the first half of the program explaining how Trump’s protectionist policies were going to lead to absolute disaster, and the second half of the program explaining how trade wasn’t that big of a deal for the US economy. It was an exercise is hand waving, which is, of course, what Goldberg and his guest accused Trump and his supporters of doing.
The few #nevertrumpers I listen to (Goldberg, Williamson) are trending Libertarian in their viewpoints, as is #nevertrumper George Will.
Man is more than an economic unit. The free traders don’t understand the terms of their own argument. In the free marketplace of ideas people have desided against the primacy of free markets.
July 31st, 2019 at 6:27 am
So glad you have the internet to tell you what I see out my front window.
July 31st, 2019 at 9:06 am
Prior to the Chinese corn tariff, corn was selling at an average of $3.64, now it is up to $4.20…
…The USDA predicted the lowest domestic corn crop in four years…
Ahhhhh! It’s Supply and Demand!!! Run for your lives!!!
July 31st, 2019 at 9:06 am
I grew up in a small town in farm country. My classmates confidently assured me that farmers haven’t made a dime since parity. But they all drove new pickups with snowmobiles in the back. “Farm equipment” you see. They had to purchase them to soak up excess income or else they’d have to pay income taxes and for a farmer, that’s simply unthinkable.
But what about those years when crops fail? If the Supply goes down, the Price goes . . . down even further, unless farmers get a government subsidy and favorable trade treaty with China?
No. If the US has a bad crop this year, the crop price goes UP and those farmers who have crop to sell make Even More money, which is an even greater headache for their accountants to hide. Those who got rained out either bought crop insurance so they scrape by, or they go bust. The bank takes the farm back and sells it to an even greater fool, eager to get rich living off the land. The displaced farmer does what all good Liberals tell him to do . . . he learns to code.
Farmers are a special interest lobby, same as liquor distributers and auto dealers and sports franchises. They all have their hands out. Doesn’t mean the public has to fill them.
July 31st, 2019 at 9:56 am
First, the good news: We have a president who appears to be more intent than any other in recent memory on fulfilling the promises he made during his campaign, even with respect to those promises (such as those regarding trade) that had been widely believed to be empty and cynical gestures by a guy who would say anything to get elected. (How refreshing — a president who actually attempts to make good on what he has promised!)
Now, the bad news: The content of those promises.
July 31st, 2019 at 11:09 am
When reprobate leftists squirt tears about Trump’s success, we know things are headed in the right direction. But when noodle necked, leftist twerps declare they’d like to “punch Trump in the nose”, as they’ve been doing, its #winning, bigly.
I hope Trump literally takes an ax to everything reprobates hold near and dear in his next term. What’s he got to lose?
July 31st, 2019 at 11:23 am
Regarding the supposed protectionism of the President, it strikes me that what we’ve had since I was a kid wasn’t free trade, but rather “thank you, sir, may I have some more”, take it in the shorts trade. So ironically, what the lapdog press would call “protectionism” actually is a step towards fairer, and freer, trade than before.
July 31st, 2019 at 11:57 am
Find me the free trader who predicted that Trump’s anti-immigration and protectionist policies would lead to the Dow @ 27,000+ and I will listen to him (or her).
The free traders have been getting away with bullshit for far too long.
July 31st, 2019 at 1:58 pm
The rise was based on an illusion Trump created with a debt fueled tax cut. The drop will be a return to reality.
Now the the purpose of the Fed rate cuts is to keep the stock market climbing? Wow!
July 31st, 2019 at 4:02 pm
Emery, you seem to think that you have some credibility when it comes to making economic and political predictions. You don’t.
Yet you keep making predictions. Maybe you should question what the Hell it is that you are doing? Just a suggestion.
July 31st, 2019 at 4:22 pm
I can’t decide which is more annoying, the simple assertions of fact with nothing to back it up (the E Twins) or piles and piles of BS with nothing to back it up (Penigma).
July 31st, 2019 at 4:37 pm
Nothing to see here people, go back to your heavily mortgaged homes in your heavily financed vehicles and continue as you are.
July 31st, 2019 at 9:07 pm
Given Emery’s poor record of economic predictions, I imagine that there is a lot of projection in his last comment. If Emery had thought that Trump was going to win in 2016 (he did not, he foolishly predicted a Clinton landslide), he would have shorted his growth funds and gone heavy into bonds.
