Trump Abolishes Democrats’ DEI And Trans-Craze Policies

January 21, 2025

Trump's second presidency has a strong start. On his first day in office he has issued some 200 executive actions including some 42 executive orders (EO) undoing many of Biden's attempts of socially engineering a new society.

(Unfortunately I have yet to find a complete list of those EOs. Why haven't even the agencies, AP, AFP or Reuters, compiled one?)

I do dislike many of the EOs Trump issued. Leaving the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreements, and thereby de-legitimizing them, is not good for mankind. Further supporting the Zionst entity is a disgrace.

Others I do like. Trump pardoned participants of the Jan 6 (2021) 'riots' which had never amounted to much more than a hustle.

He rescinded many of EOs the Biden administration had issued around its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. Attempts of social engineering against merit deserve to fail.

I am also very happy that Trump has ended the official Trans craze. The wording herein is remarkable:

DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong. Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being.
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This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts. Invalidating the true and biological category of “woman” improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.

There are and will be many more Trump policies which (will) deserve to be condemned and criticized.

That should not hinder us to admit that he got some things right.

Posted by b on January 21, 2025 at 14:10 UTC | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 16:21 utc | 74
Blah, blah, blah.
Don’t let the door hit you in the way out.
This website used to have a reputation for progressivism and left leaning activism.
Posted by: 1969LimaPeru | Jan 21 2025 16:25 utc | 75
My background is Muslim, so I too have a stake in the game on discrimination. But, after watching the LGBT community be the most vocal supporters of supporters of Biden and his genocidal regime!and ignore the carnage in Gaza, so they can ensure that the men can wear a dress, count me out of the bullshit Democrat and LGBT progressivism.

Posted by: Turk 152 | Jan 21 2025 16:58 utc | 101

Hamburger@1445 Jan 21
Well done, Sir.
The WHO is a private body and subsequently has fallen to the evil manipulators who constitute the #1 bad drug dealers on Planet Earth. So like your well stated position, my own perspective on reality is that such an institution would be better described as the World Hell Organization.
Health is essentially a personal or family consideration. Any outside assistance should, as you note, not be empowered to direct people’s choices, rather to positively recommend healthy outcomes by means of healthy lifestyle choices.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 16:58 utc | 102

@ james | Jan 21 2025 16:52 utc | 97
MAGA types should’ve been outraged when Trump sided with Musk on H-1B visas. To his credit, Steve Bannon was outraged — but he was cast out of the Trump inner circle years ago. I’m curious as to how many other MAGA types reacted similarly.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 17:03 utc | 103

Elderly Dementia Patient Cruelly Evicted From Home
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The next era of life in the United States promised to be a sobering one, as Americans learned today that an elderly dementia patient had been cruelly evicted from his own home.
The news came early Monday morning and provided the country with an unsettling glimpse into how the incoming Trump administration will operate, as a man described as a devoted public servant for over a half-century and suffering in the advanced stages of cognitive decline had been informed that he was not only out of work but also being forced to leave his house.
“Such a cold and calloused thing to witness,” one witness said as they watched the decrepit old man totter away from his home. “You know he’s been working in this field for over 50 years? And now he’s suddenly unemployed and being evicted from his house. This is a sad commentary on what we can expect from the next chapter of American history.”
Political experts cited this troubling incident as proof that warnings for many decades had been right. “Democrats have been warning the American people for decades about this,” one analyst said. “They’ve warned that Republicans would put senior citizens out on the street. Now, we’re seeing it play out in real life. It’s sad.”
At publishing time, witnesses reported that the unsuspecting elderly man had been lured out of his house with a trail of ice cream sundaes that led to an awaiting helicopter that would remove him from the premises.

Posted by: Kamala | Jan 21 2025 17:03 utc | 104

So the question arises: where is all the concern about transmen using men’s bathrooms where they would be subject to assault and/or rape? Not an issue, yeah?
Lastly, as a transwoman – and in line with every woman I’ve ever asked – including my mother – I’ve been assaulted – while presenting as a woman – by a man. So the last thing I will ever do is use the men’s bathroom as at least I know I’ll be safe using the women’s bathroom. Besides, men’s bathrooms generally stink.
Posted by: Trisha | Jan 21 2025 16:17 utc | 72

If a man gets raped it’s his own fault and he deserved it – not manly enough! Just like women who dress provocatively – they were asking for it!
(Does the above require a sarcasm tag?)
Anyway, just as with gay marriage, the bathroom issue is asking the wrong question and making the wrong assumptions. Regarding gay marriage, the question should never have been should certain people be allowed to marry, but whether the government has any business regulating marriage at all.
Everyone shares bathrooms with the opposite sex for at east some portion of their lives. So the question shouldn’t be “should transgender people be allowed to use the restroom of their choice?”, but “why are public bathrooms designed to be segregated by sex?” or “why are public restrooms designed in such a way that they can be unsafe for (anyone)?”

Posted by: The Owl | Jan 21 2025 17:03 utc | 105

i think getting rid of DEI is a good thing… as for the transgender topic, it would be nice if it took up less mental space in all the conversations that have come out the past 5-10 years..i know it isn’t a simple conversation and i respect the fact some folks struggle with sexual identity… and it isn’t as simple as bible thumpers would like to suggest, although i am sure trump wins brownie points from the christian fundamentalists.. at the same time, it would be nice if this conversation was pushed off the agenda..
here in canada it is the opposite… i am not happy about that.. and as an artist, i know that the arts groups seeking funding from the canuck gov’t have to check off all the boxes to show their cred – you know – how many transgender people are you planning on hiring at your festival and crazy stuff like that… now, maybe there are more transgender folks in the arts community, but i personally think it has taken up too much of our headspace and it would be nice if we could revert to something less challenging.. lets treat people as people first, as opposed to obsessing over peoples sexual orientation… well there.. i said what i think…again – i am happy to see DEI go.. merit is the way to go.

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 17:03 utc | 106

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 21 2025 16:38 utc | 85
‘dhmtl. My previous post is directed at you. Tariffs and low income taxes encourages off shoring of production and decapitalization of the economy. It encourages financial manipulation and games over real production. You’ve been bamboozled by Wall St gamblers’.
No it is not me who has been bamboozled by ‘Wall St gamblers’. I am only commenting on what I see, that Trump wants to build a wall around the U.S. in order to re-industrialize it, including a tariff wall. Whether this will work or not remains to be seen.
As for ‘financial manipulation games over real production’, one must remember that the de-industrialization and the financialization of the U.S. economy that has occurred since 1990 occurred under a regime of global free trade.

Posted by: dh-mtl | Jan 21 2025 17:04 utc | 107

@Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 16:21 utc | 72
The backward turk, heellicker of erdogan the clown has an opinion.
He has fucked up his country more than orange man will do.
Can’t wait to see what his great geopolitical or economic policies will destroy.
I can only laugh at the monkeys of the US that voted for him and think they’ll get a treat.
Or you OC, the turk monkey

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 21 2025 17:04 utc | 108

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 16:52 utc | 97
PT is fully entrenched in Make AmeriKKKa Go Away — MAGA — [behind the curtains of course pulling the strings]

Posted by: pepe | Jan 21 2025 17:04 utc | 109

The Nazi Salute;
Elon Musk has developed some very impressive hardware, which can obscure that he is also a very good promoter. He knows how to play the public. With that in mind, why the Nazi salute? Well, the reason is that he is playing the public, or attempting to. He wants the other side to declare him a neo-Nazi and by inference, declare that Trump is a Nazi.
Why would anybody want that? Because it is too over the top to sell well. It would make those who render the charge look like fanatics. For those who haven’t sorted it out, Trump does (or has done) the same thing with his inflammatory tweets. He lures the other side into attacking him in a way that makes the other side look worse than himself.
So far this particular effort looks like a failure. The press hasn’t given the Nazi salute enough coverage. Beyond that, it does look like Musk has become Trump’s Spiro Agnew. Musk takes the positions that would be difficult for the president to take, and insulates the president from the blowback because it is him, not the president. who is doing it. It would, for example, have been hard for the president acting as president to go after Britain’s Prime Minister Starmer to the extent that Musk did.

Posted by: Jmaas | Jan 21 2025 17:04 utc | 110

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 21 2025 17:05 utc | 111

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 16:15 utc | 70
I am remembering, james, that Russia didn’t mess with its banking system for a long time. I’m not an economist but remember there were a lot of folk critiquing that here early on. It took quite a while before some changes came, in a gradual way.
First, as I remember, he was able to open contacts with people all over the country in his long conversations on a yearly basis, has been doing that even when sanctions were being ramped up and the people were voicing real problems on a local level as they out of necessity started up farming and business operations to compensate. His most often uttered phrase was “We will do it.”
Trump has made an important beginning by eliminating censorship on a governmental level. I would like to see something similar to the way Putin has kept an open dialogue between people and government. China has done so also. I also heard ‘meritocracy’ in Trump’s speech; that’s China. Comparitively speaking, it ought to be easier for the US—we’re a much smaller country. And they provide the examples of what works. They did it; we can too. We even have the historical precedents which they themselves have used to their benefit!
The worst sign that Obama was not going to be what he promised was when he closed the open forum he’d set up for people to use to voice their problems. That mustn’t happen. Trump doesn’t have to do what Putin has done but it has to be a US version of what both those countries now have in place, a way for the voices of the people to be listened to. It’s no use just talking the talk and relying on that to fool the people while you don’t walk the walk. Tough times ahead remedying that for sure.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 21 2025 17:07 utc | 112

@ malenkov | Jan 21 2025 17:03 utc | 104
there are a number of contradictions that one has to wrap their head around and this is one of them.. i am willing to give trump the benefit of the doubt, but there are reasons to be concerned… perhaps the biggest one is his slavish devotion to israel.. i don’t expect any wisdom to come out of the usa with regard to israel, but in fact the opposite… in this regard the usa needs to be removed from it’s role on the world stage as some type of negotiator for anything.. it is negotiating from the 3 big complexes – banking, military and energy… that is it’s agenda and i can’t see any of that changing with trump… we are almost at 24 hours and trumps major promise of ending the ukraine war in 24 hours is looking like a very vacuous statement at this point..

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 17:09 utc | 113

Posted by: Jmaas | Jan 21 2025 17:04 utc | 111
You got that right, muskie is doing trump’s dirty job because [he thinks] he can.

Posted by: pepe | Jan 21 2025 17:10 utc | 114

Old Hippie @1446 Jan 21
Over a span of nearly 60 years; I have met exactly TWO males who literally HATE their outdoor plumbing. As an individual who has escaped the rationalistic, reductionist, leftbrain, Newtonian, Cartesian, Neo-Darwinist, Spencerian idiotology; I have for some years embraced the innate sense of reincarnation. That level of holistic understanding is my explanation for the few genuine cases of psychological transgenderism.
In more recent years I’ve encountered a handful of faux trannies, men who do NOT detest their masculine physiology; but like many relatively androgynous males, are very fashionable and trendy in their mindsets. Due to media madness and lack of discernment within the ‘rich fag” elements within the Gay subculture…the Tranny Thang is most fashionable and trendy…likely considered somewhat “glamorous” in the readily influenced minds of the susceptible.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 17:10 utc | 115

B’s limitations are on display here. His analysis is only about randomly determined “good” and “bad” executive orders.
He misses the essence of what Trump signifies, and the meaning of his Inauguration — namely, that US capitalist imperialism is in profound disrepair, and segments of the billionaire ruling class are backing an authoritarian, xenophobic, militarist, and incipient fascist fuhrer.
There is a logic to Trump’s plans.
Trump will fund his tax cuts with massive austerity orchestrated by the Nazi clown Musk.
Illegal territorial ambition — justified by imperialist Manifest Destiny, with its roots in slavery and the conquest of Mexico — will become the new geopolitical doctrine.
Massive military spending will continue, with a focus on AI militarism. Lots of profits for Trump’s reactionary tech billionaire fans.
Tariffs will shatter old alliances and interdependencies. The so-called allies will be cannibalized.
National chauvinism will smother working class solidarity, along with bigotry towards weak minority groups.
All of this is about three things: 1. Biding time for war against China, just like Hitler needed a few years before major militarism commenced; 2. Fortifying an authoritarian state to crush any advance of working class radicalism, whether Black radicalism, immigrant organizing or Palestine solidarity; and 3. Creating a new territorial base to offset the catastrophic failures of US capitalism in its current state of indebtedness, social chaos and deindustrialization.

Posted by: Crumch | Jan 21 2025 17:11 utc | 116

The renaming of Mt. Denali serves to bring attention to the Native Americans issue about which I’m not qualified to talk much. However, I visited Denali in 1993, and can attest that back then this name was very much in use around there. It’s as if everyone felt it was more appropriate, and strangely enough I had immersed myself in the memories of this trip after waking earlier today (before hearing the news) – it makes for a very Jungian moment now.
And yes, ‘Gulf of America’ is more inclusive. All in all another piece of rhetoric which can be read as a paradoxical intervention perhaps, just as the MAevenGA to the stars bit in his speech, that also saw him using the somewhat creative notion of furthered exceptionality.
One wonders.

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 21 2025 17:11 utc | 117

Posted by: Exile | Jan 21 2025 17:12 utc | 118

“He put Cuba back onto the terrorist supporter list. That should inform people about his real agenda a lot more than the populist dog whistle BS people prefer to talk about.”
I agree with Ralph. Some of his imperialist decrees may be harmless, or even good. Those are merely a distraction. Keep your eye on the real agenda. His role is to fight for U.S. hegemony for world dominance, and believe you me, that cannot be good for the world, nor for the U.S. itself.
I heard that one of his “decrees” is to impose 100% tariffs on Spain. He says Spain is a Brics nation! How ignorant!

Posted by: hispanidad | Jan 21 2025 17:13 utc | 119

@ juliania | Jan 21 2025 17:07 utc | 113
i would like to remain position, although certain signs are troubling.. as for financial reform, maybe he and musks idea is to get everyone using some form of bitcoin?? i guess musk is supposed to corner the market on that at the same time.. trump didn’t mention anything about financial reform, so i suspect it is not even a consideration… what has michael hudson or richard d wolff said about trump in this regard?? i don’t know.. it would be interesting to hear them address the new presidency…

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 17:14 utc | 120

@ james | Jan 21 2025 17:09 utc | 114
That’s a healthy attitude. Similarly, while I’d never have thought to vote for Trump, I plan to praise every good thing he does, and criticize every bad thing, and keep in mind his tendency to engage in provocative bluster.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 17:14 utc | 121

positive… position – my fingers are moving faster then my brain!

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 17:15 utc | 122

As the Salon article articulate, the war on “woke” is a war on workers. It’s a method for the capitalist tech billionaire class to beat back wages and salaries but not inflation.
Posted by: Troy | Jan 21 2025 16:41 utc | 89
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The workers don’t want their children rendered sterile or on hormone blockers.
The family is a core worker’s institution.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 17:16 utc | 123

@ malenkov | Jan 21 2025 17:14 utc | 121
good attitude!!
i see my post didn’t make it thru and here i am fixing my spelling mistakes on a non existent post!~
i did reply to you juliania! it just didn’t come thru.. the simple version –
what does michael hudson and richard d wolff have to say about a trump presidency with regard to finances??? i’d be curious..

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 17:17 utc | 124

When will Trump get rid of the NAFO types paid to post their bs on this site?
First commenter directly attacks white men, and indirectly attacks women and girls, all the while screeching about bigotry, and doesn’t even recognize the doublethink involved with that.
That’s how they do.
Anyone defending the WHO should realize that the WHO has been pushing a treaty to force every country in the world to turn over any pathogen they find to the bioweapon research industry. This is against all common sense AND against the 1972 Bioweapon Treaty, which is international law.
The US has been ignoring the law all these years. Do not forget that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has written a book about this, and wants the bioweapon research labs shut. Trump will never sign that dangerous WHO treaty if RFK is around. That is probably why the Mighty Wurlitzer has been attacking RFK so viciously.
Teaching children that they might be in the wrong body and therefore need drugs and surgery to “correct” that “mistake” is a billion dollar industry. Normal people see that as wrong.
Allowing boys and men access to girls and women’s private spaces and sports is outrageous, and normal people see that also.
The screeching of those who have been able to lord it over others for the last four years, forcing people to deny the evidence of their own eyes, and demanding that we change our speech to cater to their fetish, is telling. Such power over others! No wonder they don’t want to give it up.
“Trish” recognizes that men can be violent against women, so demands that women let him into their bathrooms to protect him, showing no awareness that women know men can be violent and therefore don’t want a man in their bathrooms. Or changing rooms or showers. How arrogant and entitled he clearly is, but he has been allowed to get away with it for years. No wonder his women’s panties are in a bunch.
There are only two sexes. DSD disorders are not different sexes, they are disorders of either male or female humans. The fact that people have been gaslighted into thinking that someone with Klinefelter Syndrome, for instance, is a whole different sex, is disturbing. They are deliberately dumbing down the population to further this agenda.
And lastly, Trump didn’t put his hand on the Bibles because Justice Roberts started the oath before the family was gathered. Melania brought the Bible to him, but he was already focused on the oath taking.
Did Roberts do this deliberately?

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 21 2025 17:17 utc | 125

Pepe Escobar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBW3A3GrVTA
“Does Trump want peace or triumph?”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 21 2025 17:23 utc | 126

Turk152@1658 Jan 21
Turk, as a Muslim, you might wish to do some serious research on Sufism.
From my non-Islamic position; I generally oppose all three of the Abrahamic organized religions AND their belief systems. I do discriminate between belief, which is ever imposed upon individuals by herd-mindedness…while celebrating spirituality which is not imposed, rather innate within our beings. Neither a religionist, nor an atheist/agnostic; my personal level of faith (the opposite of imposed beliefs) is that there is a Creator…and that humans are effusions/holographs of Creator.
Though I have not delved deeply into the study of Sufism; it is clearly evident that Sufism is not predicated upon mere herd mentality imposed belief systems as the Be -All. Though outwardly accepting of Islam as a unifying and even universalist perspective; Sufis follow their own conscience and understandings that all humans are spiritual beings, temporarily existing within the framework of a physical existence in a material environment.
Please consider the Sufi spiritual pathway which has accommodated itself into the universality of Islam.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 17:24 utc | 127

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 21 2025 16:26 utc | 79
Ah, ROS, (I can’t address your full title without sounding presumptuous, sorry!) Thanks for reminding us of Davos. During the last presidency I kept remembering a Biden interview back with Charlie Rose – Biden was fresh from the ski slopes (wink! wink!)

Posted by: juliania | Jan 21 2025 17:24 utc | 128

Lets not forget…
(paraphrasing)
On 16 January 2020, after reviewing the spread of SARS-2 virus in Wuhan Provence, China, World Health Organization officials declared that the virus is not spread by human to human contact.
An outright and blatant lie.
Imagine if the truth had been told on 16 January. World wide contamination would have been much slower, lives would have been saved.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jan 21 2025 17:26 utc | 129

B,
You indeed need to delve deeper into the climate change and WHO topics. It is absurd that you rejoice about the end of social engineering on one hand and on the other, fail to see that the climate change and health mandates are also part of enginereeing societies and are trojan horses to circumvent national constitutions. I am now convinced both climate change and pandemics are hoaxes of the tallest order to keep us afraid and allow more regulations (and dictatorship) as a result.

Posted by: mohrange | Jan 21 2025 17:27 utc | 130

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 21 2025 17:05 utc | 112
Apologies, not intentional.

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 17:27 utc | 131

Racketeer In Chief

. Our armed forces will be free to focus on their sole mission—defeating America’s enemies. Like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen

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Pray tell, gringo
Who exactly are your ‘enemy ‘ ?
You dont need no fucking strongest army, btw
Col Hackworth 2001[RIP]

America squanders about what the entire rest of the world spends on security — almost $400 billion a year. Who are we afraid of if all the bad guys combined still eat our dust? Isn’t it time we started acting like a superpower rather then a two-bit punk with his first gun? But this won’t happen until we constrain the war-mongering MICC.

Posted by: denk | Jan 21 2025 17:28 utc | 132

And for those bitching that Mr.Trump won’t be ending the SMO in 24 hours, even God himself took seven days to create Heaven & Earth.
Didn’t he sign a bill already that stops foreign aid for 90 days, presumably including the support for Ukraine? A most unceremonious of ways to do this, methinks.

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 21 2025 17:30 utc | 133

Al Manar is noting that one of Trumps executive orders was to reverse sanctions on Occupied Palestine settlers in the West Bank
The mix of reactions to the mix of executive orders shows the fallacy of left/right to me. I support a few of Trumps executive orders and see the rest as stupid is as stupid does which will hasten the demise of empire, IMO.
I do want more info on all of these attempts to exert control on a corrupt edifice.
The shit show continues until it doesn’t……

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 21 2025 17:32 utc | 134

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 21 2025 17:04 utc | 109
I have 2 masters degrees from known universities, a licensed professional practice o which I am a lecturer and considered an expert in my field, my father was a doctor, my mother is an artist, I speak two languages and have clients from all over the world.
How about you, are you still in your cubicle?

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 17:33 utc | 135

Malenkov@1714 Jan 21
Appreciating your commonsense perspective. It trends towards universalism rather than exceptionalism and the various pitfalls of welded in place perceptions.
Trump is certainly a mixed bag, part of which is typical Noo Yawk braggadocio and bullying on one side of his persona…with the other element being more common sensical and even trending towards a more universalist approach. What an enigma and quite the Showman…entertainment which engages the mind along with emotional sets.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 17:34 utc | 136

It is counter-intuitive that the democratic party which was quite the opposite of this should become this – to my mind it shows the signs of outside influence (is by design). My gut is that this somehow derives from Britain (the Perfidious Albion thing) they seem very practice in this kind of distortion of reality – not to mention immorality. I dont think it is the people so much, but rather force has embedded itself in their society – this force has gone global – not sure for whose benefit, I would think that there are some in position to know.
Posted by: jared | Jan 21 2025 14:54 utc | 28
LOFL…it seems that most people STILL won’t or can’t see what is staring them straight in the face!! It must be some real potent voodoo or something to take hold so ferociously one’s mind. For those that truly want to get to the bottom of the whole picture, the real reason humanity is in such a state that has been happening/building for 500+ years is to look no further than the City of London-Square Mile where the warnings have been documented hundreds of times by very influential business and political leaders over the years including Adolph. ((They)) are a dangerous parasitical entity that won’t EVER stop until all of us are destroyed!! Check out Henrymakow and read a little bit…

Posted by: bisfugged | Jan 21 2025 17:34 utc | 137

Dave Pollard | Jan 21 2025 14:22 utc | 6
“B: Carbon Dioxide accounts for just 0.04% of the atmosphere. There’s no effing way it affects the climate. The Paris Accords are bullshit.”
Ok. Dave, will you let me introduce some 0.04 % of your body weight of some poison into your system? Allright?

Posted by: Pnyx | Jan 21 2025 17:37 utc | 138

Posted by: juliania | Jan 21 2025 17:37 utc | 139

The World should stop listening to the US … it has a bipolar disorder every 4 to 8 years. You can’t trust guys like this.
Do like in the EU ; every election get us the same band of clowns since the 70’s. It’s systematically a band of retards : no bad surprise !

