Did Anyone Ever Believe Men Could Become Women?

By Daniel Greenfield@ Sultan Knish Blog

Did anyone ever really believe that men could become women? ‘Tipping Point’ author Malcolm Gladwell helped answer that question when he recently apologized for publicly asserting that men could change sex and fairly compete against women in sports because he was “cowed”.

No one bothered to follow up with the more interesting question, ‘What is Malcolm still too cowed to say in public’? It’s a question that also ought to be addressed to the various public figures, politicians, intellectuals and talkers, who have recanted the transgender heresy.

We know that they claimed to believe in one obviously wrong thing because of some combination of social pressure, manufactured consensus and intellectual incoherence.

What else do they hypocritically assert in public while privately doubting?

The intellectual crisis that led to Gladwell publicly asserting something that a small child, never mind a respected thinker, knew was wrong has its roots in the dual collapse of the western mind. Every preexisting moral and rational system, whether the Judeo-Christian ethos or the scientific method, is being dismantled as reactionary and is in the process of being replaced with the moral imperative of a revolutionary power shift from the oppressed to the oppressors.

This permanent state of moral emergency may not be questioned and its specific assertions are not subject to any of the religious or rational tests that once provided people with a consistent worldview based around clear principles rather than hysterical assertions that the crisis of the moment, ‘trans kids’, global warming, police shootings, Gaza or any of a grab bag of causes, is too grave to subject it to the rules of evidence in a search for the actual truth.

The Left claims that its various ideological flavors are rational and scientific, but they are nothing of the kind, instead they use ideology to pick and choose their science. That was why the Soviet Union could champion Lysenkoism and lock up actual scientists because the pseudoscience fit the Communist conception of how life should work. Not how it did work.

That is why skeptics are right to question environmentalist claims of human industry causing planetary destruction for matching all too closely with traditional leftist anti-capitalism, its luddite obsessions and the romanticization of the pre-industrial countryside, no matter how many PhDs assert that they represent expert opinion that just happens to match their politics.

The bizarre notion that men could become women by identifying as women fit a ‘Lysenkoist’ notion of human plasticity. There was and is nothing scientific to the entire thing. Doctors and researchers have brushed away past subjective claims of patient experiences with various medical conditions, even when those claims were later substantiated, chose to entirely discard basic biology here not because of any new data, but because ideology demanded it.

The transgender case rested on nothing more than special pleading, on long since discredited claims that ‘validating’ delusions about gender spectrums prevented suicides (and where else are doctors willing to prop up patient delusions, let alone perform highly risky unnecessary cosmetic procedures to validate those feelings) and its assertions about men being born with ‘female brains’ were the subject of feverish fantasies in online fetish groups, not research.

The ‘science’ of the transgender case lay not in its assertion of the positive, that men could become women, but in the negative, in its radical destruction of what (as part of this process) it dubbed the gender binary. The Left never really proves its points, rather it uses conspirational agitation, turning that which it seeks to destroy into a strawman, picks out-of-context pieces of information to poke holes in it, asserts conspiracy theories in which the strawman represents a broader systemic form of oppression and then politicizes the debate into a binary choice between supporting the victims or being one of the oppressors. That is what sucked Gladwell in and so many others liberals who fear being ‘on the wrong side of history’ more than a big lie.

Intellectuals and public figures who fell for an ideological case rather than a factual one and who confused ethics and morality with the tenets of leftist ideology rationalized the unreasonable and now that the case has collapsed have to rationalize why they did it.

Did anyone really believe that men could become women? It’s the same question as whether anyone really believed that redistribution of wealth by a centralized government could make society fair. They may not have believed that it was really true, but they believed that it was right. That is the tribute that liberals pay to leftists, agreeing to see the world not as it is, but as it can be made to be, and confusing their monstrous totalitarian delusions with idealism.

Modern liberals (rather than classical liberals) and leftists both share a belief in the overwhelming power of social transformation to make society ideal. The liberal border line used to be that the transformation had to be voluntary, rational and based on the realities of human nature. On the other side you had Marxism with its morass of conspiracy theories, hypothetical economics, tyrannical bureaucracies and grad student power fantasies. Liberals could accept socialism as long as its implementation was plausible and appeared to be voluntary.

The border line is long gone. As is for the most part any distinct liberal identity. The Democrats, a party of which liberals were once a fringe, base their plans for total social transformation on the same conspiracy theories, fantasy economics and power grabs that characterized Marxists. The only way such nonsense can hold up is with total ideological conformity. Shutting up opponents, whether timid liberals like Gladwell or vocal conservatives like Charlie Kirk, is the only way that any of what now passes for liberalism can continue to control the discourse.

Believing in a dozen impossible ideological things before breakfast is not a bug, it’s a test of the communications system. Extraordinary claims used to require extraordinary proof until it was reversed so that extraordinary claims like men can become women, there is no such thing as inflation unless companies choose to raise prices and the police are committing genocide against black people became overwhelmingly accepted by liberal institutions with no proof at all, only ideological emoting, while the existence of women, inflation and crime required extraordinary degrees of proof and were denounced as dangerous backward notions.

In 2024, Democrats lost an election built on all three of those arguments. The general public continued to believe in the existence of women, wanted police to protect them from criminals and refused to believe that inflation was a figment of their imagination or could be solved by blaming companies for raising prices. As consequential as each of these three issues are, encompassing economics, society and the rule of law, the lies are crucial for understanding the corruption of the intellectual class and their role in corrupting our discourse.

The nation’s intellectual class has been divided for the most part between radicals who will assert anything, such as that looting is a public good, that castrating children is best for them and that AI will soon bring us ‘fully-automated luxury communism’ so that no one will have to work, and timid liberals who will pretend to believe anything to keep their class and station.

Universities, publishing, nonprofits and the other venues for intellectuals have become echo chambers in which any ideologically correct absurdities, no matter how manifestly irrational, false and mad, can take hold, thrive and then be used as a purity test to purge heretics. They are venues where only liars, idiots and those who pretend to believe them can earn a living.

It can be hard to tell apart the liars from those only pretending to believe their lies, and both are easily confused with the idiots who may only be pretending to be idiots, but in the final analysis all three are members of a political class pretending to be an intellectual class. When a lie becomes sufficiently unpopular, the people who pretended to believe the liars apologize for that particular lie alone, rather than for the moral and intellectual failings that led to it.

What other lies do they only pretend to believe? We’ll never know until those lies become unpopular too. But transgender ideology offered the simplest possible common sense test to people who claim to be able to tackle the most challenging scientific, ethical and philosophical dilemmas. They failed. And the entire edifice of an intellectual class failed along with them.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Trans Control Now

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

After Robert ‘Robin’ Westman shot up a Minneapolis church, local authorities and law enforcement refused to discuss the transgender child murderer’s motive, but instead spent a lot of time prattling about the weapon as if the rifle had climbed off the shelf and then opened fire.

Much as with Audrey ‘Aiden’ Hale, the transgender child murderer who attacked the Covenant School in Nashville a few years ago, killing three children and three staff members, there is an active coverup of what would make a young man or woman want to murder children in a religious setting. Audrey Hale left behind a manifesto that the authorities tried to suppress. Robert Westman filled social media with deranged rants, filmed a video manifesto and decorated his gun with calls to kill Trump and Jews, and hate toward Christians.