August 1st, 2019 at 6:07 am
I know one thing for certain: ‘when I buy, stocks go down. when I sell, they go up’….
Most importantly from a markets perspective, a bigger cut would have given Trump more room to be outrageous in his ‘made for TV’ trade war. Stock markets were going to get hit either way.
What is more important for markets in the medium term? Removing some political/trade uncertainty to unlock investment spending or an extra 0.25bps reduction in borrowing costs?
With nearly three more cuts priced into the Fed funds futures curve within the next year, they have painted themselves into a corner. The cuts are coming regardless of the strength of data. They are market dependent not data dependent. Trade as such.
August 1st, 2019 at 8:48 am
MP: “Dunning_Kruger can always be counted on to be wrong, but never so badly as in regards to finances and investing”
D_K: “They are market dependent not data dependent. Trade as such.”
August 1st, 2019 at 8:52 am
Dunning_Kruger speaks…
Nothing to see here people, go back to your heavily mortgaged homes…
Can’t. Those are all leased out at the moment. Is it OK if I stay in the one that is nearly paid off, or do you suggest we buy another?
August 1st, 2019 at 9:49 am
For those with a lot of real estate loans with variable interest rates this is good news.
August 1st, 2019 at 9:53 am
Confucious say: “Never take financial advice from a man who lives in a cardboard box.”
August 1st, 2019 at 10:01 am
The takeaway – buy land, because God, he isn’t making any more of it.
August 1st, 2019 at 10:04 am
Woolly: Perhaps we should get used to low interest rates?
Zero interest rates are an essential characteristic of a large, mature economy. Nothing can grow exponentially indefinitely nor can a large economy continue growing at 3%. Everything is already there, the need for capital is very limited. At the same time the supply of capital is super abundant after decades of growth and capital accumulation. So the cost of capital trends towards zero. During the Middle Ages real interest rates were at or near zero for more than 300 years. The subsequent industrial revolutions accelerated growth and explosives got more powerful ensuring capital goods got blown up on a regular basis. An unusual period of relative capital scarcity and positive real interest rates. We are going back to the old normal, which is the normal normal, really. The last 2 centuries were an aberration, especially the decades after WW II, when the whole world got blown up, leading to interest rates that were structurally elevated. That was an abnormal normal, which felt like the normal normal. But the only reason it felt that way is because the human lifespan is so short compared to these cycles.
August 1st, 2019 at 10:05 am
Swiftee: Looking at the house price rebound and stock market valuations over the last years I suspect many smelt the (interest rate ) coffee longer than a month ago.
Home owners have enjoyed a massive increase in disposable income. For home owners this is a golden ‘you have never had it so good’ era. They may well now use their excess cash to stoke up housing investments in select areas.
August 1st, 2019 at 2:41 pm
“During the Middle Ages real interest rates were at or near zero for more than 300 years.”
This is so wrong it’s not even properly wrong. There were large differences in interest rates paid and received between nations, institutions, and individuals. In general, interest rates were set by law at very high rates, and credit was very hard to get. Medieval economies were so different than modern economies (anti-usury laws were the norm) it is difficult to find things that are comparable.
August 1st, 2019 at 3:06 pm
“Zero interest rates are an essential characteristic of a large, mature, economy.”
Emery, can I have some of what you’re smoking, because it must be good for you to write nonsense like that. If interest rates are zero, then there is no incentive to save (create capital) and invest in the future, and that will end up destroying an economy in a hurry.
August 1st, 2019 at 7:14 pm
Gee, thanks for the heads up, D_K. Maybe I’ll start investing in real estate. Might be fun, and who knows, maybe I’ll make a couple bucks.
August 2nd, 2019 at 1:28 am
Emery’s claim that Medieval interest rates were close to zero was so bizarre I spent a few minutes looking up what real historians and real economists had to say bout Medieval interest rates.
Ten to thirty percent per annum.
August 2nd, 2019 at 9:38 am
Yes, a lot per year, and a big reason for pogroms was that the only people allowed to lend to Gentiles (in most principalities) were Jews. This plays a big role in literature about the era, e.g. Ivanhoe and The Merchant of Venice. The lack of historical understanding by Emery is pretty incredible here.