Links: Latino women for Trump, and the Olympics as a super-spreader event

Links: Latino women for Trump, and the Olympics as a super-spreader event 

1. American Hispanic conservative women fell for the lies that Trump was a successful businessman and that he would do something to ban abortion as any other conservative voter. Only the imminent ruin of Trump will pop the first bubble. Only strong action to improve the lives of families sold as a pro-life issue will pop the second (especially if the Republicans oppose it).

5. Survey research is generally valid. It is the analysis which is slanted. For example, any analysis that assumes that Roe could be overturned or that popular opinion matters on this issue is delusional (or worse, fraud).

2. Until judgements come out of police department pension funds, black men driving will have targets on their uniforms.

3. Tokyo will be a super-spreader because there will be so many available vectors for transmission - and because young people are now getting sick when they were not before. 

9. The Arab Spring shows why Google Billionaires are undertaxed. Revolutions must be organic and come from a competing faction of the middle class, not public relations events designed to stir up the peasants. The same logic applies to China and the Winter Games.

4A. Words have meanings. Bipartisanship is about legislators, not voters. Republican voting reform is Jim Crow 2.0. Infrastructure really is just physical capital - and it should be funded by gas taxes. Human capital investment should be funded by taxes on employers. What you call it affects how you fund it. Aid to state and local governments should have been sold as disaster relief - and disaster relief should be funded with no-year appropriations. 

4B. No one cares about the terms fake news and cancel culture - they will always be considered propaganda (a term originally coined by the Roman Inquisition, who thought it was a good thing). If the Supreme Court calls money political speech then that is what it is. Until the Democrats adopt reforms for their primary process - putting incumbents at risk - there will be no change. The word extremists simply links White racism to Goldwater - who would have shot at the insurrectionists. 

6. For every discussion on transgender rights shut down by the left there are five that are shut down by the Catholic Church. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Again, rights are not subject to opinion - even and especially the opinions of asexual clergy who are closeted to themselves. Being asexual is even less common than being trans, but both are on the LGBTQIA spectrum. 

8. A mega-church rectory should be called a chancery. The politics in each are not that different.

10. The theology on Saint Joseph is horribly flawed. Any narrative that holds him up as an asexual icon is not worth the bandwidth.

7. The AP guide already deals with how the Roman Catholic Church is capitalized. Animals are they/thems, not its. Dogs are guardian angels in disguise. Not so sure about cats.