Love the Stalin story! And anyone who hasn’t seen The Death of Stalin - shame, shame! Classic line in there about weak men, definitely written with Trump in mind.
I was thinking about Ted and Josh—especially old Ted sending his kids to a super woke elite school — and it reminded me of the old phrase limousine liberal, except now we have limousine conservatives, Who want everybody to think that they dip, drove a big ole pick up truck, and either homeschool their kids or send them to some religious Academy. The idea that old Ted PAYS for his kids to go to some libtard school where they learn CRT, wokeness, and one can only assume how to hate America, why it’s enough to make you think Ole Ted is just a hypocrite and a man who doesn’t believe his own BS.
Regarding transgender rights, some children are born intersex. Their gender may not be discernible at birth or they may have aspects of both genders. Parents and doctors do their best to choose the right gender, but sometimes end up choosing wrong. If one knew a child as a boy but then started seeing him increasingly acting and dressing more girlish and then the parents start referring to the child as “she”, one would likely assume the parents were helping the child change from their biological gender at birth to a different gender. But that assumption could be wrong. It might actually be a gender correction for an intersex child. Compassion, love and nuance are needed.
The numbers of intersex children is minuscule, though. As for others with gender dysphoria, serious research indicates that it most often goes away with puberty -- if puberty is not artificially blocked. The idea that those adolescents need to be saved from the trauma of puberty puts them on a self-reenforcing path into expensive, invasive "treatments" that they might have avoided and gone on to be comfortable with themselves.
In some cases, figuring out why they're so uncomfortable with their biological gender can lead to a strategy for self-acceptance.
Sometimes, for children, the source of discomfort is stereotyping: "If I like doing these things that are mostly done by girls, and the other boys ridicule me for it, maybe I'm really a girl!" And maybe not. Maybe that child is really a boy with atypical interests and preferences -- and what's wrong with that? An irony usually overlooked is that the whole concept of identifying as the opposite gender rests on a stereotyped image of what each gender should be. Sometimes, assuring kids that it's okay to be different might be the best solution.
There's a sizable group of people who have come to regret submitting themselves to biological alterations that aren't fully reversible. Trans activists are ferociously hostile to them.
OTOH, if adults make an informed decision to "transition" or live as the opposite gender, the rest of us should be compassionate and respect their humanity.
I find it interesting that John Hopkins which pioneered that surgery refused to do it. I believe the decision was based on the opinion (fact?) that the surgery didn't actually didn't solve the problems the individual really faced. As a side note, has anyone else noted that most of the surgeries are men to women, and oddly, I think, most of those reassigned women become lesbians. In my totally untutored opinion, I would think that if they really believed they were women, and most women aren't lesbians, their partners would be men. As for children, there should be zero interference until well past puberty. I find myself wondering if the parents are the real source of the problems - that is, wanting a child of the other sex instead of the one the child was born with.
Relatively, the number of teenagers on hormone blockers or hormones is miniscule as well and I think the government is in doctors offices quite enough at this point. I think there are some Trans activists who can be a bit much, ok, but there is a group of people who vastly outnumber them who aren't Trans and I don't much trust the root of their supposed concerns whatsoever. I will say that both groups have a tendency to seek out MDs who tell them exactly what they want to hear.
I do find it "heart-warming" that Mittens Romney, who is not seeking the presidency, outpolls at 3%...the ReTrumplican't Party's slobering presidential candidates:
Cruz 2% - He of Extreme Unctuousness
Rubio 1% - The earnest Li'l Marco
Hawley 1% - Senate Seditionist
R. Scott 1% - Marketing Director for the DNC
Christie 1% - Does He Even Have a Job?
Cotton 0% - Truly the embodiment of "A Pencil Neck Geek."
It is amazing how all these people that attach themselves to trump seem to keep forgetting the Prime Principles of being Trump adjacent... and keep getting burned by their lapse of memory.
