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You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds How you see what’s in your pants may indicate whether a societal collapse is coming. Sounds weird, but stick around and you’ll be nodding in agreement before long. But first, let’s talk about Jackson Memorial Middle School. A former art teacher has filed a lawsuit against the principal, 2 employees, and the board of education in Massillon, Ohio. Why? 24-year-old Vivian Geraghty claims that she was forced to resign after she refused to refer to students by their preferred pronouns. She also refused to call them by new names that were consistent with the student’s gender identity. Instead, the teacher called the students by their legal names. Oh, the humanity! Vivian claimed she met with school officials twice. Allegedly, at the second meeting, the principal, Kacy Carter, told her that she would be “required to put her beliefs aside as a public servant.” Failure to do so would be seen as insubordination. After going back to her classroom, they called Vivian in again telling her to comply or resign. Her lawsuit claims this violated her First Amendment right and her religious beliefs. Now, it’s bonkers that someone could lose a paycheck over pronouns. But it happened and you could be next. But this story should be seen as more than just another battle in the culture wars. Stories like this are becoming more and more common. ​As the quote goes, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” As we look into the historical mirror, objects are a lot closer than they appear. Forget the Russian-Ukraine war, rising inflation, a housing bubble, the coming recession, grid collapse, or another viral outbreak - gender is the real tell for a cultural collapse. Enter Camille Paglia. This professor authored the book “Free Women, Free Men.” Her claims are as illuminating as they are controversial. In an interview, she said, “historically this movement towards androgyny occurs in late phases of culture, as a civilization is strong to unravel... You can find it again and again and again.” But it’s not just the androgyny alone, it's the adoration and celebration of it, too. She says:“People who live in such times feel that they’re very sophisticated, they’re very cosmopolitan.” She refers to this all this LGBTQIA+ gender-bending as “extravaganzas of gender experimentation.” Her warning is quite stark, saying, “there are certain fundamental principles of human life that return again and again . . . I have serious doubts about whether androgyny can usefully be extended as a master plan for the human race.” She’s not done, saying, “there are many parallels between our time and that of the Roman empire. Whenever you get cosmopolitan cultures that are very tolerant and permissive . . . it seems to be the case that such cultures are ripe for collapse.” She discusses the Hellenistic and Roman Periods and Germany’s Weimer eras. At the time, gender confusion appeared to run tangent with their cultural demise. For example, she talks about stylistic changes in art, from the archaic period to the post-classical, such as a man’s masculine frame being substituted for a more feminine form. She sees this happening in the West, believing the root cause of transgender mania is a culture that doesn’t believe in itself, its heritage, or really anything. She even goes as far as to speculate that as Christianity has faded away from institutions and government, a big void was left behind- one that was filled with this new do whatever you want mentality. This didn't come from some ultra-conservative Christian think tank. No, this came from a feminist lesbian professor. Now, this book came out nearly 6 years ago. Think how far down the transgender rabbit hole America has gone. You know what the most controversial thing in 2017 was? People were reeling from the fact that a man who said he could grab a woman by the pussy was elected president. Now, her conclusion makes sense. Not just as a theory, but as something we can see in practice. If you believe a man can get pregnant and women can identify as men or that a child can identify as a cat and !@#$ in a little box at school, what won’t you believe? We don’t have mothers, we have birth parents. Men now need tampons now, too. It's not just academia, it's mainstream. You see the commercials and woke takeover of casual society. Just read your employee manual. Maternity leave is now defined for the birth parent - whatever the !@##$ that means. The long and short of it is if you believe and say that a baby can come from not just a woman with a womb but a man with a weiner, you’re already halfway there. Identifying as whatever you want is an ideology that will only fall on its own sword. It undermines our civil liberties. It deconstructs and destroys the very movements that have sought to protect us from government overreach, fascism, totalitarians - you name it. If gender doesn’t exist, do women’s rights exist? If sexuality is fluid, do gay rights exist? If gender bending and sexual fluidity exist, then no one needs laws to protect them. If misogyny, sexism, and sexual harassment exist, then wouldn’t one just identify as a man and avoid all the problems? Why would I need any laws or protection? If one is gay and discriminated against, then just tell everyone you identify as a straight man and the problem is solved, right? Besides, doesn't the pan pansexual movement just undermine the progressive assumption that one is born gay? If you're not born that way, you can change and choose another life, right? It’s a slippery slope that backs into the fact that these progressive ideas make absolutely no sense. Camille is the professor. I’m not. But I would simply say that if you stand for nothing you‘ll fall for anything. Google around. You’ll find art and advertisements in Weimar Germany. Men in high heels and women in suits as well as open knowledge of celebrities and their homosexual preferences - something that one would assume would be taboo to talk about in the 40s… but not Weimar Germany. As Camille points out, it doesn't mean it is caused by it, but it does appear to be an indicator of cultural decline. If you can get a man to wear heels and women to dress like men, maybe bullying your Jewish neighbor doesn’t seem so far off. We all know they weren’t reticent and we all know where that story ended. Jump forward to today. If you can convince people that men can get pregnant, then maybe getting them to bully their traditional / Christian / conservative neighbor isn't too hard. Think how fast the U.S. gay/trans movement went from inclusion and acceptance to forced compliance of pronoun preference and expected attendance at drag shows for kids. You can't just tolerate or accept it, you must be an enthusiastic supporter. Anything else and you're denying one's existence and enabling trans violence. If a Christian says that homosexuality or transgender is not in line with God’s word- off with your head you bigot! Yet, a wokie saying anyone who doesn’t endorse the LGBTQIA+ movement is transphobic, well that’s okay. You tolerate their beliefs, they don’t have to tolerate yours. That whole “love trumps hate” and all that “love is equal” crap fades away when you don’t fall in line. What a world we have built. America the great. America first. America is a shining city on a hill. Who would’ve thought that the next generation depended on genitals? REFERENCES: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11551271/Ohio-teacher-forced-resign-claiming-using-students-preferred-pronouns-violated-religion.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8BRdwgPChQ http://barrystei.blogspot.com/2018/03/androgyny-during-germanys-weimar.html https://www.theamericanconservative.com/paglia-transgender-civilizations-decline/

Thanks for listening to Overnight Opinions, a weekly news roundup on the Ladies Love Politics channel. Here you’ll get current events blended with spicy commentary directed at our elected leaders. It’s late, you’re awake, let’s get started … You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds Someone call Elvis Pressley… because it’s going to be a blue Christmas. Welcome to winter, the days are shorter and now, thanks to our lifestyle and economic woes, our wallets are emptier. No matter what happens to Americans, we just can’t get enough stuff. We want stuff all the time… and Christmas is really nothing more than an exercise in conspicuous consumption. This year, nearly 200 million people participated in Black Friday - a split between online and in-person shopping. Nothing wrong with this, either. Shopping is fun and this unofficial shopping holiday can be a lot of fun… but it’s not wise for a broke nation to participate. Consider these facts. More than 40% of holiday shoppers said they don’t make enough money to cover their planned purchases. But don’t worry, Americans are crafty! 40% are planning to use credit cards, 25% will use a buy now pay later service, and a little over 20% of people will sell their assets. But this doesn’t seem to be a red flag to slow Christmas shopping as much a motivator to keep on keeping on. Nearly 75% of consumers say they plan to spend just as much - if not more - than last year. In fact, retail sales are expected to reach as high as $960 billion - more than $70 billion more than last year. On average, Americans are projected to spend nearly $1500 this season. This isn’t just a rant about greedy Americans, their materialistic ways, or how we have replaced Christmas with gifts. It’s about how ignorant and arrogant Americans are. This year inflation hit its highest level in over 40 years. On average, inflation has cost Americans more than $700 extra each month. This equates to more than $8,400, according to the United States Joint Economic Committee. And that could be way more depending on which state you live. For a fun and depressing look at inflation, check out the tracker map in the link in the description. But back to the main point: Americans have less money and plan to spend even more. 40% of Americans can’t afford to put any money into a savings account. Nearly 60% of Americans have less than $500 in their savings. And it’s not just savings and inflation that’s crushing Americans - it's gas, too. The first time ever, fuel hit $5 a gallon. Not to get all political here, but gas never went over $3/gallon during the Trump years. In fact, when Big Daddy Trump left office, gas averaged $2.38. For those prices, I’d take some mean Tweets. Anyways, what’s the point here? We will be drowning in meaningless crap while also being unable to afford our basic needs. Somehow we have copied the federal government's financial model for our very own personal budget. A recession is on the way. Supply chain shortages have persisted and will only get worse. Companies have been purging employees in mass layoffs. Costs are rising. As cousin Eddie would say: SOT: Shitters full When are we going to stop guzzling money and close the valve to all the wasteful spending we’re doing? No money, don’t worry. Just keep feeling special and do what you want. If you don’t have money, just identify as someone who has money. Check out this article on Yahoo titled Food Stamps 2022: Items You Can Buy for Christmas This Year. What? Nearly 41 million people are on food stamps and we think that telling them how to blow their money for Christmas dinner is a good idea? Maybe you should have a peanut butter sandwich and not blow your food benefits on one day of bougie eating? Use a coupon for crying out loud. Maybe you could use that to stock up on some food and try to move yourself out of poverty… just saying. Everyone is going to go broke on gifts and then return the ones they received to pay the credit cards they overextended. Christmas - a holiday about our savior … and a reason to be self-indulgent. Remember, baby Jesus was born in a manger - not a top-tier crib. He was wrapped in swaddling clothes - not a cashmere blanket. He was surrounded by barnyard animals - not a feast of food. Just remember the song goes away in a manger, not away in credit card debt.

