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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Suspicious Charle Kirk Google searches

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Israel and DC left fingerprints on their false flag assassination of Charlie Kirk. See previous coverage of James Lee's findings on TJDS website: jimmydore.com.

VIDEO: Charlie Kirk murder weapon revealed and how the brown shirt man in security detail (a professional assassin) is seen shooting Kirk [from front row then jumping barrier to 'assist' Kirk and make sure he dies as all those 'helping' get not a single drop of blood on them]
Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction criminal state of Israel for genocide
Top pro-Israel TPUSA donor terminated support for Charlie Kirk in days before assassination, sources say (The Grayzone)

Monday, August 18, 2025

Trend: infantilizing girls in China

(Aina | Expat in China) Why Chinese girls want to look like children: Infantilization is the prolonged treatment of one who is not a child as though that person were a child [1]. Studies have shown that an individual, when infantilized, is overwhelmingly likely to feel disrespected. Such individuals may report a sense of transgression akin to dehumanization. It may even have a racist dimension. Infantilization is an important concept pivotal to maintaining slavery. Children of enslaved women would also be enslaved because both belonged to the master. More

(Whaddo You Meme??) Life of pornstars ruined by career choice

The horrifying secret the porn industry is hiding (Christian fanatic POV)

AINA | Expat in China; Whaddo You Meme??; CC Liu, Crystal Q (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Monday, May 12, 2025

Pope is new but same old Trump (SNL)

This is the Black Pope, Afro-Caribbean mix of Italian, French, African, American ancestries

Weekend Update ft. Marcello Hernández, Mikey Day and Heidi Gardner - SNL

Trump Mother's Day Cold Open: SNL

Heh heh heh, blessed SNL

(Saturday Night Live) May 10, 2025: #15 on Trending. SNL delivers a Mother's Day message from Kenan Thompson, Bowen Yang, and Marcello Hernández to their mothers gets interrupted by President Do Jo Trump (played by James Austin Johnson). Catholic Colin Jost (aka Mr. Scarlett Johansson) jokes about American (Chicagoan) Pope Leo as Michael Che giggles, during the regular Weekend Update segment.

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SNL, May 10, 2025; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Crash is coming! Crash is coming! (TJDS)

“Gold, Bitcoin, and oil prices will spike as global economy crashes!” – Trend Analyst Gerald Celente explains to comedian Jimmy Dore, with an amazingly broad and cynical view of financial markets. US war on Iran coming, Israel stealing Syrian land with impunity (and CIA approval), will Pres. Trump allow it? Sure, he and Israel can come to an "agreement," a mutually beneficial one. I'll scratch Bibi's backside if the powers that be want me to.

Mormon Missionary to France and former Washington, DC Insider Mittens Romney (MikeMacCrae.com), Jimmy Dore, TJDS (jimmydore.com); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Trend: wearing Maxi Pads on right ear?

How did crooked businessman, TV show real estate baron (The Apprentice), and landlord Don John Trump become a billionaire? It must have been all those good business ideas:

Trump Bandage for sale
starting a "Trump University" to teach business but bilking the students dumb enough to sign up and pay to hear trivial advice, a phony institution that got shut down,
selling overpriced Trump Bibles (one book he's never looked through),
trying to sell gold colored Kanye-style tennis shoes he's never worn,
promoting a ghostwritten book though he's never read it (The Art of the Deal by Tony Schwartz), gaudy Trump merch... Oh, wait.

VIDEO: Joe Concha slams Ari Melber for calling Trump's bandage a 'spectacle': 'Go to hell'

They love me. Everyone loves me. It's love.

It was his father's money given to him to do his dad's business. But after learning how to be a slumlord from his hideous father, it's been all Donny since then. Now how can he capitalize from this shooting? If he can just get the Maxi Pads corporation (Always®) interested in a business partnership.

Sometimes he tells the truth, like in 1998 (People)

Or he can wear a giant neck brace at the RNC and sue the Secret Service with the help of some ambulance chasers? But most attorneys won't come near him since it is well known that he doesn't pay his legal bills. If only there were a way, maybe start a trend of oversized red ties or ridiculous wigs. There has to be something. Just give him time and he'll come up with something for the art of the hustle.