After every mass shooting, the media turns into impromptu gun experts, enthusiastically discussing calibers and manufacturers, to avoid talking about the motive. Probably knowing that, the killer wrote his motives on his gun and media outlets still refuse to discuss it.

The children murdered at Covenant and the Annunciation Catholic Church are secondary victims of the transgender culture wars. The primary victims were two unstable children who had been routed into the ‘therapy’ system, heavily drugged with mind-altering substances, convinced that they were members of the opposite sex and led to believe that the only thing standing in the way of their happiness were those who refused to accept that they were the opposite sex.

Some years back, Maya ‘Alex’ McKinney, who was 16 at the time and was being ‘transitioned’ from the time she was 11, opened fire at a Colorado school. Like Hale, who had been in various forms of therapy since she was 6 years old, the experiment finally ended in blood and horror.

While most countries are pulling back from the medieval experimentation on children championed by the transgender movement and radical doctors who had taken to claiming that they can identify and begin ‘transitioning’ children as young as two years old, America’s medical and cultural elites have continued the deadly practice while claiming that it helps those children.

Not only doesn’t it help, but it kills.

Robert, Audrey and Maya are just a few of the transgender mass shooters over the past 6 years as a population of mentally unstable people preyed upon by identity politics turn violent. They’re only the tip of the iceberg with the emergence of the violent transgender Zizian cult responsible for at least six murders including the killing of a Border Patrol officer at the Canadian border.

We don’t need ‘gun control’. We do need to stop drugging and grooming children, often already troubled, to join the newest slot in the alphabet movement. The tragic loss of children, often teenage girls, was the result of corrupt culture war politics and the activist teachers, librarians and bored leftist parents who sacrificed their own children on the altar of the movement to fill the time between the BLM riots and the Hamas riots.have blood on their hands for those lost lives.

We don’t have ‘gun violence’. No more than Muslim terrorist attacks like 9/11 or the New Orleans Car Jihad were ‘plane violence’ or ‘car violence’. The three causes of mass shootings are mental illness, urban crime and domestic terrorism. Democrats are responsible for causing, worsening and enabling all three by warping kids, promoting criminals and importing terrorists.

There is no ‘gun violence’ problem, there is ‘gun violence’ as a consequence of leftist policies.

Democrats and the media knowingly blew up Columbine, the first major school shooting, into a nationwide story transforming the two killers into celebrities whose names and crimes continue to be referenced by nearly every school shooter, including Robert Westman and Audrey Hale, in order to achieve their policy goal of gun control. 26 years later, school shootings are a big phenomenon and each time the media blows up each case while knowing that teenage murder suicide is a documented copycat phenomenon that will only lead to more school shootings.

Generations of medicated teenage school shooters since have been copying each other in the hopes of getting their 15 minutes in the media as the poster boys and girls for gun control.

Not satisfied with what they had done, Democrats contrived to find new ways to make things worse. The Obama administration dismantled school discipline policies because they were said to be ‘systemically racist’ leading to the Parkland massacre whose survivors were then enlisted to campaign for gun control when they should have been campaigning for schools to deal with dangerous students before they snap. Pushing transgender transitions on children through schools and libraries took already unstable teens, filled them with hormones meant to rewire their brains and then prepped them for fighting culture wars in high schools across America.

That led to more school shootings like McKinney in Colorado and Dylan Butler in Iowa. After the church shooting in Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Frey denounced any mention of Robert Westman’s transgender mental health problems claiming that there’s a “whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community” and urged the county to rally behind them.

“Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity. Kids died. This needs to be about them,” Frey told CNN. What he really meant was that gun owners needed to be villainized, not the community of mentally ill men who are under the delusion that they are women.

Adults are entitled to believe whatever they like, those who need to be hated however are the grown-ups who decided to take kids and exploit their emotional difficulties for their own political gain. No outrage is too great when aimed at the educational and medical professionals who ruined countless lives to provide more damaged foot soldiers for a radical culture war.

Many believed and still believe that they were doing the right thing. They’re wrong.

And the only way we have any hope of changing that is by having this conversation. Democrats have spent a quarter of a century enabling school shootings while shouting about gun control. We don’t need ‘gun control’. A gun in the hands of a sane, decent and moral American is no more of a threat than a car, a knife or any potentially lethal tool or piece of machinery. And anything, including a car or a can of gasoline, is a deadly weapon in the hands of a bad person.

If we want to stop mass shootings, then what we really need is criminal control, Muslim terrorist control and trans control. Get those three taken care of and most gun violence, except for rare crimes of passion, will disappear. We don’t need to control the number of rounds in a weapon, we need to control the kinds of drugs being dispensed to kids under the guise of treating them.

We need trans control. The culture war of castrating kids, cutting off their body parts, hitting them with dangerous and untested medications in the name of getting them to ‘accept’ a delusion inflicted on them by that same culture war is insane, horrifying and evil.

It’s an evil that must be driven out of every school and medical facility by a combination of parental activism, individual conscience and government intervention. There must be no room for the continuation of these barbaric medical experiments on troubled children. The occasional school shooting is the tip of a bloody iceberg. May the murdered children in Minneapolis be among the last victims of the transgender culture wars and the start of Trans Control Now.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

 

From Bud Light to Cracker Barrel

From toxic masculinity to deadly gender dysphoria

By Mike Shaw @ From Mike's Point of View

Only a short time ago, Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino was adamant in “modernizing” her restaurant chain—to the tune of around $700 million. Of course, the backlash was huge, and at the very least her inane logo change is being reversed. Naturally, this sort of brand vandalism will call to mind Bud Light’s incandescently stupid appointing of trans activist Dylan Mulvaney as a brand spokesman in 2023.

In the case of Bud Light, brand vandal Alissa Gordon Heinerscheid was fired, and is now working for LIV Golf. As to Masino, there are plenty of voices calling for her to be sacked, but so far, she remains on as CEO.

Although n=2 is admittedly a small sample size to garner significant conclusions, we might ask ourselves how such long-established brands chose these epicene—and there is no other suitable word—women to grow their business. And, why would an outfit like LIV Golf would mess with such damaged goods as Heinerscheid?

The unfortunate answer seems to be DEI virtue signaling. As always, the same question arises: Surely, qualified women are available for these high-level corporate executive jobs. Why on Earth would you hire a Masino or Heinerscheid? Probably for the same reason you would hire a Hillary Clinton, Claudine Gay, or Kamala Harris: High profile and big titles, masking precious few actual significant accomplishments, not to mention mistakes.

And, no, I am not singling out women here, since the most glaring example is recent memory of someone who has accomplished virtually nothing, rather than accumulate fancy titles is…Joe Biden. It’s just that there seems to be a trend these days of hiring women for top jobs whereby their only “qualification” is a stacked resume of positions carefully placed three to four years apart.

As to DEI, if we can believe the hype, even BlackRock seems to be moving away from it. We shall see. A prominent conspiratorial view is that “they” gave us the Cracker Barrel victory only to lull us into submission.

Meanwhile, another ridiculous trope, “Toxic Masculinity” seems to be emerging into a parody of itself. While there are as many definitions of the term as there are articles written about it, it simply comes down to cases whereby men, in the minds of the predictably academic feminist observer, cause some sort of harm to others—real or imagined—by acting in a manner expected by societal norms.