1) Never contradict Trump;
2) Never even hint that Trump is anything less than perfect and a stable genius;
3) Do whatever Trump tells you to do;
4) Loyalty only goes one way and that direction is NOT towards YOU;
5) If you are Trump adjacent, you have already demonstrated that you have no ethics, morals, or principles so why have any qualms now? Everyone already knows what you are.
I also take note that Belarus has offered asylum to the latest man convicted in the Jan 6th attack and that he's accepted it. You really can't fix stupid.
The very appearance that TFG has any staying power at all will I suspect be accompanied by the GOP of having no platform come the next national election. It has become a party of true know nothings. Truth as evidence splayed forth on a daily basis is never examined at all. COVID is an ongoing plot. The election was stolen Q.E.D. Babies are racists from the moment of conception. In New Hampshire we have legislators wanting secession. In Europe the conversation regarding nuclear weapons being used has gone from lunatic fringe to expectation of normalcy. "Just little Nukes". None of it really matters since the planet is burning up.
We really are going over the edge and seem indifferent to that fact. I feel like we've used the planet up and what remains will be incinerated by crazy people with AK47's. . I don't think I'm exaggerating all that much either. I will not be at all surprised to see this all end in a fireball.
Mankind is too stupid to survive. But look on the bright side. The earth will no doubt be a more peaceful and pleasant place once the giant mutant slugs take over.
"suggestion that the election might have been legitimate is “a mortal sin” in Trump’s world"
This is correct. Only obsequiously public ardent bootlicking, tithes by the thousands and expectedly more, and piles on reeking piles of servile praise bequeathed to that omnipotent genius [sic], that orangutan-tinted Godhead, are acceptable in His world.
What world? The universe of that perfect scumbag, Grande El Supremo TFG.
Regarding transgender rights... Please find and read the Utah governor's veto message over a draconian bill, rushed through the legislature at the last minute. His reasoning is nuanced, heartfelt and kind. Compare and contrast with the demagoguery of Florida's Ron DeSantis waging war on other human beings. Sadly his veto no matter how reasonable and humane--- is bound to be overridden. Because for Republicans the cruelty IS the point.
Not necessarily; unless it's already been overridden, there is just the smallest chance that some legislators will find enough courage in response to the Governor's message to vote No on the motion to override.
"Let’s put all of this in context for all the cool kids who are yelling Charlie, why can’t you just move on?"
Charlie-
Some of us have expressed how depression inducing the fact that we need to continue to talk about Trump is. (A.B. Stoddard expressed something similar on your podcast yesterday.) Please don't interpret this as a request to move on. When a house cat can't seem to master using the litter box, this is a depressing fact. But it's a fact that needs to be dealt with.
We continue to talk about Trump because he won't STFU! In his usual "bull in a china shop" habit, Trump violates every norm by continuing to blubber ignorantly and incessantly. I can't wait until he's either in prison or six feet under, just to give us a break.
Hey, I ain't no cool kid, which troubled me when I was 16. But not so much now. As I've said, I think we should try ignoring him, just as some parents do when the 4 year old throws a fit. The parent certainly hasn't moved on from the child; ignoring is a strategy meant to defuse and withhold the attention the child is seeking. We can always return to TFG watch at a later date.
If the Ukrainians take back Irpil, Bucha, and Hostomel from the Russians to the west of Kyiv then that Russian flank will be seriously fucked geographically-speaking. Hope they're able to take those areas back come Monday.
"rescind the 2020 elections
immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House
immediately put President Trump back in the White House and
and hold a new special election for the presidency"
Does it seem odd to anyone else that Trump would ask a random Rep from Alabama to do these things?
Nobody is too crazy for Mo!!!!!!!!!!
Love the Stalin story! And anyone who hasn’t seen The Death of Stalin - shame, shame! Classic line in there about weak men, definitely written with Trump in mind.
Hell hath no fury like a sycophant scorned?
