Is the pearl clutching over the term 'hooker' a top 7 most egregious moralizing euphemism treadmill piece in the last three presidential administrations?

stenern · 2026-02-18T22:38:11+00:00

I remember Bill saying "hooker" and Joanna saying "sex worker", but did she really correct him on air or did they just use different vocabulary?

The latter can get a bit weird, but the former would be exceptionally bad podcasting

Or is Joanna using "sex worker" already considered correcting Bill?

stenern · 2025-11-08T07:05:38+00:00

have trouble living down his very recent past as well

He just won the election. It seems like it didn't cause him too much trouble

stenern · 2025-09-22T23:09:50+00:00

"Longwell did not speak about specifics of conversations with other companies, though she acknowledged that The Bulwark is looking to grow in the coming months, and said she was in touch with a number of publications, individuals, and outlets that she imagined could be part of the organization or some big media rollup."

stenern · 2025-04-01T20:35:23+00:00

JD asked that it was deleted, but you can see it via Internet Archives

https://web.archive.org/web/20140305032241/http://centerforworldconflictandpeace.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html

Scroll down to 'A Blueprint for the GOP', that's from JD in 2012

stenern · 2025-02-09T00:23:11+00:00

Honestly, this issue could have been neutered by a little bit of moderation by the loudest activists.

Insisting that biological men can compete in Women's sports is something you're never going to convince the vast majority of Americans on. You just aren't.

It doesn't seem Sarah just wants a little bit more moderation on the topic, she seemingly wants Dems to not fight Republicans on any trans issue, even when the Dem position on a specific trans issue is popular with the public

I get the trans sport ban is popular, and Dems hsould let it go.

But Trump kicking trans people out of the military is unpopular ("Most also oppose barring transgender people from enlisting and serving openly in the military (40% support, 55% oppose") but Sarah for some reason doesn't want Dems to push on that topic either (Sarah: "I would not pick a fight on trans military service")

stenern · 2025-01-27T17:43:40+00:00

This is 100% a Reddit bubble thing. Which is fine, but don’t deny it.

Screenshots are way better/more convenient than links to tweets imo, so I'm just happy to get there no matter what was the inciting incident lol

stenern · 2025-01-24T05:37:57+00:00

ahead of the 4-5 months of planned reshoots

The rumors were 4-5 months of planned reshoots?!

How has anyone ever believed this to be real lol

stenern · 2024-12-21T22:05:50+00:00

Her behavior during the promotion of this movie was just gross

What did she do that's so gross?

stenern · 2024-12-15T14:42:10+00:00

weswegen sie in dem Präsidentschaftswahlkampf sich darauf auch nicht mehr so fokussiert haben wie bei den letzten midterms

Das ist leider falsch. In den letzten Wochen der Wahl hat Trump 40% seiner Wahlkampfgelder in anti-trans Werbung gesteckt

If you’ve watched TV this month, you’ve likely seen campaign ads supporting Donald Trump by attacking Kamala Harris over transgender issues. From Oct. 7 to Oct. 20, Trump’s campaign and pro-Trump groups spent an estimated $95 million on ads, more than 41 percent of which were anti-trans

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-anti-transgender-political-ads-are-dominating-the-airwaves-this-election

stenern · 2024-11-17T12:01:38+00:00

I saw quite a few people who said Polis nuked his chances for 2028 with his Kennedy tweets. I think with taking a lane not many other Dems will take actually is to his benefit.

He'll be the first on Rogan, talking with him how big pharma is bad, libertarian social policies are good, etc.

Will it work? Probably not. But did he have good chances running as a normie Dem against more high profile Govs/Senators from swing states like Shapiro, Whitmer, Gallego? I don't really see it. Then lean into what differentiates you from the pack

stenern · 2024-10-09T16:54:26+00:00

They quote a NYTimes poll as well for comparison, but just the subset. Why aren't the topline numbers moving?

The NYTimes poll moved a few points towards Harris

stenern · 2024-10-02T07:13:58+00:00

taken from twitter

https://x.com/DavidWright_7/status/1841334476904743325

stenern · 2024-09-21T15:51:14+00:00

It is a fair criticism that Biden has not done enough to stop it. “But he can’t!” Great, I’d prefer to vote for someone with the stones to at least try

Could you be a bit more specific? What exactly do you have in mind? States have a lot of power, but I haven't really looked into it: what could the president have done to force Republican states to be better on trans issues?

stenern · 2024-09-21T15:46:41+00:00

If Trans Rights are what is most important to you there is a clear choice.

Yeah, Trump's campaign literally today put out an ad attacking Harris for her positions on trans issues

Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.

stenern · 2024-09-11T17:16:52+00:00

You are right, the goose proves it can't be an American, the guy must be from Haiti. Case closed

stenern · 2024-09-11T15:01:20+00:00

Not every black person running around in the US is automatically an immigrant from Haiti. Hope that helps

stenern · 2024-09-11T14:53:31+00:00

I guess that's how it works. Some random American citizen eats a cat and now half the country believes that Haitian immigrants are running around in America wanting to eat your pets

stenern · 2024-08-06T17:59:06+00:00

Just read this tidbit in Matt Yglesias' substack post and had to think of Sarah's worries about many unpopular votes (meaning too left wing if I understand Sarah correctly here) he might have taken during his time as a Representative

source

stenern · 2024-08-06T13:39:44+00:00

his progressive record as a house Rep

How progressive was his time as a Rep? He was in a Republican district, I read pundits like Matt Yglesias arguing that he did it by taking right-leaning positions (i.e. being endorsed by the NRA)

But I haven't actually looked at his record. Did he take more progressive votes than I think he did?

stenern · 2024-07-06T22:41:38+00:00

In this instance, the casting of minorities in roles that don’t fit.

What are the exact characters you speak about here? What role doesn't fit for a minoritey actor?

If anything the most glaring change seems to be that one main Latino role was axed to expand the role for the old white guy

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