It is hardly a surprise that the term “toxic femininity” refers to damage that women can do to THEMSELVES by being overzealous in acting out their expected gender roles. So, you see, it’s all about the horrible Patriarchy ruining everyone’s lives.

And what’s the solution? It simply comes down to feminizing men. In the extreme, it morphs into gender dysphoria, which until quite recently was considered a mental illness. Actually, it still is, but now that it can be monetized, by way of hormone treatments and mutilation surgery, most of the medical community is all in. Whatever happened to “First do no harm”?

The notion that gender is simply a social construct was created by the despicable “sexologist” John Money. Oddly, it doesn’t seem to matter that Money was a proven quack having utterly failed in the notorious case of the Reimer twins.

The twins, Bruce and Brain, were born in 1965, and Bruce suffered a tragic accident during a botched circumcision. Money convinced the parents that Bruce should be raised as a girl, Brenda, and trying for some years—without success—to convince him to have “corrective” surgery done giving him a vagina. Bruce, being a product of his genetics refused, and eventually had the proper corrective surgery, giving him a penis.

Money’s therapy included sexual role play between the brothers as early as age six. Money also published false results as the “John/Joan case” portraying it all as a success. The two boys would eventually commit suicide. And, yes, Money had a career at Johns Hopkins of around 50 years.

We know for sure that the recent Minneapolis school shooter was trans. According to Benny Johnson…

"The pattern is undeniable: Today's Annunciation Catholic Church shooter identified as trans. The Nashville Christian shooter identified as trans. The Lakewood Church shooter identified as trans. The Colorado Springs shooter identified as non binary. The Denver shooter identified as trans. The Aberdeen shooter identified as trans. The Iowa high school shooter was a trans activist."

Most notions of “toxic masculinity” would agree that a mass shooting is pretty toxic. How ironic that in at least the latest case, the perp didn’t want to be a man at all.

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The CDC Fakes a Transgender Phenomenon

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

If transgenderism is a naturally occurring biological phenomenon, it should be evenly distributed across the population, instead the latest demographic report from a UCLA sexuality institute that uses CDC numbers shows that more than half of the ‘transgender’ population is under 24.

The Williams Institute at UCLA law school broke down transgender demographics to find that 54% of the ‘transgender’ population was under 24 years old.

Even more revealingly, the percentages fall sharply as ages rise and rise even more intensely as ages drop. After 25, transgenderism falls off a cliff, nearly disappears after 35 (and hardly exists for those over 65, sorry Admiral Rick Levine) but rises sharply the younger the teens get with the highest percentages of transgender identification kicking in among teens 13 to 17.

A quarter of the ‘transgender’ population is between 13 and 17 years old. There are more teens in that age range who claim to be ‘transgender’ than the total ‘transgender’ population over 35.

According to the UCLA report, 724,000 “youth” now identify as ‘transgender’.

If 25% of the ‘transgender’ population falls within 5 years, there’s either something in the water or something in the culture. And if there were something in the water, we’d all be drinking it. What is unique about teens in that age range is that they spend much of their time in classrooms and on specific social media platforms like TikTok that promote this identity.

There’s nothing organic about numbers like these. They are not the result of any biological phenomenon, but are a manufactured social contagion that intensely targets teens. They are certainly not the result of pseudoscientific nonsense like “being born in the wrong body”, but of high pressure tactics practiced on social media and in educational settings promoting a transgender identity to troubled teens as the answer to their emotional and social problems.

To understand why ‘transgenderism’ became a phenomenon requires looking not at biology or genetics, but at the cultural influences that teens are subject to that the rest of us are not.

Revealingly, the numbers for teen ‘transgenderism’ come out of the school system.

The Biden administration added the transgender question to the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey as a mandatory question for high school students. The CDC’s question was deliberately worded in an ambiguous way to maximize responses, asking teens “some people describe themselves as transgender when their sex at birth does not match the way they think or feel about their gender”. (The question should be removed from the CDC’s survey.) The question does not ask teenage boys if they believe they’re girls or teenage girls if they believe themselves to be boys because that would reduce the number of affirmative responses.

The CDC’s transgender question is itself an example of grooming, defining transgenderism in a softer way that encourages teens struggling with themselves to identify that way. But the CDC’s survey question is really trying to measure the effects of educational indoctrination on identity. And then feeds it back by urging schools to protect student “mental health” by creating “safe spaces” and “inclusive clubs” for “LGBTQ” students to promote transgender identity.

How reliable are the CDC’s survey numbers? The CDC’s questionnaire went to 20,000 students. Many states, including Florida, Mississippi, Iowa, Minnesota, Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho did not participate, so sizable parts of the country were screened out. Worse still, LA and San Francisco were declared to be “representative” school districts for California, Nashville for Georgia, Portland for Oregon and Seattle for Washington. Other “representative” school districts included Boston, Chicago, NYC, Philly, D.C. and Newark. The CDC’s principle appeared to be the maximization of wokeness. And the results from those 20,000 students, apparently concentrated in more liberal areas, were generalized to form a snapshot of teens nationwide.

That is where the nationwide 724,000 transgender teen estimate actually comes from.

The adult portions of the UCLA study come from the CDC’s Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System which are in turn supposedly gathered from a larger sample of 400,000 interviews. There are all sorts of statistical problems with the CDC’s BRFSS estimates of particular groups, and while these are esoteric, the problem with the results is a little easier for anyone to spot.

For example, Alaska is estimated to have a nicely rounded 1,700 ‘transgender women’ (men who claim to be women), 1,700 ‘transgender men’ (women who claim to be men) and 1,700 ‘transgender nonbinaries’ (who claim not to be whatever they are). Then, there are the 1,700 transgender teens in Alaska and 1,700 transgenders between 18 and 24 years old.

What are the odds of exactly 1,700 Alaskans falling into each category? Making these numbers even more improbable is Alaska’s famous male-skewed gender ratio. But not only does Alaska apparently have nearly as high a ratio of transgenders as California, but it has the same exact number of men identifying as women as the number of women identifying as men.

But once all of Alaska is transgender, the state’s male-female gender will finally disappear.

Maybe that’s why the CDC numbers also claim that Alaska has a higher non-binary ratio than California. And Alaska isn’t alone. Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Minnesota and Missouri, not to mention Arkansas, Ohio, Mississippi and West Virginia have higher ratios of men identifying as women than (the other ways around) than California.

But the winner by far is Oklahoma. And really, how likely is that?

Other incredible statistics from the CDC survey are the exactly 3,500 men identifying as women and 3,500 non-binaries in New Hampshire, and the exactly 1,600 men identifying as women and 1,600 women identifying as men in D.C. There may not be something in the water, but there may be something in the numbers. The goal of the numbers is to manufacture the idea of a widespread transgender trend that is sweeping the country and sweeping the youth.

How real is it? As real as the 1,700 nonbinaries of Alaska.

There is a real phenomenon of adults grooming teens to get on to the latest radical identity politics trend. Once teens fall into this trap, they’re dosed with castration drugs that leave them unable to ever lead normal lives again in exchange for being used as poster boys and girls for the movement. But it is not nearly as widespread as the various surveys try to claim.

It is however an insidious form of grooming that destroys lives, relationships and futures, and must be eliminated from America’s schools. And all federal support for it, whether at the CDC or anywhere else, must end.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Simone Biles Never Competed Against Men

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Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles has a lot of nerve! She NEVER had to complete against a MAN (aka trans woman) who might have taken away any of her gold medals and replaced them with silver. Yet she is out there telling 12-time NCAA All-American swimmer and pro-female in sports Riley Gaines to pound sand. 

Referring to the 2022 NCAA championship that was STOLEN by MR. Lia Thomas, the woke Biles posted to Gaines on social media, I should say a vile and irrational post: 

You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!! But instead… You bully them… One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!

The irrationality and vileness of Biles comments are demonstrated in this article, calling Gaines a bully.   How would Biles have reacted if any or all her Gold Olympic medals had been SILVER because some guy who was a mediocre gymnastic athlete decided to be a gal? We don’t think Biles would be singing the same tune if the guy stole her first-place position on the podium.

There’s nothing like worrying that you will lose your $300,000 and $400,000 speaking engagements. A few days later, Biles posted an apology on X that you can tell was not written by her. This is what I tweeted back: 

Ms. Biles, your publicist wrote a nice "apology" for you; however, I do not accept it because I believe your original tweet represents your views. Guess you can add me to your list of sore losers. 

• Women’s Athlete From One Sport Not Threatened by Men Calls for Transgender Sports 
• Simone Biles' 'Body Positivity' Video Comes Back to Bite Her After Insulting Riley Gaines

If you want to contact Simone Biles through her publicist:  Email: (media) alex.rozis@octagon.com Phone: (USA Gymnastics) 317-237-5050 Write: Octagon Public Relations, 7 Ocean St., #S, Portland, ME 04106

The Transvestite, the Tax Credit and the Governor

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

The story of the governor, the transvestite and the tax credit began when Gavin Newsom first ran for office and called on the support of the state’s wealthiest and most famous transvestite.

“I’m honored to have your vote,” Newsom told Ru Paul. The celebrity millionaire drag queen endorsed Newsom in the governor’s race and praised him for having “changed the course of history for LGBT Americans” and for legalizing drugs. “Legal weed, baby!”

The campaign video posted on Newsom’s social media and on the World of Wonder company which produces Ru Paul’s Drag Race raised legal and campaign issues that were never addressed. Those issues have only become more serious after World of Wonder received a $1.7 million film tax credit for a production listed only as ‘Untitled Drag Queen Movie’.

California’s notoriously corrupt film tax credit system exploded under Gov. Gavin Newsom.

$192 million in film credits were allocated when Newsom ran for office. California currently offers $350 million in film tax credits and as Newsom prepares for a presidential run, he’s ignoring budget deficits and is working to more than double the amount of money to $750 million.

This massive unprecedented giveaway to Newsom’s Hollywood donors comes as California is in financial trouble and is making deep cuts in public services, but tens of millions have already been awarded to the productions of major companies like Disney, Apple and Warner Bros.

The good news is that Gov. Newsom didn’t forget his drag queen friends. ‘Untitled Drag Queen Movie’ got $1.7 million at the expense of California taxpayers. And while that $1.7 million is far less than some bigger movies received, it’s around 25% of Drag Queen’s $6.6 million budget.

While there’s no word on the content, World of Wonder is the epicenter of a ‘drag queen’ empire with DragCon conventions in Los Angeles that claim to have hundreds of thousands of attendees, massive merchandising and a great deal of enthusiasm for targeting children.

Behind Ru Paul, a black man, and World of Wonder, are Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, two white producers. The name ‘World of Wonder’ appears to come from a British children’s magazine that was popular when Bailey was growing up.

“It’s kids’ response to the show that is most inspiring to us,” Bailey, a gay British immigrant, told the Los Angeles Blade. “Kids today, they don’t care about that. They just love it. It’s like Big Bird or UglyDolls or Lego movies, and they respond to that”.

Drag Con features ‘performances’ by children, the inevitable ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’, and Bailey raves about “younger kids dragging their mums and dads along.”

Around the same time that Newsom was getting his endorsement from World of Wonder, the production company debuted ‘Drag Tots’, an animated series targeting children, in which Ru Paul as ‘Corny the Unicorn’ promotes being a drag queen to kids.

‘Drag Tots’ is one of several ‘children’s’ shows produced by World of Wonder.

Alongside its promotion of transvestites as glamorous to adults and children, World of Wonder also prides itself on producing ‘documentaries’ negatively portraying Christianity.

Bailey has donated to Hillary Clinton and Pete Buttigieg. Barbato donated to Obama, Biden and Sen. Adam Schiff, but much as the Newsom endorsement demonstrated, World of Wonder has a larger entanglement with the Democrats through its celebrity presence than just with money.

In 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a “Pride Month” and invited Darius Jeremy “DJ” Pierce, who identifies as ‘Shangela’, a celebrity veteran of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, to speak. The two took a selfie together. He boasted of being “the first drag queen in drag to ever attend an event at the residence of the Vice President of America” and declared “drag queens belong everywhere, especially in the residence of the vice president.” Pierce was repeatedly accused of sexual assault including in a lawsuit filed earlier this year.

No matter how much World of Wonder and its Democrat allies pretend that the drag queen business is detached from sexual exploitation, Ru Paul got his start as early as 15 years old. In one of his early camera appearances, he could be seen claiming that “the meat market is filled with transvestite hookers by night… maybe I’ll make my rent money.”

$1.7 million in taxpayer money can cover a great deal of rent.

And with World of Wonder’s history, it is not at all impossible that California taxpayers may have been entrapped into funding a transgender movie meant to have an impact on children.

Seven years ago, Gov. Newsom told Ru Paul that he was “honored and humbled” to have his support. The sexual assaults and the targeting of children don’t seem to have changed his mind any. While the governor claims to have moderated some of his transgender positions on his podcast, the $1.7 million in funding to ‘Untitled Drag Queen Movie’ suggests otherwise.

Transvestites transform themselves by changing their clothes and politicians undergo their own makeovers for different audiences. The best way to judge a man may be not by how he wants to be seen, but by what he actually does. Even as Gov. Gavin Newsom preps for a presidential run by claiming to be a born-again moderate, he’s pushing a $750 million giveaway to Hollywood.

The Gavin Newsom who stood on stage with Ru Paul and announced that he was “honored and humbled” to have the support of the drag queen is still the same man even with a moderate makeover. And if there’s any doubt about that, the $1.7 million in funding for a drag queen movie by a company that targets kids ought to end the question of what Newsom really believes.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

UK Supreme Court Finds Women Exist

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

In the year 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that women exist.

The shocking ruling by two lady justices (Lady Rose and Lady Simler) and one lord (Lord Hodge) found for the existence of women and concluded that men do not become women by putting on dresses and getting a government document certifying that they’re female now.

The two elderly Jewish ladies and Scottish lord, who are presumably quite aware that they are ladies and lords, and not vice versa, concluded “that sex has its biological meaning.”

Furthermore that “Parliament in using the words ‘man’ and ‘woman’ …referred to biological sex” and that the Scottish government had not successfully “nullified the definition of ‘woman’”.

Akin to Galileo’s legendary “e pur si muove”, the lord and ladies tentatively laid out their shocking conclusion that women are not men and that men are not women in the gentlest of fashions to avoid shocking the delicate sensibilities of the woke who believe otherwise.

