Hit all the right notes, good synopsis. Good also to hear Tina Brown is still alive and high-kicking.
Another sign the trans-gender fad is fading, Pfizer just recently got RFKJr back into selling these very same gender-dysphoria female hormone drugs to menopause women again, after their own WHI study in the 1990's thoroughly documented their now well established long term harms.
That 1990's studies then required Pfizer to go seeking new markets with short memory spans to keep the profits flowing from pushing their prior lifetime use for post-menopause women. When they lost that market after the WHI study findings left them no place else to hide.
Enter the pre-pubescent gender dysphoria crowd. They had a new hit - life time use for drugging growing numbers of young boys to pretend they are life time women. A marketing angle made in heaven for Pfizer, if they could grow those numbers. And for a while, they did.
What did the FDA Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study in fact find out back in the 1990's, from the FDA's own website:
"The WHI showed that using estrogen plus progestin hormone therapy after menopause raised the risk of heart disease, stroke, blood clots, breast cancer, and dementia.
Hormone therapy with estrogen alone had some benefits for younger women who had a prior hysterectomy. However, estrogen raised the risk of stroke and blood clots for these women and others in the study.
This initiative helped establish that hormone therapy—estrogen plus progestin or estrogen alone—should not be used in postmenopausal women to prevent heart disease or to lower cholesterol levels. "
Goal seems to be to kill off females after they breed and raise consumer kids to support the economy. Have more kids say Musk and Caldwell— economy needs them. Too bad most GenZ can’t afford much.
At least if Pfizer hormones work their magic, kids can inherit sooner from mom.
I never understood why supposedly smart, college educated Boomer females ‘trust’ the medical establishment that suggests or prescribes meds without their first researching before putting anything into their body. I know plenty of these women. I gorilla glue my lips shut to avoid warning those who actually ‘trust’.
I’ve unopened boxes of pharmaceuticals I chose not to use, after researching. Food is medicine. Movement and handwashing are required for good health.
No medical insurance needed by some of us, many of us, if not most of us. Why must CA taxpayers buy ObamaCare , pay premiums, to insure 4 million CA public college and university students at minimal risk beyond self-destructive drug- alcohol abuse? Advise youth: Insurance is a scam. (Apply for Church of Bob religious exemption.)
I’m still asked why I didn’t get vaxx’d, and didn’t get COVID, … duh? Perhaps one reason is that licensed health care professionals read and know bodies work best, when naturally maintained.
Gen Z *chooses* to afford a lot things, that I could never afford when I was their age. Because I was already saving for my own retirement, and qualifying to buy my first house. 60 years now down that road, I have no regrets missing out what I could not afford, when I was younger.
But still managed to do a lot anyway, pay as you go. Never once ran up a credit card balance and had to pay interest on money I had already spent. Every trip I took was paid for upfront so no new unpaid bills waiting my return. This is what a generation raised by Depression Age parents looked like - thrift, prudence and yet a very full life. A tale to tell, since we all will soon be gone from the national memory bank.
Isn’t it great that we each take different paths in life? Is debt bad? My 1912 born depression era parents, never used credit. I saw where my ‘unhoused’ mom lived in the phone cable boxes placed on a lawn in the Silver Lake District, Los Angeles; and the sweat shop where she worked sewing from age 7 on after her Father died in the 1919 flu pandemic. I went to County General where my dad lived in the consider from high school football injuries listening to the ‘Green Hornet’ for 2-semesters with parents unable to visit from Redondo Beach where he was later a lifeguard.
Taking calculated risks is a luxury, gifted to me by observing their security, fear, their strong hold on only paying cash for a house, a car, a vaccum. They fed neighborhood families, after the moon landing aerospace layoffs. Afterall, they had cashed out everything they owned.
I was given $2K at high school graduation (= $16K -2025) by my mother who saved and hid it for years because fathers knew best: “girls don’t need to go to college, except for a MRS Degree”. Go to college she begged (or buy a VW Bug). Of course, I bought the car/ wheels to get to paid jobs to pay to attend the neighborhood Pierce Community College. Going around the world on World Campus Afloat by age 19 fully arranged and paid for by Pierce counselors. Debt free after TX grad school each of my 3 subsequent homes were bought with mortgages. This one to be paid off by 2043, at age 89. Debt isn’t all bad; foolish perhaps. My son chose to decline full paid scholarships to incur $240K college debt: his choice. He paid it off in 3 years never asking for a dime after age 17. Different paths. No one way is right or wrong.
Good point, because few can buy a house without using debt. Better advice is to limit debt to appreciating assets, not short-lived depreciating assets. Which can be a very personal assessment what will be an investment in value, tangible and intangible.
Hair and nails on weekly basis, or even large cell phone and entertainment monthly commitments ,dining out, not cooking at home, leasing an expensive model car, expendable clothes, cosmetics and starting facial/cosmetic maintenance treatments when one is still young .... let me count the ways this could be better directed into saving for a down payment on a house and then indeed tying oneself to that debt. Or creating that retirement nest egg one step at a time starting early.
Can't remember the point when my original 30 year fixed mortgage payments finally were made to look miniscule, due to increased wages. But I do remember when it finally made more sense to pay off the last of the 30 year mortgage ahed of time, than to keep making interest and principal payments for another couple of years. Now it is all free and clear forever, besides the usual prop taxes, utilities and maintenance that comes with the package anyway.
Judging by the leg positions/contortions of the BBC guy on the left of your opening cartoon, he will need AI to have a family.
