When @KamalaHarris and I were elected, we vowed to enact the most ambitious climate and environmental justice campaign in American history. That’s exactly what we’ve done.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 25, 2023
“Climate and environmental justice”? What is that and how much does it cost?
Are we being atmospherically sodomized by ignorant climate change deniers?
Jim Tweto, the patriarch of a family aviation business in Alaska whose fame endured a decade after his somewhat reluctant star turn on television, died June 16 when the Cessna 180 he was flying failed to gain altitude after takeoff. — aopa.org
“At least he died doing what he loved.”
“He loved crashing planes?”
YouTube says it has removed a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking with podcast host Jordan Peterson for spreading what the company says is vaccine misinformation. https://t.co/lIVNxVBbpq
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 22, 2023
Vaccine misinformation has nothing to do with it. “Misinformation” is a meaningless but useful term because no one wants to just come out and say “We love censorship and we are silencing the views of anyone we disagree with.”
Instead, under the guise of “misinformation,” they can say that certain content cannot be allowed, in the interest of safety and the Common Good.
Google, which owns YouTube, donates vast sums of money to the Democratic party, and they are not going to have RFK Jr. clips on YouTube because if they do, people might decide to vote for him.
The Democratic party doesn’t like voting, they don’t like elections, what they like is to just choose presidential nominees themselves. You may have noticed that in the last two election cycles.
The Kennedy-Peterson interview is still available on Twitter.
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God. — Deuteronomy 22:5
Moms for Liberty, the far-right parental group known for protesting at school board meetings, has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “hate group” for the first time ever. — msn.com
“Far-right” is an empty phrase assigned to, as far as I can tell, people who do not subscribe to neoliberal orthodoxy and who question U.S. institutions of power, like government and teachers unions.
And the lead paragraph, quoted above, indicates that “protesting at school board meetings,” which is actually a right protected by the Constitution of the United States, will earn you an SPLC designation as a “hate group.”
The SPLC also labeled 11 other “right-wing ‘parents’ rights'” groups as extremist groups.
The use of quotes in the story is noteworthy. The author has scare-quoted “parents’ rights” and labeled the parents’ rights groups en masse as right-wing, as though the idea that parents have rights is some kind of a fringe concept that most people reject.
“Hate group” is also scare-quoted, as though it doesn’t have any real meaning (it doesn’t) but in this particular case seems to mean a group that does not believe, as the SPLC obviously does, that the opinions of the government, teachers unions and school boards regarding racial politics and gender ideology are so obviously correct and so profoundly enlightened that only hate or bigotry can explain others’ holding different beliefs.
The Department of Justice issued a memo in 2021 urging the investigation of concerned parents, backtracked on it, but did not respond to a request for comment regarding ties between the administration and the SPLC.
A “woke” person, or “social-justice warrior,” is someone who believes that (1) the institutions of American society are currently and intentionally set up to oppress (minorities, women, the poor, fat people, etc.), (2) virtually all gaps in performance between large groups prove that this oppression exists, and (3) the solution to this is equity — which means proportional representation regardless of performance or qualifications.
The attitude of a person who regards his or her opinions as so obviously correct and so profoundly enlightened that they may not legitimately be doubted or challenged, and that only hate or bigotry can explain others’ holding different beliefs.
At an American university, a conductor rehearsing a chorus said, “Now, ladies and gentlemen, please turn to Section B,” or whatever. A student reported him to administration. Administration gave him a warning. . . .
My colleague David Mastio worked at USA Today for a long while. At some point, a group of activists at the paper decided that “pregnant women” would no longer do. It had to be “pregnant people.” Mastio observed that the “people” in “pregnant people” are also known as “women.” The activists demanded that he be fired. Instead, he was demoted.
Biden administration to appoint anti-book ban coordinator as part of new LGBTQ protections — cbsnews.com
Oh, I’ve got the perfect candidate! This guy:
Seriously though, what does LGBTQ have to do with book banning? Book banning has a long history completely unrelated to LGBTQ, and the book banning that is attributed to LGBTQ seems to be either fake or due to the age-inappropriateness of the material.
That’s a good idea because crazy trans hoes in the LGBTQ “community” are the most violent people I’ve ever seen. Riley Gaines doesn’t seem to be able to go out in public without police protection. Matt Walsh has security personnel living in his house.