The ruling politely noted that the woefully misnamed Gender Recognition Act (GRC) of 2004 which provided men with a ‘certificate’ stating that they are really women… would be of a small comfort to women confronted with a man in a changing room or a rape counselling group.

“While many women in a female-only changing room or on a women-only hospital ward or in a rape counselling group might reasonably object to the presence of biological males, it is difficult to see how the reasonableness of such an objection could be founded on possession or lack of a certificate,” the ruling noted.

A piece of paper cannot make a man into a woman. No amount of pieces of paper, no matter how sharp, are likely to do that. The movements of pieces of paper do not change biology. All they certify is that government authorities expect everyone to pretend that a man is a woman. No ‘naked emperor’ fable is more naked than that we are expected to ignore the obvious sex of a man or woman because ideological fashion or government tell us that a man is a woman

A woman confronted with a naked man might, the likely ladies, point out, not be aware that he possesses a certificate which makes him a woman. 

“This is so especially when the distinction does not track physical appearance or presentation, and the woman is unlikely to have any information about the GRC at the point at which her objection might be raised.”

And if six foot tall men with beards who possess a certificate saying that they are women can use the ladies shower or show up to a rape counselling session, then what’s the basis for discriminating against six-foot-tall bearded men who forgot their ‘woman card’ at home?

The ruling therefore continues that “a service-provider is required to provide services previously limited to women also to trans women with a GRC even if they present as biological men, it is difficult to see how they can then justify refusing to provide those services also to biological men and who also look like biological men.” If you’re going to let Bob in, who has a GRC, what’s the reason for not letting in Steve, who doesn’t have a GRC, but looks just like Bob does?

Are women really supposed to be more comfortable with Bob because he has a piece of paper? (A piece of paper that he doesn’t even have to display on demand to prove he’s a ‘woman’.)

Sex, in short, is not a Monty Python routine in which GRC certificates and other bureaucratic paraphernalia determine reality. If the single-sex accommodations provided for by British law actually exist, then they have to be limited to women or the whole thing becomes a farce.

And that’s what the transgender movement has done by insisting that sex is a state of mind.

Scottish and other authorities had tried to pretend that a man is a woman by virtue of a certificate while the Supreme Court countered that “this would undermine the very considerations of privacy and decency between the sexes both in the availability of communal sleeping accommodation and in the use of sanitary facilities.” The demands for single sex privacy are not based on government certificates and can’t be fixed with them. A government certified woman is still a man and anyone who thinks otherwise is positively certifiable.

“Interpreting ‘sex’ as certificated sex would cut across the definitions of ‘man’ and ‘woman'” and be entirely absurd when applied to “pregnancy and maternity”.

Sex, an earlier British court might have said, is assigned by God, not by government certificates.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States Supreme Court was unable to define what is a woman, pathetically replying, “I am not a biologist.” Her far better qualified British counterparts appear to have overcome her handicap with biology and have defined what is a woman.

In the era of a thousand genders blooming in soy latte joints, the UK Supreme Court heretically insisted that “the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man.”

Ketanji could learn from the court’s lesson in elementary biology and sanity.

In the throes of cultural insanity in the year 2025, the UK Supreme Court is forced to point out that “the meaning of the terms ‘sex’, ‘man’ and ‘woman’…is biological and not certificated sex.”

A century ago the notion of a government issuing certificates to men that they are really women on demand would have been imagined only as the grossest satire, but now a court ruling affirming reality is a vital and courageous statement that defies the dictates of the establishment.

As a certain Briton variously named Eric or more famously George once wrote, “we have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” The existence of men and women has become one of those obvious things that must be restated.

J.R.R. Tolkien once said that “cellar door” is the most beautiful word in the English language. There is something even more simple and beautiful about the pure logical words in which the court states that “the ordinary meaning of those plain and unambiguous words corresponds with the biological characteristics that make an individual a man or a woman. These are assumed to be self-explanatory and to require no further explanation.” And thus it should have been always.

If beauty is truth and truth is beauty, then this is a beautiful ruling. It’s also beautiful to the women who fought long and hard to be recognized as members of a sex whose identity is innate, not bestowed on them by the ideological biases of a government agency. What is ultimately at stake in the debate over the definition of a woman is our individual humanity.

By reaffirming the existence of women, a lord and two ladies of entirely determinable sex have also reaffirmed the unwavering humanity of all men and women. 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

 

Elections, and the Democrats Have Baggage.

A nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values our democratic system was intended to preserve. -  Bill Ackman

By Rich Kozlovich

 

Reports are the Democrats are going to double and triple down on critical race theory, gender ideology, no immigrant should be detained, the Jews are bad, and Trump supporters should be hanged as their platform for the 2028 election.  They actually believe that will swing them right back into power.  And they're not alone in that fantasy as even Never-Trump Republicans are predicting a huge comeback.   

Interesting mind set since just like their myrmidons in the Pravda media, their numbers are cratering, but they have nothing else to offer, and if they change, taking a more moderate or conservative tact, Democrats might as well become Republicans.   

 

All those who've been around Biden for all these years had to know that, he was a nitwit.  The evidence has been abundant for years, and yet those people chose him as their go to relief pitcher to be their candidate for President of the United States in 2020.  Just think now bad the rest of their bench is.   

AOC clearly wants to be President, after all, she graduated cum laude from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in international relations and economics, which so impressed potential employers she became a bartender.   Since Joe wasn't even smart enough to be a bartender, and the Democrats thought he was smart enough to be President, why not AOC?  And.....I want everyone to remember that I said this first...... RFK, Jr. will be running to be the Democrat nominee in 2028.     

Another favorite of mine is that great intellectual and moral giant, Michael Moore, with his latest rant filled with logical fallacies claiming one of these deported illegal migrant children might have cured cancer, or stopped an asteroid from hitting the planet.  But then again, maybe they wouldn't.   But if he can show us which ones would be able to do that, we'll keep them.  

In the meanwhile they're criminals because they're here illegally, eating up American's tax money, overwhelming our public services, committing a lot of crimes, forming criminal organizations, and even creating groups to overthrow the United States, much of which Joe Biden can take "credit".  Other than Michael Moore and his ilk, all of whom are suffering from mental delusions, the rest of us call this blame, not credit.  

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It turns out AOC is their new leader now, and little Chuckie Schumer is in trouble ....serious trouble...  with his base.  Senator Kennedy said his strategy for defeating her is to just let her talk, and noted she's the reason why they put instructions on shampoo bottles.  But she appeals to a base that's just as nuts and radical as AOC and Chuckie is scared.  Why?  Well, he's always been great at puffing out his chest and talking big and bad, but there's a new sheriff in town, and he backed down and voted for the continuing resolution.  He's actually afraid now for his job, and his safety.  Well schadenfreude, that's how the SCOTUS justices felt when he sicced the mob on to them.   

But I think Chuckie may not have to worry about losing his job, at least to AOC, since it's clear she want's to be President.  It also seems clear she thinks she can get nominated, and get elected.   Nominated, really?  Well, given the Democrat bench who are giving the impression they're running: 

Cory Booker, Gavin Newsom, AOC, Buttigieg, Walz, Rahm Emanuel, Kamala, Jasmine Crockett, and Josh Shapiro.

