The Florida Congressman may one day be indicted and convicted. For now, this episode highlights the dangers and abuses of trying a person through media leaks.
The media has undermined their credibility to such an extent over the past 6 years that notihng they have to say gets taken seriously. Not sure why anyone even feigns shock any longer. Meanwhile, Disney wants to convince your 5 year old that he is a she. Welcome to upside down world. We deserve everything that's coming our way.
I wish what you said was true, but I know plenty of people who continue to believe the NY Times and other news publications are beacons of truth, especially the Times. In Trump's 4 years in office the news media used him as a headline. I'm on Facebook and not there to discuss politics, but some sites just prior to the Biden "win" soaked up anti-Trump news like it was holy water. Even the lie about WMD in Iraq that papers supported, including the NY Times, continue to be believed by many, claiming they just got them out of the country before they could be found. I agree, teachers, should stay out of the sex id of children. It's sick.
Judith Miller who worked for the NY Times pushed the position that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and her main source of information was based on what Chalabi was telling her. He is someone who had a vested interest in seeing Hussein ousted. The NY Times knew this , but gave her free rein. Now one may say they omitted that information, obfuscated the truth, lied, but they knew the outcome would be the same, war and the destruction of millions of lives, in death, injuries, displacement, etc. As they say what's in a word.
The paper used to, at least, have good content now it is nothing more than blatant liberal shilling without any pretending otherwise. No apologies for the 2+ years of Russian disinformation about Trump. No oh shit we fucked up for decades and peddled lies to the American public.
Strongly worded but deserving. Not an ounce of contrition. No apology after all that b.s. I used to subscribe to get both sides but realized, I can't give them my $ anymore. You could say I "canceled" them lol.
I know she left the Times not long after the war started and I remember only vaguely she was involved in the Plame case, somehow. I don't know that the Times would hold themselves accountable, but I think they are.
Everyone I know who hated Trump, believed every lie, including Russia-gate, was a reader of the NY Times. All these news sources have become so unreliable, and I'm sure they are often truthful in their reporting, but they have made it difficult for me to trust them.
Woke Dizzy may ultimately reap the fruits of their hypocrisy. Disney in Florida benefits from residing in what amounts to a completely autonomous politcal district, thanks to an entity called the "Reedy Creek Improvement Area", created in the 1960s. There appears to be increasing sentiment in the Florida legislature to dissolve RCIA and return political control to Orange County. That would deprive Disney of a huge pile of business advantages. A company with less infrastructure would most likely be able to shrug off such a development and relocate, but it could be a tad difficult to pack up and move Disney World...
This is why I had to close my FB account and my YT account over the Biden laptop BS. I stopped going to these sites but the truth is they control the market.
Conservatives under Bush slept for decades and the Clintons came in and stole their shit. True story.
"Meanwhile, Disney wants to convince your 5 year old that he is a she."
No, conservatives want to ignore the fact that gender definitions in this society do not fit how individuals feel; While it is a concrete fact that there are but two sexes, it is also true that due to hormones, some people may not feel right in their own skin and that is due to a society's definition of gender. People should be allowed to be who they are, which may be a male who doesn't feel "masculine" or a female who doesn't feel "feminine" and thus to be allowed to act how they feel they are without conservatives trying to make them fit in the boxes that they want them to. That is THE problem and has created the myth of "transgender". We need to accept reality.
This is not what the law says in Florida, Jeff Biss. It has nothing to do with affecting the “feelings” of gay kids or trans kids. All it says is that parents have a right to know what their kids are being exposed to, and that sexual orientation and trans issues cannot be discussed in kindergarten through third grade. Parents want to be the ones to discuss their child’s “feelings” regarding sexual orientation and trans issues prior to their 9th birthday. In Florida sex education starts in 5th grade, and there is no rule that kids can’t say gay. Got it?
Sorry, but that's bullshit. There are gay kids and those that just don't "feel" right that conservatives, including certain parents, don't want to acknowledge. There are age appropriate ways of letting those kids know that they are not evil, which, if the fucking Republicans were actually concerned about reality, could be implemented. This is NOT about sexual education. Got it?
It has nothing to do with parents not acknowledging their children. That is a smear and a lie. I didn’t give up my children to the state when they started school. Parents want to be the ones to discuss sexual issues with their children at an age appropriate time. If the public school lobby keeps up this bullshit they will lose countless students to homeschooling. And then they’ll lose their federal money.
LOL! Yeah, ignore valid arguments, that's what conservatives do. Glenn needs to pay attention to how the media lets Republicans who are actively infringing on the rights of women and gay and kids suffering from gender dysphoria are letting them off the hook. Matt is noting to worry about, his rights are not being infringed on, theirs are, by conservatives.
It has nothing to do with sexual issues. It has to do with acknowledging that gay people exist and are alright and some have kids, including those that are in class with the other kids. It also has to do with the fact that some boys want to play with dolls and some girls want to play football. Screw conservatives and their belief systems.
You say some boys want to play with dolls and girls with footballs but that is the very problem of what is being pushed on little kids. Just because I was a tomboy as a child, doesn't mean I was transgender. I was just being me. Pushing little children to believe that if you have interests outside a societal norm for a particular gender makes you transgender is insanity. Only parents should be discussing those issues with their young children for a variety of reasons. The most important reason is that the people who most care about a child's well being is 99+% of the time the parents.
the bill has nothing to do with this. Your completely off here. Its about not allowing a curriculum for kindergarten thru 3rd grade about sexual matters, and sexual education. Kids that old are not sexual beings, and are not gay or trans or whatever. They are simply kids exploring and learning about the world around them. Let them be kids. Nothing in the bill doesnt allow a boy to play with a doll, or a girl playing football. Let parents decide how there kids become exposed to this stuff, Not some teacher that may have biases and beliefs that dont line up with the parents, Thats all this bill does.
Sounds more like YOU want to be accepted and you are. If you are a gay parent I applaud you and I bet you are a fantastic parent for YOUR child as I am for mine. Also, both my son and I played with dolls when we were 9. I'm a hetero male and my son has not yet told us who he will be but when he does, I will still love him unconditionally.
You are drinking the kool-aid, sir. Kids K-3 don't know if they are gay or not, and that's not what's on their minds. More importantly, the parents need to know what is going in at school. Also, the teachers need to focus on teaching these kids age-appropriate skills. Lastly, Disney has lost the plot if they think a majority of their customers, i.e., families with young kids, want Disney to be focused on "exploring queer stories" and promoting "trans" "bisexual" and "gender nonconforming" characters.
Kids know what they feel. And they know their family situation and that of their friends. Teachers can help kids accept the fact that others are not as they are and that the way they feel is not evil nor aberrant. This is age appropriate and can be done along with the teaching of other very important topics, such as finger painting. Got it?
No, I do not. And the FL law is about "instruction" and about informing parents of "healthcare service" offered to their kids, have you read it? You can continue with your sophistry if you like, but I feel no need to argue with you that my right and responsibility as a parent is primary. Period.
At 9 years old or younger? Really? All the 9 year old's I've been associated with don't think past the moment.
The reality is, despite your opinion on the matter, responsible parents do not want to be told how to raise their kids, period! This is exactly the Democrats will be demolished in the mid terms and in 24.
My advice is not to waste time going back-and-forth with Jeff Bliss, he’s obsessed with “conservatives“ whatever that means. Have actually not seen much substance from his comments. “ The problem is conservatives“ is not an argument.
LOL! Conservatives are THE problem. They chose to ignore the fact that gay kids and those that suffer from gender dysphoria need help in being accepted because their conservative parents refuse to accept them for what they are. That's substantive, get over it.
The problems in this country are due to conservatism, always has been, so there's nothing new there. Conservatism is the internal threat, always has been.
Yes, some nine year-olds may feel different than their friends. Really. Some parents need to be told how to raise their kids, otherwise there wouldn't be kids who have trouble.
Are you a Florida voter or just playing one on the internet? Who the fuck are you to tell their democratically elected officials how to vote, especially if you dont even fucking live there.
Gay kids at 5? FOH kids shouldnt know ANYTHING about sex at 5 you fucking pedophile!
Take your faux outrage and pound it in your virtue-signalling ass
LOL! I am obligated to tell those conservative clowns in office and their stupid, conservative supporters about reality. They can choose to ignore my wisdom, which as conservatives, they do. Bad for the gay kids and those suffering from gender dysphoria.
Now go back to your silly online game that you play with the other incels.
You are literally posting anti-conservative shit on an article documenting the lies from the DNC and their media allies. You have the exact same MO as the other 8-10 individuals who do this on every thread like you did on the Capitol riots article here and threw 50 temper tantrums about conservatives are fascists. Either you are painfully young and duped by the exact media Glenn's article is revealing here, or you are a piece of shit working for David Brock and posting anti-conservative shit in any article Glenn posts PROVING the DNC or their allies are up to no good.
Its obvious you are single, miserable, and not successful in life and its sad and pathetic that you keep thinking conservatives are at fault for it.
Do you think that toddlers know they are gay or trans before hitting puberty, without any prompting from culture, school or parents? And why does this suddenly exist when it didn't only 10 years ago?
Sick. All they know is how to be kids. I'm so glad that as a former tom boy some sick freak didn't decide to sterilize me on puberty blockers and cut my breasts off. But this is supposedly 'progress.' Just, UGH.
It's obvious that you don't get it, so you must be a conservative, they don't get things and so their kids need to have someone available that can help them. You obviously can't because you just don't get anything.
No, their nature is what it is. Parents can be the problem, as in forcing their kid to feel that they are evil for feeling the way they do. There is an objective reality that those parents need to accept and the GOP is working to ignore and avoid.
So you are saying that most parents are evil? You’re sick. The majority of parents love and care for their children. And they love them unconditionally whether they are gay, trans, or straight. Your “nature” argument is a straw man. The majority of parents will not be ruled by the 1%.
The objective reality is that males have the XY 23rd Chromosome and females the XX 23rd chromosome. Every biology textbook states this as an objective fact. There is NO other objective reality. What Republican is opposing this?
LOL! Your stupidity and lack of any understanding due to your inability to comprehend must be a central trait of conservatism. I've been very clear, but you are really just too stupid to understand clarity.
The funniest part of this is I'm note even close to conservative. I respect them, though: At least they are doing all they can to protect children, whereas you shill for the professional class who are the gatekeepers for the ghouls in charge. Aren't you a good little cypher?
Many people before hitting puberty, if asked, would be confused about sexual identity. Especially if they are encouraged to be. Once you hit puberty and the hormones kick in, you suddenly get very hetero.
Best not to mess with children who "feel" a certain way, before they hit puberty. Common sense 101.
True. So what's the issue here? What is your argument, to not deal rationally with how kids feel? To make them feel horrible about it? The problem is manifested when someone decides to mutilate their own body rather than accepting themselves for what they are.
Schools are supposed to be teaching children how to Think, reading, math, etc. Not how to Feel. Parents and families support a child's feelings, not teachers. The problem with this country is that people no longer Think, they just Feel.
And they are supposed to socialize kids and that includes getting them to accept how they are, that their family is not aberrant because their parents are gay or that they are not aberrant because they're gay. Too many parents are like you and that doesn't help kids.
You might well ask why "some people may not feel right in their own skin". There are all sorts of shades to humans, in the past those differences were accommodated without concern and a very, very small number went so far as to resort to surgery to appear in their own skin. In recent years the trans community has lobbied for more. True gender dysphoria remains quite rare. It's quite dangerous to suggest dysphoria in the young before they really know who they are.
"It's quite dangerous to suggest dysphoria in the young before they really know who they are."
Who's arguing that? Just in case you think that I am, I am not. I do not accept the "trans" argument at all. I am merely arguing that there wouldn't be a "trans" thing if we accepted people for who and what they are. Kids may suffer "gender dysphoria", but they are what they are, they are not a boy in a girl's body nor a girl in a boy's body.
That's absolute and utter bullshit. The trans agenda is a result of post-modernism and the gay movement being hijacked by mentally ill people, backed by big pharma. It is being done TO kids. It is not an agenda which listens to kids, it's an agenda which grooms them.
I think that I've made my point clear, but I will try to condense it: some kids need help being accepted as what and who they are, not made to feel horrible about it, and so schools, teachers and counselors, should help them to accept who and what they are and other kids to accept them. The law makes that illegal and that is wrong.
That's not what's happening. The schools have adopted an agenda whereby they convince children they are in the wrong body, causing dysmorphia and dysphoria.
We can agree, As I noted teachers should accept children as presented and offer no personal opinion. Nor should they allow their personal feelings create issues around the child. Bullying of any type needs to be managed. Sadly, often parents get in the way of behavioral corrections and few administrators today will do their job of supporting teachers. And teachers who stray into areas they are not qualified about need to be assisted by their administrators, their supervisors.
Feelings are not facts. Let parents deal with their child's feelings. Keep classrooms (especially those in the elementary range) as places for learning facts.
Feelings are facts. Schools also are for helping socialize kids and that includes helping gay kids, those kids with gay parents, and those kids that don't necessarily act as their "gender" dictates fit in.
Jeff, you aren't as clear as you think you are. You have sounded like you're contradicting yourself, several times. Spamming won't change that impression that you're giving us. I think you believe things have meanings that many, if not most, people interpret the opposite way, or a different way. You have far too much trust in teachers. Most parents are bad enough, most of whom I believe never should have been parents in the first place. My parents are a prime example. Both alcoholics, chain cigarette smokers, drunks, and my mother an extremely-abusive drunk, especially towards me, rather than my two younger sisters who she completely brainwashed and got to kiss her ass. She couldn't "absolutely-control" me and get me to give her what her evil, sick personality desired, so she turned all her wrath on me [or I should say the literal demon(s) she was possessed with did so through her].
The teachers I had in high school who ostensibly "counseled" me, turned out to be pedophiles who, because I was a cute boy, only wanted to use me by getting into my pants. One of them had me over for dinner one night, and I think he drugged me, because I have very little recollection of what took place until I woke up the next morning in his apartment (I didn't wake up feeling that I'd been sodomized or anything, at least that I recall). I wanted to believe that this evil teacher was my "friend", which I was sorely lacking in, and in need of (or so I thought); thus, even though I was NOT gay (he was evidently "bi"), I kept in touch with him after my graduation, visited him and went on at least one hike with him. He never tried to force himself on me after that one night, if he did; but it became clear that he wasn't interested in a friendship with me if he couldn't get out of me what he desired, though I didn't put it all together until years later. He was usually too busy and had little time for me because I couldn't be manipulated into sex with him. (He was a highly respected teacher in the community.)
