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Fact: Because I am a man, I can sympathize with women's issues, but I will never have to sort of visceral understanding of those issues that women have.

Notwithstanding the forgoing, I just can't understand how St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago can claim that only he has the requisite empathy, knowledge of the issues and knowledge of the system to (a) deal with issues important to women and (b) more importantly, know when women don't understand their own problems and need him to lead them to the "correct" resolution of these problems.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
No doubt but the majority of women see right through his bullshit. That tweet will go over like a fart in church.
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First time I heard the expression "like a fart in church," was when I was about six and my grandfather said it about something. I asked what that meant. He explained, "It's something everyone hears or sees, but pretend they don't." For the next couple years after that, I may have overused that expression, a tad, and may have, on occasion, used in in situations were it really wasn't appropriate. All of which is to say, be careful about using that expression around young boys, unless you are their grandfather. If you are their grandfather, then go for it, but don't expect any "Thank yous" from your daughters-in-law.
 
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Fact check: Trump falsely claims, again, that Oprah had him on the final week of her show​

By Daniel Dale
Updated 2:51 PM EDT, Fri October 23, 2020

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Fact check: Trump falsely claims, again, that Oprah had him on the final week of her show

President Donald Trump makes a lot of false claims on issues that are crucial to Americans' lives: the coronavirus pandemic, the election, health care, the economy.
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“… For at least seven years [as of 2020], Trump has been claiming that he was so important to Oprah that she had him on her popular daytime talk show in its final week.

… This is false. Trump did not appear on the final week of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which ended on May 25, 2011. He was a guest on the February 7, 2011 show, three-and-a-half months before the final episode.

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Trump has been making the claim since at least 2013. "Final week of @Oprah's show- @Oprah is terrific," he wrote in his 2013 Instagram caption of a photo that, as entertainment publication Variety noted in 2018, actually showed his family posing with Winfrey for the episode three-and-a-half months before the show ended.

The actual last week of the show featured a star-studded arena tribute to Oprah -- which includedMichael Jordan, Will Smith, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Beyoncé, Jerry Seinfeld and other A-listers, but not Trump -- and appearances by memorable non-entertainer guests from past episodes, like Clemantine Wamariya, a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda, and Jacqui Saburido, an activist against drunk driving. The final episode starred Winfrey alone. …”
 
05C40 said:
First time I heard the expression "like a fart in church," was when I was about six and my grandfather said it about something. I asked what that meant. He explained, "It's something everyone hears or sees, but pretend they don't." For the next couple years after that, I may have overused that expression, a tad, and may have, on occasion, used in in situations were it really wasn't appropriate. All of which is to say, be careful about using that expression around young boys, unless you are their grandfather. If you are their grandfather, then go for it, but don't expect any "Thank yous" from your daughters-in-law.
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Good post. One of the advantages to bring a grandfather is you can say stuff like that around your young grandchildren. When my grandchildren were little I would say things like that. My daughter or wife would roll their eyes and say, “Don’t listen to Pop.”
 
Trump may not have Taylor, but sadly seems like he got Janet Jackson.

www.theguardian.com

‘I think I am breaking the pattern’: Janet Jackson on bad relationships, new music and Kamala Harris

After five decades in the public eye, three marriages and the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ that torpedoed her career, the pop megastar is back. She opens up about family, fame and her fears of mayhem after the US election
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“On [the Rhythm Nation album], for us, it was about making a difference in a kid’s life, a teenager’s life, from them taking this path with drugs and going down the wrong street to trying to make something of themself.”

On that record she sang about “joining voices in protest to social injustice” and “pushing toward a world rid of colour lines”. I wonder where she stands on the forthcoming election. After all, I say, America could be on the verge of voting in its first black female president, Kamala Harris.

“Well, you know what they supposedly said?” she asks me. “She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.”

She looks at me expectantly, perhaps assuming that I have Indian heritage.

“Well, she’s both,” I offer.

“Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days,” she coughs. “I was told that they discovered her father was white.”

I’m floored at this point. It’s well known that Harris’s father is a Jamaican economist, a Stanford professor who split from her Indian mother when she was five. “My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters,” Harris wrote in her book The Truths We Hold.

The people who are most vocal in questioning the facts of Harris’s identity tend to be hardcore QAnon-adjacent, Trump-loving conspiracy theorists. I don’t think Jackson falls into that camp, but I do wonder what the algorithms are serving her. I start again. Harris has dual heritage, I say, and, given this moment, does Jackson think America is ready for her – if we agree she’s black? Or, OK, a woman of colour?