With a clown car like that, she just might get the nomination.   But elected?  With the baggage they have, and the staff that's in place, I wouldn't bet the house on it. 

But there's a big worm in the Democrat apple.  The leadership and those who've been in the Congress for many years are going to be attacked by that same AOC radical base that supports her.   David Hogg says America's problems are the direct result of Democracy, and he's the Vice Chair of the DNC declaring war on the old guard Democrats. 

Janet Yellen proves what an idiot she is telling America having manufacturing return to America is  an undesirable pipe dream, and that gigantic intellect Whoopi Goldberg calls for higher taxes to keep the government big and well fed.

Democrats have made fighting deportation and keeping illegal aliens like M-13 gang member Abrego Garcia in America their hill to die on, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.  And guess what?  America isn't happy about that.  Plus they seem to have missed the fact the President of El Salvador is not sending him back, and he doesn't care what the Democrats or their corrupt catspaws in the media or the federal judiciary says, so why are they still playing this game.  

Democrats are so stupid in their desire to appease some fraction of society, often an irrational faction, they run with the latest philosophical flavor of the day.  California lifted the statute of limitations on sex abuse lawsuits, and no one thought to ask what were going to be the consequences over this.  Well, it's going to cost them billions and billions of dollars with cases going back 40 years, and most of them are unprovable.  Will they repeal that law?  This is California, just raise taxes. 

Josh Shapiro's aide scandal is bound to come up, and his catering to Muslims will most certainly not help him with Jewish voters, except for those who are far left "useful idiots".  

In California Newsom has a lot of baggage.  Gas prices are set to surge because they're shutting down another refinery.   It appears Newsom is going to either force out all the energy producers in California, or put them under state control.  California hates white people, and decided to show their contempt by punishing white drivers two to five times more than minorities.  And that's fair, after all, Newsom needs that money to fight Trump.   

Young girls are upset they have to dress in front of boys in their schools, and the school boards seem irritated seemingly unwilling to understand what's their problem.  We can see why Texas has approved school choice, and I think we can potentially see this on the horizon for the nation, since it appears public education is failing to educate.   Just 30% of Illinois 4th graders read at proficiency standards.  Before the Department of Education was created 1979 "the level of reading proficiency in the United States was generally quite high, with illiteracy rates being low and declining. By 1950, illiteracy was below 3% in two-thirds of states, and below 10% in all states. Even the earlier measurements of illiteracy, which focused on basic reading and writing, showed the rate was less than 1% of the population 14 and over in 1979."

Newsom and his political cadre just can't seem to grasp that Trump really did win the election, even claiming there's a large grass roots movement against Trump.  Well, that might not be true as Monica Showalter says conservatives, or at least non-leftists, are coming close to winning elections in California.  Now that's a shocker.  But Newsom has his priorities.  Along with destroying the state's energy outlets, and punishing white people they've decided to prioritize illegal aliens for disaster aid, and they just gonna do all they can to fight Trump planning to sue the federal government for dismantling AmeriCorp.  

 

And Newsom wants to share his values with the rest of America, like giving away $233,000 taxpayer dollars to every black who lives in California, at a cost of a mere $500,000,000.  Imagine that. 

 

I'm curious though, if someone is half black do they get half as much, a quarter black a quarter as much, etc.   And what if they're blacks whose ancestors didn't come from Africa?  Do they count, and what about blacks who had no slave ancestors, do they get a cut? 

In Michigan Senator Mike Rogers is attempting  to “MAGA-Wash” his record in hopes of winning back his Senate seat saying, “As your next senator, I won’t just represent Michigan. I’ll fight for it. I’ll stand with President Trump and we will deliver on the mandate given to him by the American people."  Wow! Imagine that.  That's abject heresy to the left, who will not vote for him, and conservatives won't believe him.  He's toast.  

There's nothing these leftists can't contaminate.  Colorado, a once solid red state until all those leftist migrants, who Michael Smith calls the hollow people, "untethered from the principles that make a civilization function", fled California and filled the state's major cities, turning, Colorado blue, we now find homelessness is up 90% since 2020. 

Here's what's happening.  Red states are on the rise, and Blue states are moving in that direction, and Texas has approved school choice, the teacher's unions are losing their grip on society, and it's long overdue, and we can thank their insane attachment to gender issues for a lot of that, not to mention their failure to teach the nation's children how to read, a massive increase in illiteracy has developed since 1979 when the Department of Education was created and started destroying education in America.  

That's a lot of baggage, and the hits just keep right on coming, but it's all coming to a head.

Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich

 

Since FDR there's been this touchstone for accomplishment called the first 100 days.  Well, Trump has been President for 84 days, and what he's accomplished in that short time has been by far greater than any administration in history, and will go down in history as the most effective 100 days, while facing the most resistance to any President in history, including FDR.

 

The Democrat party is full of people suffering from a serious case of weird compounded by a massive infection of hubris. Universally deluged with big egos, bad attitudes, uncontrolled pettiness, unparalleled incompetence, unbounded arrogance, ignorance without parameters, intrepid stupidity beyond measure. 

The big difference between the resistance FDR faced and what Trump is facing is the Democrat party was still the "loyal" resistance, but no longer.  There's a reason they're called the party of treason, and it's because they are, and just like all the leftist dictators that ever lived they're doing everything to corrupt the rule of law to destroy Trump and all who subscribe to the traditional social paradigms that are foundational to American culture. 

Before the election they corrupted the rule of law, commonly called "lawfare", to prevent him from running for President.  That failed.  After the election the "lawfare" continued to in an attempt prevent him from ending the corruption of the vast administrative state.  That's failing and there's going to be some long term kickback over this corruption.

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Finally it's gotten so outrageous it's causing the Congress to finally exercise their constitutional right to reign in these corrupt political hacks who've appointed to the federal judiciary.  But make no mistake, it will not stop.   Another Federal Judge Orders USDA to unfreeze funding to Maine as trans athletes dispute continues.  And again, the Trump administration intends to go forward with terminating Maine’s federal K-12 funding over this issue, and in the end, they'll win.   At some point I believe Trump may just say this is not within their Constitutional purview and take the Jacksonian view to openly defy their rulings.  

These are judges who seem to think was perfectly reasonable to shut down churches over this false covid pandemic, but it violates some imaginary constitution right when raided for harboring illegal immigrants.   There is no "Horns of the Alter" provision in the Constitution. 

One really big thing in his favor is it's becoming abundantly clear no matter how much the left rants and screams about these DOGE investigations,  DOGE keeps finding corruption and outrageous spending that has gone on at levels that is far beyond anything the so-called ''Conspiracy theorists" believed in, all of which the American public is shocked at.... on a daily basis..... and who believe the federal judiciary needs to be reigned in. 

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The left has screamed about freedom of speech forever, mostly based on the fact sane people don't want to hear what they're saying, but we now know it's all hypocrisy.  They hate freedom of speech that resists the latest leftist narrative of the moment, such as the idea that men can claim to be women, and women must accept it. Female students at George Mason University  are being punished for daring to question the right of men who claim to be women using women’s restrooms.  And even worse if female athletes dare to question the idea men can compete with women in sports. 