I was thinking about Ted and Josh—especially old Ted sending his kids to a super woke elite school — and it reminded me of the old phrase limousine liberal, except now we have limousine conservatives, Who want everybody to think that they dip, drove a big ole pick up truck, and either homeschool their kids or send them to some religious Academy. The idea that old Ted PAYS for his kids to go to some libtard school where they learn CRT, wokeness, and one can only assume how to hate America, why it’s enough to make you think Ole Ted is just a hypocrite and a man who doesn’t believe his own BS.
Regarding transgender rights, some children are born intersex. Their gender may not be discernible at birth or they may have aspects of both genders. Parents and doctors do their best to choose the right gender, but sometimes end up choosing wrong. If one knew a child as a boy but then started seeing him increasingly acting and dressing more girlish and then the parents start referring to the child as “she”, one would likely assume the parents were helping the child change from their biological gender at birth to a different gender. But that assumption could be wrong. It might actually be a gender correction for an intersex child. Compassion, love and nuance are needed.
The numbers of intersex children is minuscule, though. As for others with gender dysphoria, serious research indicates that it most often goes away with puberty -- if puberty is not artificially blocked. The idea that those adolescents need to be saved from the trauma of puberty puts them on a self-reenforcing path into expensive, invasive "treatments" that they might have avoided and gone on to be comfortable with themselves.
In some cases, figuring out why they're so uncomfortable with their biological gender can lead to a strategy for self-acceptance.
Sometimes, for children, the source of discomfort is stereotyping: "If I like doing these things that are mostly done by girls, and the other boys ridicule me for it, maybe I'm really a girl!" And maybe not. Maybe that child is really a boy with atypical interests and preferences -- and what's wrong with that? An irony usually overlooked is that the whole concept of identifying as the opposite gender rests on a stereotyped image of what each gender should be. Sometimes, assuring kids that it's okay to be different might be the best solution.
There's a sizable group of people who have come to regret submitting themselves to biological alterations that aren't fully reversible. Trans activists are ferociously hostile to them.
OTOH, if adults make an informed decision to "transition" or live as the opposite gender, the rest of us should be compassionate and respect their humanity.
I find it interesting that John Hopkins which pioneered that surgery refused to do it. I believe the decision was based on the opinion (fact?) that the surgery didn't actually didn't solve the problems the individual really faced. As a side note, has anyone else noted that most of the surgeries are men to women, and oddly, I think, most of those reassigned women become lesbians. In my totally untutored opinion, I would think that if they really believed they were women, and most women aren't lesbians, their partners would be men. As for children, there should be zero interference until well past puberty. I find myself wondering if the parents are the real source of the problems - that is, wanting a child of the other sex instead of the one the child was born with.
Relatively, the number of teenagers on hormone blockers or hormones is miniscule as well and I think the government is in doctors offices quite enough at this point. I think there are some Trans activists who can be a bit much, ok, but there is a group of people who vastly outnumber them who aren't Trans and I don't much trust the root of their supposed concerns whatsoever. I will say that both groups have a tendency to seek out MDs who tell them exactly what they want to hear.
I do find it "heart-warming" that Mittens Romney, who is not seeking the presidency, outpolls at 3%...the ReTrumplican't Party's slobering presidential candidates:
Cruz 2% - He of Extreme Unctuousness
Rubio 1% - The earnest Li'l Marco
Hawley 1% - Senate Seditionist
R. Scott 1% - Marketing Director for the DNC
Christie 1% - Does He Even Have a Job?
Cotton 0% - Truly the embodiment of "A Pencil Neck Geek."
It is amazing how all these people that attach themselves to trump seem to keep forgetting the Prime Principles of being Trump adjacent... and keep getting burned by their lapse of memory.
1) Never contradict Trump;
2) Never even hint that Trump is anything less than perfect and a stable genius;
3) Do whatever Trump tells you to do;
4) Loyalty only goes one way and that direction is NOT towards YOU;
5) If you are Trump adjacent, you have already demonstrated that you have no ethics, morals, or principles so why have any qualms now? Everyone already knows what you are.
I also take note that Belarus has offered asylum to the latest man convicted in the Jan 6th attack and that he's accepted it. You really can't fix stupid.
They should all accept asylum and go there. They deserve each other.
The very appearance that TFG has any staying power at all will I suspect be accompanied by the GOP of having no platform come the next national election. It has become a party of true know nothings. Truth as evidence splayed forth on a daily basis is never examined at all. COVID is an ongoing plot. The election was stolen Q.E.D. Babies are racists from the moment of conception. In New Hampshire we have legislators wanting secession. In Europe the conversation regarding nuclear weapons being used has gone from lunatic fringe to expectation of normalcy. "Just little Nukes". None of it really matters since the planet is burning up.
We really are going over the edge and seem indifferent to that fact. I feel like we've used the planet up and what remains will be incinerated by crazy people with AK47's. . I don't think I'm exaggerating all that much either. I will not be at all surprised to see this all end in a fireball.
Mankind is too stupid to survive. But look on the bright side. The earth will no doubt be a more peaceful and pleasant place once the giant mutant slugs take over.
Rubio 1%
Say a little prayer for Lil' Marco.
"suggestion that the election might have been legitimate is “a mortal sin” in Trump’s world"
This is correct. Only obsequiously public ardent bootlicking, tithes by the thousands and expectedly more, and piles on reeking piles of servile praise bequeathed to that omnipotent genius [sic], that orangutan-tinted Godhead, are acceptable in His world.
What world? The universe of that perfect scumbag, Grande El Supremo TFG.
I'm old enough to remember when "science" (aka The Wonderlic) proved Black men weren't smart enough to coach or play quarterback in the NFL.
No mention of Senator Mike Braun saying that The Loving decision was wrong. I'm sure he has science to back that up as well
Regarding transgender rights... Please find and read the Utah governor's veto message over a draconian bill, rushed through the legislature at the last minute. His reasoning is nuanced, heartfelt and kind. Compare and contrast with the demagoguery of Florida's Ron DeSantis waging war on other human beings. Sadly his veto no matter how reasonable and humane--- is bound to be overridden. Because for Republicans the cruelty IS the point.
https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/static/pdfs/hb11-veto-letter.pdf
What a beautiful letter. Thank you!
Not necessarily; unless it's already been overridden, there is just the smallest chance that some legislators will find enough courage in response to the Governor's message to vote No on the motion to override.
That's wonderfully humane. I'm going to share it with some friends. Thank you.
"Let’s put all of this in context for all the cool kids who are yelling Charlie, why can’t you just move on?"
Charlie-
Some of us have expressed how depression inducing the fact that we need to continue to talk about Trump is. (A.B. Stoddard expressed something similar on your podcast yesterday.) Please don't interpret this as a request to move on. When a house cat can't seem to master using the litter box, this is a depressing fact. But it's a fact that needs to be dealt with.
We continue to talk about Trump because he won't STFU! In his usual "bull in a china shop" habit, Trump violates every norm by continuing to blubber ignorantly and incessantly. I can't wait until he's either in prison or six feet under, just to give us a break.
Hey, I ain't no cool kid, which troubled me when I was 16. But not so much now. As I've said, I think we should try ignoring him, just as some parents do when the 4 year old throws a fit. The parent certainly hasn't moved on from the child; ignoring is a strategy meant to defuse and withhold the attention the child is seeking. We can always return to TFG watch at a later date.
We should have ignored him in 2015, but it's never too late to start.
If the Ukrainians take back Irpil, Bucha, and Hostomel from the Russians to the west of Kyiv then that Russian flank will be seriously fucked geographically-speaking. Hope they're able to take those areas back come Monday.