Posted by: Savonarole | Jan 21 2025 17:42 utc | 140

Posted by: Turk 152 | Jan 21 2025 16:58 utc | 102 Lost me when the gay communities were promoted to “most vocal” supporters of Biden. There are neither enough gays to be the loudest nor are the ones who are uniformly Democrats. Apparently loudest means most personally offensive to you, and people like Thiel are honorary straights because they either are Trumpers (via his man Vance) or Republican.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 21 2025 17:43 utc | 141

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 17:24 utc | 127
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Sufism is a subsect of Islam. The Turkic and Persian worlds incorporate Sufi ideas.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 17:43 utc | 142

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 21 2025 17:30 utc | 133
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Ukraine money is allocated through different authorities. Trump’s XO doesn’t address those at this time.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 17:44 utc | 143

Trump.. Biden.. etc.. just names on a short timespan representing the same entity.
Optical illusions. The sock changes, but the hand stays the same. Protected by the master illusion they call democracy. You know how you can record a sound clip of you saying something, then with audio software you can change the voice in for instance a robot voice, female voice, whatever.
You now see the American state entity say things differently than the last few years. Smoke, mirrors.. a 4 year span would make a difference at all? Come on man
The master illusionists behind the curtain this way toy with several concepts, one of them is for instance tranny-ism. They let us sniff a concept then they remove it again, to later at some point be reintroduced maybe. 3 “presidents” later.
State policy is as a ship. the current course (social-economic, foreign policy, etc) has been set by pumping trillions of dollar in its current course over the last century or so. In the greater scheme of things a presidential term is just a one-day-fly lifespan. Divide and conquer is just one of many gains they make by doing so.
A versus of a president and deepstate? Come on man. The goldfish principle comes to mind, induced by these illusionists. Spreaded over many presidential terms, they babystep towards their end goal of full spectrum dominance. What else?
There is no such thing as a “Trump”. Or a “Biden”. Any comment starting with “Trump will…”, “Biden said..” is for me an automatic skip

Posted by: LikeItsHot | Jan 21 2025 17:45 utc | 144

Mostly positive developments ESPECIALLY getting out of WHO and the Paris Climate Accords.
I don’t expect Trump or any president to seriously change our position on Israel. And even if he did, it would be a matter of contrasting rhetoric and actions because the Jewish lobby is strong and certain things must be said and seen to be said above all else. But don’t underestimate the literal hatred Trump has for Bibi. Trump is absolutely in record as hating American foreign policy in the Middle East over the last 30 years and Bibi has been one of the chief architects of that. He is on record with insinuating Israel’s actions are reckless in this current war. And he HATES Bibi for his lack of support last time around and being the first foreign leader to call Joe Biden while Trump was still disputing the election. And I suspect he has more knowledge and other reasons that he cannot reveal.
So, I’m not going to make excuses for Israel or the US in the Middle East but Bibi is the chief proponent of this Greater Israel bullshit and the current kerfuffle. Trump hates him and isn’t going to roll over for him. That’s an improvement on the current situation whether some of you want to acknowledge it or not.

Posted by: Totila | Jan 21 2025 17:47 utc | 145

Racketeer IN Chief

The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.

So this is Trump’s idea of MAGA , AKA MANIFEST DESTINY REdUX !
A shitload of barflies are all for it , bravo !

Posted by: denk | Jan 21 2025 17:48 utc | 146

@ The Owl | Jan 21 2025 17:03 utc | 106
You raise such good questions. Maybe someday our society will have advanced to the point where it can answer them. My thoughts:
1. Civil marriage. Whenever a conservative Christian argues that gays can’t marry (each other) because marriage is a sacrament, I ask what business the state has in administering sacraments. Civil marriage does have its usefulness; the state (if it assumes any responsibility for the welfare of its citizens) does have a legitimate interest in assigning responsibility for child care, for instance. Of course, this could conceivably be done without any concept of civil marriage; then the problem becomes largely one of having one’s relationship recognized internationally.
Things were simpler once upon a time — before separation of church and state, for instance. Before 1925 there was no civil marriage in Thailand; marriages were blessed and recorded (if at all) by local monks and celebrated (and regulated) by the local community. To this day the concept of civil marriage hasn’t quite sunk in to the national consciousness; people still tend to think that marriage is a monk’s blessing, and the casual attitude toward state paperwork (civil marriage) facilitates the very real and not at all uncommon polygyny practiced by richer Thai males.
2. Public bathrooms. Of course we could ensure privacy and safety for all users, but perish the thought! The retrofitting expense would bd prohibitive…

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 17:49 utc | 147

Posted by: dh-mtl | Jan 21 2025 16:07 utc | 64;
mostly correct on your 3 points – Trump seems to recognize the only way to revive our society is to circle the wagons for a long while. Agreed, he also thinks the Globalists are more destructive than Moscow or Peking.
HOWEVER – The only way Trump can succeed is by “restructuring’ the Federal Debt plus slashing the Federal Gov’t by 30% PDQ.
Posted by: Exile | Jan 21 2025 17:12 utc | 119
I think he is not wrong, on the one side, circling the wagon and restricting to another area as western europe faces its cyclical colapse.
On the other hand reducing the complexity of things allowed to grow to rule the world.
Might do the trick, as for a long while, yes, maybe as much as eight centuries, let western europe fall during the next century, manage ascending powers in other areas and, finally bridge things back with europe until europe gets it’s payback day.
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Posted by: Newbie | Jan 21 2025 17:05 utc | 112
Apologies, not intentional.
Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 17:27 utc | 131
Assumed as much, just mentioned so you noticed and avoided future issues
P.S. As a turk, and turkey is now the major player in syria, did you see the article I linked in the palestine thread? I mentioned two hypothesis, care to share your take on them?

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 21 2025 17:50 utc | 148

Posted by: jared | Jan 21 2025 14:54 utc | 28
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The Democrat party has always been rotten, just like the Republican party. The Republican party ended slavery and had the first Black elected Federal members.
Lincoln, while a complete scumbag, was not a Democrat, he was assassinated by Democrats. FDR had close ties to the KKK.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 17:50 utc | 149

@136
Your response is not logical nor present a coherent idea to answer the subject.
State why .04% is an issue.
Biology does not drive thermo-chemistry-physics of climate.
Why we know you are from a cult

Posted by: paddy | Jan 21 2025 17:52 utc | 150

I do hope Trump goes forward with his antagonizing and overtaxing the world with his “if you don’t sufficiently use our US printed money or don’t buy enough of our US products” and that no one bends. It would only accelerate the downfall of the US empire that’s been in decline since at least 2007.
In a sane world, Musk’s grotesque behavior would have been punished. For me he deserves the same fate as Mussolini or he could keep the honor to himself and do it himself like his idol Hitler.
With so many of Trumps new executive orders, it would be difficult not to have some right. However, overall it’s just an exercise in popularity eclipsed by irresponsible management.

Posted by: xor | Jan 21 2025 17:53 utc | 151

Mount McKinley FTW.

Posted by: Call it what u will | Jan 21 2025 17:55 utc | 152

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 17:24 utc | 127
Nowhere did I suggest that the LGBT community are not human beings, this plays into Ed’s stereotype of Turkish people and Muslims. I have no problem with their personal choice and have a number of gay and lesbian friends. However, I am deeply against their politics as it was used and exploited as a shield to protect the Biden administration against charges of genocide in elite liberal circles and our technocracy. In contrast, I see a much more nuanced and responsible position taken by the Black community in which they recognize a genocide is being committed but understand that Trump is going to attract racist to his campaign, hence the divided vote. I see an unhelpful Zealotry in the LGBT community and I dont mind calling them out, particularly in light of an ongoing genocide.