“I don’t know,” Jackson stage whispers. “Honestly, I don’t want to answer that because I really, truthfully, don’t know. I think either way it goes is going to be mayhem.”

She doesn’t think there will be a peaceful transition of power?

“I think there might be mayhem,” she falters. “Either way it goes, but we’ll have to see.”
 
altmin said:
Trump may not have Taylor, but sadly seems like he got Janet Jackson.

www.theguardian.com

‘I think I am breaking the pattern’: Janet Jackson on bad relationships, new music and Kamala Harris

After five decades in the public eye, three marriages and the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ that torpedoed her career, the pop megastar is back. She opens up about family, fame and her fears of mayhem after the US election
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com


“On [the Rhythm Nation album], for us, it was about making a difference in a kid’s life, a teenager’s life, from them taking this path with drugs and going down the wrong street to trying to make something of themself.”

On that record she sang about “joining voices in protest to social injustice” and “pushing toward a world rid of colour lines”. I wonder where she stands on the forthcoming election. After all, I say, America could be on the verge of voting in its first black female president, Kamala Harris.

“Well, you know what they supposedly said?” she asks me. “She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.”

She looks at me expectantly, perhaps assuming that I have Indian heritage.

“Well, she’s both,” I offer.

“Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days,” she coughs. “I was told that they discovered her father was white.”

I’m floored at this point. It’s well known that Harris’s father is a Jamaican economist, a Stanford professor who split from her Indian mother when she was five. “My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters,” Harris wrote in her book The Truths We Hold.

The people who are most vocal in questioning the facts of Harris’s identity tend to be hardcore QAnon-adjacent, Trump-loving conspiracy theorists. I don’t think Jackson falls into that camp, but I do wonder what the algorithms are serving her. I start again. Harris has dual heritage, I say, and, given this moment, does Jackson think America is ready for her – if we agree she’s black? Or, OK, a woman of colour?

“I don’t know,” Jackson stage whispers. “Honestly, I don’t want to answer that because I really, truthfully, don’t know. I think either way it goes is going to be mayhem.”

She doesn’t think there will be a peaceful transition of power?

“I think there might be mayhem,” she falters. “Either way it goes, but we’ll have to see.”
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Just means she's uneducated. Don't think she's a trump type. Jermaine though ... Yeah.

The whole Jackson family is just messed up
 
NYCBlueBlood said:
Why is it a terrible policy? Not disagreeing. I can see pros and cons. But you seem definitive, and you usually have good reasons when you take a hard stance.
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Versions of this have been implemented in several countries in Latin America. Ironically, its been by parties on the left end of the political spectrum which are usually the politicians that don't understand the impacts of price controls. I saw this process up close and personal about four years ago.

In the best of cases, a cap is put on interest rates, so banks just shift everything to fees. And like discount airlines, they start charging for everything which just makes it a nuisance for customers. Countries that came later put cap on interest rates as well as some limits on fees, that is where disaster looms.

At any given time, about 30-40% of the credit cards in a portfolio don't make any money for the bank: they cost more than what they bring in. That loss is covered by what the bank makes on the other 60-70% of the portfolio (and usually, 20% of the accounts represent 80% of the profit). So what happens when you slash the interest rate from say 25% to 10%? Just a rough estimate, but I'm guessing the cards that would lose money would probably go up to about 50-60% of the portfolio. Banks, like other business, are not in the business of losing money...so what's the next step? You cancel large swaths of the accounts that lose the most money (in CR it was estimated that the bottom 20% of CC and personal loan customers lost their accounts). Those are usually the tranches of customers that have lower level of credit ratings (and usually of income). The banks will also tighten credit to new accounts and those accounts that survived (with half the interest income...youre only willing to risk on the very best bets). That reduction in credit by itself is already bad enough...

And that's the "good" part. The thing is, those people who lost their account...their need for credit doesn't disappear. The problem is that the formal market no longer has a viable option for them (in CR the cap on interest rates was across the board for all products...usually what has been implemented in markets that do this). So the more desperate customers turn to the informal sector, the neighborhood loan shark (here known as little drop loans). In the last two years we have been flooded by cases of beatings and thefts associated to this phenomenon; its given oxygen to our local mafia.

There is a bill in the legislation to relax the cap a bit. I do believe some financial institutions charge rates that border on usury. But time after time we have seen that price controls don't work. The harsher the price control, the more collateral effects it engenders.
 
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