Future First Lady Usha Vance and U.S. President J.D. Vance (prediction)

JD, are these dummy Republicans cheering for me? I can't hear so well, my eardrum. - Yes, DJ.

Monday, March 4, 2024

Study: threefold rise in US bisexuality

PsyPost, 3/4/24; CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Study shows threefold rise in bisexual behavior among Americans

A study published in The Journal of Sex Research

uncovered a significant rise in the number of Americans identifying as bisexual or reporting bisexual behaviors, especially in recent years.

I'm not lesbian. I'm but call myself abrosexual.

The findings shed light on the evolving landscape of sexual orientation in the United States.

While acceptance of same-sex sex sexuality and marriage has notably increased, bisexuality has remained somewhat in the shadows, with less clarity around its trends and behaviors.

This gap prompted researchers to delve into nationally representative samples to map out the landscape of bisexuality.

For their study, the researchers utilized the wealth of data provided by the General Social Survey (GSS). The GSS, a cornerstone of social science research, has been gathering data on the attitudes, behaviors, and characteristics of the American public since 1972.

The research team analyzed responses from a substantial sample of 32,238 respondents who completed the GSS between 1989 and 2018, along with an additional 2,313 respondents from the 2021 wave.

The End of Gender will mean the end of gay?

This approach allowed them to maintain a focus on a nationally representative sample, ensuring that their findings could speak to broader societal trends.

The study employed four measures based on sexual behavior and one measure based on identity.

Starting in 1989, the GSS included questions about the number of male and female partners respondents had since turning 18, which the researchers used to categorize respondents into groups based on the sex of their sexual partners.

Additionally, from 2008 onwards, the GSS began asking respondents to identify their sexual orientation, offering options like “gay, lesbian, or homosexual,” “bisexual,” and “heterosexual or straight.”

These indicators allowed the researchers to track changes in how people report their sexual orientation and behaviors over time.

The researchers found that the proportion of respondents reporting partners of both sexes since age 18 experienced a notable increase over time.

Specifically, the study documents a threefold rise in such reports, moving from 3.1% in the 1989–1994 waves to 9.3% in the 2012–2018 waves.

[So as has been reported for years, about 10% of the population will behave in a "gay" way, with "gay" being defined as purposely (as opposed to forcibly) engaging in any kind of erotic behavior or "experimentation" with a member of the same biological sex, whatever the rationalization for doing so. This would include all bisexual behavior but exclude rape or non-consensual assault.]

Bis are sick. I'm trans, so I go only date men.

This trend was further corroborated by the increase in respondents identifying as bisexual, which more than doubled from the 2008–2010 waves to the 2012–2018 waves.

Interestingly, the proportion of individuals identifying as bisexual surpassed those identifying as gay or lesbian in the more recent cohorts, underscoring the growing visibility and acknowledgment of bisexuality as a legitimate sexual orientation.

I don't like "butch" and "dyke." Call me abro.

The research also highlighted the complexity of bisexual identity and behavior. For instance, while there was an increase in the number of individuals identifying as bisexual, this did not always align with the patterns of sexual behavior reported.

Some individuals who had sexual partners of both sexes did not necessarily identify as bisexual [though we would objectively categorize them as such regardless of their subjective claims], which points to the nuanced ways in which sexual orientation is experienced and understood.

“There are several likely explanations for this,” the researchers wrote. “First, sexual behavior can be exploratory, taking place before a person has clarified their own sexual orientation identity, a process that continues throughout young adulthood. Our measure likely captures gay and lesbian persons who had partners of a different sex before they came out or clarified their sexual orientations, which can occur later in life.”

“Second, sexual orientation can be fluid [like when you're just act out gay impulses on weekends or when drinking or intoxicated?], with some people changing their sexual behavior and/or their sexual orientation identities over time. In both of these cases, using the sex of sexual partners since age 18 measure means that we may be capturing sexual experiences that have taken place many years ago, especially for older respondents.

“Finally, even persons who have more recently had partners of both sexes may not consider themselves bisexual [because of the embarrassment that would cause to be lumped into the LGBTQIA+ cohort, where Q does not mean "queer" but "questioning" or even "quasi" by society], and the term may not fit their understandings of themselves and their sexual behavior [or at least not that they would want to admit it].”

The study also shed light on demographic variations in the reporting of sexual orientation and behavior.