You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds Have you heard about the latest love child of woke idealism and LGBTQIA+ plus community? Well, buckle up buttercup. American Girl - you know, the company that teaches young girls history through fiction books and dolls - well know they’re pushing puberty blockers and transgenderism. Their latest book, A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image, is rife with rich propaganda for the transgender movement. Don’t believe me? Think I’m taking something out of context or reading between the lines? Well, let’s check out some of the passages. First, they soft roll into the gender-bending concept with some fluffy language to make you question the concept of 2 genders. It says: The way you show your gender to the world through clothes and behavior is your gender expression. Your gender expression can be feminine, masculine, or somewhere in between - and it might change! Maybe you’ll experiment with bright dresses and long, feminine hairstyles. Or you might try baggy shorts, plaid shirts, and a buzzed haircut. Your gender expression should make you feel at home in your body. Aw, isn’t that cute? They’re trying to create little blue-haired social justice warriors. It’s a little how-to guide for future wokies. They go on to say: Being transgender is not an illness or something to be ashamed of. If you’re questioning your gender identity - or if you already know for sure that you're trans or non-binary - talk with an adult you trust, like a parent or school counselor. School counselor? Those losers? No one likes them. Why do they get a starring role in your decision on gender? That’s like letting a PE teacher tutor you for your SATs. It’s dumb. Anyhoo, back to the book: That person can connect you with a specially trained doctor, who can help you and your family decide what’s best for your body. At first, you and the doctor might talk about wearing the clothes and using the pronouns (like he, she, or they) that make you feel most like the true you. Here come the pronouns… yeah! If you haven’t gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body’s changes, given you more time to think about your gender identity. Medicine? It’s a puberty blocker. It blocks your body from doing what it naturally does. What about side effects and outcomes and consequences? What about those who regret their transition? What about those who detransition? What about not calling it medicine. Kids will think it’s no different than taking cough syrup… in reality, it’s a major alteration to your body. And if you’ve already gone through puberty, a doctor can still help. Studies show that transgender and nonbinary kids who get help from doctors have much better mental health than those who don’t. If you don’t have an adult you trust, there are organizations across the country that can help you. Turn to the Resources on page 95 for more information. Now we're going around our parents' backs. Great. First, the early wokies wanted to sidestep parents and let kids get abortions in secret. Now they want to turn you Jane into a John without you even knowing. If you’re transgender or nonbinary, loving your body might feel a bit different than it does for a cisgender person. Parts of your body might make you feel uncomfortable, and you might want to change the way you look. That’s totally OK! You can appreciate your body for everything it allows you to experience and still want to change certain things about it. That’s OK… who says, the author Mel Hammond? I want to take my advice from someone who publicly says on their website that their “favorite things are trees, rainbows, and dairy-free ice cream.' Cringe! Just another wokie doing all the token wokie things. She’s trying to stand out by fitting in… that’s a good starting point for someone looking to dish out health and gender advice. When you’re feeling out of place in your body, do things that make your body feel more like home, like dressing in your favorite clothes… Yes… now we are preparing kids to potentially be future drag queens. No more story hours, just time to be a Queen! While gender expression is what you show on the outside, gender identity is how you feel on the inside - a girl, a boy, or someone who doesn’t quite fit into either category. Buzzword time. Expression and identity. I both express now that I hate this book and identify as someone who hates this book, just in case you didn’t catch that. When a baby is born, a doctor looks at the baby’s body parts to assign its sex - whether the baby is female or male. Most kids grow up feeling comfortable in the sex the doctor assigned. This kind of person is cisgender. (Say it sis-jen-dur.) But for some, that assigned sex doesn’t match who they know they are inside. A kid who was assigned as male might know herself to be a girl inside, for example. Someone whose gender is different than the sex they were assigned at birth is transgender. Some people don’t feel like a girl or a boy inside - which is totally OK! People in this group are usually called nonbinary and might use a pronoun like they instead of he or she. It's OK again! Thanks Mel Hammond, glad you approve! More buzz words: cisgender and non-binary. Yes… teaching kids 1984 newspeak… what could go wrong with this? Now remember, this book is marketed to girls aged 3-12 and older. Yes, as young as 3! They’re definitely trying to reach girls before puberty and inundate them with the idea to change their genders during their pubescent years. American Girl just doesn’t care what the critics are saying. They responded by saying, “we are committed to delivering content that leaves our readers feeling informed, confident, and positive about themselves.” Yeah, positive that they’re not a girl, but your company is called American Girl. Okay… Don’t they realize how dumb this is for their brand? It’s American Girl. Not American Trans Girl. Not American Non-Binary Individual. Not American Cisgender Girl. Not American Boy-Girl. It’s just American Girl. All the feminists talk about making space for women in society and now we are literally pushing them out of their own culture and their own literature to make space for boys. I think modern-day feminism just checked itself. When is someone going to say this cultural appropriation? We’re literally taking female culture, running through the sieve of a man who wants to be a girl, and then going with it. It’s like learning how to be a girl through the male gaze. It makes no sense. A complete contradiction of feminism. But that doesn’t matter when you’re gender-bending. Hey American Girl, your next series should be on book burning cause that’s what we should be doing with all of yours! REFERENCES; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11522481/American-Girl-refuses-apologize-pushing-advice-pre-teens-obtain-puberty-blockers.html

You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds If there was one solid indicator that the end of the world is near, it’s the fact the women love Pete Davidson. I’m sure the Mayans wrote about it somewhere and it’s gotta be in the book of Revelations. But could someone explain this to me? He is devoid of all masculinity. He is a grade-A pussy. And worst of all - he dated a Kardashian. Every-time I see this guy, one of my eggs spontaneously dries up. What ever happened to tall, dark, and handsome? When did it become soft, pale, and jaundiced? The media likes to refer to him as BDE - big !@#$ energy. Have you looked at this guy? I’m not talking about his features. On that, I have no opinion. No one can control how they look. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, afterall. I’m talking about how he displays himself - which is something he can control. Now how someone even looks wouldn’t normally get a rant. but this dude just throws himself out in public like he is some sort of god walking amongst mere mortals. His whole shtick is his gross demeanor, so for that, I do have commentary. The tattoos are utterly macabre. It looks like the wall of a bathroom stall in a dive bar. At best, he looks like a walking version of a Chipotle bag. The amount of money he has spent on those could probably feed all of Staten Island. But it’s more than the waste - it's the look. That’s an extreme version of tattooing - like beat nick, hoodlum, trailer park, homemade county jail tattoo level of trash. Furthermore, has this guy ever even seen the sun? He’s so white and pasty that Mayonnaise is jealous. And this doesn’t do any favors for his clothes. While I’m sure he’s loaded, his wardrobe looks like you gave a color blind hobo a hundred dollars to spend at Goodwill. Let’s boomerang back around to the jaundice thing, though. Has no one told him that his eyes are yellow? Someone should really direct him to a doctor’s office ASAP. When did this sickly, weak, sloppily dressed, poor excuse for a man become the standard bearer of good looks? I know that gender is now non-binary, but can we at least agree on what a good looking man should look like? Surely we can get in the ballpark. This guy dated a Kardashian, was engaged to Ariana Grande, and is now dating Emily Ratajkowski. I guess sluts love repulsive men. Maybe it’s because he is so gross looking it makes them look better or perhaps it’s the shock value. I’d say it’s because he is funny, but Pete has to be the least funny and talented man to ever walk on the set of SNL or perform standup in the last 40 years. Just think what will happen to future humans if women accept Pete Davidson as an icon of male perfection? Men will obviously acquiesce because they’re stupid and will do anything for a little female attention. People will get uglier and nastier. Our progeny will start to downgrade. This isn’t just commentary - this is a public service announcement. I don’t want to live in a world of undeserving, self-absorbed, arrogant losers like Pete who think they can walk around like a trailer park bum. We live in a world where women feel compelled to wear makeup. Yet, men don’t really do anything to themselves. Look around. It started before Pete Davidson. Millennial men and the subsequent generations of men just swipe on apps and watch video game streamers all day. Not a lot of room for personal grooming or taking pride in one’s appearance. It’s only getting worse with men - I mean boys- like Pete Davidson. He’s sinking the ship. Perhaps the only form of retaliation is if women start completely giving up, too. I’m just waiting for the female Pete Davidson to come along. A trashy, disgusting broad who, when just seeing a photo, you can smell their stench. Yet, somehow, they get all the men. It won’t happen. No man would tolerate that. No man would date some pig just to get attention. Toxic masculinity ain’t that toxic. Welcome to modern day feminism: where we not only bring down the quality of our lives, but we accept piss-poor quality men just to be trendy and satiate our insecurities. From first to third wave feminism, we went from mothers and housewives to stressed out women doing the mothering, wifing, and working. Fourth wave was really the chef’s kiss final touches to this hell hole. Now we’ve finally flipped the dynamic between the sexes on its head. While it seemed cute to cut out masculinity in favor of soy-boy, tofu eating weaklings, look what it got us? No 50’s-woman would let this happen. She didn’t cook, clean, and wrestle the kids all day to see a Pete Davidson like creature walking through the door. But hey, we're woke and fly our feminist flag while wearing our pussy hats. Our reward? Androgynous little twerps that look less like eye candy and more like the human equivalent of SPAM. Thanks Pete Davidson. REFERENCES: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11429853/MailOnline-looks-Pete-Davidsons-dating-history.html

