Willie, vielen Dank für die Übersetzung!
Sehr lieb von Dir. Und du hattest Recht, ein sehr guter Artikel!

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4449

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How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood
From boasting about the size of his penis on national television to releasing records of his high testosterone levels, President Trump’s rhetoric and behavior exude machismo. His behavior also seems to have struck a chord with some male voters. See, for example, the “Donald Trump: Finally Someone With Balls” T-shirts common at Trump rallies.

But our research suggests that Trump is not necessarily attracting male supporters who are as confidently masculine as the president presents himself to be. Instead, Trump appears to appeal more to men who are secretly insecure about their manhood. We call this the “fragile masculinity hypothesis.” Here is some of our evidence.

What is ‘fragile masculinity’?
Research shows that many men feel pressure to look and behave in stereotypically masculine ways — or risk losing their status as “real men.” Masculine expectations are socialized from early childhood and can motivate men to embrace traditional male behaviors while avoiding even the hint of femininity. This unforgiving standard of maleness makes some men worry that they’re falling short. These men are said to experience “fragile masculinity.” ....

How fragile masculinity was related to voting behavior
... The political process provides a way that fragile men can reaffirm their masculinity. By supporting tough politicians and policies, men can reassure others (and themselves) of their own manliness. For example, sociologist Robb Willer has shown that men whose sense of masculinity was threatened increased their support for aggressive foreign policy.

We found that support for Trump in the 2016 election was higher in areas that had more searches for topics such as “erectile dysfunction.” Moreover, this relationship persisted after accounting for demographic attributes in media markets, such as education levels and racial composition, as well as searches for topics unrelated to fragile masculinity, such as “breast augmentation” and “menopause.”
In contrast, fragile masculinity was not associated with support for Mitt Romney in 2012 or support for John McCain in 2008 — suggesting that the correlation of fragile masculinity and voting in presidential elections was distinctively stronger in 2016.
The same finding emerged in 2018. We estimated levels of fragile masculinity in every U.S. congressional district based on levels in the media markets with which districts overlap. ....

...Notably, fragile masculinity was unrelated to support for female candidates in the 2018 elections, once we accounted for the fact that female candidates are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans. It therefore appears that fragile masculinity doesn’t reduce support for female candidates but rather increases support for Republican candidates of any gender. ...

... it remains to be seen whether any link between fragile masculinity and voting will persist after Trump exits the national stage. We suspect, however, that Trump’s re-engineering of the GOP as a party inextricably tied to many Americans’ identity concerns — whether based on race, religion or gender — will ensure that fragile masculinity remains a force in politics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monk...m=.b2a5a6136732

Das deckt sich auch mit meinen eigenen Beobachtungen innerhalb meines Gesichtskreises.

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #4452

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Hillbillies, losers, erectile dysfunctions, small penises - Lection number one: How to denigrate dissenters? It could be from Saul Alinsky...
https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeld...ASAAEgJrP_D_BwE

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4443

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Farm bankruptcies surpass Great Recession levels in upper Midwest
An analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis found that 84 farm operations in the upper Midwest filed for Chapter 12 bankruptcy from June 2017 to June 2018.

Why it matters: The number of bankruptcies filed by these farm operations is double the total from 2014 and even surpassed the mark hit in 2010 at the peak of the Great Recession. Current price levels and trends suggest the number will continue to rise, according to the report.
https://www.axios.com/trump-trade-war-fa...cd4a48707e.html

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A little insight about the "Reichswing's Dear Leader" and self proclaimed "stable genius" in the White House:

Caroline Orr‏@RVAwonk
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) just said on @CNN that he spoke to Trump last night about the GM plants closing in Ohio, and that Trump didn't even know that the GOP tax bill he signed (& touts frequently) offers an incentive for US manufacturers to move their plants overseas.
4:26 AM - 29 Nov 2018

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4453

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The issue is not about any dissenters, but VOTERS. About People who voted for Trumpsky and his party. And why they did. A reasoning with facts and applied logic.
Here now the poor sods in Eastern Kentucky:

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Cohen’s guilty plea could be the ‘beginning of the end of the Trump presidency’
Impeachment is now a real possibility "even if the Democrats don't want to do it," per a former high-ranking Obama official.