High school girls have been beaten and raped by trans-identifying boys in high school bathrooms.
Here’s a nice sign that some trans activists brought to a women’s rally in London:
In keeping with the tradition of other violent, lunatic fringe organizations, members of the trans group wore masks over their faces, but from photos in the article, they all seem to be male.
I sense a strong aroma of three things:
I don’t see violence directed at LGBTQ people. America loves gay people. Many trans people are harder to like because they’re too angry and violent and delusional but still, I’ve never heard of anyone attacking Lia Thomas or Dylan Mulvaney or Caitlyn Jenner or that cross-dressing admiral or the nuclear waste guy who steals women’s luggage.
I hope the DOJ can tamp down the LGBTQ violence.
Pregnant Transgender Man Gets Backlash Over Glamour UK Pride Issue: “I’m A Pregnant Man, And I’m Trans” — msn.com
He’s going to have a hard time pushing the baby out his dick. Is an OB/GYN involved in the process? Why would a man go to an OB/GYN?
“My dog identifies as a cat. You know what that means?”
“No, what?”
“A cat can have puppies.”
It’s just a silly word game . . .
Abraham Lincoln used to ask “How many legs does a dog have if you call a tail a leg?”
The answer is four. As Abe would point out, calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
And calling a woman a man doesn’t make her a man.
Have you built your ship of death, or have you?
Oh build your ship of death, for you will need it.
— D.H. Lawrence, “The Ship of Death”
From Tammy Bruce, a gay TV and radio person:
I realize that there’s all kinds of different people in the world. Lord knows I live a marginal life myself and I like my life. But what this [i.e., pride commercials and marketing campaigns] does is it sends a message it’s really kind of an extremist framework.
[Pride is] really about being left alone but being treated equally and fairly . . . it’s as though there has to be another step forward, another kind of push for something, for everyone to be a victim or for some kind of new dynamic.
Those kinds of ads really do damage to the gay and lesbian community. Because it’s pandering, it’s extreme… It does not respect the audience in a sense.
[Companies are] not used to how Americans are usually quiet and that while we might not be having riots and marches, that we’re gonna speak with the dollar, especially when the economy is tight. That we’re going to be very careful about where we spend money.
And it’s not about homophobia, it’s about everything being politicized. Having messages, political messages of any type, being pushed onto us. None of us want that, no matter what your sexual orientation or your race or your background.
The following information is from the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Hormone Therapy web page.
Children’s hospital.
There are two types of hormone therapy (obviously): feminizing hormone therapy and masculinizing hormone therapy.
This means giving estrogen and possibly androgen blockers to people “assigned male at birth.” (That is a phrase I don’t like. People “assigned male at birth” are male and will be male their entire lives no matter what. Do a DNA test if you have any doubt about it.)
Here are the changes you can expect from feminizing hormone therapy:
To maintain these changes, you need to keep taking hormone therapy for the rest of your life.
This involves giving testosterone to people “assigned female at birth.” Expected changes include:
As with feminizing hormone therapy, to maintain the changes, you need to keep taking hormone therapy for the rest of your life.
According to the web page, people who benefit most from hormone therapy usually have:
Those seem mutually inconsistent, given that “gender dysphoria” is recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a mental disorder.
The Mayo Clinic says that the gender dysphoria diagnosis “was created to help people with gender dysphoria get access to necessary health care and effective treatment.” This seems to imply that gender dysphoria is not really a pathology, it’s just a “diagnosis” created to allow people to bill treatments to their health insurance. But if it’s “just a diagnosis” and not a pathology, why are people’s breasts and genitals being amputated? That seems a bit extreme.
Possible side effects of feminizing hormone therapy include
I’ve had gallstones. They’re excruciatingly painful. Headaches and vomiting I could live with short term, but I wouldn’t want to have them going on all the time. The other three I don’t want at all.
Possible side effects of masculinizing hormone therapy include
Not so bad. Except the second one. The second one looks pretty bad.
And of course because research in this area is just beginning, it’s possible that there are other long-term risks we don’t know about yet.
According to the web page, “current guidelines suggest that around 16 years of age is a good time to start hormone therapy.”
I love that sentence, I think because it’s so offhand and mundane. It sounds like “Guidelines suggest that X years of age is a good time to start piano lessons.”