You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds Hey South Carolina, do you regret your 2020 vote for Madison Cawthorn? You should. Thankfully, Cawthorn lost his primary this time around. He got hammered with accusations and allegations of, let’s just say, inappropriate behavior. He went around acting like he was some MAGA lover and Trump loyalist. You know, he was a real American and was going to represent the people… that was until his feelings got hurt. Cawthorn is nowhere to be found on Capitol Hill. He took his toys and went home. His nameplate is gone. Furniture was moved out and the office was left empty. Even his offices back in his home state, apparently, are a ghost town. When constituent’s call Cawthorn’s office this is what they hear: “due to our office beginning to close for the term, we are no longer accepting new casework requests.” But the term isn’t over. It lasts until January 3rd. Apparently, Cawthorn just decided to up and leave. How would you like to just abdicate your job a month and a half early and have no repercussions? You have to go to work but not him. He’s still getting to cash those sweet paychecks paid for by you, the taxpayer. That $175K a year is a swinging deal - especially when you have a month plus vacation. That’s how the government cares for you. No matter what tagline politicians use, the smiles and handshakes on the campaign, or appeals to the common man they may make, at the end of the day, politicians are just politicians. They will screw you over with your own money. Cawthron obviously thinks he is better than his constituents. Those that live in North Carolina’s 11th district, good luck. If you need help with federal agencies, you won’t get it. Those 750,000 people are entitled to Cawthorn’s representation. They literally pay his salary and depend on him to look out for their interests in Congress. But Cawthorn doesn’t care, he is just giving his district the middle finger. He isn’t voting and he isn’t servicing their concerns. And this little piece of !@#$ is going on like nothing is happening. His spokesperson, Blake Harp, was asked on November 16 what constituents should do if they need assistance with veterans benefits, Social Security, late tax refunds or other issues. He didn’t bother to even respond. Cawthorn may complain about big government and the establishment, but he turned into them in less than two years. He probably was like that when he ran back in 2020, but like all good con artists, they can fool a lot of people pretty easily. But like Abraham Lincoln once said, “you can fool part of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.” North Carolina’s 11th district was fooled once but not anymore. They kicked him out and gave Republican state senator Chuck Edwards a try. And it seems like he is already doing his best to represent the people of his district. He took to Twitter to let constituents know that if they need help with federal agencies and can’t get it from Capitol Hill, then to give him a call at his North Carolina statehouse office and he’ll do his best to help out. He won’t even be an official member of congress until January 3 - it’s literally not his problem. He’s trying to do his job and Cawthorn’s. Now, a transition between outgoing and incoming representatives is customary. But since Cawthorn ditched his Capitol Hill digs, he has made no effort to help the new guy get in early. Edwards says, “we've not had a conversation at all about closing his offices or transition.” Dereliction of duty. AWOL. Lazy. Entitled. Coward. Insecure. Selfish. Liar. Grifter. Call Cawthorn whatever you want. I call him a pussy. And it’s not like Cawthorn had some emergency that made him suddenly leave. Oh, no. While he was busy NOT working, he managed to buy a $1.1 million home in Cape Coral, Florida. He’s 27 and bought a million dollar home - all while skipping work. Sounds like a millennial with an undeserving sense of self-accomplishment to me. He also managed to make it to Trump’s presidential announcement last week. He can be seen sitting right behind Melania. I guess Cawthorn needed all this time off to kiss Trump’s ass hard enough to, hopefully, get another job. Cawthorn brags about being an 8th generation resident of his district on his website. Guess that meant nothing when he can suckle off the power teet of Donald Trump. Off to Florida and screw my hometown, too. But don’t worry, he’ll have to come back home a few times. Not for anything fun - but for court dates. On January 13, he has to appear in court on charges for carrying a loaded gun while going through airport security. On December 12, he’ll have to appear in Cleveland County on a charge for driving with a revoked license. Third time's the charm, because he will be back on February 2 for a speeding charge in Polk County. It’s amazing this reckless prick even got elected in the first place. After Trump’s announcement, Cawthorn posted a video saying that he will “follow this man until the day I die.” This little peckerhead can’t even complete a 2 year term in government but he’s going to pledge fealty to another man. His words mean nothing. I’d be curious to know whether Cawthorn thinks anyone believes him anymore. Madison, listen up. You’re about to be unemployed and irrelevant to the GOP. Trump didn’t endorse when you first ran, don’t be shocked if he doesn’t want anything to do with you now. You’re literally a loser. You also have a checkered history of inappropriate actions and unprofessional office behavior. Plus, you skip out of town early to not work. Why don’t you go lick your wounds and cry about your problems to your wife… oh that’s right, she dumped you just like America did. REFERENCES: https://wlos.com/news/local/cawthorn-empties-congressional-offices-nc-district-11-representative-elect-chuck-edwards-steps-in-to-field-questions https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2022/11/09/madison-cawthorn-buys-house-in-southwest-florida-western-north-carolina/69630971007/ https://www.carolinajournal.com/madison-cawthorn-leaves-post-early-despite-votes-constituent-casework/

