CNN blasts out using the virus for race propaganda, again

The explanation for racial and ethnic disparities in infection rates, severity of infection, and death from infection is the accompanying disparities in relative wealth or relative poverty.

And it is by no means as if only nonwhites in America are poor.

There are far more poor whites than nonwhites in this country, and this means they are in the same ways disproportionately victims of the virus, too.

This is certainly an argument for public action to ensure every American has good quality health insurance and everyone in America has good quality medical care.

Not a peep about that on any "news" network.

Not on Fox since it would put their idiot viewers on notice.

Not on CNN, MSNBC, or BBC because howling about race works so much better for today's Democrats and the Democratic racist/racial left.

This is much worse than spinning.

CNN has turned what could and should have been a news-rich story revealing the stunning difference relative wealth or poverty makes regarding virus risk of infection, severity, and death in the US and indeed the world as a whole into a blistering attack of racist/racial vitriol.

An attack on America and an attack on white America.

To them, there is only one explanation and you know what it is, "systemic racism", "a history of racism", "the legacy of slavery, segregation, and racism".

These variables affect whether you live, die or get help during the pandemic

Still, the disparities are indeed stunning.

Black, Latino and Native American people are nearly three times as likely to  ebe infected with Covid-19 than their White counterparts. Those three groups are about five times as likely to be hospitalized. And people of color across the board are more likely to die of the virus.

. . . .

Race affects who is able to flee from a viral hotspot to a second home and who shares a roof with family members across generations. It affects who is able to work remotely and who has to leave home to keep society afloat. It affects who has easy access to testing and who puts off treatment because they're worried about the costs.

In other words, as the US approaches six million confirmed coronavirus cases, race plays a major role in who lives, who dies and who gets help.

Meanwhile, Sharon Stone shares sister's battle with COVID-19, blaming "non-mask wearers" and urging followers to "vote to live"

Instagram.

She tells an awful story.

She says "they're lying" a lot, and is right.

Weird sexist bit at the end about women, protecting families, and the virus.

GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor, tests positive for COVID-19

MSNBC running this stuff a lot. Very funny. Excellent sendup of the vacuous moron in the White House.

https://www.youtube.com/user/sarahcooper

I can't believe she and Nicolle Wallace are turning this into an occassion for feminist bellyaching about how easy life is for totally incompetent men.

Penis envy?

Warren quits, endorses nobody, blames sexism, men, glass ceiling

Elizabeth Warren quitting 2020 Democratic presidential race

Is it OK for the black majority to make laws governing the choices of the white minority in South Africa?

I ask because of this guilt-tripper doing her level best to stoke outrage that white people will make abortion laws impacting the choices of nonwhites.

Oh, dear me.

White conservative women have played key role in abortion policy changes this year

The main storyline on reproductive rights for months now has been this: Men, many of them conservative, have moved to curtail access to legal abortion and even ban it, imposing their will upon women.

That would be the main guilt-tripping misandrist propaganda line that we are so disgusted by and so used to.

The truth, however, is more complicated.

White women have joined men, mostly but not exclusively in the Deep South, in using their conservative majorities in multiple state legislatures to make sweeping changes to abortion policies this year.

Those laws that survive legal challenges will most deeply affect women too poor to travel or move to a state with better access to abortion services. 

That’s a group that is disproportionately black and Latino — and, in the case of black women, a group that tends to support access to legal abortion. 

This gap between those making the decisions and those affected by them, experts say, is a dynamic with deep roots in American history.

And it happens the other way 'round in every American city or county where a black and overwhelmingly Democratic majority makes the rules for whites, often much more Republican, and other minorities.

Oh how awful!

Wait, is it racist to deplore black majority rule over a white minority? White nationalist? White supremacist, even?

Oh, golly.

The role of white women — long key players in dictating and constraining the reproductive choices of others — is too often discounted and overlooked, experts say. 

In 2019, new abortion restrictions were passed in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana after white women co-sponsored them, many voted for them and in one state, signed the changes into law. 

(In those four state legislatures, 48 women — almost all of them white — voted for the restrictions.)

When Democrats get like this they just make me want to puke all over them.

And regret that the Republicans want to kill me, so I can never vote for them, no matter how revolting the Democrats get.

The whiny bitch is right, though.

Beto 2020: a masterclass in male entitlement

OK, the feminazi bullshit is repulsive.

But this is right, I think.

No, it’s not Beto’s loss last year that bothers me, it’s his entitlement. 

His certainty that he’s qualified for the most powerful job in the world despite his lack of experience. 

His belief that he is qualified for the role despite the fact that he himself has absolutely no idea what he stands for. 