Hit all the right notes, good synopsis. Good also to hear Tina Brown is still alive and high-kicking.
Another sign the trans-gender fad is fading, Pfizer just recently got RFKJr back into selling these very same gender-dysphoria female hormone drugs to menopause women again, after their own WHI study in the 1990's thoroughly documented their now well established long term harms.
That 1990's studies then required Pfizer to go seeking new markets with short memory spans to keep the profits flowing from pushing their prior lifetime use for post-menopause women. When they lost that market after the WHI study findings left them no place else to hide.
Enter the pre-pubescent gender dysphoria crowd. They had a new hit - life time use for drugging growing numbers of young boys to pretend they are life time women. A marketing angle made in heaven for Pfizer, if they could grow those numbers. And for a while, they did.
What did the FDA Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study in fact find out back in the 1990's, from the FDA's own website:
"The WHI showed that using estrogen plus progestin hormone therapy after menopause raised the risk of heart disease, stroke, blood clots, breast cancer, and dementia.
Hormone therapy with estrogen alone had some benefits for younger women who had a prior hysterectomy. However, estrogen raised the risk of stroke and blood clots for these women and others in the study.
This initiative helped establish that hormone therapy—estrogen plus progestin or estrogen alone—should not be used in postmenopausal women to prevent heart disease or to lower cholesterol levels. "
Goal seems to be to kill off females after they breed and raise consumer kids to support the economy. Have more kids say Musk and Caldwell— economy needs them. Too bad most GenZ can’t afford much.
At least if Pfizer hormones work their magic, kids can inherit sooner from mom.
I never understood why supposedly smart, college educated Boomer females ‘trust’ the medical establishment that suggests or prescribes meds without their first researching before putting anything into their body. I know plenty of these women. I gorilla glue my lips shut to avoid warning those who actually ‘trust’.
I’ve unopened boxes of pharmaceuticals I chose not to use, after researching. Food is medicine. Movement and handwashing are required for good health.
No medical insurance needed by some of us, many of us, if not most of us. Why must CA taxpayers buy ObamaCare , pay premiums, to insure 4 million CA public college and university students at minimal risk beyond self-destructive drug- alcohol abuse? Advise youth: Insurance is a scam. (Apply for Church of Bob religious exemption.)
I’m still asked why I didn’t get vaxx’d, and didn’t get COVID, … duh? Perhaps one reason is that licensed health care professionals read and know bodies work best, when naturally maintained.
Gen Z *chooses* to afford a lot things, that I could never afford when I was their age. Because I was already saving for my own retirement, and qualifying to buy my first house. 60 years now down that road, I have no regrets missing out what I could not afford, when I was younger.
But still managed to do a lot anyway, pay as you go. Never once ran up a credit card balance and had to pay interest on money I had already spent. Every trip I took was paid for upfront so no new unpaid bills waiting my return. This is what a generation raised by Depression Age parents looked like - thrift, prudence and yet a very full life. A tale to tell, since we all will soon be gone from the national memory bank.
Isn’t it great that we each take different paths in life? Is debt bad? My 1912 born depression era parents, never used credit. I saw where my ‘unhoused’ mom lived in the phone cable boxes placed on a lawn in the Silver Lake District, Los Angeles; and the sweat shop where she worked sewing from age 7 on after her Father died in the 1919 flu pandemic. I went to County General where my dad lived in the consider from high school football injuries listening to the ‘Green Hornet’ for 2-semesters with parents unable to visit from Redondo Beach where he was later a lifeguard.
Taking calculated risks is a luxury, gifted to me by observing their security, fear, their strong hold on only paying cash for a house, a car, a vaccum. They fed neighborhood families, after the moon landing aerospace layoffs. Afterall, they had cashed out everything they owned.
I was given $2K at high school graduation (= $16K -2025) by my mother who saved and hid it for years because fathers knew best: “girls don’t need to go to college, except for a MRS Degree”. Go to college she begged (or buy a VW Bug). Of course, I bought the car/ wheels to get to paid jobs to pay to attend the neighborhood Pierce Community College. Going around the world on World Campus Afloat by age 19 fully arranged and paid for by Pierce counselors. Debt free after TX grad school each of my 3 subsequent homes were bought with mortgages. This one to be paid off by 2043, at age 89. Debt isn’t all bad; foolish perhaps. My son chose to decline full paid scholarships to incur $240K college debt: his choice. He paid it off in 3 years never asking for a dime after age 17. Different paths. No one way is right or wrong.
Good point, because few can buy a house without using debt. Better advice is to limit debt to appreciating assets, not short-lived depreciating assets. Which can be a very personal assessment what will be an investment in value, tangible and intangible.
Hair and nails on weekly basis, or even large cell phone and entertainment monthly commitments ,dining out, not cooking at home, leasing an expensive model car, expendable clothes, cosmetics and starting facial/cosmetic maintenance treatments when one is still young .... let me count the ways this could be better directed into saving for a down payment on a house and then indeed tying oneself to that debt. Or creating that retirement nest egg one step at a time starting early.
Can't remember the point when my original 30 year fixed mortgage payments finally were made to look miniscule, due to increased wages. But I do remember when it finally made more sense to pay off the last of the 30 year mortgage ahed of time, than to keep making interest and principal payments for another couple of years. Now it is all free and clear forever, besides the usual prop taxes, utilities and maintenance that comes with the package anyway.
Falling off my chair......*laugh*
Get on your sleigh and wait your turn? WELL DONE.