Thanks for listening to Overnight Opinions, a weekly news roundup on the Ladies Love Politics channel. Here you’ll get current events blended with spicy commentary directed at our elected leaders. It’s late, you’re awake, let’s get started … You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds Unless you live under a rock, you know that Trump announced he is running for president in 2024. But for all the excitement this generated amongst the MAGA crowd, they should really check themselves. Not for the platform we all know Trump has represented - but the new platform piece he added. If you missed the his speech, take a listen: SOT: Trump “I will ask Congress for a legislation ensuring that drug dealers and human traffickers — these are terrible, terrible, horrible people — who are responsible for death, carnage and crime all over our country; every drug dealer during his or her life, on average, will kill 500 people with the drugs they sell. Not to mention, the destruction of families. We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, is caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts because it’s the only way.” Now this isn’t totally off the cuff comment. He wasn’t speaking freely, he was reading a teleprompter - another point of criticism but for another day. You know that speech was contemplated and scrutinized beforehand by his handlers. It didn’t just show up on its own. It was premeditated. And did you hear the applause from the MAGA crowd - cheering the killing of their fellow Americans. It’s twisted. Furthermore, he said something similar back in July. SOT: Trump “The penalties should be very, very severe. If you look at countries throughout the world, the ones that don’t have a drug problem are ones that institute a very quick trial death penalty sentence for drug dealers. It sounds horrible, doesn’t it? But you know what? That’s the ones that don’t have any problem. It doesn’t take 15 years in court. It goes quickly, and you absolutely — you execute a drug dealer, and you’ll save 500 lives. It’s terrible to say, but you take a look at every country in this world that doesn’t have a problem with drugs, they have a very strong death penalty for people that sell drugs.” Let’s unpack this idea. Trump says that drug traffickers will kill 500 people with the drugs they sell. This number has largely been pulled right out of his bad hair. The Washington Post investigated this figure. They note that according to the National Institutes of Health, about 600,000 people died of drug overdoses from 2010 to 2020. Using Trump’s 500 deaths per dealer number, this would mean there are only 1,200 drug dealers in the U.S. However, there are nearly 20,000 drug traffickers prosecuted each year in this country. While he was President, Trump claimed this figure to be as high as 2,000, 3,000, and even 5,000 deaths per dealer. When pressed about this, his administration claimed they were referencing drug kingpins. Well, Trump, there is a BIG difference between a drug kingpin and a drug dealer. We all know dealers. Just go to your local high school. Very few of us know kingpins. Trump seems to over-exaggerate this death per dealer number - most likely to stir up support for his death penalty desires. However, it fails to suffice common sense and actual facts. Furthermore, if you are talking about kingpins, then say it - it’s still wrong, but a far cry from the tyranny of executing common drug dealers. So, what is it Don? Let’s take a look at how hypocritical this is for Trump to say. Remember when he was president and pardoned Alice Johnson. She was the grandmother and first-time offender who got a life sentence for selling drugs. Many thought the punishment was too harsh. Kim Kardashian even showed up in the White House to ask for a pardon. It was a whole reality show shit show. Nevertheless, Trump did the right thing and let her go. He gave public remarks on it from the Oval Office with Johnson. Trump mentioned that she had spent 22 years in prison. He went on to say, “and — for something that, today, a lot of people wouldn’t even be going to jail for. And it was — it was horrible. And we found out about it. And we gave a commutation; that means we were able to get Alice out. And she has been just so outstanding, and I’m so proud of you.” By Trump’s comments, last week, he would have executed Alice Johnson. From pardon to death penalty, Trump sure does move fast. Because, you see, Alice wasn’t just a petty drug dealer, no, she was a pro at it. She was convicted on 8 criminal counts from a cocaine trafficking operation in Memphis that involved more than a dozen individuals. She was closer to a kingpin than a local dealer and she got a pardon. Was Trump doing it for just a political stunt? Was it for attention? Or did he just want to meet another porn star, Kim Kardashian? I’ll let you answer that one. Even if Trump would later come out and correct his statement and say that the death penalty would only apply to kingpin drug dealers… well, I think we all know that Alice would fit that a little too comfortably. Now whether the death penalty could be applied to drug dealers is unclear. The Supreme Court, in a 2008 ruling, said “the death penalty should not be expanded to instances where the victim’s life was not taken.” But the majority opinion did not completely close the door on that notion, saying, “we do not address, for example, crimes defining and punishing treason, espionage, terrorism, and drug kingpin activity, which are offenses against the state.” But let’s back things up a minute. Have you thought about the actual logistics of killing drug dealers? Since the time we reinstated the death penalty in 1976, up to present day, we have executed far more than 1,500 people in the U.S. Now put a pin in that and now let’s look at the number of drug traffickers in prison that Trump would want to execute. Currently, there are nearly 64,000 drug traffickers incarcerated in federal prison. If we give them all the death penalty, that would be 41 times more than the number of executions we performed since the death penalty was reinstated. Let’s take a step back and look at the macro view of this issue: Do Americans really even like the death penalty? Well, more than half of U.S. adults favor the death penalty for murderers, according to the Pew Research Center. However, support has declined overtime, Since 1996, support for the death penalty fell from nearly 78% down to 52%. In the meantime, opposition to the death penalty, has more than doubled, from 18% to 44%. And we’ve also saw a nearly 30% decline in the number of executions that occurred from the year 2000 up until 2019. Currently, 27 states allow for the death penalty, most of these are in the south and west. However, nearly half of those pro-death penalty states haven’t executed someone in more than decade. Unless he changes this opinion - and soon - this the death penalty will bounce back and result in the murder of thousands of Americans - many of whom may be innocent. is as brutal and dangerous as it is arrogant and tyrannical. Stick around and find out the 9 reasons why Trump’s idea for the death penalty for drug dealers is full of poppycock. ONE We still are not 100% error proof in our current executions. In 1985, Kirk Bloodsworth became the first death row inmate to be exonerated by DNA evidence. If you support the death penalty, you probably want it to be applied to people who actually committed the crime - not the innocent. The justice system in this country isn’t suited for that - never has and probably never will. People are not perfect. We still find innocent people on death row all the time. This past August, Marilyn Mulero was spared from execution. She was the 190th person to be exonerated from death row in the United States. She was also the 16th death row exoneration in Cook County- which has the most exoneration of any county in the country. And she was Illinois 22nd exoneree from death row The only state with more exonerations is Florida, which has 30. Mulero wasn’t saved by DNA but by a dirty detective’s deeds coming to light. After the detective grilled Mulero for 20 hours and threatened her with the death penalty and losing her kids. She wasn’t allowed to sleep or talk to a lawyer. Under pressure, Mulero signed a confession. But Mulero wasn’t the only victim. In fact, 31 cases involving this detective were vacated. Illinois Attorney General Kim Foxx said, “we no longer believe in the validity of these convictions or the credibility of the evidence of these convictions.” That detective isn’t alone. There’s all sorts out there just like that, fouling up the criminal justice system. But are we willing to hang our hat on the perfection of detectives and cops, to execute potentially the innocent? TWO Did you know that the Supreme Court halted the use of the death penalty? In Furman v. Georgia, the Court examined whether execution violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The Court found that the death penalty had been applied in ways that disproportionately harmed minorities and the poor. Justices Brennan and Marshall claimed it was unconstitutional for any reason. The death penalty was halted for the next four years in the U.S. States then began rewriting their death penalty laws to make sure they weren’t applied “arbitrarily or discriminatorily.” Then in 1977, Gary Gilmore became the first person to be executed after the hiatus. And it never stopped… In 2008, the Supreme court re-examined the death penalty again, and they said “the death penalty should not be expanded to instances where the victim’s life was not taken.” However, they opened the door wide open for what Trump wants to do. The Court ruled that, “we do not address, for example, crimes defining and punishing treason, espionage, terrorism, and drug kingpin activity, which are offenses against the state.” THREE What about Big Tobacco? Nearly half a million people die every year in the United States from cigarettes every year - one in five of all deaths in the U.S. That’s 1,300 people every single day. For every cigarette death, 30 other people live with a serious smoking-related illness, resulting in 16 million people living with a smoking related disease. Even worse, everyday, 2,000 minors have their first cigarette - 300 of them have become daily cigarette smokers. Overall, smoking costs the U.S. $600 billion a year. Yet, Big Tobacco spends a million dollars an hour to advertise their products to Americans. Are we going to assign the death penalty to Big Tobacco Executives? I doubt it. FOUR What about alcohol? Every year, 140,000 people die from excessive alcohol use - that equates to 380 deaths a day. This type of drinking takes on average 26 years off someone’s life and causes nearly 60 medical conditions. Excessive drinking costs the U.S. nearly $250 billion, each year. Despite disease and death, Big Alcohol is expected to spend more than $7 billion dollars advertising to Americans next year. Are we going to assign the death penalty to Big Alcohol Executives? I doubt it. FIVE Drug cases are dependent on statements by witnesses and on the investigation at hand by cops and detectives that are on the scene. But it’s possible that they could be dirty. Like who we learned about earlier with Marilyn Mulero. Are they planting evidence? Are they covering things uP? Well, people are people and they’re subject to doing corrupt things - just because they’re part of law enforcement or the criminal justice system doesn’t exempt them from the desires and temptations of the flesh to do bad things. We all know the racial disparity of drug crimes is ridiculous. We already know that whites and blacks use drugs at the same rate, yet blacks are twice as likely to get arrested for them. So why are we going to take drug crimes - drug sellers- and give them the death penalty when we know that it will disproportionally result in the death of more black Americans? SIX According to the Drug Policy Alliance, “there is significant overlap between drug sellers and people who use drugs. A 2012 survey found that 43% of people who reported having sold drugs in the past year also reported that they met the criteria for a substance