Pacing and Leading: Pacing refers to matching your subject in some way, either physically, verbally, or in terms of philosophy. Candidate Trump paced (matched) his base on immigration until he got elected. Now the base trusts that he is philosophically aligned with them. So if he finds he can’t do all the things they demand, they are likely to let him lead to whatever is practical and doable simply because they trust him on the topic.
People don’t expect a politician to be magic, or to do the impossible. But they do want politicians to “get” them and to care about them and to fight for what they want. President Trump paced his supporters by understanding their needs and fighting for them. That group is likely to trust him when he says some form of “This is the best we can do for now.”sounds about right.
The anti Trump Rep establishment is in a hissy fit that he dared to talk to Democrats, and the Democrats are spinning it as a win for them, but ironically the rabid Freepers trust him, figuring if he screens immigrants already here and then permits the law abiding dreamers stay, but builds a wall to stop the unregulated flow of undocumented, uneducated, unscreened and sometimes criminal types, it's okay with them.
Don Sturber's take says the same thing.
Remember: the backstory is that a lot of greedy businesses want to hire illegals so they can underpay them, not pay their taxes/social security, and fire them if they complain.
So it's not just about illegals stealing jobs from Americans, but about treating one's employees justly. And that used to be a Democratic party policy.
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Pride and Prejudice podcast from NatReview.
Sorry, guys, but although Ruby loves Jane Austen, I don't: Because I don't exactly sympathize with her heroines.
Part of this is because my ancestors would have been the faceless servants cleaning and cooking for her poor "middle class" family back then.
Notice she never bothers to even notice the help in her novels?
As for marriage: well fine, but I tended to identify with independent women. Yes, they were even around back then.
No, I think Mary Wollstonecraft was a hypocrite (read about how she groveled and did thing for the guy who made her pregnant and then left her...) but there were real independent women back then. Like Florence Nightingale and/or Sister Blandina...
I prefer Jane Eyre, who worked for a living... and when she found Rochester was lying to her, refused him and ran off and managed to survive (this part is usually glossed over, but she almost died before she was rescued by a family of a clergyman)...then she got another job teaching instead of groveling and feeling sorry about herself.
Of course, she ended up marrying Rochester, but on her own terms.
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the dirty little secret of the birth control pill: Women often forget to take it.
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| Percentages are based on women who used oral contraceptive pills in the past 4 weeks and had sexual intercourse in the past 12 months, who were asked the question “Still thinking about the past 4 weeks, how many pills that you were supposed to take did you miss? Would you say you never missed a pill, missed only one pill, or missed two or more pills?” |
of course, a lot of this is they "forgot" to take it: i.e. they really knowingly or subconsciously desired to get pregnant.
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A lot of kids "want" to be the other sex... or to be a Disney princesses, My Little Pony, Darth Vader, etc.
No one got their knickers in a knot when the Famous five had a character named George, for example. It was seen as part of growing up.
Most of these kids, even those whose desires are not transient, change their mind (hormones often have a part in this) but only an expert psychiatrist who has worked with people with this problem dares to say: here are the facts.
And of course, tart tongued social critic Camille Paglia also dares to question the meme.
The PC meme right now is that even Very very young children who say they want to be the opposite sex must be applauded and immediately transitioned (which essentially is pressuring them not to change their mind for what in most is a transient phase).
I suspect a lot of the activism here is not really to help these kids as to push the idea on an unwilling society that there is no such thing as biological gender: gender is merely a social construct. This is part of a very of the militant gender ideology that has little hard data to support it, of course, but never mind.
In psychiatry, we know a small number of adults can have this problem, and for some it is deep and genuine.
If you study anthropology, or live in other cultures, you know that a small number of men decide they want to follow the female role model after they hit puberty, and (like here in the Philippines, where they are just seen as part of society and accepted), a lot of third world societies have various ways to accommodate what we in the Philippines call the "third gender".
but often one wonders when a grown married man in western cultures, often one who has married and has children and who managed for years to fit in, suddenly decides they were actually a woman. And then expects/pressures his spouse and kids to go along with it (hmm... sounds a lot like "male privilege to me).
In the past, you might get criticized for such things, and decide to hold off and suffer silently. But now with the "transgender" craze of the elite opinion makers, even a convicted traitor can be celebrated for his "honesty" by them (and get a "get out of jail free" card from the president, just ignore those who died from his treachery).
As for Brucy: Wonder how many hospitals could I build in Africa for 4 million dollars?
This is not the same as for women, because, hey, being a man has so many advantages I am surprised more women don't cross dress....
But when you hear about 2 year olds or 5 year old kids, whose "desires" are celebrated by their pushy parents, usually a mom, who then gets into the newspapers for her two minutes of fame: I wonder how many cases are Munchhausen by proxy syndrome?
and no: I have no problem if a transgender type who has been "fixed" uses the lady's bathroom. The problem being ignored by the PC is that perverts who are fully equipped could use this excuse for getting inside and doing their thing.
Whoops: Now should I worry that the speech police will get Google to erase my blog as a purveyor of hate speech.
Brendan O'Neil call your office...
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in other celebrity news, Selena Gomez, who has Lupus, just got a kidney transplant... donated by one of her friends.
and LadyGaga has fibromyalgia.
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