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 17:56 utc | 153

Looks like B triggered the science deniers on both ends of the spectrum; climate science and basic biology. As for the WHO, it is a completely corrupted organization that requires euthanasia and replacement. The UN IPCC and Paris Agreement, just a useless talking shop where societal elites publicly display their “climate action virtue” while doing sweet FA about climate change. Nothing really lost there either.
The identity politics extremism, introduced by the elites in the early 2010s to combat the awakening of class consciousness through such things as Occupy Wall Street, served its purpose and started to get a little too close to disrupting capitalist accumulation. So it has now been tossed in the dust bin. “Moslem terrorists” may be making a major discoursal comeback to fill the void, as of course will many shades of anti-China racist typecasting and “commies” in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. The next generation of children will most probably reject the gender/queer social contagion of their elders, and the whole thing will be quietly forgotten over time while most trans individuals just get on with their lives.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 17:57 utc | 154

i did reply to you juliania! it just didn’t come thru.. the simple version –
what does michael hudson and richard d wolff have to say about a trump presidency with regard to finances??? i’d be curious..
Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 17:17 utc | 124
Thank you, james! I might have already answered you with my later post at Posted by: juliania | Jan 21 2025 17:07 utc | 113.
Yes, it is hard to keep up, and many of folk’s objections to Trump I agree with- he’s not perfect!
An ‘objection’ for me would be the Battle Hymn of the Republic — not my favorite Christian hymn. But I can understand it’s the message for the kind of evangelism that I remember being supported by a lone fundamentalist Protestant lady holding a placard on the photo site ‘Not in My Name’ when Bush invaded Iraq. That lady honored her faith, and so will Trump honor his faith — if he does the important things!

Posted by: juliania | Jan 21 2025 17:58 utc | 155

Persiflo@1711 Jan 21
Last night I happened to tune into a podcast by The Red Nation; a Native American iteration of the original roots of the AIM movement…featuring their take on perhaps the one single nearly good deed by the now ex-president. Yes, Biden’s last act before the clock ran out was to grant Executive Clemency (albeit on home confinement) to LEONARD PELTIER.
The American Indian Movement icon was unjustly accused by the evil FBI of murdering two of their designated killers at the Pine Ridge “uprising” against the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1975. Peltier, a devout anti-imperialist/colonialist supporter of the Gaza uprising; has long been the personification of Native peoples and their many struggles during his almost fifty YEARS held in Federal prisons…on FALSE CHARGES. The Feebies presented exactly NO EVIDENCE for their accusations. However, all former insiders realize that U$$A Federal courts can always be counted on to inevitably take the side of the Feds, whenever they trespass against WE THE PEOPLE and most particularly ALL minorities…most especially the NATIVE Americans.
Headquartered in the Little Earth United Tribes compound on Franklin Avenue in South Minneapolis; the Red Nation presents a website for the activists who conjointly work in that facility. They do podcasts on a regular basis…and like most alternative minority organizations…are always strapped for funds.
Most importantly, many of their activists are either of the Ojibwa Nation; or of their once ancient enemies; the Dakota/Lakota peoples who once were the largest native entity here in Minnesota. The Little Earth facility is universalist in scope and works to create more amity amongst the native nations here on Turtle Island.
Having no native ancestry myself, I do have a great niece and nephew who sport native DNA. However, my own regard and respect for the native nations is of long duration. Natives who think and feel like us European Imports are often described on the Rez as “Apples”…red on the outside, but white on the inside. Guess I’m somewhat of the polar opposite of those apples as my way is white on the outside, while red on the inside..as I prefer to walk what some natives call the Red Road…and many universalists as The Spirit Path.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 17:59 utc | 156

Nice moves Trump! Leaving WHO is cause for rejoicing. The trouble is the two immediate festering Biden legacys Ukraine and Palestine will not be solved easily. If Trump were to truly make USA autonomous from Israel he would immediately be impeached. Israel owns the congress. What is necessary for the USA to be a autonomous nation is the common sense action of having Israeli lobbyist register as Foreign agents just as all other nations foreign agents do. The other issue is dual citizenship. No dual citizen of any nation should serve as a elected official. These are obvious common sense measures to prevent exactly what is reality. Israel has effective control of USA policy. Certainly no religous practice should be used to discriminate against those seeking office. Thats very different from the present reality where Israel Funds candidates that have literally sworn loyalty to Israel in primary’s.
A earlier comment said “Trump is Israels bitch”. That may or may not be true. Congress is most definitely Israels bitch and congress has the power of impeachment.
The other issue is of course the Israel Epstein honeypot operation that obtained material to blackmail USA politicians for decades. Trump was pals with Epstein for a long period. That a real investigation and the client list was not disclosed shows exactly how the USA is owned by Israel and how certain exceptional ones do not have to be accountable, This is corruption that eats at the core of a justice system.
The reality is that Trump really can only go so far with Israel. If he goes too far he will be eliminated one way or another. If one of those executive orders specified That Israel must register its lobbyists just like all other nations that would truly MAGA but it would spell the end for Trump. He will try to sweep Palestine under the rug. He will probably like Biden directly participate in Genocide only to a lessor extent. Perhaps he can ditch Bibi and hold the reigns a bit. The truth is that Israels control of the congress and intelligence agency’s can not and will not be corrected by Trump alone. I see no circumstance that will allow the USA to be free of Israeli control.
The other Biden legacy is the Ukraine war starting with the vice president Biden authorized overthrow of the Ukraine democratically elected goverment in 2014. While Trumps rejection of other domestic authoritarian Biden legacy’s are certainly to be applauded we have a million dead and as many maimed in Ukraine. Ukraine and Palestine are Bidens most disgusting and criminal legacies. If Trump does not wish to share them He must swiftly end the Ukraine war and try to mitigate the Israeli genocide best he can. We will see. At least there is a hope now that the mentally ill criminal Biden is gone.

Posted by: YogitheYankeeBear | Jan 21 2025 17:59 utc | 157

pynx@1737 Jan 21
Sounds like you suffer from an acute case of terminal confusion. Please seek help immediately. First step would be to immediately eschew the Main$cream media of mindfuckery.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 18:02 utc | 158

Sufism is a subsect of Islam. The Turkic and Persian worlds incorporate Sufi ideas.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 17:43 utc | 142
The Alawites in syria even more so (I would say).
Most religions have more esoteric/gnostic branches.
Christianity was the only one that was able to kill them off completely (though it cold be said it re-emerged in parts of occultism)

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 21 2025 18:03 utc | 159

Another white man who doesn’t see any reason for anyone other than white men to be included in anything or even be allowed out in public since they may not have a place to be. Your disgusting bigotry is an embarrassment Bernard
That’s a moral, brilliant statement Chrispy Critter. I applaud you, this statement makes my morning! Big thanks.

Posted by: Bakunin17 | Jan 21 2025 18:05 utc | 160

B:
“I do dislike many of the EOs Trump issued. Leaving the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreements, and thereby de-legitimizing them, is not good for mankind. ”
Leaving teh WHO is good for the USA, and good for humankind. Trump was way ahead of the curve on this. When he made this move in his first administration, I was flabbergasted! But since the Covid op and the WHO’s move to force a “pandemic treaty” on sovereign nations; since it has become obvious that Bill Gates, GAVI, Wellcome, and their ilk have gained inordinate sway in the WHO (which is at this point basically an international NGO comparable to Soros’s Open Society or the WEF); since a lot of other things—it has become clear that the WHO in its current form is not good for sovereign nations nor for their human citizens. Trump was right the first time around. But they snuckered him with Covid.
A thought just occurred to me: Biden’s pardon of Fauci must have made it crystal clear to Trump that Fauci was not his friend and screwed him with covid. If he hasn’t already gotten an earful from RFK Jr.
As for leaving the Climate Agreement, more or less ditto, but not quite. It has become an umbrella structure that encourages zealots who are happy to see actual earthly habitat and species, not to mention human societies, harmed in the name of “saving the planet.” Genuine environmentalists have been either brainwashed or sidelined in favor of a new class of “Besserwissende” who don’t actually know s—, have an agenda, and silence anyone who disagrees with them.
This madness is destroying Germany.
I am truly delighted to read this:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/orsteds-shares-plunge-amid-surprise-impairment-news-trumps-offshore-wind-lease-halt
Orsted is ruining our land and sea in order to build useless offshore wind turbines that degrade our marine environment, seem to be driving major recent increases in strandings of cetaceans, and do not solve any energy problems—all in the name of reaching “Net Zero” and other abritrary goals by a certain date. The profits, mainly subsidies, go to Danish pensioners. We are so done with this.
Meanwhile, renewables are more heavily subsidized than fossil fuels.
Both WHO and the Paris Accords have turned into globalilst monsters that threaten countries’ sovereignty. Poor Germany.
So far, no “globalist” entities were able to stop the Gaza genocide. They have not been able to discipline and control the rogue Israel. So, the hell with them.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 21 2025 18:06 utc | 161

Peace pledge by Trump has now expired. He will be judged by his actions not words.

Posted by: pepe | Jan 21 2025 18:06 utc | 162

Chris Hedges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFQyAqfjOQ
“On Trump, Musk, Gaza, the rise of totalitarianism and the end of the US empire.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 21 2025 18:07 utc | 163

“B: Carbon Dioxide accounts for just 0.04% of the atmosphere. There’s no effing way it affects the climate. The Paris Accords are bullshit.”
of course it is. All about sunspots, cosmic rays and cloud cover!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_8w6JPLEl8

Posted by: g wiltek | Jan 21 2025 18:09 utc | 164

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 17:49 utc | 147
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Polygyny has always been practiced everywhere. Human nature is to procreate with the best and most beautiful match. Not one boy for one girl, which I believe is modernist nonsense.
In the West, polygyny still exists but the men are called “fuck boys” or “players” and the females are discarded after the male’s orgasm. Often the state steps in and assumes the provider role further eroding the formation of families so that the children can grow up to become prey for degenerates or school shooters (see the statistics of outcomes for children raised in fatherless homes).
In many Global South countries, being a third wife is preferable to being a girlfriend or “hookup.” There is status, honor, and dignity. There is also care and protection, female-oriented concepts that are foreign in the West today, where women are only useful for their temporary sexual value and not as long-term mates and partners.
I lament that in Russia polygyny is not legal, because it would go a long way to addressing demographic issues. It’s a weird Christian hangup, which is ironic, given how many Biblical figures had multiple wives and many children. I think the European-stock Russians are worried about the Islamic-stock Russians out-breeding them. IIRC, Kadyrov has an official wife and may have 2 more religious wives behind the scenes, which is expected in his culture from a man who leads an entire people (Chechens).

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 18:09 utc | 165

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 21 2025 17:50 utc | 148
I was suspicious that Ottoman Empire was overthrown by Zionist and Turkey has been run by them via the Muslim Brotherhood an MI-6 offshoot. But, after the Syrian incursion and obvious Erdogan’s facilitation of the Israel conquest of Syria and Hezbollah’s destruction, I feel fairly certain that this is correct. Another thought that came to mind recently is, if Turkey is an independent player in the region, why exactly would such a powerful Muslim country not be on the PNAC hitlist. Of course, I know I will come across as a nutter with these views, but it is a topic in which the more I did, the more I find.

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 18:12 utc | 166

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 17:59 utc | 156
Thank you for this post, aristodemos. Here in New Mexico it is the Native American communities that have preserved the beautiful landscape in which I live. They also preserve side by side with their religious kivas, beautiful churches. Multipolarity comes with native roots, and they tolerate even my own enjoyment of life here among them, practising my own faith in my own way.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 21 2025 18:14 utc | 167

Racketeer In Chief

We will be strong and we will win like never before. We will not be conquered. We will not be intimidated. We will not be broken. And we will not fail.

Of course not, you will be the conqueror, tormentor and destroyer !
Always has been, always will be.
thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Jan 21 2025 18:15 utc | 168

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 14:55 utc | 29
At last a sensible post at No. 29. Where are all these ‘freaks’ (not in the 1970 sense) coming from? Nutters of the world unite, and post idiocy here.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 21 2025 18:17 utc | 169

Prof Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BQcFG8AcXc
“The collapse has begun…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 21 2025 18:17 utc | 170

@ LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 18:09 utc | 164
Wll, yes. I should’ve pointed out that polygyny is illegal according to the Thai Civil and Commercial code, although not only is punishing it unthinkable, but it’s socially accepted. Rather like the polygynous TV show Mormons inside the official LDS Church (which unofficially maintains a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding the practice).

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 18:18 utc | 171

Yogi—@1759 Jan 21
Thanks for your astute insights on Trump’s dilemma. With a totally (with one single exception) Hou$e of Repre$entatives, saddled by a combination of bribery and blackmail by the Talmudist traitors within the U$$A…Congre$$ is occupied within their very offices by AIPAC enemies of WE THE PEOPLE.
A large part of the problem are the Tweedle-dee-dee and Tweedle-dee-dumber two peas in a pod parties, the Democraps and the RePooplikkkans. Those two parties are both top-down institutions with the DNC and RNC apparatchiks being totally owned subsidiaries of the mostly Talmudist ruling Central Bank$ter Cabal.
Therefore, the party nominees, half of whom who get (s)elected…have been thoroughly vetted by their “superiors” prior to nomination…and thusly are deemed to be RELIABLE due to their states of subject to either or both bribery or blackmail.
Congre$$…both parties and both houses…are Chosen traitors to their oaths of office…pre-selected by the minions of the financial elite. The huge majority of them are merely midwit grifters and consummate egotists…hardly one of whom actually serve the public good OR actually represent the American people.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 18:18 utc | 172

It remains to be seen who gets waivers to the 90 day embargo on foreign aid.
I suspect that will tell us all we need to know about foreign policy…
Posted by: Mary | Jan 21 2025 15:16 utc | 38
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Me: Same thought. Well, I didn’t think of “waivers,” but I did wonder whether money to the genociders is “aid.”
Still, it is an interesting step.
Maybe the point is to exert carrot/stick leverage to see how various Global South governments respond Trump’s moves. Like the tariff carrot/stick gambit.
We know that a lot of aid goes to (1) foreign oligarchs (and never reaches the needy populace) and compradors (is that the word?) and (2) also that a lot of it is designed to come right back into the pockets of US oiligarchs —I mean oligarghs.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 21 2025 18:19 utc | 173

Posted by: Robert Hope | Jan 21 2025 15:36 utc | 46
Well, the reason b doesn’t do that is because he’s not a brainwashed oiled up idiot. You are welcome to the implications of that statement.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 21 2025 18:23 utc | 174

Great comments today. They really run the gamut. I don’t agree with b on everything, but he is entitled to his opinion. He has made this a safe place for just about every walk of life and every viewpoint. But doesn’t this mean that MoA is an anti-safe space? I think it does. Because we should be able to pick apart arguments without getting personal or debasing the bar with perjoratives and quick labels.
A safe-space means not picking apart bad arguments but letting dumbasses be undisturbed, while shrieking at anyone who dares to notice the Emperor’s new clothes.
@72 Trisha
Thanks for the comment. You are a human being. You deserve love and conversation just like anyone. There is a difference between having the right to present as the opposite sex without being assaulted/molested/bullied and inserting one’s sexual viewpoints into the popular discussion.
If I had my druthers, we would not be going around in culture sex-obsessed and fixating on Freudian theory. And certainly the state would not be involved with sexuality and policy pertaining to such, only making sure that people can enter the public domain without having violence inflicted on them.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 21 2025 18:23 utc | 175

Polygamy ?

Posted by: g wiltek | Jan 21 2025 18:24 utc | 176

Posted by: Jack M | Jan 21 2025 15:52 utc | 54
“Another Trump problem-reaction-solution operation that’s a home run for the elite:
– Problem: the carbon emission discussion
– Reaction: everyone bawling that they want to keep their cars (preferably big and as many as possible) and eat meat (preferably only meat and nothing else, and make it really bleed so that the vegans feel it)
– Solution: Trump ending all climate agreements, ending the entire discussion on pollution and giving the corporations unlimited license to rape and pollute the planet with heavy metals, pesticides, strip mining, clear cutting and GMO. But hey, that’ll teach the hippies and vegans!”
Worth repeating. Good stuff Jack.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 21 2025 18:26 utc | 177

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 18:09 utc | 164
How is polgyny going to work in a modern emancipated society? Women can also have more husbands?
If not, you will have scores of womenless men around (the losers in the women collecting game) and pissed-off women that do not want to be shared.
Or are you thinking groups of men and women that form a family? Somewhat more modern and probably much more efficient and resilient not to mention raising kids will be a spiffy. Plus divorce will not matter so much then. Although not sure this hasn’t been tried in the past already.

Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 18:30 utc | 178

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 21 2025 16:07 utc | 65
“It’s clear that anti-Trump fleas will continue to haunt the bar and spout their usual doublethink.”
Please say you are being sarcastic. I expected better of you. Usually I can respect what you post on your site. But if that’s where you are at now I’ll be giving it a miss

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 21 2025 18:31 utc | 179

People should also be informed from the fact that the kind of person who would support attacking DEI attempts to correct historic injustices from discrimination as well as attacking the transgender issue in disregard to scientific research is the same kind of person who would hold Cuba in terrorist list and align with Zionist hardliners. All those stances are the wrong side of history.
Posted by: 1969LimaPeru | Jan 21 2025 16:24 utc | 73
The History of Man is historic injustice, one after the other, after the other. And you looking back in that History in the unending attempts to justify mental illness, which trans anything is a mental illness-a deviation from the natural Human existence, the SUSTAINABLE EXISTENCE OF MAN-is a reflection of your personal insecurities (i.e. that gut instinct, that NATURAL instinct deep inside telling you you’re barking wrong). Just like the herds of religious who think if they convince you that they’re right, then they might be right about their religion being the only way. Herd mentality sucks. And it sucks harder when you can’t even figure out what or who you are.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Jan 21 2025 18:32 utc | 180

@Posted by: Bakunin17 | Jan 21 2025 18:05 utc | 160
Arguments not based upon facts in evidence, the vast majority of women, Blacks, Latinos, gays etc., are not trans and a majority of them fully support the acceptance of the biological fact of two sexes. Trump may be many things, but he just protected the vast majority of the female population against male predatory behaviour (by a very small subset of those who identify as trans) that has been documented to occur. Your lack of empathy for young females and females in their protected spaces is deafening.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 18:34 utc | 181

Newbie/21803 Jan 21
Quite right across the board on the threefold Abrahamic organized religions. One slight quibble…a matter of semantics. Though there are some genuine Jesusites amongst the many who call themselves “Christians”…a preferable, as being more accurate description of those deluded folks would be Constantinian CROSSTIANS.
Why that?
The Roman Emperor, Constantine, hired a gaggle of organization men within the then very diffuse followers of Jesus…to research the various texts and scriptures dating to the original Jesusite movements. The emperor struck back at the Gnostic and Essene types with their profound beliefs in reincarnation and in spiritual understandings.
So the orders to the cronies the emperor selected were to completely obliterate all texts which did not follow his imperial instructions. So books like the Gospel of the disciple Thomas…were totally eliminated from consideration for his engineered “HOLY” Bible. Other gospels and texts were accepted within the CANON of approved Crosstian beliefs. However, in many instances they were either redacted (where unfavorable passages were simply erased)…or they were interpolated (meaning the texts were to contain new passages favoring the imperial edicts). Perhaps the most telling of those interpolations was Jesus purportedly having said: “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto the LORD that which is the Lord’s”…the lord, of course, being the Emperor.
Yes, Newbie, your analysis overall is quite correct. The most dictatorial of the Abrahamic lot has been “Holy” Mother Church and its latter-day protesting some things, iterations. Having not been enlightened by 19th Century German scholarly exegetical researchers…the 15th Century Martin Luther, ignorant and innocent of deeper understandings…chose the BOOK as his leitmotif…simply not realizing that the book was cooked when the Emperor struck back at the Jesusites and invented CROSSTIANITY.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 18:35 utc | 182

@ juliania | Jan 21 2025 17:37 utc | 139
thanks.. yes, i did see your post @ 69 and liked it, but didn’t respond to it..
@ juliania | Jan 21 2025 17:58 utc | 155
well that is always true! no one is perfect.. i am willing to withhold negative thoughts on trump and i would like to give him the benefit of the doubt.. i don’t know much about the battle hymn of the republic..
relevant article from thomas fazi
Welcome to America’s techno-military future
AI will be harnessed to assert global dominance

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 18:35 utc | 183

Posted by: g wiltek | Jan 21 2025 18:24 utc | 175
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Polygyny. One man, multiple wives.
Polygamy in a Western context can be one woman with many husbands. It’s not a model that has ever been practiced outside of ClownWorld.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 18:40 utc | 184

@Posted by: 1969LimaPeru | Jan 21 2025 16:24 utc | 73
I am a socialist who believes that anthropogenic climate change is real and am also an anti-Zionist. AND I fully support Trump’s rollback of the DEI craziness. Your attempts to slur anyone who disagrees with you are right out of the classic trans/queer ideology playbook, just like the ” Trans Exclusionary T+Radical Feminist” invented slur. Your BS will be a tiny blip in the historical timeline; people who got redirected away from actual socialism by the identitarian BS pushed by the oligarchy. Sucker.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 18:41 utc | 185

By the way B:
Appreciate what you’ve done here. Thank you.
Once you further research the Paris Climate Accords (grift) and the WHO (more grift, plus other bad things), you might see the US withdrawal for what they are–steps in the right direction to ending the suffering of the Peoples of the World at the hands of a relative few who think we are all cattle deserving of slaughter.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Jan 21 2025 18:42 utc | 186

Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 18:30 utc | 177
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How is anything “working” in a modern society?
The African and West Asian worlds have had these large extended families for centuries.
West Asia emancipated women long before and more completely than the West has done.
Second and third wives have more rights and security than any office fling ever will.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 18:44 utc | 187

Where I Trump I’d be quite concerned about the Democrats and cartels hooking up.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Jan 21 2025 16:46 utc | 92
You mean they haven’t already?

Posted by: Phil R | Jan 21 2025 18:46 utc | 188

@Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 18:40 utc | 183
Polygamy is one person with multiple spouses
Polygyny is one man with multiple female spouses
Polyandry is one woman with multiple male spouses
Polygyny causes huge issues as the men with the most resources/power/personal attractiveness take the vast majority of females, leaving the majority of men without a mate (or perhaps also cuckolded) and extremely frustrated and angry.
Polyandry fails due to most females preference for a mate stronger/more successful/more wealthy than herself. She ends up with only “lower quality” males and other males who will not commit.
Monogamy is a social technology that works for the long-term benefit of the vast majority of the population, both men and women. And most especially children.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 18:50 utc | 189

I didn’t see anyone else post this, so am posting it and if it is a repeat, please forgive.
Here is a list of all the presidential actions on Day 1, according to the Gateway Pundit.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/here-is-full-list-presidential-actions-trump-signed/
One of the most consequent actions President Trump has taken was the restructuring of the National Security Council. It has the potential for the de-legitimizing of the intelligence branch of the US government which has accrued enormous power that the Constitution had no intention of giving to unelected employees. Here is an article with a copy of that Executive Order.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/01/21/president-trump-restructures-the-national-security-council-and-removes-ic-influence/
The US is in such a mess – politically, economically, and morally. The fact that Donald Trump is willing and able to take on some of those problems and try to remedy them – on behalf of and to the benefit of ordinary people is to be praised.

Posted by: Belle | Jan 21 2025 18:52 utc | 190

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 14:33 utc | 11
“Meanwhile nothing obvious is being done about homelessness, the cost of education, or the inavailability of housing.”
Right on! That Trump is such a slacker! He’s been president for almost a whole day and still hasn’t gotten anything fixed! If only we had Joe Biden back everything would be better.

Posted by: Paranaense | Jan 21 2025 18:53 utc | 191

In some native and ancient societies, trans people were in fact accorded special status. . . .
Posted by: Trisha | Jan 21 2025 16:17 utc | 70
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I am sorry to hear that you have been assaulted.
No one should be assaulted for any reason.
Unfortunately, men also get assaulted by other men.
Probably both trans-women and =men are more likely to be assaulted by males. Unfortunately, there is a record of trans-men assaulting women in women’s spaces.
Regarding the quoted comment by Trish, I recently edited a book on just this topic of attitudes in (some) traditional societies. The emphasis was on Native American society, esp. of the Southwest. It amazes me that people writing about this—also academics—never seem to take a holistic look at why cross-dressing etc. may arise in certain historical or prehistorical but known settings (such as Native Americans). These writers assume that these societies have the same “values” as the contemporary (and very recent) progressive and mainly left-wing trans-community.
There weren’t really “trans” people before the surgical and hormone interventions became available to transform one sex into the other. There were eunuchs of different types, and there were a few people with physical anomalies of their sexual organs, and the rest were men and women on a spectrum of sexual preferences, some of whom cross=dressed in various ways.
It seems obvious to me that environmental pressures must be considered as a factor in the occurrence of and attitudes toward men acting like women and participating in women’s activities. In times of scarcity, there are likely to be fewer animals to hunt, and so more planting and gathering and water hauling must be done. In this situation it would make sense for the society to increase the number of women available for women’s activities, so some male children might be steered toward this role. Placing some men into non-reproducing roles might also decrease the fertility rate somewhat. In times of plenty there probably wouldn’t be much reason for women to take men’s roles, unless particular women were strong enough to do so and had the physique and temperament and training for it. Of course there are women who are stronger than some men. No news there. Still, I think in traditional societies it is easier for a man to become a stand=in for a woman, than for a woman to become a stand-in for a man.
There could be other such factors that influence these phenomena. For instance, suppose a social group produces certain items that it trades with other groups, and these are primarily made by women. There would be an incentive for the group to have more “women” working in this sector. One can also imagine situations where more “men” would be needed. In all of these situations, the culture would come up with stories to explain these things in cultural terms. See the work of Marvin Harris.
Similarly, I speculate that the contemporary increase in the number of LBGTQ etc. individuals—perceived as a purely cultural development—might be a thoroughly unconscious society-wide cultural plus physiological response to resource stress and overpopulation.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 21 2025 18:55 utc | 192

https://tgstat.ru/en/channel/@DDGeopolitics/136852

Journo: What can we expect from the NATO countries that spend the least amount of money, Spain, France, below the 5%?
Trump: Spain is very low… and yet are they a BRICS nation?
Journo: What?
Trump: They’re a BRICS nation Spain. You know what a BRICS Nation is? You’ll figure it out… but eeeeh … and if the BRICS nations wanna do that, that’s ok because we’re gonna at least put a 100% tariff on the business they do with the United States. You do know what the BRICS is right? You guy’s know, you know what I’m saying, right.

Trump already making a fool out of himself with his patronizing, shifting the question-answer and lack of elementary knowledge. No he isn’t acting it. Trump is already doing a fine job it seems. MASA.
A NATO country being a BRICS nation? ROFLOL.

Posted by: xor | Jan 21 2025 18:58 utc | 193

The problem with the emphasis on climate change is that the environmental movement was hijacked by the CCers, and then the governments of the world met to turn the Earth’s ecosystem over to Wall Street to “protect” the atmosphere.
The 70s environmentalists cared about about air and water pollution, overfished oceans, razed forests, the 6th Mass Extinction, plastic in the oceans and in human bodies, aquifers going dry, topsoil depletion, pesticides and herbicides in our food, hunting of endangered animals, the effect of the military on marine mammals, and so much more.
Now it’s all Climate Change, All The Time, and we are told that green tech will allow us to continue our wasteful lifestyles, and never mind the environmental destruction and war promoting mining of rare minerals needed to change over to EV cars instead of ICE cars.
And definitely ignore the US military and the billionaires flying private jets all over the world, while going to climate change conferences that feature dining on endangered species.
Cap and Trade was Al Gore’s contribution, back in the 1996 Kyoto Accords.
The environment was turned over to Wall Street and carbon credits are traded, so that the likes of Bill Gates can buy “offsets” to assuage any guilt he might feel about his multiple energy-gulping mansions, or his private jet-setting ways.
The ironic thing is that if we had continued focusing on protection and conservation of our planet’s ecosystem, carbon emissions would have dropped as a side effect, as would the carbon sequestration that results from protecting the forests and using regenerative farming.
Thanks to Al Gore and his team, the US military is exempted from any carbon controls, while US forests are clear-cut and shipped to Europe to be burned to make electricity, which allows credits to be sold because clearcutting forests is considered “carbon neutral”, no matter the fossil fuels involved in the cutting, the trucking, and the shipping.
Notice that globalization is never addressed as a problem, even though the carbon output involved in the whole global supply chain and outsourcing of production wastes incredible amounts of fossil fuel energy.
That shows you that the whole thing is a scam to further enrich Wall Street.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 21 2025 18:58 utc | 194

Polygyny causes huge issues as the men with the most resources/power/personal attractiveness take the vast majority of females, leaving the majority of men without a mate (or perhaps also cuckolded) and extremely frustrated and angry.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 18:50 utc | 189
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I suspect this isn’t much of a problem in especially warlike cultures. Those angry and frustrated excess males can die in battle, after all, and the survivors might just get multiple wives themselves, at least from the conquered populations…

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 19:00 utc | 195

Ok. Dave, will you let me introduce some 0.04 % of your body weight of some poison into your system? Allright?
Posted by: Pnyx | Jan 21 2025 17:37 utc | 138
That’s an asinine comment and a strawman. Not only is CO2 not a poison, it is fundamental to the existence of life.

Posted by: Phil R | Jan 21 2025 19:00 utc | 196

I do dislike many of the EOs Trump issued.

Agree.

Leaving the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreements, and thereby de-legitimizing them, is not good for mankind.

I disagree. The WHO has been completely delegitimized via the covid world-wide scandal and should be terminated. The climate scam has been going on for 35 years and is a total scientific disgrace and power-grabbing scheme. These crimes must not be allowed to continue. I agree with Trumps action on these questions even though I have no illusions in other areas.

Further supporting the Zionst entity is a disgrace.

Agreed. Anyone wanting to support genocide must expect to be punished in the end.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 21 2025 19:02 utc | 197

Apart from the transphobia I generally like your commentary.

Posted by: ts | Jan 21 2025 19:03 utc | 198

@Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 17:33 utc | 135
Your credentials don’t mean shit.
A degree from turkistan is as respectable as one from Disneyland.
And maybe someone in that shithole should get an economics degree.
Maybe you’ll understand what 44% inflation is. LOL
I wonder why Europe is infested with you lot, why would they leave that marvelous country?

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 21 2025 19:05 utc | 199

@ Jane | Jan 21 2025 18:55 utc | 193
I would be interested in hearing your opinion on Tom Spanbauer’s Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, assuming you’ve read it. I’ve always been curious as to the degree of verisimilitude in his depiction of Two Spirit people and sexual diversity in the 19c US West.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 19:06 utc | 200

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