use disorder.” So I ask - are we really comfortable with executing people who are selling drugs to enable their addiction? As a country, can't we be a little more compassionate? Can’t we give second chances? Can’t we allow people to come to sobriety on their own with fear of being murdered by their government? SEVEN Think about the cost and time of appeals. Death penalty cases are expensive and drawn out - rightfully, so. The amount of bureaucratic chaos will be unprecedented. The justice system will slow to a screeching halt. Those that are the victims of real crimes - like rape and murder - will have to wait longer to get the justice they deserve. And we aren’t saving any money by killing people, it’s a common misconception. The death penalty has cost California $4 billion since 1978. Florida spends $51 million more a year to execute their prisoners for murder instead of justgiving life sentences. Texas death penalty cases cost on average $2.3 million - that’s nearly three times what it would cost to incarcerate someone for 40 years. North Carolina spends more than $2 million per execution over the cost of a life sentence. Oklahoma spends three times more on a death penalty case then what it would on a non-death penalty case. Kansas spends more than four times as much. EIGHT Can we go after doctors and Big Pharma for their role in the opioid epidemic? More than 900,000 people have died from a drug overdose since 1999. In 2020, 75% of those involved an opioid. We’re all familiar with the epidemic. We hear politicians bitching about it all the time, but they never really do anything about it. Doctors began overprescribing opioids in the 90’s which led to the second wave - a sharp rise in heroin overdose deaths. The third and final wave came in 2013 when overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids rose sharply. The demand for illicitly manufactured fentanyl skyrocketed and it can be found in things like heroin, counterfeit pills, and cocaine. Now, 187 people die everyday of synthetic and non-synthetic opioids. Are we ready to start executing doctors over it - they are in fact the ones that started it all? I doubt it. And we all know Big Pharma would never let that happen. They’d be exempt from the death penalty if Trump got his idea into law because Big Pharma has lobbyists - you don’t. NINE Illegal drugs are lethal because of the users' stupidity. It would be like blaming McDonalds for someone gorging on their Big Mac’s and dying of a heart attack. In reality, their food isn’t good for you, but overdosing on fatty, processed junk food is the users fault. It’s bad to eat it, really, ever, but people do things all the time that are bad for them. They eat sweets or drink alcohol or drink lots of soda. In the end, people choose how much damage to do to themselves. So, in conclusion I want you to think about a few things. What about those selling marijuana in the states? Are dispensaries now horrible drug dealers deserving of the death penalty? Or will you go after the recreational states first then the medical marijuana states? What about the doctors who provide prescriptions for medical marijuana? Will they get executed? Finally, how long will it take before we execute the user? It’s not too far down the slippery slope to think about. Are we really going to punish addiction with execution then? Similarly, that would mean medical marijuana users could get the death penalty? If nothing else, their access to lifesaving pain relief would shore up? Who will grow and sell marijuana if the death penalty looms over their head. Even if the law doesn’t go after marijuana, and somehow makes it exempt, I’d be too scared to keep growing it under those new conditions that Trump wants to kill people. Who would want to fly that close to the sun and get burned with the price being their life? I’m not going to litigate the waste of the war on drugs or how criminalizing drug use is a violation of our liberties, how it infringes on our right to bodily autonomy and the ability to decide what goes into our bodies when and how. But think about this. As president, Trump was mainlining hydroxychloroquine - a prescription - just for prophylactic reasons. The party that followed him. The party was injecting themselves with horse dewormer - Ivermectin. I recall Alex Jones eating in on-air live and all the other conservative pundits and wannabes touting its greatness. And that’s great- they pushed back against the prevailing medical authorities. And it was their right to do so. But if you’re going to take horse dewormer why can’t someone else take a drug? But let’s go a little deeper. Some might say an insurrectionist is worse than drug selling… and then wouldn’t that mean the January 6 people would be up to have their heads on a chopping block? Believe me, the left will then try to take the power of execution and use it for their own political games? Once this starts, it will escalate very quickly. They will have no problem executing those who threaten democracy and are deemed an insurrectionist. We’ve seen how they treated those people so far. After all this, you should find the death penalty a grotesque punishment for selling drugs. But even more, consider the games being played. Who is pulling Trump’s string to go from pardon to death penalty? Why is he taking such draconian measures? Why is a guy that said he would leave states alone on marijuana laws, now trying to execute people at the federal level for selling them? Is Trump a RINO or is being bombarded by the establishment? Are they hijacking the MAGA movement into a perverted new form of MAGA? Is there a Trojan horse in the mix. Who knows… but what I do know is that Americans don’t want their weed dealer getting the chair. 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Thanks for listening to Overnight Opinions, a weekly news roundup on the Ladies Love Politics channel. Here you’ll get current events blended with spicy commentary directed at our elected leaders. It’s late, you’re awake, let’s get started … You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds Are we in a pandemic or not? Well, no one seems to know the answer to that one. If we asked President Biden he’d probably say that the Spanish Flu was rough but we pulled through with our no malarkey American can-do spirit. Jokes aside, Biden is the president and it seems like either he is confused about the pandemic or just jerking our chain. Let’s review all the confusion. Health and Human Services was facing a deadline last week. If the state of emergency order for covid was ending, they would have to notify the states by Friday. Nothing happened. Health and Human Services has said in the past they would give states 60 days notice, so they could essentially get their ducks in a row. What does this mean? Well, this emergency order first went into effect in January 2020, just before the world went nuts. It has been extended 11 times, renewing in 90 day increments. So, the current one is set to end on January 11. But since HHS didn’t say it was over, this means we are heading into our 12th renewal of a state of emergency, lasting until, probably, April of next year. Here’s the problem. Didn’t Biden mention earlier this year that the pandemic was over? SOT : Pandemic is over Oh yeah, but that was right before the midterms. And here’s another little ditty. We closed down the country in the spring of 2020 - with cases about a few hundred thousand a week. Ever since then, though, cases have been higher - significantly higher. In January of 2021, cases were nearly 2 million a week - a more than five-fold increase during lockdown panic. By December of last year, they were triple that - standing at nearly 6 million. Except for a few brief weeks in July of 2021, Covid cases had been higher than during lockdown. So why did we lockdown? Why did we open up? If we locked down out of fear and rising cases, why didn’t we stay that way? It’s almost like there was a reason everyone wanted to lockdown, some sort of end goal to mess things up… Oh, that’s right, the 2020 presidential election. So, what’s going on here. First, we lockdown, based on no scientific evidence that that would work, all out of fear of rising Covid cases. Remember the two weeks to flatten the curve? The two weeks lasted months. And then finally, we opened, but it was kind of arbitrary - a state by state basis. And cases ever since then have been super, super high - more than when we locked down. Then we tried to started trying to vaccinate everyone in this country - by hook or crook. Then fast forward to a few months ago when Biden said that the pandemic was over. But now, we’re still in a state of emergency that we need to extend? Why? How can it be over but still an emergency order? Oh, yeah - it’s the government. It doesn’t need to make sense. It just needs to help the government meet its end goals. So, what’s the end goal? Well, depending on the thickness of your tinfoil hat, that will vary. However, the emergency order isn’t just some declaration without action, like the government is known to do. No, this one has real consequences. It amps up the federal government’s involvement in healthcare. This order expanded Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. They both swelled by more than 25%. In fact, as of June, there were a record 89 million people enrolled in these programs. And when this “emergency” order expires, HHS has estimated that nearly 15 million people could be dropped from these programs. The emergency order also gives more flexibility to hospitals and health-care provider operations. Vaccines, tests, and certain treatments are covered by the order. When the order expires, COVID related healthcare will switch back to private insurance and other government health plans. So what’s the point? Regardless of whether you believe Covid was a hoax and completely made up or a serious illness, it is of little importance. It was all about control. The government never cared about your health. They lied about masks and overestimated the vaccine effectiveness. It was a boon for big pharma and vaccine makers. This was all a charade. The government will never let the Covid emergency go because they will NEVER let control of you. They got you to cover your mouth and jab your arm all because they said so. Think about how long the war in Afghanistan lasted. The government never gives up on its end goal to control people. Get ready, because Covid emergencies aren’t going anywhere. This week, the CDC already is recommending that 5 counties in New York wear masks, indoors, yet again. Biden is president. Democrats control the Senate. And they’re holding onto a decent amount of the House. They stopped talking about Covid because the midterms were coming. But then again, that’s there to move for control and power - just act like they didn’t do it. You’re being gaslit America. 2003 called and wants its grift back. Remember George W. Bush standing on the USS Abraham Lincoln with a “Mission Accomplished” sign behind him? Well, the mission was, in fact, not over. The war in Iraq lasted another 8 years. But didn’t it feel good to think it was over? If Ol’ Georgey says the mission is complete then the dumb American people don’t have to think about it. Well, Uncle Joe took a play right out of W’s book. The pandemic is over - actually, technically, it’s not. The public emergency is ongoing. The government is going to continue to act like they have for the last 11 renewal of the emergency order. In reality, on paper, this is the same order issued in early 2020. However, I think a lot of Americans would agree, a lot has changed since then. Abortion was a sideshow. The real game is the virus. So, enjoy the holidays… it may be the last one we have for a while. REFERENCES: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/us-will-keep-covid-public-health-emergency-in-place-until-at-least-mid-january.html https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/hhs-extends-public-health-emergency-11th-time https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-renew-covid-19-public-health-emergency-january-2022-11-11/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHT1enFH2sI