“I don’t know where I am on a [political] spectrum and I almost could care less,” Beto recently boasted during a stop in Wisconsin.

I’ll tell you where Beto is on the political spectrum: he’s wherever it’s most convenient for him to be. 

Remind you of someone with orange hair?

But surely he's not less qualified than Bozo?

Maybe not, but surely that's way too low a bar?

He announced his presidential bid by talking about the environment but his six-year record in Congress shows him to be a friend of the fossil fuel industry. 

His voting record is characterized by flip-flopping and he is vague about his position on healthcare and raising taxes. 

The only strong conviction he really seems to have is that he deserves to be president. 

“Man, I’m just born to be in it,” he recently enthused to Vanity Fair.

I think he was referring to the race, and he is a good campaigner who loves to campaign.

I was going to say campaigning isn't governing, but Bozo has taught us governing is campaigning, so never mind.

But anyway she just can't help it.

Even when she's pretty much right.

Ultimately, what might be most frustrating about Beto is that we all know someone like him. 

He’s the guy in the meeting who hasn’t done any of the work but who repeats a woman’s points and immediately gets a round of applause and a promotion. 

He’s the guy who pays eloquent lip service to the importance of diversity, but would never go so far as conceding a woman might be better qualified for a job than him. 

He’s the epitome of mediocre white male confidence. 

And if there is one thing America does not need at the moment, it’s more mediocre white guys running things.

Why people hate the PC Police - aka Social Justice Warriors

Could it be that, to this day, though maybe not much longer, most American boys are both straight and white?

So if you're going to do a story on one to illustrate circumstances common to many, most, or all?

And what if you're going to do several stories, each focusing on one?

So, if one is white and straight, that's not OK?

So many people with shitty, hateful opinions write them up and the Guardian gives them a megaphone - if they're the right sort of shitty, hateful opinions.

Was the backlash to Esquire’s 'An American Boy' cover story deserved?

As everyone jumps to censure Esquire for its perceived racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia for deciding to use a straight, white boy to represent what it means to be an American right now, they are missing that the idea to check in on the state of boys – even white boys – in a landscape that is quickly shifting for men, is sound.

Much of the outrage centered on the choice of the teenage boy. 

Despite Esquire’s announcement that this would be the first in a series of profiles, and that the series would include boys of different races and sexualities and genders, leading the series off with a particularly Aryan-looking lad was a tactical mistake. 

The angry response was inevitable.

And utterly deplorable, racist, misandrist, and full of shit.

An "analyst" neither white nor male bitterly resents that O'Rourke is both

Beto's excellent adventure drips with white male privilege

There is nothing in this story but bitter misandry and racial resentment.

What is wrong with CNN?

Pshaw. She's a witch.

The issue with Elizabeth Warren isn't likability. It's sexism

The claim that a woman candidate is not ‘likable’ is code for saying she defies our shared cultural understanding that power and authority are implicitly male.

Bullshit.

And always the same bullshit from the misandrist loonies of the too far left.

This article and this opinion writer are illustrations why I will never donate a penny to the Guardian.

Guaranteed loser

And I DON'T want four more years of Bozo!

Elizabeth Warren To Consider A 2020 Presidential Run After Midterms

“It’s time for women to go to Washington and fix our broken government, and that includes a woman at the top,” she said.

Oh, please, no.

Not another jackass who thinks she can beat Trump running against men.

She is a foolish and often absurd extremist who is more hostile to the actually existing political and economic system, the actually existing America, than Trump and the shitheels who love him.

Elizabeth Warren Calls For Use Of 25th Amendment To Remove Trump

A clown of a different ilk.

Her supporters remind me of the boneheads who thought Jesse Jackson would make a good candidate.

The misandrists check in

Of course.

The Roots of White Male Rage Lie In The Irresponsible Defense of Brett Kavanaugh

Look past the backasswards title to the hate behind it.

Remember scientific racism?

Scientific misandry endorsed as a real and valid thing by NBC news.

Why are men so terrible, and what can we do about it?

Why are women so terrible and what can we do about it?

No man will dare write an article with such a title, nor will any mainstream medium publish it.

FOX News to America: Washington is so broken only men can fix it.

Men work harder, are more committed, and are more organized, they said.

Seems they can't run for office without running against women.

Wow, what sexists.

Well, actually, no,

It's MSNBC I was actually quoting, and they said these things about women, not men.

It's about women who, much like Hillary, can't run at all without running against men.

The year of the woman, they chant.

As they so often do.

So the c-word is OK, now?

Or maybe just for women and girls, like "nigger" is OK only for black people.