Younger individuals and women were more likely than their older and male counterparts to report partners of both sexes and to identify as bisexual.

What? We don't have to identify. We can pass.

This finding is indicative of the generational shift in attitudes towards sexuality, where younger cohorts exhibit greater openness and fluidity in their sexual orientation and behaviors.

There were no significant differences in the reporting of bisexuality among different racial and ethnic groups, suggesting that the increase in bisexuality may be a widespread phenomenon across diverse communities in the United States.

“The proportion of persons identifying as bisexual and the proportion of persons who report engaging in sex with partners of both sexes in the U.S. have increased markedly since 1989,” the researchers concluded.

Ryan Seacrest doesn't like labels.

“Future research on sexual orientation can better recognize that the terms with which we identify ourselves are social and that there is some degree of choice about how to identify our sexual orientation, particularly among individuals with histories of both male and female partners.

[Yeah, why call yourself "gay," which has a clear stigma when you can just get away with saying "fluid," "heteroflexible," "questioning," "unsure," "I just like people for people and don't see sex," or any other hedge, rationalization, excuse, or alternative to accurate reporting?]

“Additionally, the recognition that sexual behavior is normative should be more thoroughly considered in research on sexual orientation and sexual behavior.”

The study, “The Rise of Bisexuality: U.S. Representative Data Show an Increase Over Time in Bisexual Identity and Persons Reporting Sex with Both Women and Men,” was authored by Martin A. Monto and Sophia Neuweiler.

Friday, July 21, 2023

Trans teen trend: case of social contagion?

Monday, February 16, 2015

Meditation: There's no place like OM

Mary MacVean (latimes.com, 2-16-15); Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"Om"? Busy participants serenely relax and meditate during a class at Unplug, a new meditation studio in Los Angeles, on April 24, 2014 (Katie Falkenberg/latimes.com)

Meditation booms as people seek a way to slow down

"Buddha Doodles" (Molly Coles)

One hundred fifty people sat in the big meeting room, hands on laps, eyes closed, feet flat on the floor. "Bring your attention to this moment," Janice Marturano instructed.

"Be open to sensations of warmth or coolness, sensations of fullness from breakfast, or perhaps hunger." Minutes later, the meditation ended with the traditional strikes of little hand cymbals. Buddhists? Old hippies? New Agers?

Nope. The room was full of hospital executives and managers in lab coats and scrubs, jeans and sports coats at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. And the teacher was Marturano, once a top executive at General Mills.

How can mindful leadership enhance focus, clarity, creativity, resilience, compassion (IML)

Peace comes from within.

The founder of the Institute for Mindful Leadership, Marturano is about as far from woo-woo as the spectrum allows -- and a sign that meditation has snaked its way into every sector of our lives.

The hospital employees were learning a practice shared by millions these days: college students, parents, prisoners, soldiers, the overweight, the lovelorn, the Seattle Seahawks, public school kids, members of Congress, Oprah, Chopra, and Arianna. And perhaps you. What? You're not meditating?

Meditation, primarily a 2,[6]00-year-old form called [Buddhist] mindfulness meditation that emphasizes paying attention to the present moment, has gone viral. More

Chinese New Year 2015, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Feb. 19-21 (laphil.com)

Vegan January was full of good food and wise lessons

A man in The Times cafeteria the other day bought sliced turkey, white rice, a slice of white bread with butter and a Diet Coke. I realize it wasn't a vegan lunch, but it provides a lesson in how to create a healthful meal: color.

Vromage makes an art out of vegan cheeses made with nut milks

(Daily Dish) Customers who don't eat food made with the milk of animals for ethical reasons or because of allergies tell him they thought they were done with artisan cheeses. At his little shop, in a cramped strip mall at 7988 Sunset Blvd.

Juicing trend still going strong in 2015

Juicing trend still going strong in 2015

A year ago, trendistas were snuggling up to juice bars all over L.A. to cleanse, reset, detox and glow a little. Today, things are only busier in the world of juice ? and I don't mean Minute Maid. Juicing just won't go away.

Health experts throw cold water on juice cleanse

"Mom, this is a horrible idea." So my college student son declared when he learned I had started a three-day juice cleanse, 72 hours of a juice diet. Six bottles each day, plus water and herbal tea. No solid food. Go ahead. Make fun of me. Call me a cliché. A cleanse in January? Really? More