Thanks for listening to Overnight Opinions, a weekly news roundup on the Ladies Love Politics channel. Here you’ll get current events blended with spicy commentary directed at our elected leaders. It’s late, you’re awake, let’s get started … You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds What is wrong with rich people? Is a synapse in their brain not connecting? I’m sure you’ve heard about Tiffany Trump’s wedding that happened this past weekend. Not only is Tiffany the daughter of a billionaire businessman, she’s marrying the son of a billionaire. Maybe Bernie Sanders should talk about the redistribution of love? You know, rich people have to marry someone of a lower socioeconomic status to even out the game a little bit. Perhaps, then he could clinch the democratic nomination. But, that’s beside the point… Tiffany’s ring was valued at $1.2 million. Can you imagine? The opulence. The decadence. Obviously, Trump didn’t teach Tiffany to be humble or modest. I can’t imagine wearing a ring worth that much money. This is a girl who has never worked a day in her life and will likely never again. She replaced her old daddy with a new, younger daddy. These types of people don’t know what it’s like to live in a normal American house. They don’t understand what being normal is, in fact. The average home in the U.S. costs less than half of what her ring does. These rich people don’t know what it’s like to hold down a 9 to 5. The 10% inflation at grocery stores, it doesn't affect them. Filling up a car at $4/gallon gas, that doesn’t affect them either. They must all sit back and laugh at us little plebs, us little serfs, the little people down in America who build them up and make them richer. Meanwhile, they’re throwing lavish parties. How much do you bet they’re kicking back with their feet up and saying let them eat cake? Just think…Daddy Trump gave out $1,400 checks to Americans as a stimulus during Covid. Her ring could have paid for more than 700 of those checks. And even though that ring was given to her by her fiance, the rest of the Trump’s have that same sentiment about extravagant rings and wasteful spending. Let’s take a look at the Trump women’s diamonds. Eric Trump, it appears to be, the most modest, giving his wife Lara a ring from his sister Ivanka’s jewelry collection. I can’t find a value estimation on it, but I’m sure it was sill, fairly pricey. Don Jr., he gave his ex-wife Vanessa a ring worth $100,000. But because it was a public proposal, at a certain diamond store, he got it for free as a publicity stunt. He then gave his current fiance- and whore- Kimberly Guilfyole a ring worth $250,000. I guess the woman who birthed 5 children for you doesn’t get as much as your concubine now, huh? Ivanka is sporting a $500,000 ring. Trump’s first wife Ivana got a $500,000 ring. His second wife Marla Maples sold her ring after the divorce in 1999 for $100,000. Melania got not one, but two engagement rings, worth $9 million. The point. The Trumps, like all the other rich people in this country, are out of touch with regular people. No matter how hard they try or message, they can’t relate. Neither can other rich politicians. DeSantis can’t relate either, he won’t be any better or different on this issue. The Trump's just take it to a whole new level. They are slinging around the net worth of most Americans just on their women’s fingers. That’s a whole new lifestyle. But back to Tiffany’s wedding. It’s a pure !@$ show. The rehearsal is fancier than most people’s actual wedding. Why do we put up with this? Why do we care? The media only reports it because Americans eat it up? I’ll never understand the worshiping of the wealthy. Who give a !@#$? I voted for Trump last election and probably will in 2024, but that doesn’t mean I’m blind. Remember when he first ran and said I’m rich, really rich. Everyone was shocked? Not me.I knew that, a lot of people knew that. So why act like you’re anything else. We are not alike. Me and Trump come from different worlds. I’m not voting for you for your modesty or because you drive a 200,000 mile vehicle and buy your clothes off the clearance rack. That’s me. Not you. And Trump has remained constant on his confidence and in all his success and finances. He’s grandiose, but he never tried to be anything else. But his kids could really dial it back. Particularly when his kids take pictures of getting their cars filled up. Bull !@#$, it doesn’t affect them. Gas could be $20 a gallon and they would still go wherever they wanted. Trump never made me think that anything affected him. He can afford it. He’s in it to destroy the left, and take them down. Take down the globalists. Put America first. You’ve heard the chants. But wholly guacamole… Trump’s lavish wedding for his daughter is a little much now, don’t you think? So the world is falling apart because of Biden but you have the money and time to throw a glitzy wedding? What? Sure, Tiffany is an adult and he can’t control her, but I sure bet he funds her. I wonder who paid for her law school? All he would need to do is cut the money and I bet she would've changed. Maybe he should have done it before now. And this wedding, it's taking place at his resort, Mar a Lago. And I sure bet he’s paying for all the other wedding events and incidentals. The optics aren’t good. But then again, it took him 3 tries to find a wife so when it comes to morality, he’s definitely a bit shaky. 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You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds The midterms are tomorrow. For which candidate will you be casting your ballot? What if I told you the best way to vote this year was by not voting for either of the two parties? The left has gone full woke and the right has gone full dumbass. Think I’m being overly dramatic? On the left we have Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul…Yikes! Abortions anytime and gender reassignment surgery on a whim and, let’s not forget, defund the police. On the right we have Herschel Walker and Kari Lake - who I like to call dumb and dumber. Let’s not forget the total fakes and phonies - J.D. Vance, and Dr. Oz. Yeah, I don’t know what country we’re in but I didn’t sign up for this. They both offer tyranny - just their brand of tyranny. Both parties gave us Covid lockdowns and a lot of Republicans and Conservatives got the vaccine. Everyone freaked, it’s just the right that wants to act like it’s all over and they’ve always known best. The left freaked out over Covid and still do. God knows what we will get if the left wins. More social distancing and vaccine lotteries, I guess. But the right will just give us ignorance. Kari Lake seems to be nothing more than a liberal who is running as MAGA. We also see that in Dr. Oz. And the biggest flip flopper, former Never Turmper, J.D. Vance. Let’s not forget Hershel Walker - the man with multiple personalities and allegations of being a wife beater. He also seems to have a fetish for paying for abortions. I also doubt he can read above a 1st grade level, but that’s a different story. Is this the best we can get? Let’s not forget J.R. Marjewski in Ohio who’s running for Congress who allegedly has lied about his military career. There’s Boebert and Greene who want reelected, but if you add their IQ up it’s still in the single digits. I used to be able to tell the difference, a little bit. Yeah, Dems and the GOP were the same party in a lot of ways, but I could parse out the lesser of two evils normally Now we just have two evils. They are both taking us straight to authoritarianism - just on their own terms. They both feel like they can tell us how to live our lives. The left wants to lock us down with Covid and the right wants to bolster up the police to the point that everyone’s locked behind bars. The left wants you to take your kids to drag shows in bars and the right wants to tell you how to raise your kids and prevent you from doing so. The left wants to let your kid walk in and change their gender on a whim against your approval and the right wants to tell you and your kids and your doctor you can’t do that. The left wants to vaccinate you. The right says you don't have to, but most of them got it anyway. So what do they know about being persecuted for not having the vaccine? It’s all a sham. Our Founding Fathers would take off their powdered wigs and beat us with them. We would get stoned with their wooden teeth for the !@#$ show we have going on right now. Don’t just vote “blue wave” or “red wave.” That is high school pep rally B.S. Don’t think about your vote, just go with the team. It’s us versus them. Nope. That’s not a way to make policy or elect leaders. Parties are wrong about their people and their policies all the time. No one person in this country agrees with a party 100% - so stop acting like you can’t break out of your party for at least a few offices on your ballot. I’ve always voted for a split ticket. I don’t like paying for senseless programs and government handouts, but I also don’t like the religious right telling me what drugs I can take and to worship the police. I always managed to find a way to go okay, this person is a little better. Even though we don’t have a third party - and I want one - I’ll just pick the lesser evil and move on with my life. Not this year. I live in Ohio. There is no amount of money you could pay me to vote for Mike DeWine - a Covid Lockdown King- or J.D. Vance - the Trump ass kisser who is a Trojan horse to the MAGA movement. When I see them I feel like barfing emoji every single time. They’re traitros, they’re hypocrites. I don’t like them. But I also can't vote for Nan Whaley - she’s too harsh on guns and way too woke as a liberal. And Tim Ryan, maybe I’d go for him, just to sock it to J.D. Vance, but Ryan used to be a pro life Democrat now he thinks you can get an abortion whenever or wherever you want. And that’s just too far for me. But alas, that is not the world we live in. So tomorrow on election day, I’m writing in candidates for Governor and the U.S Senate. No one represents me so they don’t get my vote. And no, my vote isn’t wasted. It’s useful. We are not serfs and they are not our lord. We don’t owe either party a vote. They have to earn it. They work for us, remember. Let’s go back to the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” I haven't felt like I’ve had those rights in a long time. I also don’t feel like I’ve had the right or pursue my life during Covid and it’s hard to be happy when gas and inflation make the cost of living so !@#$ high. And forget liberty- what’s that? So what’s to be done. Let’s read a little further… “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” I can not and will not consent to the government I have nor the people who want my vote. I am withdrawing my consent. No way will I rubber stamp what these !@#$ show politicians want to do to rule my life. It’s time to start showing the parties we don’t need them and want the. Then, maybe a third party will rise up or maybe a faction will break off within the two parties. Every time we vote for the lesser of two evils, we get just that - a little evil. Besides, regardless of who is in charge I will do as I please. I will say what I want, I will own the guns I want, I will smoke what I want, and I will refuse to wear masks and deny I will deny your vaccine if I feel like it. But here's the fun part of the Declaration of Independence: “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” So, tomorrow, let’s initiate a new government and let's start by not voting for the !@#$ we have. Write in a candidate or withhold your vote. It doesn't matter anymore- they’re all the same candidates with just an R or D beside their name. Regardless of who wins tomorrow, your life will not change. Get out there, vote for or against the levies or for or against state constitutional amendments. Those things are important. Be sure to vote for you local sheriffs, because believe me, you’re local leaders affect your life way more - we all learned that during Covid. And when it comes to your state leaders, or for the House or Senate, or for the Governor, write in someone. And when it comes to the U.S. Senate, do the same thing. You don’t have to just go with the flow and status quo and do as the two dumbasses at the top of the ticket tell you you have to - vote blue or vote red. This whole country went full tyranny - took your job, took your school, took your way of life away. Then they forced masks on your mouths and jabs in your arms. It’s all a charade. Both the left and the right are iron fists - but they got rid of the velvet glove years ago. Tell your leaders to shove it and vote for a write in when you can and when you feel comfortable tomorrow. Revolutions have to start somewhere - why not the ballot. And remember, that the pen is mightier than the sword.