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Joe Biden has said that the American economy is “stronger than hell.” In other news, the percentage of non-retired Americans who expect to have enough money to retire comfortably is now at 43 percent, an 11-year low.
I can think of one, and you did that Joe! pic.twitter.com/nAQJMyF6nx
— Vernon Jones (@VernonForGA) May 12, 2023
To put in context what’s happening here, these are South Chicago residents complaining about immigrants being bused into their neighborhood.
In the 2020 presidential election, one candidate promised (sincerely, I think) to do everything possible to prevent illegal immigration, and one candidate, well . . . Democrats don’t really care about illegal immigration because the people coming across the border are almost certainly going to be Democratic voters.
South Chicago voted 97 percent for Biden, the “I don’t care about illegal immigration” guy. So what are they complaining about? They got what they voted for.
Yes, I’m sure they all thought that the problems created by illegal immigration would be borne by somebody else — somebody closer to the border, probably redneck Texans — not by them. They voted to create problems for other people that they are not willing to bear themselves.
So I don’t feel bad for them at all — in fact, I’m laughing a little as I watch the video — because what they did is not a nice thing to do.
Real doctors tell people the truth regardsless of who gets furious. pic.twitter.com/mKkmCzUJz1
— Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) May 5, 2023
I’d rewrite that headline to say Stupid People Furious! Well, that’s a little harsh. Let’s change it to Uninformed People Furious!
Let me start my saying that I’ve had a couple of cancerous skin lesions removed, and because the removal was medically necessary, the cost of the removal was covered by my health insurance.
I’ve also had a couple of benign lesions removed just because I thought they were unsightly. Those removals were not medically necessary so I had to pay for their removal myself.
People identifying as transgender don’t want to pay for puberty blockers and hormone treatments and surgeries out of their own pocket so what we came up with is “gender dysphoria,” a mental disorder. Now everything becomes medically necessary and can be billed to health insurance.
Some people don’t like that “gender dysphoria” implies some sort of pathology. They’ll say “No it’s not a pathology, it’s just a diagnosis.” If it’s “just a diagnosis,” why are we amputating people’s breasts and genitals?
And if “gender dysphoria” is an objective reality, I still question why are we amputating breasts and genitals? Since we stopped doing frontal lobotomies, I’m not aware of any mental health condition that’s treated with surgery.
Here’s a doctor perhaps saying it a little better and more authoritatively because he’s a doctor and I’m not:
What Dr Patrick Lappert said… pic.twitter.com/UQbXSWTPe6
— Lucy Riles (@LucyRiles) March 21, 2023
“Transitioning” does not have a 100 percent success rate, however you define that. Some people transition and find themselves no happier than they were before, just the same people with the same problems. Some people are even less happy than they were before and go so far as to detransition back to their original sex.
I’ve never heard of a lobotomy patient expressing dissatisfaction with the surgery or asking to have it undone.
Former NBA player Jason Collins, who became the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major North American sports leagues, spoke out this week about the recent wave of NHL players and teams opting out of Pride Night, saying that “religion should not be a cause for division.”
Some Russian NHL players have opted out over fear of reprisals in their home country, but the main reason given for opting out has been religious beliefs.
You’ve got to offer some excuse and that’s the one that people seem most willing to accept. It may be sincere in most or all cases, I don’t know. I know that there are some people who believe in a God who frowns on any sort of non-heterosexual activities.
Religion is definitely a cause of division in the world, there’s no disagreeing with that. But in this case, I’m going to say that the cause of division is Collins himself.
He seems to be saying that celebrating gayness is more important than anyone’s religious beliefs. I’m not gay and I’m not religious and I’m not easily offended, but that is an offensive statement.
Players should be able to opt out of Pride Night for any reason or no reason. Mine would be “I don’t like people telling me what to wear.”
Why would the fact that Jason Collins likes to suck dicks merit a celebration? Not that’s there anything wrong with sucking dicks. Women do it, men do it. But that’s what Pride Night is, right? A celebration of certain sexual preferences and practices.
There are also lots of other sexual preferences and practices. Must all of them be celebrated at NHL games?
Why would you think that being gay or trans means that everyone is required to accept you and love you? You think everyone loves me? Surprisingly, they don’t.
The United States actually used to have laws against homosexual sex and the rallying cry was that the government should “stay out of the bedroom.”
Now we’ve gone completely the other way, where we’re required to look in the bedroom and to applaud what we see.