Comedian Samantha Bee calls Ivanka Trump a 'feckless c***'

Feminists in the 60s and 70s wrote endlessly that men's use of various rude words for vagina as insults was misogynistic and comparable in wickedness to white people's use of the n-word - all the while encouraging use of such words as "dick" and "prick" as insults.

So is "cunt" back?

A defense of importunate sex-seeking

Of "gallantry".

Of "flirting".

Indeed, of persistent sex-seeking, even to the point of being a real and very annoying pest.

Including some roaming of the hands.

Though of course not of violence or coercion.

Catherine Deneuve and Others Denounce the #MeToo Movement

Just one day after Hollywood offered a show of support for the #MeToo movement on the Golden Globes red carpet and stage, a famous actress on the other side of the Atlantic lent her name to a public letter denouncing the movement, as well as its French counterpart, #Balancetonporc, or “Expose Your Pig.”

Catherine Deneuve joined more than 100 other Frenchwomen in entertainment, publishing and academic fields Tuesday in the pages of the newspaper Le Monde and on its website in arguing that the two movements, in which women and men have used social media as a forum to describe sexual misconduct, have gone too far by publicly prosecuting private experiences and have created a totalitarian climate.

“Rape is a crime. But insistent or clumsy flirting is not a crime, nor is gallantry a chauvinist aggression,” the letter, dated Monday, begins. “As a result of the Weinstein affair, there has been a legitimate realization of the sexual violence women experience, particularly in the workplace, where some men abuse their power. It was necessary. But now this liberation of speech has been turned on its head.”

They contend that the #MeToo movement has led to a campaign of public accusations that have placed undeserving people in the same category as sex offenders without giving them a chance to defend themselves. 

“This expedited justice already has its victims, men prevented from practicing their profession as punishment, forced to resign, etc., while the only thing they did wrong was touching a knee, trying to steal a kiss, or speaking about ‘intimate’ things at a work dinner, or sending messages with sexual connotations to a woman whose feelings were not mutual,” they write. 

The letter, written in French was translated here by The New York Times.

And who is surprised that this comes from French women?

The Times story links to this site, at which the letter castigates and rejects a type of feminism with "the face of hatred of men and of sexuality".

En tant que femmes, nous ne nous reconnaissons pas dans ce féminisme qui, au-delà de la dénonciation des abus de pouvoir, prend le visage d’une haine des hommes et de la sexualité. 

Nous pensons que la liberté de dire non à une proposition sexuelle ne va pas sans la liberté d’importuner. 

Et nous considérons qu’il faut savoir répondre à cette liberté d’importuner autrement qu’en s’enfermant dans le rôle de la proie.

Actually, I'm with Matt

Who in turn is with Zephyr Teachout.

Rape might be like cancer.

But a pat on the butt?

Anger spills over into misadry.

Why victims don't get to decide punishment.

Minnie Driver: men like Matt Damon 'cannot understand what abuse is like'

Heather throws a rag, and Don Lemon makes the obvious point that the people in that church were already praying

Toxic feminist misandry of the left at C&L.

Texas Shooting? Paul Ryan Blames 'Secular Left' For 'Dividing America'

She quotes Ryan from TPM, thus.

“[Thoughts and prayers] is the right thing to do in moments like this because, you know what? Prayer works,” he said. 

“And I know you believe that and I believe that and when you hear the secular left doing this, think, no wonder you have so much polarization and disunity in this country when people think like that.”

And her reply?

. . . toxic masculinity in the Air Force had them look the other way when a wife beater and child skull-cracking stepdad should have had red flags all over his background check. 

And now another 26 people have been shot by a semi-automatic rifle.

At some point, mark my words, the courts are going to wake up to those words in the Second Amendment -- "well-regulated" -- and start regulating the FK out of semi-automatic weapons. 

It's past time.

Don Lemon: ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Didn’t Prevent TX Shooting — ‘They Were Already Praying’

I am a firm believer in the Second Amendment. 

I’ll say that again. 

I am a firm believer in the Second Amendment. 

I grew up with hunters, family members, friends, all around me. Louisiana it’s all about hunting.

I also think responsible adults should be able to protect their homes, their property and themselves. 

But think about this. 

How many guns and of what caliber does one person need? 

Does a civilian really need an arsenal? 

Does a civilian really need body armor?

As for Ryan, he was pleased to play the religion card against the gun controllers.

He and other GOP leaders have been castigated for offering prayers for the dead rather than action to protect the living.

Heather was right about this much.

He responded on Laura Ingraham's show by changing the subject and appealing to a stereotype popular on the right, claiming the atheist gun-controlling left doesn't understanding good Christian folks and is responsible for there being "so much polarization and disunity in this country".