One profile in courage is female fencer Stephanie Turner, who "refused to fence against a man pretending to be a woman, and was "black- carded—fencing’s most serious sanction--and in an act of spite, tournament officials ejected her from the venue..... Turner knew her refusal to fence men would badly damage her ability to compete."  And why does USA Fencing support this fallacy?  According to their fencing coach, these trans need a “athletes a sense of belonging and a will to live is more powerful than medals and competitive glory.”

 

So, the purpose of sport is to give mentally ill men “a sense of belonging and a will to live?” Sport, particularly fencing, has nothing to do with “medals and competitive glory?” 

This isn't going to go away, and while there are no federal funds involved, they may lose their accreditation as "they are the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport in the United States........the organization must comply with federal law........or risk losing (NGB) status........."  Have no doubt this needs fixed or they will destroy women's sports......Two Dudes Will Compete in National Fencing WOMEN’S Championship

There seems to be one court that has it's head on right.  The North Carolina Supreme Court Rules Most of the 65,000 Questionable Ballots Must Count in Hotly Contested Judicial Race.  Voter fraud is still a massive problem, and that must be the focus of conservatives.  A matter of lawfare in reverse, only having their facts in place, and it can be done with AI, just as DOGE has shown in their investigations.   

So much of all this starts with education and the leftist corruption of thought in our universities, and America is now all in on ending funding for these corrupt institution, especially those who've supported radical antisemites who aren't even Americans, but jihadists who hate America, Jews, Christianity, and western culture, and who, just like the Taliban believe this kind of violence is foundational to Islam.    The intifada in Germany claims another victim, and while it’s true not all Muslims are violent, but the fact is those who are swim in a sea of acceptance.  

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There's been a lot of kickback regarding regarding Pam Bondi and Kash Patel as to when  are we going to start seeing arrests:

 

But what truly caught fire online was the growing frustration from conservative grassroots. One user, reflecting the sentiments of millions of Americans sick of the two-tiered justice system, posted an image of high-profile Obama-era officials with the simple caption: “When is accountability coming for these people?”

1. Barack Obama – President during the weaponization of intelligence agencies.
2. James Clapper – DNI who misled Congress.
3. John Brennan – CIA Director who allegedly politicized intelligence.
4. James Comey – FBI Director at the helm of the Russia hoax.
5. Sally Yates and Loretta Lynch – Key DOJ officials during the anti-Trump operations.
6. Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Andrew Weissmann, James Baker, and Stefan Halper – a cast of deep-state actors and informants involved in surveillance, leaks, and disinformation.

Well, the President has been in office a mere 84 days, Bondi has been there 71 and Patel 62 days, with both of them having to purge their departments massively.  Given the massive levels of corruption that the FBI and the DOJ must investigate, I don't know how they could possibly meet everyone's expectations.   First, they have to fire a host of people at the FBI and the DOJ, and then replace them with first rate, real law and order agents and prosecutors.  That's time consuming, and I have no doubt the hours they're putting in to accomplish that is draining, emotionally, physically, and intellectually.  Investigations take time, and putting together documentation and witnesses for this cases that will be effective is time consuming, if they actually want convictions.  

 

For the time being they merit a benefit of the doubt.  What I expect seeing is a "bit's and pieces" theme, such as  this Corrupt FBI Official Behind Russiagate and Hunter Biden’s Laptop Cover-Up FINALLY Placed on Administrative Leave, but these "bits and pieces" will expand and grow, but it takes time, and these investigations are going to work their way up the ladder, Russia Collusion Doc Drop: Why Did Crooked Hillary’s Lawyers Meet With the FBI Guy Who Started the Fake Probe?, all the more reason to take the time to do it right.

 

As we've watched the Obama and Biden administrations destroy the quality of the senior officers in the military it's stunning to realize the rest of the military wasn't on board, watch what happens when plans for restoration for Jesus painting at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.  Is that a theme playing out at all the military academies?  I don't know, but we're going to see the end of racial preferences in admissions at all of them, and I expect to see a serious change in attitude, especially as all these senior military Woke/DEI personnel Obama and Biden put in place are fired. 

 

Finally, this piece is really worth your time: 10 Environmentalist Myths.  We are not in a climate crisis, there are not too many people, we are not running out of fossil fuels, bio fuels will not replace traditional fuels, wind energy is a loser, renewable energy is a farce, housing restrictions are a prelude to tyrannous control of society, and mass transportation is part of the scheme, and the wilderness is not sacred.

Does it matter that our artistic culture is so bereft of greatness? It is not possible to measure the effect, but as Einstein said, not all that can be measured is important, and not all that is important can be measured. The purpose of society is not to produce great art, and yet a society that fails to do so will subsequently be thought the poorer for not having done so. There is no grandeur to it, only a dull, insipid, and uninspiring utilitarianism, however great its technical achievements. We may be able to communicate faster, more easily, and with more people than ever before—but we have nothing to communicate. - Empty Frames, by Theodore Dalrymple 

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By Rich Kozlovich

 

 

There are approximately 2.2 million federal civilian employees.  The average cost of a federal employee, including salary and benefits, is around $143,643.  How much money is that in salaries and benefits every year? $316,014,600,000.    

 

Recently it was reported Trump said 1 million federal workers ‘could be fired.’  That's a minimum savings of $172, 371,600,000.  That doesn't count all the other expenses involving employees, such as buildings and the cost of maintaining them.  That's a lot of money, but when you compare saving a hundred and seventy five billion and more dollars to the nation's debt of almost 37 trillion dollars, that's chump change.  But if that's the pattern that plays out in everything they do, then we're talking real money.   I'm convinced by the end of Trump's first year in office, his DOGE team and the generals he's appointed to be heads of these government bureaucracies, are capable of eliminating a trillion dollars in spending. 

I've told this story before, but I think it's  worth repeating.  Some years ago my friend Jay Lehr, who attended Princeton and met Einstein, said when Einstein first came to Princeton he gave seven lectures.  He said the first few were so packed you couldn't beg, steal, borrow, or buy a seat.  By the end of the series there were a lot of empty seats.  I was surprised and I asked him why.  He said Einstein was lecturing some of the smartest people in the world, and they didn't have a clue what he was talking about.  You can only image how that effected their egos.  They didn't dare suggest Einstein didn't know what he was talking about since he was considered the most brilliant man alive.  

Well, I will be the first to acknowledge I'm far more clueless about physics than those sitting in that lecture hall.  But by just watching from the back row there's one thing I've gleaned.  Much about physics is based on a lot of "maybes".  Maybes that can't be proven via the scientific method of observation, experimentation, and analysis.   They can observe, and they can analyze, but how do they experiment?  Take black holes for example, how do you experiment with a black hole?  Now, all of a sudden everything they "knew" about black hole astronomy might be wrong.  As I see it, it's all guess work, and they don't have a clue either, yet they're absolutely positive ..... again.  

Truth be told I find it all interesting and fascinating, and I always have, but in the final analysis, I really don't care.  I consider this to be academic welfare, like so much of what academia does, much of which should not be funded by the government since there's not one iota of practical value in so much of what they do.  If that makes me a neanderthal, I can live with it. 

Fani Willis, of Georgia prosecutor who played the bully role in her attempt to "get Trump" is now crying that Jim Jordan is bullying her.  Imagine that, and doing so in violation of his oath of office.  What? Investigating a known corrupt prosecutor is a violation of his oath?  Really? Why?  Because it's black history month, and he should be celebrating that instead of "bullying" her!  It seems her deck of race cards has no limit.  