That same teacher was even allowed to adopt a boy as a single man who'd been single for many years. I often wondered if he was able to keep his hands off that boy sexually, because the kid seemed well-adjusted, or if the kid was his "play-toy". Perhaps he drugged him (too?), and the boy had no idea what was being done to him. (Perhaps it came out years later? I have no idea if it did or not.) So, if many teachers were so evil then, they are far worse today. I know that many of them, including the "counselors" and deans, love manipulating kids emotionally, getting them into tears, and making them feel more insecure. [My "counselors" and/or houseparents in the Jewish foster care agency I lived in from 15 to 18 years old were the same way (all, or most, Jewish houseparents / counselors). I don't know if they sexually abused any of the kids, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did. To my knowledge, they never did so to me.]
Look at former mayor of San Francisco, Harvey Milk. Before he was murdered in City Hall, he used to bring underage homeless boys home for sex (to supposedly help them), and now streets are named after him, including where I now live, and he's considered a gay "hero". The point being that now all of that perversion is increasingly becoming "acceptable". I'm concerned that next, molesting children will become "acceptable" in this increasingly permissive, "politically-(in)correct" society today, which is clearly getting worse and worse all the time. The only good thing about it is that Jesus the Christ will return sooner because of it all.
I even wonder if I was molested by my real father, and I've blocked it out, because he used to make me take showers with him when I was a young boy [with my mother's blessing---maybe he drugged me (as well)?]. I don't believe in hypnosis, so I may never find out "for sure". [My dad died in '68 at 62 years of age when I was 12 years old. I have reason to believe that perversion runs in both sides of my family, though I have no evidence---my mother was always extremely-secretive about the past, and wouldn't talk about it at all, especially ANY history about our family(ies) and/or family members, and would get very angry if I tried to find out anything from her about them. As a result, I know almost nothing about my roots.]
All of the foregoing is a lot more prevalent than most people think; so, again, if it was bad then, you can bet that it's much worse now. Many if not most of the perpetrators have just become really good at covering it up, and/or have protection from those in authority.
"It is written, thus says the Lord [God the Father through Jesus the Christ, the Word(s) of God and the Maker / Creator of all things except evil]...":
"...Even so, (return quickly), Lord Jesus (the Christ)..."! [Revelation 22:20; clarification(s), emphasis and/or paraphrasing provided by me.]
If only. Boys are always required to sit still, don't fidget, don't be aggressive as if they could. Wise teachers understand and tolerate to a point.
But however the child presents should be the child's choice not for the teacher to be concerned one way or the other. Teachers deal with parents as parents, I hope no matter the nature of that position.
See my "condensed" point. Schools have a role to play in socialization and conservatives don't want that and so gay kids and those that suffer from gender dysphoria will not understand that they're normal and things will be alright and the other kids should not pick on them. Conservatives simply can't accept anything that doesn't align with their worldview and so enact laws like this that make things worse for the kind of people that they don't like, including their own kids.
Not so sure your take on ideologies matches mine. Pushing agendas seem popular on both sides of the isle. Calling the roll with gender attributes can cause issues I've noticed in the last several years - Mr Smith, Miss Jones, etc. The open Smith, R, etc gets past that. Problems arise when Bobby Jones on the class roll wants to be called Brenda. That needs realignment sometimes which has issues all by itself.
"kind of people that they don't like" - Bigots of all stripes exist in all cultures. Fear of the other drives tribalism and division and should not be tolerated in civil societies. Asserting that any ideology is monolithic tends to bigotry.
"without conservatives trying to make them fit in the boxes that they want them to"
What a load of BS. Please show us the right cancelling people, taking their jobs, oppressing them, whatever harm you imagine - show it - because some boy doesn't want to buy a Ram truck and play football.
For every bullshit, failed attempt you make at that - let alone any scientific basis for the "feels" you mention, there are hundreds of examples of kids being harmed, physically and emotionally, by the kiddie-diddlers, and their "allies."
Not feeling "feminine" is not grounds for hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery for kids (or adults).
Seriously, you and everyone like you is insane, literally.
The Florida law making it illegal to help gay or kids suffering from gender dysphoria, book bans, anti-abortion laws, voter suppression laws, etc. The right actively cancels people and their rights all the time.
I don't understand how a person can be so deluded. Leftist companies that control the bulk of social influence right now (Twitter, Meta, Google, YouTube) are LITERALLY cancelling people on the right. I can't wait until the leftists start eating their own. And it will happen. Just ask Will Smith.
All you need to do is say that you don't understand, that's your problem. I've stated it very clearly multiple times, yet you go on really stupid tangents. "Freedom" and "liberty" are leftist, enjoy what we brought to the world.
Bwahahaha. Are you in favor of stacking the courts or illegal immigration? That is what voter suppression looks like. Having to get a vaxx card, er I mean a voter ID is not voter suppression. You are a proponent of blacks suppressing over 300,000 future voters a year, you sicko.
The law pertains to kids under 3rd grade. You want some moron 2nd grade teacher talking to your kid about anything except crayons? You people are insane, literally.
Just admit it, you are sexually attracted to children.
I comprehend what i read, you are a predator or perhaps an enabler. You want to either kill children via abortion or molest them. That is who you represent, there is no other angle to comprehend. Disgusting kiddie diddlers and aborters.
You have nothing, that is why you are saying nothing. Your position is indefensible. No matter what NPR or the other MSM outlets, paid for by HRC (human rights council or w/e they pretend to be) tell you, aborting and molesting kids is wrong. Stop enabling those that do you sicko.
neill_here: Your statement is exactly correct. Thank you. Conservatives are willing to let people of other views say and act on their views so long as it does not harm them directly. Essentially all of the attacks on faculty members and politicians and members of the media and entertainers and … have come from the left.
Think of the recent attack at Yale Law School because a Republican was one of the two debaters.
Or, on the opposite side, remember in 2016 when Bernie Sanders, the farthest left candidate gave an invited speech at Liberty University, definitely on the far right, and the students didn't shout him down but applauded him.
Or all the screaming attacks by thousands of leftwing protesters at the Kavanaugh hearings (and he is NOT far right). How many protesters were they in the building for the hearings last month for the really, really far left candidate? None is the correct answer
"Or all the screaming attacks by thousands of leftwing protesters at the Kavanaugh hearings (and he is NOT far right). How many protesters were they in the building for the hearings last month for the really, really far left candidate? None is the correct answer"
And the threat to our rights are very real in the SCOTUS refusing to strike down the unconstitutional anti-abortion laws that promote an object, the nonsentient fetus, to the status of being. The left is correct here, conservatism is a threat to individual liberty.
"Or, on the opposite side, remember in 2016 when Bernie Sanders, the farthest left candidate gave an invited speech at Liberty University, definitely on the far right, and the students didn't shout him down but applauded him."
Because progressivism, a liberal thing, improves people's lives! Not conservatism.
LOL! Eugenics and anti-Semitism were conservative. Prohibition was both, as there was a problem with alcohol that was really messing with families, irresponsible men. However, that it didn't work and led to more problems, such as organized crime, only conservatives argued for its use in fighting drugs and refusing to recognize its failure unlike previously, when progressives ended prohibition.
"Conservatives are willing to let people of other views say and act on their views so long as it does not harm them directly"
LOL! Conservatives infringe on the rights of those that they don't agree with! For example, infringing on the inalienable right of women to control their own lives through ending a pregnancy that they don't want. Making it illegal to discuss gender dysphoria and homosexuality. Banning books.
Children...education...such a massive subject. We have much to learn and should keep an open mind. Why do we have schools? I'd start with that premise. We can build from there.
Of all the things we need to fix/correct about our failing education system (if we can assume that the inability to read, write, do basic math, understand the history of the US/world and find gainful employment that provides a living wage are markers of failure), I would not start with gender confusion for K to grade school. Do we need to be sensitive to children who don't fit? Yes Sir, but that's not where I would start. If you want a real shock, watch what some teachers post on social media. Honestly, I'm no SJW but I don't need a K teacher discussing their "interesting" personal life with a kindergarten pupil. Sure, this is an outlier, but come on. It's not acceptable.
There are (or should be) boundaries. Have that conversation with your adult friends or the parents if you dare. Focus on teaching fundamentals and leave the proselytizing for MSNBC or FOX.
The issue is that if parents were the answer, there'd be no problems at school, this would never have become an issue. teachers are faced with dealing with these issues because the kids bring them up, tease each other about them, etc.
In fact, this is an issue because of conservatives not accepting reality and so their kids are not accepting and certain kids are forced to deal with being berated, ostracized, etc. If we didn't have conservative people, we'd not have to deal with such things.
LOL.. you cannot make up your own reality based on 'feelings' and then complain when rational people laugh at you.
Sorry, the mentally unstable kids of predominately mentally unstable parents do not get to define what reality is.
Once you and the rest of the kiddie-diddlers and their allies get that through your addled head, we can go back to the job of public schools, which is babysitting a bunch of barely adequate kids so their mothers can go to work and pay social security taxes and not have to raise their own damned kids.
The fact that someone assumes a victim position does not make them the arbiter of truth, morality, or reality.
You're lack of comprehension is a problem for you as is your stupidity. I can see that as stupid can't be fixed, you're simply a failure as a human being.
I think you bring up an excellent point. I was teased at school. As were my children. I was made fun of (my skin color is more "brown" than the avg and some playfully called me the "chimp"). It didn't make me happy. Tough situation...no teacher came to my rescue. Ever. My mother came to school and the rest is history.
I would not put this on "conservative" parents. Lots of liberal parents have no father in the household. I know, I volunteered in summer programs when kindergarteners didn't have anywhere to go and we hosted week long 7.30 to 1 pm session to take care of these kids. 95% Democrats if you know what I'm saying. Not a father in sight. Really sad. Wonderful kids. Exhausting, of course. But also rewarding. I digress...this is not about politics. It is about power. It is not about solutions. It's about the money. If you have power and control, you get the money. And you can impose your thinking, without having to deal with silly things like actual outcomes. Once the focus is on helping kids, we are in a good place. As long as the focus is on social constructs, this will fail.
"I would not put this on "conservative" parents. Lots of liberal parents have no father in the household"
I put the blame on conservatives because it is they who do not want schools to deal with helping kids get along with regards to homosexuality and gender dysphoria. The "no dad in the home" thing is another issue that kids would need help with as some adults that I've spoken with say that having their dad leave still affects them.
We can deal with problems but need to accept that these problems exist and some people refuse to. In this case, I see them as conservatives.
"conservatives not accepting reality" - whose reality? "we didn't have conservative people" - Nobody ought to assert they hold the ONLY possible answer. Surely we can do better than that. All parents, liberal or conservative want the best for their kids as they see fit. It really does take all kinds.
Conservatives do not accept the reality that homosexuals have always existed and that some people feel like the opposite sex. Conservatives want to do better by forcing their kids to act as they think that they should and some liberal parents allow their kids to do whatever they want. Neither is good. There is but one objective reality and we should learn to deal with it.
Well we can agree to disagree. I think myself as somewhat conservative. Have known many homosexuals, worked for one at the least (in the military to boot), partied with some, great friends with a few couples along with my late wife. Invited to funerals, particularly during the awful AIDS years. More than aware of a different creativity in our gay friends worthy of admiration. You seem to have acquired a very shallow view.
No, its not due to hormones that young children don’t feel right in his or her skin. (For older children, feeling insecure is a right of passage and part of the maturation process). There are concrete reasons if a child suffers and school is NOT the setting to address that. Its beyond the scope of teachers. One of the biggest problems that afflict society today is a loss of understanding that suffering is a part of life. Thanks to y’alls political choices, you are about to get s gigantic wake up call. But I digress. Making meaning of that suffering is what it means to be human. That’s part of “soul” talk. Or “spirit”, “will”, etc. Entitled or emotionally injured people, injured to the degree that its stunted their emotional development (as we are all injured), are projecting their unresolved issues all over the place, demanding everyone else change (even if they all did, if wouldn’t work) when what’s needed is therapy- good, old school kind. The quest for socio-political power in lieu of self empowerment is one of the most destructive additions the world has ever known. I do feel sorry for the world when the last generation of good therapists die off. With schools becoming the agents of social control I wrongly feared they were back in the day, authentic empowerment teachings or practices will be what they once were: remote, hidden, and extremely valuable. People once had to risk their lives, to trade all their possessions, to hear, if not study, from a master. We take di much for granted. We think we know it all because there are tetrabytes of information at our fingertips. Information without wisdom is like an infertile womb. All the sperm you throw at it ain’t going to get anywhere.
"... and school is NOT the setting to address that"
But it is. Schools also help socialize kids and so can help kids accept who and what they are and how their family is and get others to accept them. It's not that big a deal to bring kids into the fold.
Kids- by definition are immature human beings proceeding through a developmental period marked by rapid changes and growth. They don’t yet know “what they are”. I hope they never do! Human beings are verbs, not objects! They need appropriate boundaries, and we have intimate knowledge in developmental psychology about what successful resolution of developmental demands so the child can discover WHO they are without undue interference. You sound like you are objectifying children. They need whatever your own unresolved, unmet child self longed for. So you wouldn’t be bringing children into the fold. You’d be imposing your largely unconscious wishes on them. That’s projection. Children need to be protected from people who seek to use them to work out their own needs. And I wish for all children to experience themselves as beings- verbs- that they are- not objects- “what” they are.
Socialization - getting along with others is a fine thing. " if a child suffers" - That's a topic a teacher needs to refer to a counselor who then needs to relate to parents. It's not the job nor something teachers ought to be involved with. If the child seems to be suffering from something in the home, the teacher needs to contact child welfare agencies and not anyone in the school.
The law makes it illegal to deal with it, understand that? Teachers and counselors would each play a role, not just counselors because teachers are with the kids, not counselors. Teachers can also contact authorities if they feel the need.
More than understand the issue. Lived it. Teachers are aware of a lot but are not trained to deal with all they encounter. Good that other professionals can help. The law here demands teachers report suspected abuse and further demands reporting not be shared with any others. Laws may differ from place to place.
Why are you opposed to science? As DNA sequencing will become useful in medicine it will be critical to know whether a patient is male or female, based on chromosome 23.
That doesn't work. The corporate media may be accurately reporting, but it does take some fact checking on a person's part. There is a problem with reporting, but there is also a problem on the part of the reader or viewer. For example, with regards to Covid-19 neither the reporters nor readers and viewers exhibited any competency in reporting or understanding the reporting. For example, reporters reported that the Covid-19 vaccines were failing as they didn't prevent infection and people ate it up because it fit with their Big Pharma, anti-intellectual narrative. The fact is that only one vaccine is neutralizing, prevents infection, and that is the HPV vaccine. No others are, they simply set up one's immune system to defend against future infections.
We got the media that we deserve because too many people aren't that bright nor competent.
I think people are just scared of them at this point. The only credibility they still have is the ability to destroy people's reputations and threaten their careers/livelihoods. And that makes them angry, because they know they're evil but want to be righteous.
Your first sentence is about 5 decades too close in the future - AND is too broad (it's not ALL media, it's the LAME Stream Media, the 90% that is owned by just 6 corporations).
Your THIRD is just Fucking Ridiculous and likely informed by yet MORE propaganda.
And, while the other sentences are noise here, your remark about Disney means you don't support the ideas articulated in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. and, indeed, many aspects of the Constitution itself, such as such as equal protection under the law - a not uncommon trait of many who say they're "on the right" and "conservative."
I wonder if any of the half-dozen editors making six figures at The Intercept will admit they were wrong to censor your story on the laptop. Something tells me they won’t.
They refuse even to acknowledge the multiple news outlets publishing proof that those emails are authentic, let alone retract the CIA lies they spread that they were "disinformation" or account to the public for their refusal to let me write about those emails based on that CIA lie. The know their liberal readers want them to lie and don't mind when they do.
This shows how CORRUPT 98% of the so called "journalists" and "editors" are. And shows how many of them are in the bag of the CIA >> under CIA payroll. If 400 were under CIA payroll in 1977, how many today? 4,000? 40,000?
There are few true "investigative journalists" today. Most of the so called "journalists" are just "Presstitutes".
Actually I began using the word "Presstitutes" back in 2019, on Twitter... (when I was still there, before those degenerate tyrants of Twitter deleted my account with 164,000 followers and 72 million views in 28 days)
They all need to be sacked and subjected to gag orders. However nobody has the will to do that even if they had the power, and the swamp rats and their allies would not let their power go willingly.
I want to see if Durham has the guts to do something about them: as a matter of fact, all the "journalists" who peddled for years the fake "Steele Dossier" are complicit in Fraud and Seditious Conspiracy. So these Fake "Journalists" and editors should face Jail Time: 20 years in jail for each of them will solve the issue - and will be a good example for many years to come.
It's more than Durham's courage. The swamp rats are great at circling their wagons to defend their own. He is walking into a brick wall more or less just to try and investigate him, which is why things are so slow.
waiting for the NYT to report that Durham is being investigated for pedophilia. After that, maybe DeSantis will be "Kavanaughed".
This is an old-school Dem tactic. Lyndon Johnson was famous for accusing one of his opponents of having relations with barnyard animals. He gleefully said he wanted to hear his opponent deny the charge.
A lot of people blame Rush Limbaugh because he was the first to really get rich off being a political quasi-journalist. It didnt matter that he was on the right. We saw it continue with Glenn Beck etc.
You cant blame the left for doing the same thing the right did. The moment people got fame, fortune and celebrity from criticizing politicians you knew it would never end.
Surely you don’t equate Limbaugh and Beck - essentially openly biased entertainers who use(d) news as a basis for their entertainment - with the news media ( e.g. the NYT) who have a responsibility to provide unbiased reporting and still claim to do so.
Surely I do, in the sense that today's 'journalists' see that fame and fortune those two (for example) had and want it themselves. That if nothing else is the actual connection I was referencing. Are you disputing that is a real thing?
Taking it further, why do you assume someone publishing something has a responsibility to do anything for you, who they have no contractual obligation with?
As Glenn has posted on here both Tucker and Maddow have won in court with the defense that their content isnt really news.
So the problem really is what do we define journalism as and what is PR. I am OK with redefining that from a legal sense but when any side wants to gatekeep information or news with only 'their' rules its the exact thing Glenn's piece here is complaining about.
They are in the misinformation business. Making their audience happy is all they care about. They will push any lie, disregard any truth and ignore any inconvenient fact in order to maintain money and power. They are the greatest internal threat to our democratic republic, while the regime change swamp rats who created needless bloodshed in Ukraine are the greatest external threat at the moment. Even a year ago, I would have never thought that many in the US government were the gravest threats to the US population.
Your description puts them squarely in the pure fantasy entertainment business. They should be treated in strict accordance with that classification. No one over the age of 8 with a shred of intelligence expects a Spiderman movie to meaningfully reflect the real world.
Good way to describe the news media, entertainment that feeds people what they need and want to hear, and each has it's own audience. Unfortunately many highly educated people never challenge what is said in the media. I think people today have adopted a position and they simply reference a media that will reaffirm their faith.
Yes "marks" sound like a good idea, because a "mark" isn't really censorship, is it?
Maybe if we convince some people within large Internet companies this misinformation is a huge problem for the world their better natures will inspire them to take some risks to solve it.
For example, they might create a department to check facts and mark these noxious PR articles as "misinformation," and perhaps also give their users a helpful link to articles debunking the lies, like this one.
Then search engines could use these "marks" to downrank suspect information and bubble accurate information to the top, boosting the signal over the noise.
I think both the individual programmers and the founders of FAANG companies care about more than the bottom line and have a long vision. They know radicalizing filter bubbles and short attention spans are destroying our collective intelligence. This has been widely discussed in their circles. They may feel some responsibility for indirectly creating the problem, besides their natural inspiration to help.
....o wait, just a sec! I got a call from 2014. It seems they want their Ted Talk optimism back because none of this worked out at all. In fact it created a precipitous slide into a resentful zero-credibility fact-free world.
welp, let's start over. Maybe some kind of government Ministry of Truth? Obviously the idea sounds horrible, but it needn't be. The BBC has been an important part of British life for decades, and despite being effectively part of the government it functions more as a democratic institution than a Pravd---
"their liberal readers want them to lie and don't mind when they do"
Therein lies the money shot. The lying press would not be in business if not for an endless pool of consumers more content to wallow in the comfort of a fraudulent echo chamber than seek out and face the sometimes ugly truth.
Its unfortunate that not only are we lacking journalists with integrity it seems we lack both publishers and editors with it as well.
Your last sentence has always been true, but for decades those I would call "On the left" had at least some integrity to not sell their own people mountains of bullshit. It's only in the last 10-15 years I've seen the naked lies from the left at the level I used to see from Nixon to Bush on the right.
"The ones that sit together with warmongers, hold hands and sing kumbaya - what are they called?"
I keep telling you the answer, so LISTEN UP! They're called Neo-Liberals, and they began in earnest with Bill & Hillary Clinton and everyone who think's they're cool is one of them. EASY!
During the Trump years many left wing sites and their reporters showed real integrity prior to the Trump administration. but lost it during his time in office. Their journalistic integrity went down the drain, and although they have pulled back I have not forgotten.
Fran it shocked me that so many people I once considered at least having integrity even if I disagreed with them politically (Bob Woodward for example) now seem to have lost their minds!
I really don't listen to mainstream news, and I haven't followed his career, but associate him with water-gate. I guess people like him just go with the flow in journalism, and that means going down hill.
I don't know why but when I was replying to your post I thought of a second cousin's post on Facebook who hated Trump, but saw Biden prior to the election as our savior, and she posted that. I know Biden's history in politics and he is no one's savior, but he is certainly self serving. It jumped into my head that during the Trump years he and his followers were perceived as a cult. Their leader was a dogmatic xenophobe, a homophobe, a sexist, a racist, as were his followers, and the democrats showed themselves off as our saviors, ergo open borders during a pandemic, wokism, etc. Maybe that's why my brother never reacted to Trump in any normal way, his hate was lunatic, and now his embrace and worship of Biden. I had an encounter with him last night that was very disturbing. Oh, well.
Facebook had an internal employee thread about this issue, when it occurred, there was literally ONE brave person asking for answers. Curious if Andy Stone or the rest of the censorati are going to comment now.
This was a typical CIA Propaganda smear campaign - against Matt Gaetz. Directly from the CIA Playbook. The "media" are just the Propaganda arm of the CIA.
The CIA targeting of Matt Gaetz confirmed that what Nick Noe told me in Sept/Oct 2020 was 100% true. (maybe I should write an article on that on my Substack, in the near future...)
Matt Gaetz was informed by Nick Noe, and this is why the CIA and the corrupt Biden DOJ targeted Gaetz.
I never believed the Gaetz story, since it was based solely on accusations. I think it's particularly important in these types of cases to remain highly skeptical until definitive proof can be provided, because who in the end will suffer most from the lies and false charges are those who have been sexually abused and exploited.
For me it was clear from the get-go it was a CIA smear campaign against Matt Gaetz, and I knew the reason. It was exactly the same as what happened to Brett Kavanaugh, in Sept 2018. Remember?
I remember, and I never believed her, and I think it is inherently wrong to make accusations with no substantiating evidence. In her case it was totally political, and it never would have made it into a court of law.
I was waiting for someone smart to ask this question...
Nick Noe is a former Military Intelligence officer, a smart guy. In Sept/Oct 2020 (right before the Elections) Nick was given certain information about some very dirty stuff done by Obama and the CIA, in which were involved also Joe Biden, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and others. I can't go into the details here... (not enough space)
Nick gave the information to myself, and then to Matt Gaetz.
I appreciate your curiosity, Julie, but it is too dangerous stuff, at the moment. Perhaps after Joe Biden gets dumped in a landfill, I will write an article on my Substack on the Nick Noe info (if Nick gives me the green light)
At the moment the situation in the country is too toxic.
Good job following up on the Matt Gaetz story since your last take from last December. The MSM propaganda is thick on this story, and someone like you is needed to bring the story into proper focus.
Being that Graetz is not a Democrat, the odds of him actually being a pedophile is quite low. The Dems and their allies in the media (ie. The Washington Post) have been trying to normalize pedophilia for quite some time; most recently by trying to erase the distinction between pornography and child pornography. This just another tactic like the Russian Collusion hoax albeit much more disgusting and disturbing.
I have no proof of this conjecture - and I AM a scientist so I try and ALWAYS state stuff like lack of proof, etc - but it's a reasonably supposition that without child porn images, there might very well be fewer pedophiles as it may well convert a passing thought that would otherwise be fleeting into an obsession that drives a market.
I would focus on eliminating the pornography BUT not at the expense of charging people for taking innocent images of their own children or those of their kids playmates, which, by the way, has happened quite a few times. ...It's the ones SELLING it that deserve prosecution in my view, and the ones who create it for them to sell.
This is exactly what I've been thinking. They want to normalize pedophilia. Teaching young children about gender ideology and sexuality is a form of grooming them. There's big bucks behind the trans movement. Google Gov Pritzker's (of Illinois) cousin, James, who is now a transgender woman named Jennifer, and the philanthropy she's involved in.
That's fear mongering raised by right-wing propagandists.
I know a trans man, and watched her grow up from a very depressed girl who I saw not utilizing much of ANY of her potential, until she "found herself as a guy", and transitioned to a wonderful young adult, very happy and productive and NOT IN ANY WAY INFLUENCED BY POLITICAL ANYTHING. The only thing they had to go for them was having a loving CHRISTIAN family who accepted them as they were, and allowed them to flower however they needed to. ... You're just uninformed about trans people.
From your posts, it sounds like you consume too much right-wing propaganda for your own perception of the world to be accurate.
BY THE WAY, it's a completely false but common right-wing trope that there's a connection between pedophilia and trans-sexualism. It's COMPLETE BULLSHIT designed to gain your attention, click, and tribalism - and, wherever possible, your vote.
Keep smoking that qanon pipe... The only notable politician I can think of to be proven a pedo is a Republican (hastert) anyway thank you Glenn for continuing illuminate the nonsense that is the MSM... Gaetz is still a flipping joke no matter
Gaetz was a joke before the accusations and will be forever apparently. Look at his recent exchange with DOD secretary Lloyd Austin. What a disrespectful little shit. Its ok to have a conversation and disagree but the performative bullshit i see like this is a flipping joke. Really Fl panhandle this is who you want as your representative?
Their have been pervs on both side of the aisle. The difference is Republicans broom theirs. Dem Gerry Stubbs was busted sleeping with a 17-year old male page. He was censured but re-elected six times. Dem Barney Frank’s lover was running a gay escort service out of Franks’ DC townhouse. Outrageously, Frank claimed ignorance and was re-elected. These are facts.
I agree. Sadly, child molestation is all too common but progressives are trying to normalize pedophilia. They have even renamed it as minor person attraction or some nonsense. You don’t see Republicans trying to rationalize it.
I doubt anyone can give you real numbers on the frequency of child molestation - or any other kind - but who you're talking about are NOT progressives, they're Neo-Liberals and they're VERY, VERY far from progressives, they just have tried to wear that label to dupe people into giving them their votes. Don't fall for it. REAL Progressives gave us the 8 hour work day, the 5 day work week - and thus the week-end, the minimum wage and other benefits of daily life in the USA most people take for granted. These name-usurpers have never done anything good for The People - of the USA or anywhere else. (Same is true of the Neo-Cons, by the way.)
I recommend reading the comments from the WP story, and you can see why the WP probably will pause reporting honest journalism.
The comments with the most likes are hysterical that the WP would report the Hunter Biden story, with each top comment either denying that anything illegal was done by the Bidens, or why won't the WP focus more of their investigations on Trump and family.
The WP customer base, largely very progressive and all the way Democrat, do not want to read any "news" that doesn't confirm their biases.
The WP readers were told for 4 years that Trump and family were guilty of everything that the Bidens are guilty of. They are experiencing extreme withdrawal because they are no longer seeing negative Trump articles 24/7.
He should have been in prison for 10-15 years for vehicular homicide, DUI, failing to report an accident and fleeing the scene of an accident among other things.
Instead he died as a senator, a political lifer because of who his family members were. A Fredo. We need laws to end federal political dynasties, disqualifying people from running for office if they or their spouse has had a relative closer than a great grandparent or second cousin in office.
Teddy invited Mary Jo's parents to a gathering in Hyannis Port after her death. They thought that he was going to meet with them and explain what happened. He greeted them, shook their hands and left.
Yeah, the scary thing is, that razor sharp satire was actually absolutely true. Look what a total fuckup Joe Biden has been over his entire career, and yet he made it.
Biden has no skills that place him above 75% of the population, even when he was at his prime. When I think of plagiarism, I think of a 50 page paper that has a few paragraphs not properly quoted. Biden copied a speech word-for-word. It's why I call him Below Average Joe. He is an insult to the average joe out there.
Most people consider plagerism simply coppying script, like many of us did in school. The classic part of Joe's story was that not only did he plagiarize the script, he actually plagiarized the life experience of the author. It was a true glimpse into his soul, and it wasn't good.
The real tragedy is that a NatLamp couldn't exist today. That publication gace us PJ O'rourke, John Hughes, SNL, Michael O'Donoghue, Henry Beard, Tony Hendra, Sean Kelly, Doug Kenney, Chris Miller and The NL Vacation Movies, Caddy Shack, Animal House, and all of the John Hughes stuff, much of which first appeared as NatLamp short stories. I came of age in the 70s, and I blame NL for my very non woke sense of humor.
Thanks! The SNL sketch written by O'Donoghue that made me a big fan was "The Claudine Longet Invitational." A satire about Longet claiming the murder of her boyfriend was caused by the gun going off accidentally. I found this transcript of it: https://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75rski.phtml.
OK, well he's a legend and I envy the shit out of you. Any way you might share some of it? I don't think I can DM you, but i'd briefly post my email here if that would be easier. PJ and John Hughes were my favorites at the time, and who would have ever guessed where PJ would end up 50 years later?
WAY back in late 1978, and SUPER early in 1979, the USA was ONE VOTE SHY of having Single Payer Healthcare! (Note that when I say one vote shy, I don't mean in they needed one more senator to agree, but rather the bill needed one more voting by the Senate body - there were more than enough votes for it to pass) But, we didn't get it... Some asshole senator put a hold on the bill, and once Regan won the election, that opportunity was dead forever.
WHO?!
Well, when he died it FINALLY came out - the senate has its rules you know! - that the asshole who did that to us was none other than... Drum Roll!
Teddy Fucking Kennedy!
WHY?! Why would the "Lion of The Senate!" who claimed "the strongest champion of Single Payer in the USA!" (he claimed for decades afterward, until his death) ...WHY would he DO THAT?!
That came out, too; he was trying to Primary Jimmy Carter and didn't want him to "have a win" just as the primaries were starting.
I'll never forget, and never forgive that one. PERSONAL INTEREST BEFORE THE PEOPLE'S INTEREST! -ugh!-
Says someone who OBVIOUSLY has never been to and gotten healthcare in Europe - or even talked to Europeans about it, AND who OBVIOUSLY hasn't ever really needed the health care system - if you can call it that - that we have in the USA.
Anyone who thinks the USA has the best health care in the world is seriously ignorant about health care the rest of western, industrialized nations get.
I have actual friends who actually live in these actual countries and no, none of them say the healthcare is better than the US, only that their bill is less.
But I should believe you, the tired cliche old whitey progressive come to save the world from all its ills instead, right? You, who spend so much time in Europe, right?
I've spent over 4 and a half years in Europe since 1989.
And, my first trip was in 1976, for nearly two months, with several more between then and '89. And I REGULARLY talk with my European friends, from Finland to Norway, Scotland to Wales to Land's End in Cornwall, from Southern France to Italy to the Czech Republic and Poland to Denmark, and pretty much everywhere between. And while I have a friend or two in Greece, Turkey and a few other bits outside that center, I'm only in infrequent contact with them, but they count, too...
I KNOW what I'm talking about when it comes to the fact that the high quality of the USA's health system is only experienced by people WELL ABOVE the median in wealth. And, those with what they THINK are good insurance packages will find out the horror of what they REALLY have once they have a costly problem, especially if it's going to be long-lasting. Instead of "high-quality", they'll likely use the word, "Bankrupting."
I don't consider a young lady losing her life while the rich white guy she was with gets off scott free and becomes a politician as "the good old days" but call me crazy.
I think it was last night that Gaetz was on Tucker Carlson, and that's a beginning although there are still many who would say FOX news can't be trusted at all, and only MSNBC can. My brother says that.
I just listen to Tucker on FOX. I think he does make a concerted effort to maintain journalistic integrity, but to some extent he's hampered like many when it comes to certain topics, like the war in Ukraine, and on that issue I can see him watch his ps and qs. On climate change he's a no, no.
I'll read the article, thanks. People often reference certain people on FOX news as being highly biased, like Hannity, and he is, but never see the obvious bias on MSNBC which is on a par with CNN. There are news casts on FOX that do make the effort to be fair and balanced.
If we want to stop child sex trafficking, Gaetz isn’t someone that should be included in the topic… because calling his situation child sex trafficking makes the real thing is just part of a partisan political circus.
It is unbelievable how much effort one must go through to learn the truth about anything political. I sit politically on the right but have to verify or triangulate everything.
Ronald Reagan, "Trust but verify." Stone Cold Steve Austin "Don't trust anybody!"
If you go to the archives and have a look at old TIME magazines, or the newspapers, you will find a very large gap between what they told us then, and what we now know to be true.
Not sure if it was ever safe to read what we read in the newspapers.
"Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’." - Orwell on the Spanish Civil War
I have to say that the revelation that not only have they been lying to us for the past 6 years, they have lied to us the entire time, has shaken me up over the last year. My entire view of our history for the past 50 years has been upended.
I'm with Austin, with a small addition: if you are put in a position where you must *behave* as if you trust someone, do as much investigation of their background and history, as well as of their alleged facts, as can practically be accomplished, so that you can be prepared to explain and deal with the consequences, when they turn out to be yet another hypocritical liar taking unfair advantage.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it might just be a duck. Use the same logic with swamp rats and their allies in the legacy press.
Hey Glenn: Check out the Cuellar case in TX. Democrat congressman, very outspoken about border, very tight primary race, suddenly FBI agents are publicly raiding his house and not a whisper about it since. Cuellar was forced into a run-off by it though. If this were another country, it might look like retaliation by the Biden admin, but that couldn’t happen here, right Glenn? Right?
To a certain extent I hope he loses the run off. His opponent is an AOC follower, and based on current climate in South Texas would possibly lose to the Latina R candidate
Matt Gaetz has been ruined by the lying press. He won’t be able to repair his career. The press and the Democrats have nailed him as a pedophile and sex trafficker. But ironically, they want to put a woman on the Supreme Court who has regularly gone soft on child sex predators giving them light sentences. Go figure.
I NEVER heard that about the nominated justice, but MAYBE, just MAYBE, those people were victims of over-zealous prosecution. After all, NOBODY likes a child-predator, and, as Glenn would tell you, you MUST look at the evidence. And this includes not only said defendants but the unsupported allegation YOU just made! (Pot?! Meet Kettle!)
Apparently you didn’t watch the hearings. She tried to defend her light sentences for child predators, and didn’t deny that her sentences were lower than the prosecutors wanted, and lower than the statute recommendations. It was discussed in the hearings at length. You shouldn’t speak up when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Kathy, I'm SURE you mean well, but you didn't refute a damned thing I said.
It's STILL an unsubstantiated allegation.
NOWHERE did you say there was evidence she was wrong, much less provide it.
PLEASE gain some critical thinking skills.
People defend themselves against false accusations, even if it's about their decision in court, or anything else. It's up to whomever to prove that the other whomever was errant. You didn't do that or even try. You're JUST AS GUILTY, so far at least, as the people so-called journalists that Glenn cited in his article. Namely, citing someone else's claim as evidence if guilt is NOT evidence of guilt.
Again, she herself admitted that she gave those lower sentences. That’s all the evidence necessary. First hand. If someone commits a crime and then admits it, what more evidence do you need than the admission? That’s a rhetorical question.
Kathy, that's STILL not evidence of a damned thing.
Your assertion requires you to argue that there was something wrong with having given the sentence she gave and you've never even attempted that. Or, don't you notice that you just never actually made the argument?
That she "admitted she gave a shorter sentence" is NOT the same as "she admitted she gave an inappropriate sentence" and you never made that claim! You COULD have gone to the evidence and said, "the defendant was found to have done x y and z," and taken your argument from there, if you'd wanted. But, yeah, actually using genuine evidence takes effort, which is why so few do it, and even fewer people have the chops to call it out, which is what Glenn's article is all about in the first place: People who know most people don't have chops to recognize what is and what is not evidence use that lack of skill to "convict people in the court of public opinion." Congratulations, you're a potential victim!
Another day, another article in the Post detailing Supreme Court nominee Judge Jackson’s egregious record of going soft on pedophiles, kiddie pornographers, and baby torturers.
It amazes how good you are, while continuing to fight and serve as inspiration to all of us Glenn. Thank you
Agreed!
The media has undermined their credibility to such an extent over the past 6 years that notihng they have to say gets taken seriously. Not sure why anyone even feigns shock any longer. Meanwhile, Disney wants to convince your 5 year old that he is a she. Welcome to upside down world. We deserve everything that's coming our way.
I wish what you said was true, but I know plenty of people who continue to believe the NY Times and other news publications are beacons of truth, especially the Times. In Trump's 4 years in office the news media used him as a headline. I'm on Facebook and not there to discuss politics, but some sites just prior to the Biden "win" soaked up anti-Trump news like it was holy water. Even the lie about WMD in Iraq that papers supported, including the NY Times, continue to be believed by many, claiming they just got them out of the country before they could be found. I agree, teachers, should stay out of the sex id of children. It's sick.
The NYT doesn't lie, necessarily, they obfuscate and omit.
They lie
The NYT lies just as badly as you split hairs.
Judith Miller who worked for the NY Times pushed the position that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and her main source of information was based on what Chalabi was telling her. He is someone who had a vested interest in seeing Hussein ousted. The NY Times knew this , but gave her free rein. Now one may say they omitted that information, obfuscated the truth, lied, but they knew the outcome would be the same, war and the destruction of millions of lives, in death, injuries, displacement, etc. As they say what's in a word.
Today I saw Harris, talking a bit and screwing it up and adding a lot of ha, ha's. Good grief.
Like Duranty? Or Blair?
The paper used to, at least, have good content now it is nothing more than blatant liberal shilling without any pretending otherwise. No apologies for the 2+ years of Russian disinformation about Trump. No oh shit we fucked up for decades and peddled lies to the American public.
fuck them
Strongly worded but deserving. Not an ounce of contrition. No apology after all that b.s. I used to subscribe to get both sides but realized, I can't give them my $ anymore. You could say I "canceled" them lol.
Yeah, and they were complicit.
I know she left the Times not long after the war started and I remember only vaguely she was involved in the Plame case, somehow. I don't know that the Times would hold themselves accountable, but I think they are.
It’s commonly called “lying by omission” in circles where tegridy gets smoked.
One of the biggest selling strains from Corporate America Fucktard Farms sadly :(
HAHA
Please google Walter Duranty, Jayson Blair or any number of liars and bullshit artists they have employed over the last 100+ YEARS.
Right now I am giving you the benefit of the doubt of ignorance over malice. For now.
I am aware of Judith and Jayson - my qualifier was in using the word *necessarily.*
Covering my ass instead of ignorance AND malice.
No they lie as well.
I didn't mean to imply they didn't.
Everyone I know who hated Trump, believed every lie, including Russia-gate, was a reader of the NY Times. All these news sources have become so unreliable, and I'm sure they are often truthful in their reporting, but they have made it difficult for me to trust them.
And outright lie.
> they just got them out of the country
Just a few days ago somebody told me Russia helped Saddam to get the weapons out of the country.
I guess people want to believe anything that makes them feel comfortable and truth be damned.
Disney is running out of girls who want to be princesses, that's why.
LOL
Totally agree. Disney's customers and shareholders need to vote with their wallets. They certainly "deserve everything that's coming our way."
Woke Dizzy may ultimately reap the fruits of their hypocrisy. Disney in Florida benefits from residing in what amounts to a completely autonomous politcal district, thanks to an entity called the "Reedy Creek Improvement Area", created in the 1960s. There appears to be increasing sentiment in the Florida legislature to dissolve RCIA and return political control to Orange County. That would deprive Disney of a huge pile of business advantages. A company with less infrastructure would most likely be able to shrug off such a development and relocate, but it could be a tad difficult to pack up and move Disney World...
I sold my DIS holdings yesterday
Likewise.
Ever take a look at just what Disney owns?
This is why I had to close my FB account and my YT account over the Biden laptop BS. I stopped going to these sites but the truth is they control the market.
Conservatives under Bush slept for decades and the Clintons came in and stole their shit. True story.
You know what's even worse? They (ESPN) lied about Tom Brady. That was the last straw for me ;-) (what matters in today's America)
I cancelled Disney plus yesterday- I regret it tooo me this long
"Meanwhile, Disney wants to convince your 5 year old that he is a she."
No, conservatives want to ignore the fact that gender definitions in this society do not fit how individuals feel; While it is a concrete fact that there are but two sexes, it is also true that due to hormones, some people may not feel right in their own skin and that is due to a society's definition of gender. People should be allowed to be who they are, which may be a male who doesn't feel "masculine" or a female who doesn't feel "feminine" and thus to be allowed to act how they feel they are without conservatives trying to make them fit in the boxes that they want them to. That is THE problem and has created the myth of "transgender". We need to accept reality.
This is not what the law says in Florida, Jeff Biss. It has nothing to do with affecting the “feelings” of gay kids or trans kids. All it says is that parents have a right to know what their kids are being exposed to, and that sexual orientation and trans issues cannot be discussed in kindergarten through third grade. Parents want to be the ones to discuss their child’s “feelings” regarding sexual orientation and trans issues prior to their 9th birthday. In Florida sex education starts in 5th grade, and there is no rule that kids can’t say gay. Got it?
Sorry, but that's bullshit. There are gay kids and those that just don't "feel" right that conservatives, including certain parents, don't want to acknowledge. There are age appropriate ways of letting those kids know that they are not evil, which, if the fucking Republicans were actually concerned about reality, could be implemented. This is NOT about sexual education. Got it?
It has nothing to do with parents not acknowledging their children. That is a smear and a lie. I didn’t give up my children to the state when they started school. Parents want to be the ones to discuss sexual issues with their children at an age appropriate time. If the public school lobby keeps up this bullshit they will lose countless students to homeschooling. And then they’ll lose their federal money.
Kathy just ignore him he is deflecting from the NYT lying about Matt Gaetz article and pulling you into a bullshit argument to do so.
Remind him Matt Gaetz still hasn't been charged for anything with pedophilia or anything else.
Perhaps "Jeff Biss" has.
LOL! Yeah, ignore valid arguments, that's what conservatives do. Glenn needs to pay attention to how the media lets Republicans who are actively infringing on the rights of women and gay and kids suffering from gender dysphoria are letting them off the hook. Matt is noting to worry about, his rights are not being infringed on, theirs are, by conservatives.
It has nothing to do with sexual issues. It has to do with acknowledging that gay people exist and are alright and some have kids, including those that are in class with the other kids. It also has to do with the fact that some boys want to play with dolls and some girls want to play football. Screw conservatives and their belief systems.
You say some boys want to play with dolls and girls with footballs but that is the very problem of what is being pushed on little kids. Just because I was a tomboy as a child, doesn't mean I was transgender. I was just being me. Pushing little children to believe that if you have interests outside a societal norm for a particular gender makes you transgender is insanity. Only parents should be discussing those issues with their young children for a variety of reasons. The most important reason is that the people who most care about a child's well being is 99+% of the time the parents.
You’re oh so tolerant. “Screw conservatives.” The majority of Democrats and Republicans in Florida support the bill.
LOL! You truly are misled with your assumptions about conservatives. Stuck in the propaganda of the 80s.
the bill has nothing to do with this. Your completely off here. Its about not allowing a curriculum for kindergarten thru 3rd grade about sexual matters, and sexual education. Kids that old are not sexual beings, and are not gay or trans or whatever. They are simply kids exploring and learning about the world around them. Let them be kids. Nothing in the bill doesnt allow a boy to play with a doll, or a girl playing football. Let parents decide how there kids become exposed to this stuff, Not some teacher that may have biases and beliefs that dont line up with the parents, Thats all this bill does.
Sounds more like YOU want to be accepted and you are. If you are a gay parent I applaud you and I bet you are a fantastic parent for YOUR child as I am for mine. Also, both my son and I played with dolls when we were 9. I'm a hetero male and my son has not yet told us who he will be but when he does, I will still love him unconditionally.
You are drinking the kool-aid, sir. Kids K-3 don't know if they are gay or not, and that's not what's on their minds. More importantly, the parents need to know what is going in at school. Also, the teachers need to focus on teaching these kids age-appropriate skills. Lastly, Disney has lost the plot if they think a majority of their customers, i.e., families with young kids, want Disney to be focused on "exploring queer stories" and promoting "trans" "bisexual" and "gender nonconforming" characters.
Kids know what they feel. And they know their family situation and that of their friends. Teachers can help kids accept the fact that others are not as they are and that the way they feel is not evil nor aberrant. This is age appropriate and can be done along with the teaching of other very important topics, such as finger painting. Got it?
No, I do not. And the FL law is about "instruction" and about informing parents of "healthcare service" offered to their kids, have you read it? You can continue with your sophistry if you like, but I feel no need to argue with you that my right and responsibility as a parent is primary. Period.
Found it! Teachers, huh?
Private or public? Because the latter is... well... still the state, dumb fuck.
At 9 years old or younger? Really? All the 9 year old's I've been associated with don't think past the moment.
The reality is, despite your opinion on the matter, responsible parents do not want to be told how to raise their kids, period! This is exactly the Democrats will be demolished in the mid terms and in 24.
My advice is not to waste time going back-and-forth with Jeff Bliss, he’s obsessed with “conservatives“ whatever that means. Have actually not seen much substance from his comments. “ The problem is conservatives“ is not an argument.
LOL! Conservatives are THE problem. They chose to ignore the fact that gay kids and those that suffer from gender dysphoria need help in being accepted because their conservative parents refuse to accept them for what they are. That's substantive, get over it.
The problems in this country are due to conservatism, always has been, so there's nothing new there. Conservatism is the internal threat, always has been.
Yes, some nine year-olds may feel different than their friends. Really. Some parents need to be told how to raise their kids, otherwise there wouldn't be kids who have trouble.
Are you a Florida voter or just playing one on the internet? Who the fuck are you to tell their democratically elected officials how to vote, especially if you dont even fucking live there.
Gay kids at 5? FOH kids shouldnt know ANYTHING about sex at 5 you fucking pedophile!
Take your faux outrage and pound it in your virtue-signalling ass
LOL! I am obligated to tell those conservative clowns in office and their stupid, conservative supporters about reality. They can choose to ignore my wisdom, which as conservatives, they do. Bad for the gay kids and those suffering from gender dysphoria.
Now go back to your silly online game that you play with the other incels.
You are literally posting anti-conservative shit on an article documenting the lies from the DNC and their media allies. You have the exact same MO as the other 8-10 individuals who do this on every thread like you did on the Capitol riots article here and threw 50 temper tantrums about conservatives are fascists. Either you are painfully young and duped by the exact media Glenn's article is revealing here, or you are a piece of shit working for David Brock and posting anti-conservative shit in any article Glenn posts PROVING the DNC or their allies are up to no good.
Its obvious you are single, miserable, and not successful in life and its sad and pathetic that you keep thinking conservatives are at fault for it.
Do you think that toddlers know they are gay or trans before hitting puberty, without any prompting from culture, school or parents? And why does this suddenly exist when it didn't only 10 years ago?
Reread my posts and think about what I wrote. Then, get back to me.
No.
only its 100% about sex education, got it.
No, it isn't, it's about getting kids to feel accepted and to accept. Nothing sexual. Got it?
5 year olds? Really? Got it?
Sure.
Sick. All they know is how to be kids. I'm so glad that as a former tom boy some sick freak didn't decide to sterilize me on puberty blockers and cut my breasts off. But this is supposedly 'progress.' Just, UGH.
It's obvious that you don't get it, so you must be a conservative, they don't get things and so their kids need to have someone available that can help them. You obviously can't because you just don't get anything.
Thank you.
Adults can do what they like. Children should NOT be sexualized
Children have their nature, which may not be what you want them to have. Got it? It has nothing to do with sexual, it has to do with their nature.
Their nature is the responsibility of discussions with their parents, not teachers.
No, their nature is what it is. Parents can be the problem, as in forcing their kid to feel that they are evil for feeling the way they do. There is an objective reality that those parents need to accept and the GOP is working to ignore and avoid.
So you are saying that most parents are evil? You’re sick. The majority of parents love and care for their children. And they love them unconditionally whether they are gay, trans, or straight. Your “nature” argument is a straw man. The majority of parents will not be ruled by the 1%.
The objective reality is that males have the XY 23rd Chromosome and females the XX 23rd chromosome. Every biology textbook states this as an objective fact. There is NO other objective reality. What Republican is opposing this?
Even if this is all true, I wouldn’t recommend touching anyone’s kids.
Unless you want your ass kicked.
Your parents must have done a real number on you.
Nature changes at puberty. I know.
Groomer pedo talk.
LOL! Your stupidity and lack of any understanding due to your inability to comprehend must be a central trait of conservatism. I've been very clear, but you are really just too stupid to understand clarity.
The funniest part of this is I'm note even close to conservative. I respect them, though: At least they are doing all they can to protect children, whereas you shill for the professional class who are the gatekeepers for the ghouls in charge. Aren't you a good little cypher?
HAha. He probably lives in New York.
Haha, I don't. I live in Florida.
No, I'll mind yours.
Where have you been? https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1950skidsfashion.html
Many people before hitting puberty, if asked, would be confused about sexual identity. Especially if they are encouraged to be. Once you hit puberty and the hormones kick in, you suddenly get very hetero.
Best not to mess with children who "feel" a certain way, before they hit puberty. Common sense 101.
True. So what's the issue here? What is your argument, to not deal rationally with how kids feel? To make them feel horrible about it? The problem is manifested when someone decides to mutilate their own body rather than accepting themselves for what they are.
Schools are supposed to be teaching children how to Think, reading, math, etc. Not how to Feel. Parents and families support a child's feelings, not teachers. The problem with this country is that people no longer Think, they just Feel.
Yes…make gooood little automatons for business.
And they are supposed to socialize kids and that includes getting them to accept how they are, that their family is not aberrant because their parents are gay or that they are not aberrant because they're gay. Too many parents are like you and that doesn't help kids.
People like you are the reason my three grandchildren are living in the other hemisphere for the entirety of their k-12 educations.
Thanks a lot.
You might well ask why "some people may not feel right in their own skin". There are all sorts of shades to humans, in the past those differences were accommodated without concern and a very, very small number went so far as to resort to surgery to appear in their own skin. In recent years the trans community has lobbied for more. True gender dysphoria remains quite rare. It's quite dangerous to suggest dysphoria in the young before they really know who they are.
"It's quite dangerous to suggest dysphoria in the young before they really know who they are."
Who's arguing that? Just in case you think that I am, I am not. I do not accept the "trans" argument at all. I am merely arguing that there wouldn't be a "trans" thing if we accepted people for who and what they are. Kids may suffer "gender dysphoria", but they are what they are, they are not a boy in a girl's body nor a girl in a boy's body.
That's absolute and utter bullshit. The trans agenda is a result of post-modernism and the gay movement being hijacked by mentally ill people, backed by big pharma. It is being done TO kids. It is not an agenda which listens to kids, it's an agenda which grooms them.
LOL! OK, idiot, just keep proving your inability to comprehend what you read.
I might have missed your point then.
I think that I've made my point clear, but I will try to condense it: some kids need help being accepted as what and who they are, not made to feel horrible about it, and so schools, teachers and counselors, should help them to accept who and what they are and other kids to accept them. The law makes that illegal and that is wrong.
That's not what's happening. The schools have adopted an agenda whereby they convince children they are in the wrong body, causing dysmorphia and dysphoria.
We can agree, As I noted teachers should accept children as presented and offer no personal opinion. Nor should they allow their personal feelings create issues around the child. Bullying of any type needs to be managed. Sadly, often parents get in the way of behavioral corrections and few administrators today will do their job of supporting teachers. And teachers who stray into areas they are not qualified about need to be assisted by their administrators, their supervisors.
I have to agree with you again.
Feelings are not facts. Let parents deal with their child's feelings. Keep classrooms (especially those in the elementary range) as places for learning facts.
Like what?
Reading, writing, mathematics, English, social studies, history, art, etc. There doesn't need to be a gay parade or adult drag fetish involved.
Sooo…YOU decide what kids “need”?
No, their parents do. Thought that was clear.
Feelings are facts. Schools also are for helping socialize kids and that includes helping gay kids, those kids with gay parents, and those kids that don't necessarily act as their "gender" dictates fit in.
Feelings are facts - hahahahahahahaha!
LOL! OK, idiot, just keep proving your inability to comprehend what you read.
Jeff, you aren't as clear as you think you are. You have sounded like you're contradicting yourself, several times. Spamming won't change that impression that you're giving us. I think you believe things have meanings that many, if not most, people interpret the opposite way, or a different way. You have far too much trust in teachers. Most parents are bad enough, most of whom I believe never should have been parents in the first place. My parents are a prime example. Both alcoholics, chain cigarette smokers, drunks, and my mother an extremely-abusive drunk, especially towards me, rather than my two younger sisters who she completely brainwashed and got to kiss her ass. She couldn't "absolutely-control" me and get me to give her what her evil, sick personality desired, so she turned all her wrath on me [or I should say the literal demon(s) she was possessed with did so through her].
The teachers I had in high school who ostensibly "counseled" me, turned out to be pedophiles who, because I was a cute boy, only wanted to use me by getting into my pants. One of them had me over for dinner one night, and I think he drugged me, because I have very little recollection of what took place until I woke up the next morning in his apartment (I didn't wake up feeling that I'd been sodomized or anything, at least that I recall). I wanted to believe that this evil teacher was my "friend", which I was sorely lacking in, and in need of (or so I thought); thus, even though I was NOT gay (he was evidently "bi"), I kept in touch with him after my graduation, visited him and went on at least one hike with him. He never tried to force himself on me after that one night, if he did; but it became clear that he wasn't interested in a friendship with me if he couldn't get out of me what he desired, though I didn't put it all together until years later. He was usually too busy and had little time for me because I couldn't be manipulated into sex with him. (He was a highly respected teacher in the community.)
That same teacher was even allowed to adopt a boy as a single man who'd been single for many years. I often wondered if he was able to keep his hands off that boy sexually, because the kid seemed well-adjusted, or if the kid was his "play-toy". Perhaps he drugged him (too?), and the boy had no idea what was being done to him. (Perhaps it came out years later? I have no idea if it did or not.) So, if many teachers were so evil then, they are far worse today. I know that many of them, including the "counselors" and deans, love manipulating kids emotionally, getting them into tears, and making them feel more insecure. [My "counselors" and/or houseparents in the Jewish foster care agency I lived in from 15 to 18 years old were the same way (all, or most, Jewish houseparents / counselors). I don't know if they sexually abused any of the kids, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did. To my knowledge, they never did so to me.]
Look at former mayor of San Francisco, Harvey Milk. Before he was murdered in City Hall, he used to bring underage homeless boys home for sex (to supposedly help them), and now streets are named after him, including where I now live, and he's considered a gay "hero". The point being that now all of that perversion is increasingly becoming "acceptable". I'm concerned that next, molesting children will become "acceptable" in this increasingly permissive, "politically-(in)correct" society today, which is clearly getting worse and worse all the time. The only good thing about it is that Jesus the Christ will return sooner because of it all.
I even wonder if I was molested by my real father, and I've blocked it out, because he used to make me take showers with him when I was a young boy [with my mother's blessing---maybe he drugged me (as well)?]. I don't believe in hypnosis, so I may never find out "for sure". [My dad died in '68 at 62 years of age when I was 12 years old. I have reason to believe that perversion runs in both sides of my family, though I have no evidence---my mother was always extremely-secretive about the past, and wouldn't talk about it at all, especially ANY history about our family(ies) and/or family members, and would get very angry if I tried to find out anything from her about them. As a result, I know almost nothing about my roots.]
All of the foregoing is a lot more prevalent than most people think; so, again, if it was bad then, you can bet that it's much worse now. Many if not most of the perpetrators have just become really good at covering it up, and/or have protection from those in authority.
"It is written, thus says the Lord [God the Father through Jesus the Christ, the Word(s) of God and the Maker / Creator of all things except evil]...":
"...Even so, (return quickly), Lord Jesus (the Christ)..."! [Revelation 22:20; clarification(s), emphasis and/or paraphrasing provided by me.]
Should no one ever feel bad? Or embarrassed? Or scared? I'll wait and see what insane response you come up with.
LOL! OK, idiot, just keep proving your inability to comprehend what you read.
If only. Boys are always required to sit still, don't fidget, don't be aggressive as if they could. Wise teachers understand and tolerate to a point.
But however the child presents should be the child's choice not for the teacher to be concerned one way or the other. Teachers deal with parents as parents, I hope no matter the nature of that position.
See my "condensed" point. Schools have a role to play in socialization and conservatives don't want that and so gay kids and those that suffer from gender dysphoria will not understand that they're normal and things will be alright and the other kids should not pick on them. Conservatives simply can't accept anything that doesn't align with their worldview and so enact laws like this that make things worse for the kind of people that they don't like, including their own kids.
Not so sure your take on ideologies matches mine. Pushing agendas seem popular on both sides of the isle. Calling the roll with gender attributes can cause issues I've noticed in the last several years - Mr Smith, Miss Jones, etc. The open Smith, R, etc gets past that. Problems arise when Bobby Jones on the class roll wants to be called Brenda. That needs realignment sometimes which has issues all by itself.
"kind of people that they don't like" - Bigots of all stripes exist in all cultures. Fear of the other drives tribalism and division and should not be tolerated in civil societies. Asserting that any ideology is monolithic tends to bigotry.
"without conservatives trying to make them fit in the boxes that they want them to"
What a load of BS. Please show us the right cancelling people, taking their jobs, oppressing them, whatever harm you imagine - show it - because some boy doesn't want to buy a Ram truck and play football.
For every bullshit, failed attempt you make at that - let alone any scientific basis for the "feels" you mention, there are hundreds of examples of kids being harmed, physically and emotionally, by the kiddie-diddlers, and their "allies."
Not feeling "feminine" is not grounds for hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery for kids (or adults).
Seriously, you and everyone like you is insane, literally.
"Please show us the right cancelling people"
The Florida law making it illegal to help gay or kids suffering from gender dysphoria, book bans, anti-abortion laws, voter suppression laws, etc. The right actively cancels people and their rights all the time.
I don't understand how a person can be so deluded. Leftist companies that control the bulk of social influence right now (Twitter, Meta, Google, YouTube) are LITERALLY cancelling people on the right. I can't wait until the leftists start eating their own. And it will happen. Just ask Will Smith.
All you need to do is say that you don't understand, that's your problem. I've stated it very clearly multiple times, yet you go on really stupid tangents. "Freedom" and "liberty" are leftist, enjoy what we brought to the world.
"voter suppression laws"
Bwahahaha. Are you in favor of stacking the courts or illegal immigration? That is what voter suppression looks like. Having to get a vaxx card, er I mean a voter ID is not voter suppression. You are a proponent of blacks suppressing over 300,000 future voters a year, you sicko.
LOL! It was proven by both Republican and Democratic officials in all states that voter fraud is not a problem, it is dealt with in all cases. However, the perps are generally Trump supporters: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-supporter-charged-voter-fraud-000311749.html
You brought up the myth of voter suppression, not me. PS: Don't look at WI.
The law pertains to kids under 3rd grade. You want some moron 2nd grade teacher talking to your kid about anything except crayons? You people are insane, literally.
Just admit it, you are sexually attracted to children.
OK, you're just another mentally retarded conservative who just doesn't comprehend what he reads.
I comprehend what i read, you are a predator or perhaps an enabler. You want to either kill children via abortion or molest them. That is who you represent, there is no other angle to comprehend. Disgusting kiddie diddlers and aborters.
So you think it's okay to abort gay babies?
LOL! You just don't get it, it's that simple. You conservatives are simply hopeless.
"Not feeling "feminine" is not grounds for hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery for kids (or adults)."
LOL! I never argued that! Reread my posts and you should see that if you pay attention.
Your entire premise is that what someone "feels" is the same as what someone is, lol.
Admit it, you sexualize children. Go get help, it is sick and wrong.
LOL! OK, idiot, just keep proving your inability to comprehend what you read.
You have nothing, that is why you are saying nothing. Your position is indefensible. No matter what NPR or the other MSM outlets, paid for by HRC (human rights council or w/e they pretend to be) tell you, aborting and molesting kids is wrong. Stop enabling those that do you sicko.
neill_here: Your statement is exactly correct. Thank you. Conservatives are willing to let people of other views say and act on their views so long as it does not harm them directly. Essentially all of the attacks on faculty members and politicians and members of the media and entertainers and … have come from the left.
Think of the recent attack at Yale Law School because a Republican was one of the two debaters.
Or, on the opposite side, remember in 2016 when Bernie Sanders, the farthest left candidate gave an invited speech at Liberty University, definitely on the far right, and the students didn't shout him down but applauded him.
Or all the screaming attacks by thousands of leftwing protesters at the Kavanaugh hearings (and he is NOT far right). How many protesters were they in the building for the hearings last month for the really, really far left candidate? None is the correct answer
"Or all the screaming attacks by thousands of leftwing protesters at the Kavanaugh hearings (and he is NOT far right). How many protesters were they in the building for the hearings last month for the really, really far left candidate? None is the correct answer"
And the threat to our rights are very real in the SCOTUS refusing to strike down the unconstitutional anti-abortion laws that promote an object, the nonsentient fetus, to the status of being. The left is correct here, conservatism is a threat to individual liberty.
Why do you hate babies?
Why are you so clueless? Why don't you have the capacity for comprehending clearly articulated ideas?
"Or, on the opposite side, remember in 2016 when Bernie Sanders, the farthest left candidate gave an invited speech at Liberty University, definitely on the far right, and the students didn't shout him down but applauded him."
Because progressivism, a liberal thing, improves people's lives! Not conservatism.
Oh, yes. I love progressivism's roots - eugenics, anti-semitism, prohibition...such a great movement.
LOL! Eugenics and anti-Semitism were conservative. Prohibition was both, as there was a problem with alcohol that was really messing with families, irresponsible men. However, that it didn't work and led to more problems, such as organized crime, only conservatives argued for its use in fighting drugs and refusing to recognize its failure unlike previously, when progressives ended prohibition.
I don't want your life improved either! We agree 100%.
"Conservatives are willing to let people of other views say and act on their views so long as it does not harm them directly"
LOL! Conservatives infringe on the rights of those that they don't agree with! For example, infringing on the inalienable right of women to control their own lives through ending a pregnancy that they don't want. Making it illegal to discuss gender dysphoria and homosexuality. Banning books.
Do you think about anything except genitals and how to use them incorrectly?
LOL! You're the one who brought them up, I haven't.
Children...education...such a massive subject. We have much to learn and should keep an open mind. Why do we have schools? I'd start with that premise. We can build from there.
Of all the things we need to fix/correct about our failing education system (if we can assume that the inability to read, write, do basic math, understand the history of the US/world and find gainful employment that provides a living wage are markers of failure), I would not start with gender confusion for K to grade school. Do we need to be sensitive to children who don't fit? Yes Sir, but that's not where I would start. If you want a real shock, watch what some teachers post on social media. Honestly, I'm no SJW but I don't need a K teacher discussing their "interesting" personal life with a kindergarten pupil. Sure, this is an outlier, but come on. It's not acceptable.
There are (or should be) boundaries. Have that conversation with your adult friends or the parents if you dare. Focus on teaching fundamentals and leave the proselytizing for MSNBC or FOX.
The issue is that if parents were the answer, there'd be no problems at school, this would never have become an issue. teachers are faced with dealing with these issues because the kids bring them up, tease each other about them, etc.
In fact, this is an issue because of conservatives not accepting reality and so their kids are not accepting and certain kids are forced to deal with being berated, ostracized, etc. If we didn't have conservative people, we'd not have to deal with such things.
LOL.. you cannot make up your own reality based on 'feelings' and then complain when rational people laugh at you.
Sorry, the mentally unstable kids of predominately mentally unstable parents do not get to define what reality is.
Once you and the rest of the kiddie-diddlers and their allies get that through your addled head, we can go back to the job of public schools, which is babysitting a bunch of barely adequate kids so their mothers can go to work and pay social security taxes and not have to raise their own damned kids.
The fact that someone assumes a victim position does not make them the arbiter of truth, morality, or reality.
You're lack of comprehension is a problem for you as is your stupidity. I can see that as stupid can't be fixed, you're simply a failure as a human being.
I'm not sure that such a personal attack by either of you is particularly helpful. This lack of civility is rare on most of these SubStacks.
I think you bring up an excellent point. I was teased at school. As were my children. I was made fun of (my skin color is more "brown" than the avg and some playfully called me the "chimp"). It didn't make me happy. Tough situation...no teacher came to my rescue. Ever. My mother came to school and the rest is history.
I would not put this on "conservative" parents. Lots of liberal parents have no father in the household. I know, I volunteered in summer programs when kindergarteners didn't have anywhere to go and we hosted week long 7.30 to 1 pm session to take care of these kids. 95% Democrats if you know what I'm saying. Not a father in sight. Really sad. Wonderful kids. Exhausting, of course. But also rewarding. I digress...this is not about politics. It is about power. It is not about solutions. It's about the money. If you have power and control, you get the money. And you can impose your thinking, without having to deal with silly things like actual outcomes. Once the focus is on helping kids, we are in a good place. As long as the focus is on social constructs, this will fail.
"I would not put this on "conservative" parents. Lots of liberal parents have no father in the household"
I put the blame on conservatives because it is they who do not want schools to deal with helping kids get along with regards to homosexuality and gender dysphoria. The "no dad in the home" thing is another issue that kids would need help with as some adults that I've spoken with say that having their dad leave still affects them.
We can deal with problems but need to accept that these problems exist and some people refuse to. In this case, I see them as conservatives.
"conservatives not accepting reality" - whose reality? "we didn't have conservative people" - Nobody ought to assert they hold the ONLY possible answer. Surely we can do better than that. All parents, liberal or conservative want the best for their kids as they see fit. It really does take all kinds.
Conservatives do not accept the reality that homosexuals have always existed and that some people feel like the opposite sex. Conservatives want to do better by forcing their kids to act as they think that they should and some liberal parents allow their kids to do whatever they want. Neither is good. There is but one objective reality and we should learn to deal with it.
Well we can agree to disagree. I think myself as somewhat conservative. Have known many homosexuals, worked for one at the least (in the military to boot), partied with some, great friends with a few couples along with my late wife. Invited to funerals, particularly during the awful AIDS years. More than aware of a different creativity in our gay friends worthy of admiration. You seem to have acquired a very shallow view.
Reading below I think Kathy has the upper hand. Unfortunately Jeff got run over by a superior debater.
Said another conservative, thus indicating the problem with conservatism.
Democrats don’t have the market on Gay. There are gay conservatives aplenty.
And yet the Republicans refuse to deal with how gay kids are treated. Go figure.
No, its not due to hormones that young children don’t feel right in his or her skin. (For older children, feeling insecure is a right of passage and part of the maturation process). There are concrete reasons if a child suffers and school is NOT the setting to address that. Its beyond the scope of teachers. One of the biggest problems that afflict society today is a loss of understanding that suffering is a part of life. Thanks to y’alls political choices, you are about to get s gigantic wake up call. But I digress. Making meaning of that suffering is what it means to be human. That’s part of “soul” talk. Or “spirit”, “will”, etc. Entitled or emotionally injured people, injured to the degree that its stunted their emotional development (as we are all injured), are projecting their unresolved issues all over the place, demanding everyone else change (even if they all did, if wouldn’t work) when what’s needed is therapy- good, old school kind. The quest for socio-political power in lieu of self empowerment is one of the most destructive additions the world has ever known. I do feel sorry for the world when the last generation of good therapists die off. With schools becoming the agents of social control I wrongly feared they were back in the day, authentic empowerment teachings or practices will be what they once were: remote, hidden, and extremely valuable. People once had to risk their lives, to trade all their possessions, to hear, if not study, from a master. We take di much for granted. We think we know it all because there are tetrabytes of information at our fingertips. Information without wisdom is like an infertile womb. All the sperm you throw at it ain’t going to get anywhere.
"... and school is NOT the setting to address that"
But it is. Schools also help socialize kids and so can help kids accept who and what they are and how their family is and get others to accept them. It's not that big a deal to bring kids into the fold.
Kids- by definition are immature human beings proceeding through a developmental period marked by rapid changes and growth. They don’t yet know “what they are”. I hope they never do! Human beings are verbs, not objects! They need appropriate boundaries, and we have intimate knowledge in developmental psychology about what successful resolution of developmental demands so the child can discover WHO they are without undue interference. You sound like you are objectifying children. They need whatever your own unresolved, unmet child self longed for. So you wouldn’t be bringing children into the fold. You’d be imposing your largely unconscious wishes on them. That’s projection. Children need to be protected from people who seek to use them to work out their own needs. And I wish for all children to experience themselves as beings- verbs- that they are- not objects- “what” they are.
Socialization - getting along with others is a fine thing. " if a child suffers" - That's a topic a teacher needs to refer to a counselor who then needs to relate to parents. It's not the job nor something teachers ought to be involved with. If the child seems to be suffering from something in the home, the teacher needs to contact child welfare agencies and not anyone in the school.
The law makes it illegal to deal with it, understand that? Teachers and counselors would each play a role, not just counselors because teachers are with the kids, not counselors. Teachers can also contact authorities if they feel the need.
More than understand the issue. Lived it. Teachers are aware of a lot but are not trained to deal with all they encounter. Good that other professionals can help. The law here demands teachers report suspected abuse and further demands reporting not be shared with any others. Laws may differ from place to place.
Why are you opposed to science? As DNA sequencing will become useful in medicine it will be critical to know whether a patient is male or female, based on chromosome 23.
Conservatives or anyone else. Mind our own business and know CLEARLY what that means.
I'll do what I please and that means acting to improve the situation for others that suffer under conservatism.
That's exactly what I mean by "clearly".
Two simple rules:
1) If the corporate media says something happened, it probably didn't.
2) If the corporate media says something didn't happen, it probably did.
Works in the majority of cases, especially anything with political implications.
That doesn't work. The corporate media may be accurately reporting, but it does take some fact checking on a person's part. There is a problem with reporting, but there is also a problem on the part of the reader or viewer. For example, with regards to Covid-19 neither the reporters nor readers and viewers exhibited any competency in reporting or understanding the reporting. For example, reporters reported that the Covid-19 vaccines were failing as they didn't prevent infection and people ate it up because it fit with their Big Pharma, anti-intellectual narrative. The fact is that only one vaccine is neutralizing, prevents infection, and that is the HPV vaccine. No others are, they simply set up one's immune system to defend against future infections.
We got the media that we deserve because too many people aren't that bright nor competent.
I think people are just scared of them at this point. The only credibility they still have is the ability to destroy people's reputations and threaten their careers/livelihoods. And that makes them angry, because they know they're evil but want to be righteous.
You reap what you sow....
> undermined their credibility to such an extent
Unless it's about Russian and Putin. In this case all is true. Of course.
Where's a down-vote button when you need one!
Your first sentence is about 5 decades too close in the future - AND is too broad (it's not ALL media, it's the LAME Stream Media, the 90% that is owned by just 6 corporations).
Your THIRD is just Fucking Ridiculous and likely informed by yet MORE propaganda.
And, while the other sentences are noise here, your remark about Disney means you don't support the ideas articulated in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. and, indeed, many aspects of the Constitution itself, such as such as equal protection under the law - a not uncommon trait of many who say they're "on the right" and "conservative."
Yeah, where's a down-vote button to vote-down your comments?
I wonder if any of the half-dozen editors making six figures at The Intercept will admit they were wrong to censor your story on the laptop. Something tells me they won’t.
They refuse even to acknowledge the multiple news outlets publishing proof that those emails are authentic, let alone retract the CIA lies they spread that they were "disinformation" or account to the public for their refusal to let me write about those emails based on that CIA lie. The know their liberal readers want them to lie and don't mind when they do.
This shows how CORRUPT 98% of the so called "journalists" and "editors" are. And shows how many of them are in the bag of the CIA >> under CIA payroll. If 400 were under CIA payroll in 1977, how many today? 4,000? 40,000?
There are few true "investigative journalists" today. Most of the so called "journalists" are just "Presstitutes".
"Presstitutes" Good call!
Thanks!
You have just coined a new classic.
Thank you, Charles!
Actually I began using the word "Presstitutes" back in 2019, on Twitter... (when I was still there, before those degenerate tyrants of Twitter deleted my account with 164,000 followers and 72 million views in 28 days)
Pretty sure Paul Craig Roberts coined the term presstitute but it is fabulous.
oh really?? Nice that we both came up with the same term for those clowns!
Hi Pamela!
Like inventors where puzzling over problems yield similar solutions.
The world's second oldest profession, though it still boils down to being paid for fucking someone.
Presstitutes--love it.
Thank you, Louise
They all need to be sacked and subjected to gag orders. However nobody has the will to do that even if they had the power, and the swamp rats and their allies would not let their power go willingly.
I want to see if Durham has the guts to do something about them: as a matter of fact, all the "journalists" who peddled for years the fake "Steele Dossier" are complicit in Fraud and Seditious Conspiracy. So these Fake "Journalists" and editors should face Jail Time: 20 years in jail for each of them will solve the issue - and will be a good example for many years to come.
It's more than Durham's courage. The swamp rats are great at circling their wagons to defend their own. He is walking into a brick wall more or less just to try and investigate him, which is why things are so slow.
There is progress being made: https://technofog.substack.com/p/transcript-the-michael-sussmann-hearing?s=r
Thanks- pls keep us updated
waiting for the NYT to report that Durham is being investigated for pedophilia. After that, maybe DeSantis will be "Kavanaughed".
This is an old-school Dem tactic. Lyndon Johnson was famous for accusing one of his opponents of having relations with barnyard animals. He gleefully said he wanted to hear his opponent deny the charge.
A lot of people blame Rush Limbaugh because he was the first to really get rich off being a political quasi-journalist. It didnt matter that he was on the right. We saw it continue with Glenn Beck etc.
You cant blame the left for doing the same thing the right did. The moment people got fame, fortune and celebrity from criticizing politicians you knew it would never end.
Surely you don’t equate Limbaugh and Beck - essentially openly biased entertainers who use(d) news as a basis for their entertainment - with the news media ( e.g. the NYT) who have a responsibility to provide unbiased reporting and still claim to do so.
“I am that intellectually dishonest, and don’t call me Shirley” 😂
Surely I do, in the sense that today's 'journalists' see that fame and fortune those two (for example) had and want it themselves. That if nothing else is the actual connection I was referencing. Are you disputing that is a real thing?
Taking it further, why do you assume someone publishing something has a responsibility to do anything for you, who they have no contractual obligation with?
As Glenn has posted on here both Tucker and Maddow have won in court with the defense that their content isnt really news.
So the problem really is what do we define journalism as and what is PR. I am OK with redefining that from a legal sense but when any side wants to gatekeep information or news with only 'their' rules its the exact thing Glenn's piece here is complaining about.
They are in the misinformation business. Making their audience happy is all they care about. They will push any lie, disregard any truth and ignore any inconvenient fact in order to maintain money and power. They are the greatest internal threat to our democratic republic, while the regime change swamp rats who created needless bloodshed in Ukraine are the greatest external threat at the moment. Even a year ago, I would have never thought that many in the US government were the gravest threats to the US population.
Your description puts them squarely in the pure fantasy entertainment business. They should be treated in strict accordance with that classification. No one over the age of 8 with a shred of intelligence expects a Spiderman movie to meaningfully reflect the real world.
Good way to describe the news media, entertainment that feeds people what they need and want to hear, and each has it's own audience. Unfortunately many highly educated people never challenge what is said in the media. I think people today have adopted a position and they simply reference a media that will reaffirm their faith.
Those who choose to live entirely in a dream world frequently learn very harsh lessons about its dissonance with reality.
Im OK with it but it needs to be "marked" as PR not facts.
Facts allow for the protection from journalism.
Making up lies and PR based on your party isnt journalism, it's marketing.
Yes "marks" sound like a good idea, because a "mark" isn't really censorship, is it?
Maybe if we convince some people within large Internet companies this misinformation is a huge problem for the world their better natures will inspire them to take some risks to solve it.
For example, they might create a department to check facts and mark these noxious PR articles as "misinformation," and perhaps also give their users a helpful link to articles debunking the lies, like this one.
Then search engines could use these "marks" to downrank suspect information and bubble accurate information to the top, boosting the signal over the noise.
I think both the individual programmers and the founders of FAANG companies care about more than the bottom line and have a long vision. They know radicalizing filter bubbles and short attention spans are destroying our collective intelligence. This has been widely discussed in their circles. They may feel some responsibility for indirectly creating the problem, besides their natural inspiration to help.
....o wait, just a sec! I got a call from 2014. It seems they want their Ted Talk optimism back because none of this worked out at all. In fact it created a precipitous slide into a resentful zero-credibility fact-free world.
welp, let's start over. Maybe some kind of government Ministry of Truth? Obviously the idea sounds horrible, but it needn't be. The BBC has been an important part of British life for decades, and despite being effectively part of the government it functions more as a democratic institution than a Pravd---
oh wait...
"their liberal readers want them to lie and don't mind when they do"
Therein lies the money shot. The lying press would not be in business if not for an endless pool of consumers more content to wallow in the comfort of a fraudulent echo chamber than seek out and face the sometimes ugly truth.
"History is a lie agreed upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte, who knew a thing or two about history.
"The know their liberal readers want them to lie and don't mind when they do."
This often isn't talked about and is a fundamental problem.
Its unfortunate that not only are we lacking journalists with integrity it seems we lack both publishers and editors with it as well.
Your last sentence has always been true, but for decades those I would call "On the left" had at least some integrity to not sell their own people mountains of bullshit. It's only in the last 10-15 years I've seen the naked lies from the left at the level I used to see from Nixon to Bush on the right.
Yes, but not "leftists", NEO-LIBERALS.
- Says a random dude on Substack named Art who believes himself The only gatekeeper on earth of who can be called "left"
"The ones that sit together with warmongers, hold hands and sing kumbaya - what are they called?"
I keep telling you the answer, so LISTEN UP! They're called Neo-Liberals, and they began in earnest with Bill & Hillary Clinton and everyone who think's they're cool is one of them. EASY!
It is so odd Trump hasn't added Smollett, Brennan, and a few others to his Civil RICO case against HRC.
He can clearly show criminal behavior in concert for a specific result.
Scahill has been a big disappointment.
During the Trump years many left wing sites and their reporters showed real integrity prior to the Trump administration. but lost it during his time in office. Their journalistic integrity went down the drain, and although they have pulled back I have not forgotten.
TDS is real.
Fran it shocked me that so many people I once considered at least having integrity even if I disagreed with them politically (Bob Woodward for example) now seem to have lost their minds!
I really don't listen to mainstream news, and I haven't followed his career, but associate him with water-gate. I guess people like him just go with the flow in journalism, and that means going down hill.
I don't know why but when I was replying to your post I thought of a second cousin's post on Facebook who hated Trump, but saw Biden prior to the election as our savior, and she posted that. I know Biden's history in politics and he is no one's savior, but he is certainly self serving. It jumped into my head that during the Trump years he and his followers were perceived as a cult. Their leader was a dogmatic xenophobe, a homophobe, a sexist, a racist, as were his followers, and the democrats showed themselves off as our saviors, ergo open borders during a pandemic, wokism, etc. Maybe that's why my brother never reacted to Trump in any normal way, his hate was lunatic, and now his embrace and worship of Biden. I had an encounter with him last night that was very disturbing. Oh, well.
Woodward is the biggest shill for Democrats.
good point!
Facebook had an internal employee thread about this issue, when it occurred, there was literally ONE brave person asking for answers. Curious if Andy Stone or the rest of the censorati are going to comment now.
This was a typical CIA Propaganda smear campaign - against Matt Gaetz. Directly from the CIA Playbook. The "media" are just the Propaganda arm of the CIA.
The CIA targeting of Matt Gaetz confirmed that what Nick Noe told me in Sept/Oct 2020 was 100% true. (maybe I should write an article on that on my Substack, in the near future...)
Matt Gaetz was informed by Nick Noe, and this is why the CIA and the corrupt Biden DOJ targeted Gaetz.
I never believed the Gaetz story, since it was based solely on accusations. I think it's particularly important in these types of cases to remain highly skeptical until definitive proof can be provided, because who in the end will suffer most from the lies and false charges are those who have been sexually abused and exploited.
For me it was clear from the get-go it was a CIA smear campaign against Matt Gaetz, and I knew the reason. It was exactly the same as what happened to Brett Kavanaugh, in Sept 2018. Remember?
I remember, and I never believed her, and I think it is inherently wrong to make accusations with no substantiating evidence. In her case it was totally political, and it never would have made it into a court of law.
Who is Nick Noe??
I was waiting for someone smart to ask this question...
Nick Noe is a former Military Intelligence officer, a smart guy. In Sept/Oct 2020 (right before the Elections) Nick was given certain information about some very dirty stuff done by Obama and the CIA, in which were involved also Joe Biden, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and others. I can't go into the details here... (not enough space)
Nick gave the information to myself, and then to Matt Gaetz.
Ok well inquiring minds wanna know! Do tell!
I appreciate your curiosity, Julie, but it is too dangerous stuff, at the moment. Perhaps after Joe Biden gets dumped in a landfill, I will write an article on my Substack on the Nick Noe info (if Nick gives me the green light)
At the moment the situation in the country is too toxic.
Gotcha
Is this about Seal Team 6?
Another person in an incredibly long list who can throw some dirt at people in power.
Which makes the irony of Matt Gaetz entering into the congressional record, Hunter Biden's laptop hard drive that much more delicious.
Absolutely!!
"Delicious" is the Perfect word!
Good job following up on the Matt Gaetz story since your last take from last December. The MSM propaganda is thick on this story, and someone like you is needed to bring the story into proper focus.
Being that Graetz is not a Democrat, the odds of him actually being a pedophile is quite low. The Dems and their allies in the media (ie. The Washington Post) have been trying to normalize pedophilia for quite some time; most recently by trying to erase the distinction between pornography and child pornography. This just another tactic like the Russian Collusion hoax albeit much more disgusting and disturbing.
Yes, consider their recent SCOTUS nominee.
Ketangi says it's not the pedophile's fault that there are so many more child porn images to download.
I have no proof of this conjecture - and I AM a scientist so I try and ALWAYS state stuff like lack of proof, etc - but it's a reasonably supposition that without child porn images, there might very well be fewer pedophiles as it may well convert a passing thought that would otherwise be fleeting into an obsession that drives a market.
I would focus on eliminating the pornography BUT not at the expense of charging people for taking innocent images of their own children or those of their kids playmates, which, by the way, has happened quite a few times. ...It's the ones SELLING it that deserve prosecution in my view, and the ones who create it for them to sell.
Go preach to someone else.
This is exactly what I've been thinking. They want to normalize pedophilia. Teaching young children about gender ideology and sexuality is a form of grooming them. There's big bucks behind the trans movement. Google Gov Pritzker's (of Illinois) cousin, James, who is now a transgender woman named Jennifer, and the philanthropy she's involved in.
Against my better judgment, curiosity got the better of me to see what a trans Pritzker might look like. Yikes...wasn't prepared for THAT!
Sorry about that.
That's fear mongering raised by right-wing propagandists.
I know a trans man, and watched her grow up from a very depressed girl who I saw not utilizing much of ANY of her potential, until she "found herself as a guy", and transitioned to a wonderful young adult, very happy and productive and NOT IN ANY WAY INFLUENCED BY POLITICAL ANYTHING. The only thing they had to go for them was having a loving CHRISTIAN family who accepted them as they were, and allowed them to flower however they needed to. ... You're just uninformed about trans people.
From your posts, it sounds like you consume too much right-wing propaganda for your own perception of the world to be accurate.
BY THE WAY, it's a completely false but common right-wing trope that there's a connection between pedophilia and trans-sexualism. It's COMPLETE BULLSHIT designed to gain your attention, click, and tribalism - and, wherever possible, your vote.
Keep smoking that qanon pipe... The only notable politician I can think of to be proven a pedo is a Republican (hastert) anyway thank you Glenn for continuing illuminate the nonsense that is the MSM... Gaetz is still a flipping joke no matter
Your last phrase says it all. You actually don't care if Gaetz has his life ruined by being smeared as a pedophile, since he's a "flipping joke".
"The ends always justify the means" should be on the masthead of the DNC website.
Just like Stalin, really. But who will speak up when they come for you?
Gaetz was a joke before the accusations and will be forever apparently. Look at his recent exchange with DOD secretary Lloyd Austin. What a disrespectful little shit. Its ok to have a conversation and disagree but the performative bullshit i see like this is a flipping joke. Really Fl panhandle this is who you want as your representative?
Their have been pervs on both side of the aisle. The difference is Republicans broom theirs. Dem Gerry Stubbs was busted sleeping with a 17-year old male page. He was censured but re-elected six times. Dem Barney Frank’s lover was running a gay escort service out of Franks’ DC townhouse. Outrageously, Frank claimed ignorance and was re-elected. These are facts.
what is a "qanon pipe"? something that Hunter Biden smokes?
Possibly it refers to the free crack pipes Biden was distributing in his "smoking kits".
how do you get one of those? go outside and foam at a cop or a social worker,maybe?
I think it is crack w some l.s.d. sprinkles or something
Come on….the Dems aren’t the only pedos, plenty of Repubs too.
I agree. Sadly, child molestation is all too common but progressives are trying to normalize pedophilia. They have even renamed it as minor person attraction or some nonsense. You don’t see Republicans trying to rationalize it.
I doubt anyone can give you real numbers on the frequency of child molestation - or any other kind - but who you're talking about are NOT progressives, they're Neo-Liberals and they're VERY, VERY far from progressives, they just have tried to wear that label to dupe people into giving them their votes. Don't fall for it. REAL Progressives gave us the 8 hour work day, the 5 day work week - and thus the week-end, the minimum wage and other benefits of daily life in the USA most people take for granted. These name-usurpers have never done anything good for The People - of the USA or anywhere else. (Same is true of the Neo-Cons, by the way.)
Perhaps only a select few on the extreme left but not the vast majority of LGTBQ community. Read this: https://twitter.com/bjoewolf/status/1509355619618365442?s=21&t=4OSQo008wpDCFTMJ9DbyZw
Good point! - agreed 100%
I recommend reading the comments from the WP story, and you can see why the WP probably will pause reporting honest journalism.
The comments with the most likes are hysterical that the WP would report the Hunter Biden story, with each top comment either denying that anything illegal was done by the Bidens, or why won't the WP focus more of their investigations on Trump and family.
The WP customer base, largely very progressive and all the way Democrat, do not want to read any "news" that doesn't confirm their biases.
The WP readers were told for 4 years that Trump and family were guilty of everything that the Bidens are guilty of. They are experiencing extreme withdrawal because they are no longer seeing negative Trump articles 24/7.
" They know that their almost exclusively liberal readers and viewers want them to lie to help Democrats...."
Glenn, this may be the most important statement --from a very respected journalist-- that I've ever encountered. Thank you sir!
Again, Glenn you are a pillar of reason countering the MSM myths.
I miss the good old days when it was just Wilbur Mills and strippers in the Potomac.
RIP Fanne Foxe
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/politics/fanne-foxe-dead.html
Or Teddy and Chappaquiddick....,Bonus link from NatLampoon in the early 70s http://www.alliednetservices.com/clipart/vwbug_002.jpg
He should have been in prison for 10-15 years for vehicular homicide, DUI, failing to report an accident and fleeing the scene of an accident among other things.
Instead he died as a senator, a political lifer because of who his family members were. A Fredo. We need laws to end federal political dynasties, disqualifying people from running for office if they or their spouse has had a relative closer than a great grandparent or second cousin in office.
What Kennedy did that night was cowardly and shameful.
Teddy invited Mary Jo's parents to a gathering in Hyannis Port after her death. They thought that he was going to meet with them and explain what happened. He greeted them, shook their hands and left.
I had not heard that story. Wow.
Psychopathy almost a job requirement for a pol these days.
There was a documentary about Teddy and Chappaquiddick. I think it was on FOX. They interviewed Mary Jo's cousin.
But is in no way unique to any political party, race, class, or sex.
Everyone has their shitbags.
Yeah, the scary thing is, that razor sharp satire was actually absolutely true. Look what a total fuckup Joe Biden has been over his entire career, and yet he made it.
He made it *because* he's a total fuckup. People like him are so much easier to control than a person with thinking capacity.
Which is why Gabbard did not make it, and never would.
I used to just look at her as a C(ongressperson)ILF, but I'm really starting to follow her policy positions.
On that topic, don't the American people deserve to know who's really running the country? Who the real "President" is?
Biden has no skills that place him above 75% of the population, even when he was at his prime. When I think of plagiarism, I think of a 50 page paper that has a few paragraphs not properly quoted. Biden copied a speech word-for-word. It's why I call him Below Average Joe. He is an insult to the average joe out there.
Most people consider plagerism simply coppying script, like many of us did in school. The classic part of Joe's story was that not only did he plagiarize the script, he actually plagiarized the life experience of the author. It was a true glimpse into his soul, and it wasn't good.
The really stupid thing was thinking that he would not be caught!
😂
As I often say, "In a world of competing power centres, the president is not always The President".
These politicians are controlled by powerful people.
They are controlled because they aren't too smart to break away.
Oh wow, that is brutal and hilarious. Talk about a publication that wouldn't exist in 2022.
The real tragedy is that a NatLamp couldn't exist today. That publication gace us PJ O'rourke, John Hughes, SNL, Michael O'Donoghue, Henry Beard, Tony Hendra, Sean Kelly, Doug Kenney, Chris Miller and The NL Vacation Movies, Caddy Shack, Animal House, and all of the John Hughes stuff, much of which first appeared as NatLamp short stories. I came of age in the 70s, and I blame NL for my very non woke sense of humor.
Absolutely. For an SJW, Natlamp was "thoughtcrime" from issue one on.
MAD Magazine as well…
I used to buy every issue.
The brilliant Michael O'Donoghue was a huge influence in my own work. I received a short letter from him shortly before he died that I cherish.
Scroll down a bit to see a poster from O'Donoghue's article that I saw at the time and never forgot. How could I?
https://dennysinnoh.wordpress.com/tag/kennedys/
*this was hard to find, Google is scrubbed cleaner and cleaner every second of every day
Thanks! The SNL sketch written by O'Donoghue that made me a big fan was "The Claudine Longet Invitational." A satire about Longet claiming the murder of her boyfriend was caused by the gun going off accidentally. I found this transcript of it: https://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75rski.phtml.
OK, well he's a legend and I envy the shit out of you. Any way you might share some of it? I don't think I can DM you, but i'd briefly post my email here if that would be easier. PJ and John Hughes were my favorites at the time, and who would have ever guessed where PJ would end up 50 years later?
What kind of work did you do?
If you want to post your email here for a few seconds so I can capture it, and then you can delete it. That'd be the best way.
...For those who may not have known.
WAY back in late 1978, and SUPER early in 1979, the USA was ONE VOTE SHY of having Single Payer Healthcare! (Note that when I say one vote shy, I don't mean in they needed one more senator to agree, but rather the bill needed one more voting by the Senate body - there were more than enough votes for it to pass) But, we didn't get it... Some asshole senator put a hold on the bill, and once Regan won the election, that opportunity was dead forever.
WHO?!
Well, when he died it FINALLY came out - the senate has its rules you know! - that the asshole who did that to us was none other than... Drum Roll!
Teddy Fucking Kennedy!
WHY?! Why would the "Lion of The Senate!" who claimed "the strongest champion of Single Payer in the USA!" (he claimed for decades afterward, until his death) ...WHY would he DO THAT?!
That came out, too; he was trying to Primary Jimmy Carter and didn't want him to "have a win" just as the primaries were starting.
I'll never forget, and never forgive that one. PERSONAL INTEREST BEFORE THE PEOPLE'S INTEREST! -ugh!-
Teddy did you a favor tbh. Healthcare would be so fucked if the government had it you have no idea.
I work in Healthcare.
Says someone who OBVIOUSLY has never been to and gotten healthcare in Europe - or even talked to Europeans about it, AND who OBVIOUSLY hasn't ever really needed the health care system - if you can call it that - that we have in the USA.
Anyone who thinks the USA has the best health care in the world is seriously ignorant about health care the rest of western, industrialized nations get.
I have actual friends who actually live in these actual countries and no, none of them say the healthcare is better than the US, only that their bill is less.
But I should believe you, the tired cliche old whitey progressive come to save the world from all its ills instead, right? You, who spend so much time in Europe, right?
I've spent over 4 and a half years in Europe since 1989.
And, my first trip was in 1976, for nearly two months, with several more between then and '89. And I REGULARLY talk with my European friends, from Finland to Norway, Scotland to Wales to Land's End in Cornwall, from Southern France to Italy to the Czech Republic and Poland to Denmark, and pretty much everywhere between. And while I have a friend or two in Greece, Turkey and a few other bits outside that center, I'm only in infrequent contact with them, but they count, too...
I KNOW what I'm talking about when it comes to the fact that the high quality of the USA's health system is only experienced by people WELL ABOVE the median in wealth. And, those with what they THINK are good insurance packages will find out the horror of what they REALLY have once they have a costly problem, especially if it's going to be long-lasting. Instead of "high-quality", they'll likely use the word, "Bankrupting."
I don't consider a young lady losing her life while the rich white guy she was with gets off scott free and becomes a politician as "the good old days" but call me crazy.
Those were the good old days!
I wanted to be a stripper.
But I just couldn't pull it off!
ba-boom-tsh
Where does Matt go to get his reputation back?
I think it was last night that Gaetz was on Tucker Carlson, and that's a beginning although there are still many who would say FOX news can't be trusted at all, and only MSNBC can. My brother says that.
I don't trust either one, but I will evaluate what Fox presents. MSNBC I just dismiss out of hand.
I just listen to Tucker on FOX. I think he does make a concerted effort to maintain journalistic integrity, but to some extent he's hampered like many when it comes to certain topics, like the war in Ukraine, and on that issue I can see him watch his ps and qs. On climate change he's a no, no.
Academic studies, like by Harvard University's Shorenstein Center and UCLA, show that Fox News is the least biased of the major media.
Here is an example: https://shorensteincenter.org/patterson-2020-election-coverage/
CBS: 89% positive on Biden, 5% positive on Trump; Fox: 41% positive on Biden, 42% positive on Trump. Check the numbers for yourself. They are correct.
I'll read the article, thanks. People often reference certain people on FOX news as being highly biased, like Hannity, and he is, but never see the obvious bias on MSNBC which is on a par with CNN. There are news casts on FOX that do make the effort to be fair and balanced.
If we want to stop child sex trafficking, Gaetz isn’t someone that should be included in the topic… because calling his situation child sex trafficking makes the real thing is just part of a partisan political circus.
It is unbelievable how much effort one must go through to learn the truth about anything political. I sit politically on the right but have to verify or triangulate everything.
Ronald Reagan, "Trust but verify." Stone Cold Steve Austin "Don't trust anybody!"
If you go to the archives and have a look at old TIME magazines, or the newspapers, you will find a very large gap between what they told us then, and what we now know to be true.
Not sure if it was ever safe to read what we read in the newspapers.
"Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’." - Orwell on the Spanish Civil War
https://orwell.ru/library/essays/Spanish_War/english/esw_1
I have to say that the revelation that not only have they been lying to us for the past 6 years, they have lied to us the entire time, has shaken me up over the last year. My entire view of our history for the past 50 years has been upended.
indeed
I'm with Austin, with a small addition: if you are put in a position where you must *behave* as if you trust someone, do as much investigation of their background and history, as well as of their alleged facts, as can practically be accomplished, so that you can be prepared to explain and deal with the consequences, when they turn out to be yet another hypocritical liar taking unfair advantage.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it might just be a duck. Use the same logic with swamp rats and their allies in the legacy press.
Hey Glenn: Check out the Cuellar case in TX. Democrat congressman, very outspoken about border, very tight primary race, suddenly FBI agents are publicly raiding his house and not a whisper about it since. Cuellar was forced into a run-off by it though. If this were another country, it might look like retaliation by the Biden admin, but that couldn’t happen here, right Glenn? Right?
To a certain extent I hope he loses the run off. His opponent is an AOC follower, and based on current climate in South Texas would possibly lose to the Latina R candidate
Matt Gaetz has been ruined by the lying press. He won’t be able to repair his career. The press and the Democrats have nailed him as a pedophile and sex trafficker. But ironically, they want to put a woman on the Supreme Court who has regularly gone soft on child sex predators giving them light sentences. Go figure.
I NEVER heard that about the nominated justice, but MAYBE, just MAYBE, those people were victims of over-zealous prosecution. After all, NOBODY likes a child-predator, and, as Glenn would tell you, you MUST look at the evidence. And this includes not only said defendants but the unsupported allegation YOU just made! (Pot?! Meet Kettle!)
Apparently you didn’t watch the hearings. She tried to defend her light sentences for child predators, and didn’t deny that her sentences were lower than the prosecutors wanted, and lower than the statute recommendations. It was discussed in the hearings at length. You shouldn’t speak up when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Kathy, I'm SURE you mean well, but you didn't refute a damned thing I said.
It's STILL an unsubstantiated allegation.
NOWHERE did you say there was evidence she was wrong, much less provide it.
PLEASE gain some critical thinking skills.
People defend themselves against false accusations, even if it's about their decision in court, or anything else. It's up to whomever to prove that the other whomever was errant. You didn't do that or even try. You're JUST AS GUILTY, so far at least, as the people so-called journalists that Glenn cited in his article. Namely, citing someone else's claim as evidence if guilt is NOT evidence of guilt.
Now, please, brush up on this more?!
Again, she herself admitted that she gave those lower sentences. That’s all the evidence necessary. First hand. If someone commits a crime and then admits it, what more evidence do you need than the admission? That’s a rhetorical question.
Kathy, that's STILL not evidence of a damned thing.
Your assertion requires you to argue that there was something wrong with having given the sentence she gave and you've never even attempted that. Or, don't you notice that you just never actually made the argument?
That she "admitted she gave a shorter sentence" is NOT the same as "she admitted she gave an inappropriate sentence" and you never made that claim! You COULD have gone to the evidence and said, "the defendant was found to have done x y and z," and taken your argument from there, if you'd wanted. But, yeah, actually using genuine evidence takes effort, which is why so few do it, and even fewer people have the chops to call it out, which is what Glenn's article is all about in the first place: People who know most people don't have chops to recognize what is and what is not evidence use that lack of skill to "convict people in the court of public opinion." Congratulations, you're a potential victim!
Another day, another article in the Post detailing Supreme Court nominee Judge Jackson’s egregious record of going soft on pedophiles, kiddie pornographers, and baby torturers.