“It’s disappointing, it’s sad, and this is what you’ll get from the far secular left. People who do not have faith don’t understand faith, I guess I’d have to say. And it is the right thing to do is to pray in moments like this, because you know what? Prayer works. And I know you believe that, and I believe that and when you hear the secular left doing this thing, it’s no wonder you have so much polarization and disunity in this country when people think like that.”

Sure, he called them faithless and secular and did not use the world "atheists", but all the same he went there and that's what he meant.

As to that, see this.

Scroll down pretty far.

Religiously unaffiliated in 2014 split 61% Dem/Lean Dem to 25% GOP/Lean GOP.

But see this, too.

29% of Dem/Dem leaners in 2016 were religiously unaffiliated, as compared to 12% of Repubs/Repub leaners.

Was Hef "a vile man"?

Probably, but who cares.

He and Larry Flynt, who certainly is a vile man, left the world a better place by spearheading the legalization, and even normalization, of pornography and thence, in part, to the further reaches of the sexual revolution up to and including LGBT rights.

Contrary to the view of some.

Giving Hef What He Deserves

No surprise at all, the side he's on.

Rod Dreher joins misandrist lesbians and feminist prudes in deploring porn and the work of those called "sex workers".

So long as prostitution is unlawful in any state, the battle for sexual liberty against Christianists and other sexual authoritarians, prudes, lesbians, and misandrist feminists is not over.

Hillary's weak sisterhood theory: It was those awful white men who made those white women vote for Trump

Clinton's story, to which all the right-thinking do now and will in future nod until they realize what it actually means, is a revealing fantasy in its view of the astonishing psychic hold all those big strong men have on all those little weak women.

Why Hillary Clinton was right about white women – and their husbands

Many had expected Clinton to rally women, the same way Barack Obama rallied black voters in 2008 – and if she had, she would have handily trumped Donald Trump. 

But while Obama won 95% of the black vote, Clinton won just 54% of women – a percentage point less than her male predecessor atop the Democratic ticket. 

Among white women in particular, she fared even worse: a slim majority voted for Trump.

Last week, Clinton, who has had a lifetime to contemplate the women’s vote, copped to having a theory.

“[Women] will be under tremendous pressure – and I’m talking principally about white women. They will be under tremendous pressure from fathers and husbands and boyfriends and male employers not to vote for ‘the girl’,” she said in an interview as part of a tour promoting her new memoir of the 2016 campaign.

And all those white husbands, fathers, boyfriends, and male employers, so aggressively dominant you would think she must be talking about Saudi Arabia, followed those white women right into the voting booths to make damn sure they did the right thing, too.

Does this mean all those big, bossy men who dominate politics worldwide would have completely cowed stubby little Hillary?

If that's what she truly sees as typical in male-female power relations, I mean.

Remember her story of how she felt about Trump stalking her on the debate stage, how she wanted to respond with an angry protest and personal insult but did not?

And did she not dare?

GW just laughed at Al Gore when he tried the same tactic.

Remember that old film of some early male competitor for office coming across the stage to her podium and lecturing her?

She froze like a deer in the headlights.

Who is making this controversy a "racially tinged" one?

Hint: Not the white guys who like Bernie

Inside the fight that could derail the Democratic Party

The Hillary supporters during the campaign bashed Bernie's people for being way too white and way too male.

They never went away, and neither did their racism and misandry.

As for Kemala Harris, I think she might have a future but is too much of a lightweight for 2020 or even 2024.

Not every nonwhite one term Democratic senator is a rock star.

But for some activists among the Democrats the candidate has to be a woman and has to be mulatto or black, a rule that can only contribute to keeping race rather than class at the center of American politics - though that, of course, is exactly as many of these folks would want it.

As for Bernie, I would rather he and his ilk not take over the Democratic Party, of course.

Their emphasis on class politics is all to the good, and it would be good to move our politics away from race.

But neither Bernie nor his supporters are actually Democrats - not even progressive Democrats - in outlook or loyalty, and are just flat out too far left, with their hatred of capitalism and vacuous, utopian blather about socialism.

Not to mention their Zinnism about the American past.

And I do not assume, as the Sanders folks do, that failure to support Bernie's characteristic agenda of 2016 rather than Hillary's would or should doom either a prospective candidate or the Democrats, in 2020 or beyond.

Oh, and the self-righteousness of these people is utterly repulsive, with their endless self-congratulations for "speaking truth to power".

Talk about nauseating.

The bold misandry of The Guardian

A stupid thing to say, even relative to the norm for this sort of thing. 

Spare us the sight of men discussing abortion – especially politicians

If you will never be in the position of needing one, we don’t really want to hear your thoughts on the matter. 

That includes you, Tim Kaine and Mike Pence.