You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Is a famine coming? It might be and it all has to do with BASF. It is the world's largest chemical company - pulling in nearly $86 billion last year - that’s more than $30 billion more than the second place company, DOW, based in the United States. So, BASF is big.. But what’s the big deal? Well, it’s also old, very old. Its located in Germany. Founded in 1865, a U.S. branch opened a few years later. Today, it employs nearly 122,000 employees globally - with 50,000 in Germany alone. Their business is divided into six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF has previously indicated that things aren’t looking so good in Germany - and overall Europe. According to the Wall Street Journal, BASF might have to close their plant (Ludwigshafen) in Germany. The reason: a shortage of cheap and abundant gas from Russia. BASF relied on Russian natural gas to power their products and their plants. The Senior economist at BASF, Peter Westerheide, said: "Cutting down production at this site will be a huge task. We've never seen situations like this before. It's hard to imagine." The company has estimated that if it can still get more than 50% of the maximum value of gas, operations should continue as usual. However, once it drops below that threshold, a shutdown is inevitable. It looks like we are quickly approaching that point, if not already. Now is the time to tell the story of the gas shortages affecting the European Union - particularly how this affects Germany . The shortage of natural gas has been looming over the EU ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. From cutting deliveries to shutting down for maintenance. Equipment trouble in August has since left the Nord Stream 1 pipeline offline. Things got really bad this summer. Prices peaked at more than 340 euros per megawatt hour. In fact, in just one week, Nord Stream 1 cut inventories by 60%. All this action caused Germany to activate the second phase of their three-stage gas emergency program. The next step would require the rationing of the supplies to industry. At the time, German economy minister Robert Habeck said, ”gas is from now on in short supply in Germany. Even if you don’t feel it yet: We are in a gas crisis.” In September, the amount of gas pumping into Europe from Russia was down more than 80% in just the previous year. Even though prices have since dipped back down to 108.5 euros per megawatt hour, and inventories are fairly full, experts are warning to not get too comfortable. The crisis is far from over. Before the whole Ukraine conflict, the EU was getting nearly 40% of its natural gas from Russia. Now it’s getting less than 10%. Henning Gloystein, director for energy at consultancy firm Eurasia Group, says: “..the current glut shouldn’t be seen as a signal though that the upcoming winter might not see energy shortages. Given there’s virtually no Russian gas available in Europe, supply is tight. Once it gets cold, inventories will draw down. If there’s a late winter cold snap when stocks have been reduced, things could get pretty tight in early 2023, meaning possible price spikes and potential energy shortages; it's therefore still very important for industry and households to try to reduce consumption.” And future imports seem unlikely, after both NordStream 1 & 2 were hit with explosions in late September. The point? The world is a giant game of dominos. Europe's gas woes will not only make everyone cold - it will cause the largest chemical factory, bASF, to shut down a large part of its operations. These will cause shortages of a lot of products. A lot. According to the Guardian, “the consequences of a shutdown at Ludwigshafen would be far-reaching, not just in Europe’s largest economy but the entire continent.” They go on to explain BASF’s major global impact, saying their, “chemicals are used to make anything from toothpaste to vitamins, from building insulation to nappies. It is one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of ibuprofen for painkillers, and its single largest customer industry is the automobile industry.” At that same Ludwigshafen plant, the company also makes something called AdBlue- a liquid required for heavy goods vehicles to reduce air pollution. According to Marketplace.com, German Lawmaker Hans-Josef Fell has previously noted that BASF “makes the building blocks for a vast quantity and range of products for the global market.” See the domino effect? The Russian-Ukraine conflict created a natural gas crisis which is putting the world’s largest chemical company in risk of shutting down divisions, which would cause product shortages. And finally, one of these shortages could bring European trucking to a halt. According to German law, households, care homes, and hospitals would be spared any drawbacks or cutdowns. Instead, cuts would strike industry which makes up about nearly a third of Germany’s demand. In just the last 18 months, there has been an eight-fold increase in the European benchmark for natural gas prices. It was estimated that the EU would need to reduce natural gas use by 13% this winter to compensate for the lack of Russian gas. This effort would need to come from consumer behavior, primarily. And well, all this volatility was too much for BASF to want to wait out. This past week the company announced that gas prices and regulation was getting a little bit too severe. BASF was forced to downsize and cut costs, “as quickly as possible and also permanently”. Chief executive Martin Brudermüller went on to say that the move is to “safeguard our medium and long-term competitiveness in Germany and Europe” Just a few weeks before this announcement, they pledged to cut costs in non-production areas as well as R&D. It’s not just tinfoil hat wearers that see this as a problem. Brudermüller himself, at BASF, sounded the alarm some time ago that Russian gas embargo would cause Germany into its biggest crisis since World War 2. The mainstream media isn’t reporting on this. No. They’re too worked up over Kanye West’s rants and Elon Musk taking over Twitter. Gas shortages in Europe that could shutter the world’s largest chemical plant? A plant that makes chemicals needed for fertilizer? Just in case you’re wondering, we’re already facing massive droughts and harvest shortfalls globally. Fertilizer is already in short supply. So this isn’t a hiccup in a well-functioning system… it’s a major threat to an already, highly vulnerable supply chain. But who cares? Nancy Pelosi’s husband was having a hammer fight in his underwear with an intruder. 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You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Does Anyone Really Care About Elon Musk and Twitter? I don’t. You would think his takeover of Twitter was the second coming of Jesus Christ - especially to the right wing. But who really cares? Conservatives complain all the time that Twitter is unfair and filled with bots and that follower counts and comments and retweets are all filtered to fit the prevailing “woke” narrative. So, if it’s irrelevant because it's so trash and not as influential as the Twit overlords say, then why does it matter? Something so small can’t have that much of an effect. Besides, even if everyone is legit on Twitter, still who cares? You send out brief, truncated sentences to let out insecurities. That’s all that platform is. People flexing their self loathing and smug, elitist personality disorder onto everyone else. And why is everyone sitting around clapping their hands as Musk plans to “layoff” people. It’s sick. It’s some sort of us v. them mentality. The “King of the Right Wing Dorks” won and now he gets to be mean to the others. Yeah, the top guys, the big boys that were in charge that got kicked out - like the board and the executives - sure, they’re inconvenienced and embarrassed for getting their ass handed to them . But I’m not concerned about them. They're rich, so nothing will really affect them. They’ll get scooped up soon by another big tech firm. I’m talking about all the other people. Why rejoice at the little man losing his job? Oh, and let’s not forget he’s planning on shit-canning a lot of them before Tuesday so he doesn’t have to pay out stock entitlements. That seems about right - a rushed layout of all the people who know what's going on just to save a buck. Now, Musk did deny in a Tweet he was laying people off before November 1 to avoid granting stock, so who knows what’s ture. Did he really never plan on doing that or was the public backlash too much and he realized how bad it sounded? Who knows. We don’t have fair or accurate news media. There’s also reports from the Washington Post that Musk will be laying off about a quarter of Twitter staff. Does anyone know what’s going on? Probably not. But still, just because I don’t trust the news, doesn’t mean I’m going to implicitly trust a billionaire. News flash for everyone. Musk isn’t as genius as everyone thinks. He bought his way into Tesla. He didn’t conceive Tesla out of long hours and hard work. Martin Eberhand and Marc Tarpenning co-founded Tesla in 2003 and then Musk joined on as a first round investor in 2004. He kept investing and increasing his ownership over the course of 9 funding rounds. Eventually he pushed out the original co-founders. That’s right, what made him the man’s richest man was something he ripped away from the original brains. Sure, he carried it past the $1 trillion mark of valuation last year but that’s where it ends. He’s a ruthless businessman. Probably why he is so rich. But I just don’t buy that he is a genius. He also took a dump on Doge coin while on SNL, causing it to tank. Why not screw over your fellow man, right? If they’re poor, then I must be richer. He started Space X by finding a rocket engineer. He’s not a rocket scientist; he’s just using one. Musk goes on and on about how he doesn’t care if someone goes to college and it's not necessary. He virtues signaling to all his bros in the podcast sphere. You know, college is bad, just because Musk says it. But really it’s just bad advice. There’s just one Elon Musk and everyone can’t be him. Kind of like how people say Bill Gates didn’t go to college. Yeah, but are you going to come up with that idea to become a billionaire. College is still the key to the middle class and higher wagers. Sure, college is screwed up right now and overpriced, but telling someone to not go is basically a lie. Most places still require college degrees. Don’t believe it, just go to Tesla’s website. Scroll through the jobs. He has jobs that require a college degrees. Sure some allow for experience in lieu of it, but it has to be equivalent experience and “evidence of exceptional ability”- whatever they determine that is. Sounds like a loophole for a nepotism baby or a daddy with some money to invest in the company. A lot of jobs prefer you to have an advanced education, like a Master's degree or law degree. Even jobs where you aren’t acting as a lawyer prefer that you have a law degree. For example, I have a background in public policy. Looking at his Senior Policy Advisor role I would need a B.A. - check. An advanced degree is preferred. Check, I have a masters. But what would I need to do to skip all that? Well go back to that terminology, of “equivalent experience” or evidence of exceptional ability”. I want to know who defines exceptional ability? Musk's little caveat to say you don’t need a degree is as unrealistic as a standard as it can possibly be. You don’t need a degree, but now you have to fit some mystical, mysterious, “are you enough” standard according to them. Go for it. Scroll down. Even with a degree, the job requires 8 years of direct experience with policy and business development. That’s a lot. Let’s just stick with that. Let’s say that they’re requirement for not having a degree would be that they would accept that minimum 8 years they want you to have with a degree. Let’s just say they would do that. So you graduate. You’re 18 and you immediately get a job, somehow, in policy and business development. You would be 26 before you could suffice to work for Musk. And that’s assuming you could even get a job performing something of that level at 18. You see, when you say you don't need college but it’s still listed in your job descriptions, you value it. And when you act like you’ll consider people without college but set the threshold of even being able to get a job with minimum experience in your late 20s, you ain’t doing !@#$. That’s you saying you don’t have to have college if you go somewhere else, let them train you, let them apprentice you, and rub off the rough edges and make you more professional - then I don't mind coming in and scooping you up. See, it’s fitting that Elon Musk trend of I take from others and turn it into something else. You see, nobody wants a fresh kid out of high school. Why doesn't Musk just take the hit and hire young people and finally prove college isn’t necessary? Ah that ‘s right, he doesn't want to risk leaving his baby, Tesla, with some punk kids who are under-educated? Kind of like you trust your kids with the babysitter but you don’t trust the babysitter with the keys to your car… sure not having a degree doesn't matter, when it’s not your company . It’s always fun hiring someone that some other company invested training into. It’s all part of his grift. Take from others and supercharge it to his benefit. And congratulations. It worked. He’s rich. Just don't tell me he’s a genius. Don’t tell me he is so clever or as some people like to think of him, a “thought leader.: He’s screwed over people before, and screwing over you is nothing to him. Don’t go to college and be at his mercy entirely. Ruthless businessmen love that. How many times have you known someone who got to certain point in their company and then they were told “you can’t go any higher without that piece of paper.” Not convinced. He’s major !@#$. When he took over Twitter this weekend he announced a Twitter blue-check verification that people can buy for $20/month. That’s not the problem. You should probably pay for a service. But the engineers have one week to do this. If it’s not done by November 7, well, failure isn’t really an option. Reportedly, he’s just going to fire the team in charge if they don’t complete it. That sounds like a lose-lose situation. How much do you bet that if they get it done, he will fire them anyway? Good for Musk. Hope he destroys the fascist component of Twitter and makes space for free speech. Stil, though he is just a man,. Not a god like a lot of people on the right treat him. He took Tesla from someone else and received government subsidies for both Tesla and SpaceX. He isn’t a genius. Even at SpaceX, he got a rocket scientist and then founded the company. I bet that guy had a college degree. He’s good at using people. So at the end of the day expect that. If he’ll use your enemies, he’ll use you too for his own good. The bro sphere is not exempt. Let’s not forget, he has 9 kids with several different women. He has no allegiance or fidelity to anyone. And I will always question a man who cannot keep just one woman. What state of arrested development must a man be in to go in and out of marriages and relationships like that with kids involved? And why does he have to have so many children in broken homes? If he was a woman he would be a whore for having 9 kids with three women - trailer park trash. But hey, if you got a dick and some money it’s cool, I guess. Conservative evangelical Christians who love this guy should really think twice about their praise. Maybe he’s your bro but you wouldn’t want him as your son in law. Welcome to America, ruthless businessman, man whore, womanizer, part-time dad, the new hero of the west, and the Monarch of the right-wing Trumpers. 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Thanks for listening to Overnight Opinions, a weekly news roundup on the Ladies Love Politics channel. Here you’ll get current events blended with spicy commentary directed at our elected leaders. It’s late, you’re awake, let’s get started … You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds REFERENCES: https://deadline.com/2022/10/abc-news-producer-fbi-raid-james-gordon-meek-1235149633/ https://news.yahoo.com/james-gordon-meek-star-abc-005819949.html https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/journalist-james-gordon-meek-missing-since-fbi-seized-classified-docs-in-home-raid-report/ Have you heard about the journalist who has been missing for 6 months sending a cryptic Tweet? Meet James Gordon Meek. He is an Emmy Award-winning ABC News journalist. His credits are impressive. He has broken several high-profile national security and terrorism-related stories, as well as produced a Hulu documentary titled “3212 Un-redacted.” He also worked as a senior investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee. So this guy knows what he’s doing. So why did he go missing… well, it seems like he got in deep… too deep. The 52-year-old typed out what would be his last Tweet on April 27 at 4:59 AM. In response to someone else’s esoteric Tweet on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Meeks Tweeted the single word “facts.” That day the FBI conducted a raid at his apartment in Arlington, Virginia. The Department of Justice won’t comment and the FBI only confirmed that it performed “court-authorized law enforcement activity” on that block. They remain steadfast on not commenting “due to an ongoing investigation.” According to Rolling Stone, sources say the FBI raid classified information found on Mr. Meek’s computer. However, we don’t know for sure as the documents remain sealed. But that’s it. No one has heard from him since that last Tweet. Even close associates don’t know where he has gone. ABC News says he abruptly resigned from his position earlier this year. The co-author on his upcoming project hasn't heard from him either, saying, “he contacted me in the spring, and was really distraught, and told me that he had some serious personal issues going on and that he needed to withdraw from the project.” It also seems like Mr. Meek’s name has been removed from promotional materials for the book. One former coworker said that, “he fell off the face of the Earth.” Mr. Meeks’ lawyer has responded to the rumors of classified documents, saying, “Mr. Meek is unaware of what allegations anonymous sources are making about his possession of classified documents. If such documents exist, as claimed, this would be within the scope of Mr. Meek’s long career as an investigative journalist covering government wrongdoing.” He went on to call the leak “highly inappropriate, and illegal, for individuals in the government to leak information about an ongoing investigation.” He has since demanded the Justice Department investigate the leak. But beside that from his lawyer, nothing else. It’s been six months. His neighbors haven’t even seen him since then either. Other witnesses say his apartment is vacant. And Meek’s attorney has not given any information on his whereabouts, job status, or the reason that he left ABC. Investigative journalists who go missing for 6 months after an FBI raid doesn’t sound like something that would happen in the U.S. Whether you want to put on your tinfoil hat or not, something is fishy here. The Biden administration instituted a new policy last year - one that prohibited federal investigators from taking journalists' records without approval from the deputy attorney general. That individual would be Lisa Mocano. So this raid on Meek that the FBI won’t officially confirm, if it did happen - like we all pretty much know it did - means that it came from high up. What did Meeks know? When did he know it? Who would it hurt? How would it embarrass the government? In the past, he exposed the alleged cover-up of a friendly fire death in Iraq. His Hulu documentary exposed a failed mission in Niger. A national security journalist, with a knack for embarrassing the government with his reporting goes missing after an FBI raid… nah, nothing to see here. If you believe that, I bet you’re still wearing a face mask.