“I think it’s huge,” Kayal told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “The facts aren’t all in, but I think we very well could look back on this day, November 29th, 2018, as the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.”
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-r...n-227e4d3d2d07/

Ich hoffe doch, dass sich das noch bis 2020 hinzieht. Fuer maximalen Effekt.

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #4456

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4453

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The issue is not about any dissenters, but VOTERS. About People who voted for Trumpsky and his party. And why they did. A reasoning with facts and applied logic.
Here now the poor sods in Eastern Kentucky:

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Willie, wie viele Bürger haben Trump gewählt? Ich meine so um die 65 Millionen. Darunter viele Frauen. Ich sage dir, dass Beste, was sich Trump wünschen kann, sind solche Artikel. Wenn ich sein Berater wäre, würde ich ihm raten, dass auf seinen "rallies" auszuschlachten, um aus 70%igen 90%ige Anhänger zu machen.

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Mia Love pans Trump and GOP for making women and minorities feel unwelcome
Having lost her reelection bid, Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, is unloading on the Republican Party and its leader, chiding President Trump for alienating women and minorities and warning that an ingrained tone deafness is dragging down the GOP.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...es-feel-welcome


GOP governors call out Trump after midterm drubbing
Republican governors say the president and the party has to find a way to appeal beyond a narrowing conservative base to avoid losing in 2020.

Republican governors are warning President Donald Trump that he and the GOP need to make a sharp course correction after their midterm shellacking to avoid losing again in 2020.
While the president has hailed the election as a “tremendous success” and a “big victory,” Republican governors, who will play a central role in overseeing the GOP’s state-by-state 2020 machinery, are taking stock of the party’s poor performance in the November elections and drawing up plans for major fixes.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/3...ors-rga-1034609

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4458

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #4456

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4453

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The issue is not about any dissenters, but VOTERS. About People who voted for Trumpsky and his party. And why they did. A reasoning with facts and applied logic.
Here now the poor sods in Eastern Kentucky:

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Willie, wie viele Bürger haben Trump gewählt? Ich meine so um die 65 Millionen. Darunter viele Frauen. Ich sage dir, dass Beste, was sich Trump wünschen kann, sind solche Artikel. Wenn ich sein Berater wäre, würde ich ihm raten, dass auf seinen "rallies" auszuschlachten, um aus 70%igen 90%ige Anhänger zu machen.

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Manche fallen so schnell dass sie glauben zu fliegen.

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...d56&oe=5C7365BF

Trump Is Losing His Influence
The president can no longer count on his party’s support. That suggests dangerous times ahead.

With the midterms over, and no reason to think that Trump still has some kind of unusual hold on voters, Republicans would suddenly find themselves with far weaker incentives to go along with him.
I’m not predicting anything. Just noting some obvious facts. The incentives for supporting Trump that have held since his election have suddenly become a lot weaker. In mid-July of 1974, President Richard Nixon could still count on virtually every conservative Republican in Congress to oppose his impeachment and removal, even if they weren’t exactly thrilled with him. By early August, he had only a handful of supporters remaining. That’s not to say that Trump’s support will necessarily evaporate — just that if it does, it could happen extremely quickly, perhaps in days. And nice, reliable, normal Mike Pence will be sitting right there.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articl...g-his-influence

Wobei ich hoffe -ich betone das nochmals- ich hoffe dass es nicht so kommt, sondern dass die Reichswinger noch bis Nov 2020 zu ihm halten und der das alles bis dahin irgendwie durchhaelt - "by hook or by crook". Denn dann wird der Effekt maximal sein. Die totale Zerstoerung der GOP naemlich. Um die geht es.

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...b29&oe=5CB153CE

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Gefunden:

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...374&oe=5C6DA805

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #4460

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4458

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #4456

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4453

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The issue is not about any dissenters, but VOTERS. About People who voted for Trumpsky and his party. And why they did. A reasoning with facts and applied logic.
Here now the poor sods in Eastern Kentucky:

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Willie, wie viele Bürger haben Trump gewählt? Ich meine so um die 65 Millionen. Darunter viele Frauen. Ich sage dir, dass Beste, was sich Trump wünschen kann, sind solche Artikel. Wenn ich sein Berater wäre, würde ich ihm raten, dass auf seinen "rallies" auszuschlachten, um aus 70%igen 90%ige Anhänger zu machen.

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Manche fallen so schnell dass sie glauben zu fliegen.

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...d56&oe=5C7365BF

Trump Is Losing His Influence
The president can no longer count on his party’s support. That suggests dangerous times ahead.

With the midterms over, and no reason to think that Trump still has some kind of unusual hold on voters, Republicans would suddenly find themselves with far weaker incentives to go along with him.
I’m not predicting anything. Just noting some obvious facts. The incentives for supporting Trump that have held since his election have suddenly become a lot weaker. In mid-July of 1974, President Richard Nixon could still count on virtually every conservative Republican in Congress to oppose his impeachment and removal, even if they weren’t exactly thrilled with him. By early August, he had only a handful of supporters remaining. That’s not to say that Trump’s support will necessarily evaporate — just that if it does, it could happen extremely quickly, perhaps in days. And nice, reliable, normal Mike Pence will be sitting right there.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articl...g-his-influence

Wobei ich hoffe -ich betone das nochmals- ich hoffe dass es nicht so kommt, sondern dass die Reichswinger noch bis Nov 2020 zu ihm halten und der das alles bis dahin irgendwie durchhaelt - "by hook or by crook". Denn dann wird der Effekt maximal sein. Die totale Zerstoerung der GOP naemlich. Um die geht es.

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...b29&oe=5CB153CE

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1990 freuten sich die italienischen Christdemokraten über die Implosion der UdSSR und damit das Ende der Bedrohung durch den PCI, die kommunistische Partei Italiens. Zwei Jahre später begann die Aktion "mani pulite" (saubere Hände) und drei Jahre später war die Democrazia Cristiana Geschichte. Wenn die GOP total zerstört sein wird, was glaubst du, wird mit der TNP (Tiny New Party) passieren?

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CNN’s Legal Analyst: Trump Might Not Finish His First Term
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Friday morning he has thought for the first time since President Donald Trump took office that he might not last through his first term, after new revelations from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation emerged this week.

“Today’s the first day I actually thought Donald Trump might not finish his term in office,” Toobin told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I think this thing is enormous.”
Toobin said Trump’s explanations for issues surrounding his knowledge of various campaign officials’ contacts with Russia are “preposterous”.
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectu...i9UsWYtLFtRhmGk

“Today’s the first day I actually thought Donald Trump might not finish his term in office." — Jeffrey Toobin

Ich hoffe dass er sich irrt. Und dass dieses Drama ueber die naechsten zwei Jahre noch so weitergeht. Damit es sich auch lohnt.

Und wieder einen riesen Erfolg für Trump:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...ogress-on-trade

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4464

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Und wieder einen riesen Erfolg für Trump:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...ogress-on-trade

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G-20 agrees on trade, migration, US goes own way on climate
Leaders of the world’s top economies agreed Saturday to repair the global trading system as they closed a Group of 20 summit that saw the Trump administration at odds with many allies over the Paris accord on climate change and issues like migration.

The joint statement signed by all 20 member nations said 19 of them reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris climate accord, with the United States, which withdrew from the pact under President Donald Trump, the lone holdout. The official communique acknowledged flaws in global commerce and called for reforming the World Trade Organization, but it didn’t mention the word “protectionism” after negotiators said that had met resistance from the United States.

The non-binding agreement was reached after marathon talks by diplomats stretched overnight and into daylight, amid deep divisions between member nations. European Union officials said the United States was the main holdout on nearly every issue. Trump has criticized the WTO and taken aggressive trade policies targeting China and the EU. ....

On migration, European officials said the U.S. negotiator said too much talk about it would have been a “deal-breaker” for Trump. So they came up with “minimalist” language that acknowledges growing migrant flows and the importance of shared efforts to support refugees and solve the problems that drive them to flee.

The statement also shows a commitment to a “rules-based international order,” despite Trump’s rejection of many of those rules. ...

With trade tensions between the U.S and China dominating the summit, the Europeans sought to play mediator and also scaled back their expectations, cutting out mention of rising protectionism — mainly aimed at Trump.
French President Emmanuel Macron called it a victory that the U.S. signed on to the statement at all, given the tensions going into the talks.

Thomas Bernes of the Canada-based Centre for International Governance Innovation, who has held leading roles with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Canadian government, said the G-20 had “veered all over the road” at the summit and failed to truly fix trade. The U.S. was out of step on migration and climate change and blocked meaningful agreement on those issues, he added.
“Instead, leaders buried their differences in obscure language and dropped language to fight protectionism, which had been included in every G-20 communique since the leaders’ first summit,” he said. “This is clearly a retrograde step forced by United States intransigence.”
https://apnews.com/52b7d9d8138f4763a1e24...poAuIMlQ69Kc_QU

That's what being a gigantic asshole looks like. Gutes wird daraus nicht kommen.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dtaw3BBWkAA3psw.jpg

Israeli Police Recommend Netanyahu Be Charged With Bribery In Telecom Case
Police said they’d uncovered enough evidence to charge the prime minister and his wife with bribery and fraud.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/net...4b0606a15b6349f

Ich hatte ja schon frueher die Frage gestellt, wer von den beiden wohl zuerst in den Knast geht. Es sieht jetzt so aus als seien wir der Antwort ein Stueck naeher gekommen.:-)

Republicans Increasingly Believe That Education Is Bad For America
In July, a Pew Research Center study found that 58 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents believe colleges and universities have a negative effect “on the way things are going in the country"....
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectu...sEuxfZ6Uu7Sz_g/

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...70e&oe=5C66AF8B

Es gibt Neuigkeiten: Roger Stone will take the Fifth. (Reference to the 5th Amendment -protection against self incrimination.). Er wird also die Aussage verweigern.

Dies hatte sein Buddy Trumpsky damals noch im Wahlkampf zu dem Thema zu sagen:

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...205&oe=5CB0BDBF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR0bIxwA...tDQp6P9klrYNxEY

http://m.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehm...-a-1241986.html


VW Chef leckt Trump den Bauchnabel von innen.

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2018-12/h...sa-donald-trump


Wo er recht hat, hat er recht.

Zitat von Nadine im Beitrag #4472

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https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2018-12/handelsstreit-china-usa-donald-trump

Wo er recht hat, hat er recht.

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US trade deficit rises despite Trump's tariffs
President Donald Trump's tariffs were supposed to shrink America's trade deficit, but it has instead grown for five straight months and is on track to hit a record high before the end of the year.

The monthly goods deficit grew by $1 billion in October, according to a US Census report released Wednesday.
The Census report is one of the first measures of trade released since Trump imposed his biggest round of tariffs in September on $200 billion of Chinese goods. It put a 10% tax on goods ranging from luggage to bikes and baseball gloves. Trump has threatened to increase the rate to 25% on January 1.
The duties make it more expensive for US importers to buy those items, but Americans bought more goods from abroad in October than they did the month before.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/28/economy/t...UP1UFpnpresSnVI

You Don’t Understand Tariffs, Man
Trump blinked on trade with China — and it was the right thing to do. Just ask the markets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/opini...a-trade-xi.html