The FBI is heading into a maelstrom from which many will not return.  If this true, and I'm betting it is, the "new" FBI has launched an investigation into James Comey, and it's being reported the FBI is destroying evidence including the files on the JFK assassination.

This is the crack national law enforcement agency that raided the home of a mom of four children,  who protested at a school board meeting resulting in an invasion of her home by a FBI SWAT team, knocking down her door, bursting into the house with guns and handcuffing her while she was homeschooling her children.  

The FBI is broken, and it's not just a matter of bad leadership; it's the system itself.  And guess what?  A lot of these miscreants are worried they're going to be thrown in jail, and they have good reason to be worried.  Remember.... no one is above the law.  Their only recourse?  Destroy the evidence! 

I really like being right, and this is one time I wished I wasn't.  The covid shots were not vaccines, not only did they not prevent infections, they weren't designed to do so, and that was right from the mouth of Deborah Birx, who designed their vaccination policy.  A person who needs to be charged with crimes against humanity, or at the very least depraved indifference, right along with Fauci.  Only Fauci has been given a pardon, Brix hasn't.  Fauci isn't immune to  non-federal criminal charges, or civil actions against him. 

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We're seeing a lot of kickback from Democrats over DOGE and all they're exposing, and there's a reason why.   Here's one example,  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Backed Legislation That Funneled Millions to His Wife’s Nonprofit.  They're in on the take, and feeding at the government's trough is addictive.  And ya just gotta love pencil neck Schiff.  He knows there are millions of Americans who are downright ashamed of Trump.   And he's right, they're called nitwits, halfwits, dipsticks, and misfits, all of which are Democrats and RINO's.   And we should care why?

Think about this.  Someone recently pointed out: "There are 18 intelligence agencies, and somehow they had no idea that Hamas was going to attack Israel or that Syria was going to collapse. What were they doing? I would say that is a lot of duplicative waste."  Well, it appears we now know a lot about what some of them were doing.  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fires 100 perverts spewing out their drooling on government computers and time. 

And this is at the nation's most top secret agency, the NSA, involving the CIA and others.  The questions that now need answering is how did this happen, who in leadership knew about this, when did they know it and is it likely to happen again? Since all these people are being fired, I think I can say, not in the near future, and now, not in the military.  

As for how this happened, and it happened like a things from the left, "a slow march through the institutions", as this article There’s a Trans Cult Inside the NSA, by Christopher F. Rufo explains:

An insider tells the story of the intel agency’s ideological capture..........But according to our whistleblower, these sex chats were just the tip of the iceberg. This longtime NSA insider tells me that the ideological capture of the NSA began a decade ago. Trans activists have entrenched themselves in positions of power, pressured employees to undergo reeducation trainings, and compromised national security in the name of ideology........

It's clear this is deeply entrenched, and it's also clear that many of those who will be thrown out of these top secret agencies may well decide to commit treason in order to get back at those who fire them.  It truly is an "iceberg" problem.

Trump has made it clear any state that doesn't end transgenderism in sports will have their funds cut off, and Maine has made it clear, they don't' care.  They're even going to punish a   GOP Congressman for opposing transgenderism, and they've even attacked a female state Senator for challenging Maine's actions claiming she's done "irreparably breaking the public trust."  The left's capability to use more words in more twisted ways is mind boggling.

As a side bar...did you get a look at their governor?   How does someone that dumb, that strange, and that ugly get elected? There's just gotta be something in the water in Maine. 

 

Another favorite of mine is that great intellectual and moral giant,Michael Moore, with his latest rant filled with logical fallacies claiming one of these deported illegal migrant children might have cured cancer, or stopped an asteroid from hitting the planet.  But then again, maybe they wouldn't.   But if he can show us which ones would be able to do that, we'll keep them.  

In the meanwhile they're criminals because they're here illegally, eating up American's tax money, overwhelming our public services, committing a lot of crimes, forming criminal organizations, and even creating groups to overthrow the United States, much of which Joe Biden can take "credit".  Other than Michael Moore and his ilk, all suffering from mental delusions, the rest of this call this blame, not credit. 

Finally, I was a surprised that all of a sudden DOGE, and the President, want Fort Knox audited.  I thought... really... what's that all about?   There were two show audits in 1953 and 1974, but there's never been a real audit of the gold supply...ever.  And there's some kickback over this, why?  

What really triggered this?  I'm guessing of course, but I'm kinda getting the feeling something unexpected has turned up in one of the DOGE investigations, and I think there's something going on in the background they're not divulging, and it shook them.  But, we'll see.   

This week I've posted eight commentaries of my own, and twenty one by others.  I hope you find them worthy of your time.

Best wishes, 

Rich 

My Commentaries

1. Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part VII, Fake News
2. Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part VI
3. Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part V
4. We Do Need to Return to the Past
5. Are We Entering a Golden Age?
6. Judicial Boundaries Need to be Imposed
7. It's Time For a Constitutional Confrontation With the Federal Judiciary
8. Often Wrong, Never in Doubt

Commentaries

1. Extra! Extra! Changes Coming to The Washington Post Opinion Page By Leesa K. Donner
2. DOGE Is Very Popular With Americans, New Poll Finds By Leesa K. Donner
3. Wishful Thinking: Leftists Say Trump ‘Coup’ Has Failed By Tim Donner
4. Mine, Baby, Mine – Right Here in the USA!  By Paul Driessen
5. AI: How to Teach Critical Thinking By John Droz, Jr.
6. The President, the Special Counsel and his Lawyers By Daniel Greenfield
7. Searching for Condemnations in the Muslim World  By Daniel Greenfield
8. Is There a Constitutional Right to Castrate Children?  By Daniel Greenfield
9. Washington DC: The March of Folly By Robin Itzler
10. Black History Month: 2020 BLM George Floyd riots By Robin Itzler
11. Birthright citizenship and Democrat hypocrisy By Robin Itzler
12. Maybe We Need a Government Shutdown By Robin Itzler
13. HHS Job Cuts: Pork or Purge? By John Klar
14. The Case Against Socialism, Part IV By Dan Mitchell
15. What Country Has the Best System of Health Care? By Dan Mitchell
16. The Process Of Rescinding The Endangerment Finding Has Begun By Francis Menton
17. Amicus Brief Filed In Glen Oaks Village Owners v. City Of New York By Francis Menton
18. Karma for Comey: Is the FBI Investigating Its Former Director? By Graham J. Noble
19. Operation Whirlwind Targets Democrats’ Incendiary Rhetoric By Graham J. Noble
20. The Wall Street Journal Completes Its ‘Woke’ Transition By Joe Schaeffer
21. Ethel Rosenberg and the Model UN By Michael D. Shaw

Permanent Links

1. 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America as Listed in the 1963 Congressional Record
2. My Seven Rules of Geopolitics
3. The John Boyd Legion of Honor

 No matter what anyone says, you can’t marginalize the truth!  You can suppress it, you can ignore it, you can avoid it, you can attempt to undermine it, you can attempt to subvert it, you can attempt to organize against it, you can even laugh at it, but if we have the courage and the fortitude to stand and confront the lies, irrespective of the personal costs, the truth will stand the test of time, because truth and time are on the same side.

Constant as the North Star