You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds Matt Gaetz: - During his last term, he missed 12.3% of votes - making him one of the top 25 members of Congress with the highest absenteeism rate. - He isn’t on any committees. - He introduced 10 bills (rank #356). - Of those 10 bills, 0 were enacted, 0 made it out of committee. - Of those bills, he managed to get a total of 18 sponsors (rank #416). - He co-sponsored on more than 400 bills (404/ rank #192) - And in terms of leadership .09, he ranks #411. - When it comes to an Ideology, he is the 11th most conservative member of congress (.90).

You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds Ayana Pressley: - Missed 1.5% of votes - giving her an above average voting record (#272). - She isn’t on any committees. - She introduced 30 bills ( #115). - Of those 30 bills, 0 were enacted and 0 made it out of committee. - For those bills, she managed to get more than 800 cosponsors (843/rank #54). - She cosponsored nearly 700 bill (659 / rank #62). - Out of 436 members, her leadership score (.75) ranks her at #411. - When it comes to ideology score, she is considered one of the top 10 most liberal members of Congress.

You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds Rashida Talib: During her last term, she missed less than 1% ( .8%) of votes (rank: #326). - She didn’t serve on any committees. - She introduced 27 bills (rank #143). - Of those 27 bills, 1 was enacted and 0 made it out of committee. - Of the bills she introduced, she managed to get nearly 300 cosponsors (284/ rank: #207). - She co-sponsored more than double that amount (664 bills/rank #59). - Out of 436 members, her leadership score (.49) is #223. -When it comes to her ideology score, she is considered one of the top 10 most liberal members of Congress.

You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds Ilhan Omar: - Missed more than 4.4% of votes - she ranks in the top #30 of all of Congress for absenteeism. - She introduced 42 bills - ranking #47 out of all of Congress. - Of those 42 bills, 1 was enacted and 1 made it out of committee. - For those bills, she managed to get a total of 497 cosponsors -that makes her rank at #123 out of all of Congress. - And it’s not like she’s busy with other Congressional work, she isn’t on any committees. - She did sign her John Hancock as a co-sponsor on more than 673 bills - but that still only ranks her as #55 out of all of Congress for the number of bills co-sponsored. - And in terms of leadership (.57), She ranks #179. When it comes to her ideology score, she ranks in the bottom dozen.

You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds AOC: We’re all familiar with the big names in politics… but do they get things done? Are the loudest members of congress the most effective? Or are they more hot air in the game? To find out the answer to these questions, we’re going to look at the records of the most recognizable Representative and Senators from both sides of the aisle. First up - AOC. - Missed .6% of votes - putting her at #351 o all of Congress for absenteeism. - She doesn’t serve on any committees. - She only introduced only 23 bills - ranking #187 out of all of Congress. - Of those 23 bills, 0 bills were enacted, and 0 made it out of committee. - Of those bills, she managed to get a total of 245 cosponsors -that makes her rank at #236 out of all of Congress. - She con-sponsored more the double that amount (528 bills). But that still only ranks her as #115 out of all of Congress for the number of bills co-sponsored. - In terms of leadership, she ranks #229 (.48). - Her ideology score makes her one of the top 10 most liberal members of Congress (#429.)

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Thanks for listening to Overnight Opinions, a weekly news roundup on the Ladies Love Politics channel. Here you’ll get current events blended with spicy commentary directed at our elected leaders. It’s late, you’re awake, let’s get started … You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds REFERENCES: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/05/gas-prices-democrats-midterms-opec-00057239 https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/How-Big-A-Problem-Is-Americas-Shrinking-Oil-Reserve.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/white-house-lobby-opec-oil-production-cuts-gasoline-prices-midterms/index.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article266578691.html https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-notice-sale-additional-crude-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/biden-release-1-mln-barrels-oil-day-ease-pump-prices-2022-03-31/ https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=33&t=6 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0887 https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-strategic-petroleum-reserve https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/10/sen-moran-calls-on-president-biden-to-stop-depleting-strategic-petroleum-reserve-unleash-american-energy https://gasprices.aaa.com https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/donny-two-scoops https://www.axios.com/2022/06/11/gas-prices-5-per-gallon https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/31/fact-sheet-president-bidens-plan-to-respond-to-putins-price-hike-at-the-pump/ https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-issues-fifth-emergency-notice-sale-crude-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-notice-sale-additional-crude-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-contract-awards-crude-oil-sales-strategic-petroleum-reserve-0 https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2022/09/07/the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-is-at-its-lowest-level-since-1984/?sh=22bf810d77c7 https://www.energy.gov/ceser/spr-faqs

A Vermont man secretly lowered fluoride levels in the town's water supply for years. Kendall Chamberlin, Richmond's water and wastewater superintendent was concerned not only about the chemical itself but also the fact that it was sourced from China. Fluoride was first added to the water supply in the U.S. back in the 1940s. In 2015, the federal government lowered fluoride levels after some children were getting white splotches on their teeth. Other communities eliminated fluoride completely. The CDC says fluoridated water decreases tooth decay by 25%. More than 70% of the American population has fluoride in the water. Is Kendall Chamberlin a hero or a villain? Let me know in the comments! You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds

Have you heard about the mass murder the resulted in deaths of 8 people in one family? The Rhoden family was murdered execution style one April night back in 2016. Their murders were spread across several mobile homes and a camper in rural Pike County, Ohio. All eight were shot in the head multiple times - including Christopher Rhoden Sr. was shot 9 times. The crime scene was so gruesome that police initially thought a cartel was responsible for the murders. Three children survived the massacre - including a 5-day old baby that was found covered in blood. Four members of the Wagner family was interviewed about the murders and offered their DNA, cell phones, and computers to police. A short time later the family moved to Alaska. In 2018, the Wagner family was arrested for murdering the Rhodens. But what was their motive? Find out the answer in part 2. You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds

You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds BROAD THINKING: What the !@#$ is Wrong With Kari Lake? What the !@#$ is Wrong With Kari Lake? She’s the Republican running for governor of Arizona. She’s a hypocrite. She’s the one who trashes drag queen story hour yet there’s photos of her at a drag show while wearing a shirt advertising a drag queen. She’s a flip flopper - first a Republican, then a Democrat after Obama clinched the ‘08 nomination, then more recently, back to Republican. She claims to love Trump but was found to have posted a photo of Trump that says “not my president” to Facebook in 2017. It lists ways to protest Trump - including donating to Planned Parenthood. Her caption then asks others how they will be protesting his inauguration. She also goes on non-stop about her love of law enforcement. You know the type. Always parading around the thin blue line flag and praising cops. Everything is woke and Black Lives Matter people are psychos and law and order… yada, yada, yada. But, ther lies her greatest and most recent hypocrisy. Earlier this year it was discovered by the Daily Beast that one of Lake’s campaign staffers once admitted to a murder-for-hire plot against an FBI informant. Kenneth Ulibarri was hired to oversee Latino Engagement but his skill set is better suited for crime than politics. In 2014 he tried to stop an FBI informant from testifying against him for cocaine distribution and money laundering. In his plea agreement he openly admits to it, saying: “In May 2014, I met with a confidential source (CHS1) to discuss selling heroin …” He then says, “I and some others were hiring a hitman to kill another confidential source (CHS2) for $20,000.” He goes on to say that he did this not to kill but “for the purpose of obtaining money.” Like that distinction even matters. Even though he admitted to hiring a hitman, he ended up just pleading guilty to obstruction of justice and heroin distribution. He was sentenced to time served and three years supervised release. Just three years ago, in 2019, he pleaded guilty to a charge of battery against a peace officer, according to court records from the state of New Mexico. Holy !@#$ !@#$! The next time you apply for a job don’t ever feel under qualified - at least you didn’t hire a hitman. But it gets better though. When the Daily Beast called the number on the man’s ID badge, he answered. He spoke only in Spanish but confirmed that he was in fact Kenneth. He said he didn’t speak English well and got off the phone. That’s untrue though. He spoke at one of her rallies in fluent English. Why all the lying? Why all the cover up? The campaign hasn’t said whether they knew about his past but it looks bad anyway you look at it. They knew and hired him anyway which his reckless, stupid, and psychopathic, or the didn’t know which is a massive sign of incompetence and arrogance. Now, Ulibarri first appeared on Lake’s campaign finance filing last Fall. The campaign has since changed how they do their accounting so that names of employees are no longer listed on filings. However, he has been to multiple events on the campaign trail with her, spoken at events praising her, and appeared at a roundtable event, according to Instagram photos. To be that involved and public you’d think he would have some impressive title, right? No. Here’s the moment of levity in all of this. The $2,000 paid to Ulibarri last fall was sent to an address where he is listed as the statutory agent for - get this - a natural hair services business. Okay… Why are former murder for hire, coke distributors, and money launderers working for Kari Lake? Why is someone so involved with her campaign listed as natural hair services? Is she trying to cover up his involvement or shield the public from something or is she really just wasting donations from hard working Americans on hair care? I got my hair cut recently for $25! What is she doing, putting highlights in it made with real gold? Remember when disgraced and adulterous Senator John Edwards was running for president in 2008? News broke that he spent $400 on a haircut. What is it with politicians and hair? They always look like they put a mop on their head but somehow always pay too much. This lady spent her life in local news. She was an evening anchor in Phoenix for years before jumping on the MAGA train. She spent her life reading a teleprompter - only saying what others tell her to. This inability to think for oneself and also be incredibly vain about something as frivolous as hair is clearly a pattern of character for her. Now, some Americans think she has what it takes to lead an entire state. Please, Arizona you failed us once with Senator John McCain - don’t do it again with an even whackier, hypocritical, flip flopping, incompetent, superficial, ego obsessed local news. America needs better. REFERENCES: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/kari-lake-staffer-once-pleaded-guilty-murder-for-hire-against-fbi-informant https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/04/what-kind-of-haircut-did-john-edwards-get-for-400.html https://thehill.com/homenews/3567212-kari-lake-posted-anti-trump-meme-days-before-17-inauguration-fox-news/ https://www.salon.com/2022/02/25/candidate-says-back-the-blue--but-campaigns-with-felon-plotted-to-an-fbi-informant/

Edward “Jake” Wagner began dating Hana Rhoden when he was 18 and she was just 13. At 16, she gave birth to his daughter. A bitter feud began after she refused to share custody. The Wagner family set out on a diabolical plot to murder the Rhodens to gain custody of the girl They forged custody papers, bought ammo, silencers, and cell phone jammers. On the night of April 21they murdered the Rhodens. During their plotting, Jake’s mother Angela obtained Facebook messages sent by Hana - one which cryptically read "(I'll) never sign papers ever. They will have to kill me first.” Jake and his mother Angela have pled guilty to the eight murders as well as more than a dozen other charges related to the murders. As part Jake’s deal no one in his family will get the death penalty. The trial of his 31 year old brother George is ongoing. His father will stand trial at a later date. This is the biggest and most expensive homicide case in Ohio’s history. You can check out the Ladies Love Politics blog and read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Background Music Credit: Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds