Has Feminism And ‘Hoeflation’ Destroyed Dating In The West?

Via ZeroHedge

It’s a problem in the western world that is rarely discussed in the media beyond puff-piece articles and glancing polls that avoid connecting the dots.   The precipitous decline of dating, committed relationships and marriage along with a flatline in population in the past couple decades in the US is treated as a novelty issue rather than the threat to the stability of civilization that it actually is.  History shows that without the traditional family structure, numerous ugly societal consequences follow.

One could argue, though, that the situation is far worse than that.  We may be heading into a future where families become a novelty, and many argue that the root cause is feminism and the hyperinflated delusions of progressive women.

In order to understand the problem we have to look at the stats. 

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US vs. THEM (PART II)

In Part I of this article I discussed why the “Us versus Them” mindset permeates society and how Trump has become a lightning rod for hate. Now I will assess his progress in fighting the Deep State and try to peer into a murky future.

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In addition to not being Hillary, the main reasons I voted for Trump was he promised to build the wall, he promised to repeal and replace Obamacare, he promised to end our foreign military interventions, he said he would bring fiscal sanity to the budget, he said the Federal Reserve had blown an immense stock market bubble, he questioned the fake economic data spouted by government drones, and he called out the fake news bullshit media. When I regularly assess his progress on these issues, the standard response from Trump acolytes is “Would you rather have Hillary?”. No, I would not. But that doesn’t get Trump off the hook for his failures in my book.

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YOU’D HAVE TO PAY ME TO LISTEN TO THESE WHORES FOR THE CORPORATE FASCIST STATES OF AMERICA

Who the fuck would pay Chelsea Clinton to speak about anything? I’ve never seen a bigger list of toadies, morons, sycophants, douchebags, and money whores, selling their influence to the highest bidder. Most of these fees are payoffs for a job well done supporting the Deep State corporatocracy.

Bernanke and Geithner are reaping the windfall from enriching the Wall Street criminal banks. Gore flies around the world in his private Lear jet, living in a 50 room mansion, expounding on the evils of global warming. I can’t think of a better list being lined up against a wall before a firing squad or hanging from the gallows.

Only one person on the list is not a politician or banker. What does that tell you?

How many people in the world have been killed or impoverished through the direct actions of the people on this list?

Infographic: Washington's Most Expensive Speakers | Statista

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After finishing a lengthy stint in office, many American politicans make money through speaking engagements. For more prominent public figures, these can prove highly lucrative, according to research conducted by ABC News. Take Donald Trump for example. The billionaire earned an incredible $1.5 million for each of his 17 speeches at The Learning Annex’s “real estate wealth expos” in 2006 and 2007 – he was contracted to speak for just one hour! Ben Bernanke makes up to $400,000 per speaking engagement while Bill or Hillary Clinton could cost $200,000.


REVOLVING DOOR OF GOVERNMENT WHORES

Via Open Secrets

Former employees of federal agencies can often find good (and lucrative) jobs as lobbyists, capitalizing on the connections that they forged while in public service. An Environmental Protection Agency administrator may go on to lobby his former colleagues on environmental issues, and a White House staffer can tap her West Wing connections when she starts a new job on K Street. The White House is traditionally the executive branch’s largest supplier of fresh lobbyists; the office of the president employs a large team of staffers of varying seniority. But public servants switching to careers as lobbyists (and back again) come from agencies as varied as the Department of Defense, NASA and the Smithsonian Institution. Agency employees strolling through the revolving door include those as powerful—and well connected—as secretaries of state and as far from Washington as Peace Corps volunteers. The agencies shown here have employed the greatest number of former lobbyists—or sent the greatest number of former employees to lobbying firms and interest groups.

Agency Number of revolving door people profiled
Dept of Commerce 1736
Dept of Defense 1688
Dept of State 1452
Dept of Health & Human Services 1225
White House 1216
Dept of Agriculture 1112
Dept of Army 1080
US House of Representatives 876
Dept of Justice 864
Dept of Energy 840
Dept of Transportation 750
Dept of Interior 700
Dept of Labor 555
Dept of Housing & Urban Development 530
Dept of Homeland Security 520
Dept of the Treasury 444
Dept of Navy 428
Dept of Education 412
Dept of Air Force 312
US Senate 256

BIGGEST CASH HOARDERS ON EARTH

Below you will find the U.S. mega-corporations who outsourced American jobs to Far East slave labor facilities where they could maximize their profits. That’s what mega-corporations do – maximize short term profits no matter the long-term consequences. That is all well and good. When these mega-corporations made these decisions, they knew the tax implications of repatriating those foreign earnings back to the U.S. – a 35% tax rate.

These fuckers can’t have it both ways. They gutted our manufacturing base and shipped it to the Far East, making hundreds of billions in the process. Their brilliant Ivy League educated MBA CEOs paid themselves hundreds of millions for a job well done. They knew the downside, but now they want their captured politician puppets in Congress to give them a tax break if they are kind enough to repatriate those hundreds of billions. They will use the cash to buy back their stock and pay their executives bonuses for successfully buying off Congress again. Our vulture capitalism system is something to behold.

According to a recent J.P. Morgan report, U.S. companies hold a combined total of more than $2 trillion in cash abroad. Among all S&P 500 companies, Apple has parked the largest amount of cash outside the U.S. by quite a margin. The iPhone maker hoards $158 billion (89 percent of its total cash) overseas. That’s almost twice as much as second-ranked Microsoft ($82.1b) and 2.5 times the total of General Electric, which is ranked third with foreign cash holdings of $62.4 billion.

Under current law, U.S. multinationals have little incentive to bring home the cash they hoard overseas, because they would have to pay 35 percent corporate income tax once they repatriate their foreign earnings. To address this issue, two senators proposed a repatriation tax holiday earlier this year, which would enable companies to return money to the United States paying just 6.5 percent tax, not 35 percent. The bipartisan proposal suggests the proceeds could help finance the Highway Trust Fund which is expected to run dry in May. It would also limit the use of the repatriated funds, prohibiting their use for stock buybacks or executive compensation and funneling them towards investment beneficial to economic growth in the U.S.

Although considered unlikely, it wouldn’t be the first time Congress passed a tax holiday for foreign earnings. In 2004, companies paid just 5.25 percent taxes on repatriated cash. However, a congressional subcommittee later found that the measure hadn’t been effective: many of the companies that profited most went on to cut jobs and reduce R&D spending in subsequent years.

Infographic: These U.S. Companies Hoard Piles of Cash Abroad | Statista

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MEDIA NEXUS – GOOGLE’S NEW WHORE

After Google and TBP parted ways in a blaze of glory back in January, I was able to replace them with some alternatives. Media Nexus was a new company that contacted me by email. My “good buddy” Roy Miller told me we would have a long and fruitful partnership. I added the code for their ads and they’ve been paying me an average of $8 per day for the last couple months based on number of impressions for their ads. I was earning a few bucks and their ads were getting 25,000 impressions per day.

One week ago I received this email from my buddy Roy:

 

Hello Jim,

Attached are your updated tags, these new tags are from our new ad server (Google DFP Premium), once these tags have been updated please let me know via email. Google will be sending you a link, please follow the instructions and register an account in order to view your stats.

 

I immediately saw trouble on the horizon. I responded:

 

Hi Roy

I’m confused by what is happening. Is the old log-in page now obsolete?

Will I still receive the money I’ve earned in April under the old program?

I clicked the doubleclick link to register me at the new site.

Is my partner media nexus or google?

 

Roy’s comforting response was:

 

Hello Jim,

The old login will be obsolete, the revenue earned with that login will be added together with your new earnings and will be paid out on May 7th.

We are still Media Nexus, we are simply using Google’s ad server to deliver our ads and ensure quality. We are two completely separate entities.

 

He told me Media Nexus was just using Google’s server to ensure quality. Isn’t that precious? Shockingly and out of the blue I received this email today:

 

Hello,

Unfortunately after consulting with our demand team, we have to terminate our partnership. We have deemed that there is no demand for your site at this time.

Your April’s earnings will be paid out on May 7th.

However if we do get demand for your site, I will certainly reach out to you. It has been a pleasure working with you.

Best,

 

No more Hello Jim. Just hello and goodbye. I wonder what the old “demand team” saw today that they didn’t see one month ago or two months ago. Oh yeah, Google instructed them to terminate me with extreme prejudice.

 

You probably realize by now that I prefer to burn down bridges when my fruitful business relationships are terminated. My response to my buddy Roy was as follows:

 

Hi Roy

What do you mean by “no demand”? Your ads have been getting 25,000 impression per day. How come it took three months for your demand team to decide this wasn’t enough?

Why don’t you tell me the truth? Google told you to terminate our relationship. Isn’t that true?

One week after you begin a partnership with Google, I’m terminated.

Don’t bullshit me with corporate speak. Your company sold out to Google and now you’re their whore.

 

My good buddy Roy hasn’t gotten back to me yet, but when he does I’ll be sure to pass it on.

 

So it seems my ongoing war with Google is going quite well. I think they will be surrendering any moment now.

 

David versus Goliath?

There certainly is no possibility I get rich from this site and sell out to the man.

If you would like to tell the Media Nexus Whores what you think about them, here is Roy’s email address:

[email protected]

 

I sent Avalon an email complaining that every time it seems like the site will generate a few bucks I get knocked back down. Her compassion knows no bounds as she responded by sending me this video: