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He rescinded many of EOs the Biden administration had issued around its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.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: Ed Bernays | Jan 21 2025 19:05 utc | 200
University of Illionis
Miami University
Ohio State University
CPA
They do mean shit.

Posted by: Turk 152 | Jan 21 2025 19:07 utc | 201

wagelaborer | Jan 21 2025 18:58 utc | 195
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Very good points.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 21 2025 19:07 utc | 202

tumba

Posted by: tumba | Jan 21 2025 19:07 utc | 203

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 18:50 utc | 189
Yes, my objections also. And a family/group of men and women that share and have kids together fails because there will always be disagreement, favoritism and dominance after some time.
An attractive idea is to push people to marry and have kids early so they can divorce and repeat a few times in their lives. This creates an interlocked huge extended family of (half) blood relatives that is resilient but lacks the downside of all living simultaneously together.
The divorces do need to be amicable for that…

Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 19:08 utc | 204

@Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 18:44 utc | 186
“West Asia”, you mean Saudi Arabia? In Iran, Jordan and Lebanon it is technically legal but rarely practised, in Israel, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia it is banned, in Iraq it requires a Judge’s permission (very rarely practised), it is also banned by the Kurds.
So in reality only significantly practised in Saudi Arabia, not exactly a paradise for women’s rights. And much of West Asia is certainly not known for female emancipation.
Female emancipation and education rapidly reduces polygyny, as the power/knowledge gap between husband and wife is greatly reduced. That’s why it tends to occur only in subsistence agriculture societies and authoritarian regimes that practise high levels of sex discrimination – such as Saudi Arabia.
Monogamy is the social technology that works best for modern societies, where female education is a major reason for economic development. Mao laid one of the greatest foundations for China’s development in driving up literacy levels among both men and women, generally emancipating women and banning polygamy (which had been only used by the rich, and even then not generally).

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 19:09 utc | 205

Surprised by you being upset about Paris scam and WHO scam. I do hope you’re kidding. Any half intelligent adult knows that plastic production is the greatest threat to mankind as is a global satanic cabal’s control of every human’s health and well-being.
Don’t know what you’ve been smoking B, but I believe today’s post will damage your reputation. All the best and thanks for your efforts.

Posted by: Ogre | Jan 21 2025 19:12 utc | 206

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 18:35 utc | 182
Wow, such a respectable outlet you link to.
Marvelous articles such as: “Why Israel deserves our support”
LOL
Hope they all get slow cancer

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 21 2025 19:12 utc | 207

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 19:09 utc | 206
You have touched on an interesting point there. I read a few times that one of the reasons for the great propserity in the West post 90s was the inclusion of women in the workforce and the corresponding increase in GDPs as more people are economically active.
It is however putting a heavy burden on reproductive rates as there is no time for kids when both parents pursue carriers.
We might be seeing this now come to an end as demography does its thing.

Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 19:16 utc | 208

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 14:55 utc | 29
“It’s important to remember that Trump created vaccines (which are now we’ll understood to be dangerous) at warp speed.”
Trump trusted the wrong people and Fauci used Trump’s gullibility to steer the COVID response so as to hide his own culpability. Trump’s greatest weakness is his pride. That’s why he will never admit he got taken for a ride by Fauci et.al. I wish he could admit that he got it wrong, but that’s not who Trump is.

Posted by: Paranaense | Jan 21 2025 19:16 utc | 209

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 21 2025 15:28 utc | 43
One could only hope to be as a woke en as you.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Jan 21 2025 19:16 utc | 210

Deniz152@1756 Jan 21
Thanks for your response and your personal actual liberality. As one of the original founders of the Gay liberation Movement in ’69 and ’70; I too am disappointed by the current “spokesmen” for what once was a genuine and totally real movement which developed after such entities as the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the genuine and thoughtful first wave of the Women’s movements.
Gay barflies, mostly victims of neonatal circumcision, can frequently be described by the term “fags”. Without having been subject to that barbaric invasion of personal bodily integrity against an innocent newborn having “blessed” them with neurotic acceptance of the in-group status quo; many of those “fags”, being cultural outsiders, would not in many instances, have been captivated by a mutually protective herd mentality.
Andorogynity is totally a natural expression of mega-generational tribal human cultural evolution. After all, on a chromosomal basis, all males have both a male “Y” chromosome as well as a FEMALE “X” one. The contemporary meme of “All Man/Macho” is a total lie.
If the “straight” herd had also not been subject to numerous mind-control systems…largely to be found within the Abrahamic cults…independent thinkers among them would have come to conclusions that samesex individuals are spirits first and human breeders not so much. “Be fruitful and multiply” is an onerous prescription and tacit proscription. Solution for the confusion is relatively simple: If those who fail to breed, due to differing orientations..by Darwinian conceptualization…the samesex imperative amongst perhaps 8-10% of human males, not reproducing, would ultimately disappear from the general population.
Thus, in evolutionary senses…there simply must be a REASON…on a human CULTURAL basis…for samesex oriented babies to be engendered by those who feel the need to breed…that embedded impulse being personally exemplified by my current B.F. who is the father of two.
The relative androgynous explosion in contemporary American culture appears to be trending towards the historical norm…a millennials old patterning of tribal cultures which long preceded Abrahamic cultism and its patriarchal imperatives which can be described as “one size fits all”.
Humans are first and foremost individuals. Cultures which IMPOSE their mind-control memes will axiomatically disintegrate as we reach escape velocity from the Kali Yuga and its Age of Aries subset which featured abstract alphabets along with patriarchal denomination and its many offshoots.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 19:18 utc | 211

@Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 19:00 utc | 196
Surplus males have always been a good reason for wars! Slavery also works, as the male slaves are put to work while the (prettier) female slaves become the playthings of the male slavers (like Thomas Jefferson’s slave “wife”). There is an awful lot of European DNA in the US Black population (on average about 25%), same thing on a larger scale in Brazil. Also, perhaps another reason for the use of Eunuchs and the depositing of young males in to the priesthood (and probable sexual abuse).

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 19:20 utc | 212

Posted by: paddy | Jan 21 2025 17:52 utc | 150
CO2 absorbs and re-emits infrared light, interfering with the radiative cooling of the planet. The spectrometry of CO2 is hard science that can be observed by anyone with the necessary equipment: a heat source, an infrared camera, and a volume of CO2.
As for whether 0.04% of a compound can impact the emissivity of the atmosphere: in 1815 the Tambora volcanic eruption released 60 million tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2), which blocked sunlight worldwide to such an extent that 1816 was called “the year without summer” and caused a visible yellowing of the sky.
Compare the 60 million tons of SO2 from a volcano causing crops failures and famine in places around the world, to the 3.4 trillion tons of CO2 currently in the atmosphere.

Posted by: a stone | Jan 21 2025 19:22 utc | 213

Trump’s reversal of codified trans rights propaganda seems sensible, but wasn’t this whole phenomena something either highjacked or even engineered by internal intelligence agencies in conjunction with the most powerful American corporations to ultimately elicit precisely the sort of backlash and so-called “return to commonsense” we are now ostensibly seeing, but at the cost of wholesale Zionist, oligarchic, and authoritarian imperial capture of the principal institutions of American governance? Indeed, it’s possible that correlation does not in this case even equal causation, that what is already fundamentally a de-democratized state would have us believe some version of the above was the cause of Trump’s restoration, when it is simply a pseudo or mirage of cause, because presidential elections in the US are already being engineered for certain predetermined outcomes that perhaps strictly speaking do not constitute fraud outright.

Posted by: Ludovic | Jan 21 2025 19:24 utc | 214

It’s one thing to be prideful and another thing to be ignorant, illiterate and stupid.
Trump features all of these qualities.
He’s got someone or a number of others directing him.
You just gotta make the idiot think its his idea.
Turning a blind eye to genocide is particularly ugly as he ogles the oceanfront Gaza with its “excellent weather” for condo development.

Posted by: Chaka Khagan | Jan 21 2025 19:24 utc | 215

Trisha @ 70
That is not what sumptuary laws were or were about. It was not about you.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 21 2025 19:29 utc | 216

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 | 201
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I haven’t heard of that book.
Is it fiction or nonfiction?
There is a slightly useful discussion here,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit
Mainly useful because it shows how modern “emancipated” ideas have been used anachronistically.
It includes a table of some genuine Native American terms for variations of behavior.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 21 2025 19:31 utc | 217

Posted by: Crumch | Jan 21 2025 17:11 utc | 117
1: No chance
2: What’s new
3: Good luck

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 21 2025 19:32 utc | 218

@Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 19:16 utc | 209
I am seeing a small but increasing trend among young female PhD students of getting married and having kids while completing their PhD. Perhaps some acceptance of biological reality by those students, and the benefits of monogamy.
In contrast to the extreme minority who show up on social media etc., the vast amount of the younger generations (Millenials and Gez Z and now Gen Alpha) are having less sex and not that many partners when compared to earlier times. Its very much like the trans community, the small minority of extremists tend to inhabit social media. Everyone else is too busy just getting on with life, and are probably significantly less needing of attention. Also, on social media blood and sex get views. Also, it does seem that the younger generations are learning from the previous generations’ mistakes, i.e. the reality of so many women who wanted kids but are now in their 40s and 50s without them.
Reduced levels of child-bearing are also very much linked to economic and financial stressors, with neoliberalism reducing living standards, financial security, and social support for child rearing. Bulgaria actually took a lot of measures for this, and its birth did increase in response. China’s birth rate also increased in 2024 after years of decline. In Canada I hear a lot about “We cant afford a house or to pay the bills so why would we have a kid?”

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 19:32 utc | 219

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 | 192
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Were you one of those suckers who paid to have a brick with your message on it placed inside the “big beautiful wall” that never got built?
It’s ok that you’re a fan. No matter how hard you fanboy, you cannot change the record. Trump failed in his first term, and the one hard and defined promise (end the war in 24 hours) he made in his second term has also missed the deadline he made with you.
TDS isn’t only people who hate Trump. It is also people who refuse to acknowledge reality in defense of anything and everything that Trump does. His UN Ambassador (Elise Stefanik) testified this morning that Israel (a modern Zionist concept rooted in Freemasonry) has a Biblical right to establish “Greater Israel” which involves seizing land from neighboring states by any means (implicit in that she is saying that God has ordered genocides to be committed by America’s greatest ally).
Pal, you can leave the circus tent at any time, but until you do, you will remain a clown.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 19:33 utc | 220

With respect b, I beg to differ. Leaving the WHO in my opinion is one of the greatest first steps Trump has taken. The WHO is largely financed by Gates of Hell via Gavi, plus other scoundrels. Their stated purpose is to be in command worldwide of whatever next “plandemic” comes slouching down the road, superseding the rights of individual nations. They seek the right to inject whatever they chose into whomever they chose. WEF, WHO, Davos, Bilderbergers – as they say in the movies “all of them witches.” When I read that Trump had ditched WHO I felt the first glimmer of optimism I’ve felt in years.
Next in line, pardoning the so called J6 protestors. Recall, to paraphrase, the people shall have the right to seek redress…” Then came firing Milley! Bravo. I have some grave doubts about Musty but at least there’s some good to take with the bad.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jan 21 2025 19:35 utc | 221

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 19:09 utc | 206
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Thanks for telling me things that I already knew and making yourself look like a 13-year-old boy in the process.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 19:36 utc | 222

Trisha, women’s faeces are just as smelly as men’s, as I realised standing downwind of the women’s trench latrines at Glastonbury one summer. Such lithe beauty in the queue, such evil exhalations on the breeze.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jan 21 2025 19:39 utc | 223

Trump himself in a post-election interview said that the “Trans” problem involved so few people that it ought not to be a big issue. The idea that a “meritocracy” even exists is similarly laughable. I was in many “meritocracies” during my career as a business attorney, Not one of them was an actual meritocracy although they all labeled themselves as such. All of them were riddled with nepotism, warehoused incompetents who were originally hired because someone high up in the business “owed a favor” to someone else, people who were once productive now becoming unproductive but still wanting a bigger piece of the pie.And many more examples. I also worked in government and observed that the level of competency – while similarly lacking, was not in any exceeding the incredible and disgusting incompetency I saw in every single “meritocracy that me, my relatives, or my friends, ever worked at or with. IMO DEI did no harm given what goes on in all “meritocracies” of which I am aware. Homework for whoever wrote this article: rewatch “Office Space”.
I also think that concentrating on the culture wars is a mistake. You may lose many potential allies who are turned off by articles such as this. The culture wars are a distraction encouraged by imperialists such as the US Oligarchs- who very much want an imperialist continuation. This is what we should focus on as so far Trump has shown many imperialist tendencies ( I want the Panama Canal- and Greenland to boot ). Assuming we start campaigns for both, I am very skeptical that this will contribute anything to making America great in any sense.

Posted by: Chromex | Jan 21 2025 19:41 utc | 224

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.
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 | 183
I intended to include others as well, hinduism (tantra) and budhism (tibetan mixed with bon) in the list of those having esoteric branches as well.
Yes, judaism institutionalized Kaballah, Islam has their sufi.
You are probably right that much was “cleaned up” by constantin, but enough remained for things needing a final solution almost a thousand years later, between 1209-1350, a full cycle for that, to clean up cathars/albigensis and templars for good measure.
If indeed something remained in Christ’s order to ressurface as rosecrucianism or other occult branches…your guess is as good as mine. But gnosis is what proves Pasteur wrong (at least in the physical plain) life can sprout from where nothing remained.
What does this have to do with trumps measures? Maybe more than meets the eyes, in a way a new gospel was being pushed and heretics persecuted.
But if that is true then it’s unlikely that trump’s measures will do more than forestall the new dogmas.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 21 2025 19:41 utc | 225

I have long realized that most commentators on geopolitics sites, especially those in North America do not know what “left” is. They call leftists people terribly right -wing and globalist organs. In this post today this exploded. I would love to know the cause of this hatred against WHO. It’s crazy. I understand the discomfort with the excesses of gays (I am gay myself and recognize these excesses), but the hatred against gays observed on these sites, especially in Russians, carolas influenced by the Orthodox Church, which can be worse than Catholic and evangelicals, is scare and lose faith in humanity. Men do not live without hating. Soon they will be hunting gay on the streets as they hunted the witches or how they hunt the communists.

Posted by: José Gomes | Jan 21 2025 19:43 utc | 226

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 | 197
If it’s ethanol, the ratio seems just about right to start, please dilute it in an acceptable form, nikka days will do.
But as in the above discussion you can amp it up a magnitude and that should be spot on for calling it a night.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 21 2025 19:45 utc | 227

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jan 21 2025 19:35 utc | 222
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What difference does leaving the WHO make when the US runs clandestine Biolabs all over the world and did under Trump?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 19:46 utc | 228

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 19:32 utc | 220
Yes, interesting. I too see at international conferences more and more kids being brought in the venues.
And it is quite traumatic to witness the stress and sadness of women post 40 that never got around to having kids and with biological clock ticking away. That smart young women see that and take lessons is a good sign. This is btw also true for men although less prominent.
In some countries there is plenty of support, like in Germany, but there is still a low birthrate. I believe that the stressors you mention are more cultural in nature. Having to do with individualism, consumer culture and the gradual extinction of christian morality. It has not been replaced by anything worthwhile and I think unlwss we have it the West will remain in a moral crisis.

Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 19:47 utc | 229

Will they stick ?
A few executive orders in a few hundred days time will reverse most of it ?

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 21 2025 19:49 utc | 230

10 year at 4,57%
Today the financial emergency measures kicked in since the Federal Gov‘t again hit its Debt Ceiling.
The forthcoming budgets battles this Spring will be most entertaining

Posted by: Exile | Jan 21 2025 19:49 utc | 231

Posted by: Exile | Jan 21 2025 19:49 utc | 232
They will be. The debt ceiling is a charade. It is pure political theatre to get concessions from your political opponents.
Mint the coin. Place it on the balance sheet.
Here:
https://www.crisesnotes.com/more-foia-memos-the-feds-2013-treasury-default-memo-just-in-time-for-another-round-of-debt-ceiling-politics/

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 21 2025 19:54 utc | 232

Norwegian | Jan 21 2025 19:02 utc | 198
wagelaborer | Jan 21 2025 18:58 utc | 195
Best and most pertinent comments so far; many thanks. For my part, I’m not too enthusiastic about a repeat of a Trump presidency; the first go around showed (yet again) that the office itself is but a store front for various fascist/imperialist interests. Welcome as the (present) withdrawal from these organizations may be, we should not forget what Russia has observed about the USA; “administrations may change, but policies never do.”

Posted by: robjira | Jan 21 2025 19:54 utc | 233

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 21 2025 19:49 utc | 231
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The joke that is American politics will see that those XOs will last until the next Democrat President.
That is one of the reasons why China is running circles around America when it comes to quality of life, IMO.
The Yankees have been engaged in a circle of back-and-forth for decades as the infrastructure degrades and prices rise. Wedge issues like woke policy, gun rights, and abortion demand more money and attention than building a better tomorrow.
Everyone fighting everyone else for things that will never permanently change.
It is exactly what I would do if I wanted to keep everyone distracted with a divide-and-rule strategy.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 19:56 utc | 234

Could one of you anti-anthropogenic climate change commenters provide me with a link to what you are reading that calms your fears about rising CO2 levels during the Industrial Revolution? Is it something + Nordhaus? If so, what? Steve Keen deals with Nordhaus, here: https://evonomics.com/steve-keen-nordhaus-climate-change-economics/ Many thanks.

Posted by: Atown | Jan 21 2025 19:56 utc | 235

Democracy means:
Everything Trump does can be reversed. There is no mechanism to tie the hands of your political opponents unless you turn into an authoritarian regime.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 21 2025 19:56 utc | 236

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 19:56 utc | 235
As always, bingo !!!
Nail on head love Donbass.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 21 2025 19:59 utc | 237

Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 21 2025 15:15 utc | 36
*** Couldn’t help ROFLMAO when Trump told his audience that he was SAVED from assassination by God to Make AmeriKKKa Great Again.***
Positively biblical, that miracle of the rapidly re-generated ear…
Surely should be commemorated in stained glass cathedral windows?

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 21 2025 19:59 utc | 238

Below is a current Reuters posting headline showing the opposition at Davos
Davos latest: Zelenskiy, von der Leyen and the Scholz-Musk ‘schitz’ spat
Its Hollywood and we are all actors!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 21 2025 20:00 utc | 239

LoveDonbass #229. Leaving WHO sets a precedent for other nations who may have been bullied and/or bribed into knuckling under to the WHO, Gates of Hell dictatorship. Some may have the courage to refuse to subject their citizens and their countries to the control on the globalists. Just as the mercifully overruled TPA – the trade agreement which gave control of trade practices and disputes to transnational enterprises, NOT individual countries, leaving WHO means a bit more freedom for the folks so to speak. A multipolar world one hopes.
I completely agree with you that the global bioweapons labs maintained by the murikans and satellites are an anathema as indeed are the 700 plus murikan military bases worldwide and the appalling pollution created by same. However each little step in the right direction is to the good. Julian is free and for the moment there is a sort of cease fire in Gaza.
I have enjoyed and learned from your posts. Cheers.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jan 21 2025 20:02 utc | 240

msm would be proud of this article (and comment section)

Posted by: Rae | Jan 21 2025 20:02 utc | 241

I am seeing a small but increasing trend among young female PhD students of getting married and having kids while completing their PhD. Perhaps some acceptance of biological reality by those students, and the benefits of monogamy.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 19:32 utc | 220
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If Canada is at all like the USA . . . well, your observation sends chills up my spine. I hope those female PhD students are in “growth” disciplines, or have husbands who are comfortably well-off. Here in the USA the overproduction of PhDs is such that many of them either will not end up employed in their field of study, or else they’ll end up as underemployed (and -compensated) adjuncts. And those relatively few who end up in tenure-track jobs had better have husbands who are both loaded and have lots of free time for the kids while the wife cranks out those books and articles under the publish-or-perish regime.
As with so many aspects of modern life, academe is quickly reverting to medieval conditions: in this case, wandering scholars who own little more than a few books and for whom the thought of supporting a family was unthinkable.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 20:03 utc | 242

Posted by: José Gomes | Jan 21 2025 19:43 utc | 227
The word “left” is very misunderstood generally in any discourse, this board inclusive.
Many of you guys here are what are called socialists and quite some old school communists. The left of the 70s. That is not the left that the current “right” is talking about.
What today passes as “left” is social progressivism. There is nothing wrong with it as idea except that many of its policies are based on faked social psychological science end of 90s and throughout the 00s. Faked as in semi-intentionally as a tool for the original researchers to get fame and positions. Unsound methods, cherry picking data, that kind of things. Bending science to get fame (they never got training in hard sciences, thsts why). Later you had to keep going as your whole tenure and carrier depended on you being right. This is slowly unraveling now and we will see in the coming years a great correction in the practiced social science.
(This is btw also a problem for the hard sciences as well).
Anyway, we on the “right” simply see the clown world emanating from this monumental scientific fail and point to it. Because it bothers us and many of us are autists on the spectrum so it is triggering when things are not right.
The economical part of “left”, empire this workers that etc is very outdated in todays society. It has never been so plentiful in the West as now. There is little genuine economic suffering. What is there is of course the reduction of purchasing power and living standards, but that is because we in the West have forgotten how to be great.

Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 20:05 utc | 243

I do dislike many of the EOs Trump issued. Leaving the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreements, and thereby de-legitimizing them
Let’s be fair. The EU embraced Trump’s disgrace, when the bloc walked away from the Paris Agreement at COP27 and COP28, then slammed the door shut on the Global South at COP29. That’s pretty much how G7 “leaders”(so-called E3+US) of the Joint Commission handled the JCPOA. Couldn’t we agree?

Posted by: sln2002 | Jan 21 2025 20:07 utc | 244

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 20:03 utc | 243
In the hard sciences few PhDs remain in academia. There are very few academic postings per PhD graduate. As it should be.
A woman PhD in e.g. electrical engineering does not need a husband to care for her (unless she wants to).
Things may be different in the social sciences.

Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 20:09 utc | 245

@ Ed Bernays | Jan 21 2025 19:12 utc | 208
i am not advocating for the outlet, but for the article… there is a difference and hopefully you are bright enough to know that… judging by your interactions with turk152, i’m not sure you are!!

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 20:10 utc | 246

tumba
Posted by: tumba | Jan 21 2025 19:07 utc | 204

Well… that’s the last straw, now there are even graffiti artists who come to spray-paint this site.

Posted by: Leuk | Jan 21 2025 20:14 utc | 247

@Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 19:36 utc | 223
Its called clarification, and it wasn’t for you but for general readers of this blog.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 20:14 utc | 248

A lot of statement acts is what I describe the EO’s as, but who knows what it will evolve into.
The only thing I am a bit content with is that all the woke, DEI, LGBTGFHT and corporate nonsense appears to be given some beating. Without the corporate world in lockstep over these meaningless things, workers would be united about wages, work-conditions and essential rights i.e. things that MATTER to most people.
Overall, I do not expect much from Ttump, except maybe a more presentable front for the hegemon. However, I am curious to see what the internal apparatus (i. e. “DeepState” and globalist demons) do to force him to uphold things like Ukraine, FIAT and ebdkess soul-less corporatism.

Posted by: NorwegianPawn | Jan 21 2025 20:14 utc | 249

Trump signed an executive order halting (temporarily) any aid to foreign countries. The new administration will be “looking into” who deserves it.
The following three countries are NOT included in this order (i.e., they will continue to receive all aid as usual):
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🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇪🇬/🇯🇴 NEW: Trump’s freeze on foreign aid for 90 days will not include aid to Israel, Jordan and Egypt, also known as the ‘Jewish Crescent’
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator/
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Posted by: teri | Jan 21 2025 20:15 utc | 250

Steve Bannons MAGA movement is Jack shit without Trump.
A Republican neocon is waiting to replace Trump in a few hundred days time.
Unless, the MAGA movement can find another Trump ? Sons are never like their fathers. Don Junior might take a shot at it?
But they need to get organised now. In the exact same way Russia should be preparing Putin’s replacement. Nobody stands out as Putin’s prodigy.
Neither of them are spring chickens any more. Regardless what people think Trump and Putin will be very difficult to replace. Who knows what type of person comes next.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 21 2025 20:15 utc | 251

PS. Yes bioweapons labs were in place under Trump. I’m not sure how much he knew about them… Many were installed by O’Bomber and his senate mentor Lieberman and continued and expanded under Bribem, Hunter Bribem, Killery, Cookies Nuland, et. al. According to some articles I’ve read, the bioweapons programs have been in place since the 1970s along with weaponized weather programs. I cannot speculate about Trump’s views on this. Perhaps he has become aware of the risks.
Perhaps he feels regret. Perhaps he merely does not want to be corralled by malevolent globalists. Perhaps Gates of Hell didn’t contribute to his inauguration fund, as did all the other butt lickers Zuckerberg, Sleazos etc. Who knows.
I still feel it’s a step for the positive. There are plenty of links out there. Nima has had guests discuss the subject. There was a Michael Hudson talk a few weeks ago plus Larry Wilkerson.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jan 21 2025 20:15 utc | 252

@193 Jane
Great comment, Jane. Thx.
It’s a grand question, this notion of self hood or identity in the modern age.
Parenting has a lot to do with it. The love a child feels from their parents, I would imagine, segways into the love one feels from the Creator in adult life.
That would account for the many, well-adjusted religious people in the world who show a greater experience of happiness in their lives than those that identify as atheistic.
But a good-upbrining is only half the battle. Every parent has to eventually come to the realization that they are mere custodians of the individual child before them, and that their children are actually wards of God’s grace.
There is a grand movement taking off in popular psychology that wants to lay the blame of trauma in life always at the foot of the parents. “I am this way because my parents did this to me.” IOW, it is a causal relationship between an unhappy self and the acts that were done to me that made me unhappy.
This is the Freudian-influence of psychoanalysis and the unconscious on society writ large. “If I could only externalize that which I have been repressing, I would be a complete person.” This notion of completing self hood in the modern world has been one of the most insidious factors in overall western decline.
We tried the sexual revolution. It put us here: a widening disparity of wealth, global-capitalism, policing the world in the name of liberating democracy.
Anyone who can not see the effects of this “psychological science” does not understand how the university system has unmoored itself from its original intention of ordering science philosophically in the service of mankind. For instance, the teleological end of a person’s true self can now be found once they throw off society’s shame and wear women’s clothing.
I wrote some time ago that transgenderism was just the inverse of Platonic-idealism, with the internal true-image coming to the front in the presentation of a man as a woman. But in doing so, it leaps ahead of itself because it is positing itself as the Platonic ideal, even though the Platonic ideal has to do more with rumination and as ongoing activity of truth-seeking.
From Platonic-Idealism to Gnosticism to Psychoanalysis, all of these imply a struggle of emergence and give authority to those Priests who claim to have attained understanding. Is it any wonder that Freud himself would not let anyone psychoanalyze him? Or that he was terrified of being usurped by his protégé Carl Jung? “I can not risk my authority,” he wrote to Jung. Jung finished him off with his pithy reply: “You just lost it.”
Doesn’t it make sense to sit and think about our lack rather to be in a rush to “fix ourselves?”
Thank God for my God who loves me though I fall short everyday and in myriad ways. When the nothingness bites at my heels during the day, I turn towards Jesus who resides in my pain.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 21 2025 20:15 utc | 253

I think your pretty much in tune with most peoples’ thinking b.
JB

Posted by: Judge Barbier | Jan 21 2025 20:16 utc | 254

I am a socialist who believes that anthropogenic climate change is real

You are free to believe anything you want, there is freedom of religion. But science is something else. You are, however, not free to call people who understand things differently ‘science deniers’ like you did Jan 21 2025 17:57 utc | 155, that is unscientific.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 21 2025 20:16 utc | 255

Posted by: Chairman Meow | Jan 21 2025 20:11 utc | 248
############
It’s the triple vaccinated who are unlikely to survive the next mass hysteria pandemic.
Compromised immune systems and all of that.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 20:17 utc | 256

The current climate actions and various “transitions” are pipe dreams concocted by technically illiterate bureaucrats, supported by the guilt industry and their lackeys.
Yes we are having a man made climate change. What did you think, going from feudal living standards to today is cost-free? We pump CO2 in the atmosphere as a result of our economic prosperity (and human ingenuity) and we have currently no solution to it. Or lets say very weak ones. Fundamental science breakthroughs are needed.
It is either a drop in living standards or new waterfront properties in 50 years. That is the real choice.
I think in a few years all attention will switch to climate mitigation actions as everyone realizes that that is the better way. There we have far more tools and innovations to make. Replacing fossil fuels is impossible with current technologies.

Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 20:18 utc | 257

@wagelaborer | Jan 21 2025 18:58 utc | 195
Thanks, well said.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 21 2025 20:19 utc | 258

I am a bit content with is that all the woke, DEI, LGBTGFHT and corporate nonsense appears to be given some beating. Without the corporate world in lockstep over these meaningless things, workers would be united about wages, work-conditions and essential rights i.e. things that MATTER to most people.
Posted by: NorwegianPawn | Jan 21 2025 20:14 utc | 251
And this about sums up the problem in the west.
Because after that problem of a less than stellar perspective for children, low birth rates show up.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 21 2025 20:19 utc | 259

Sachs openly saying what we all know – much of what ails the world today – is down to bellicose Yankee foreign policies.
“Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: ‘I regard the United States as the most lawless and dangerous country in the world by far’”
https://nitter.poast.org/afshinrattansi/status/1880579459423801447#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 21 2025 20:30 utc | 260

Noam Chomsky – once noted that if we were to apply the Nuremberg trial standards to US presidents since WW2 – every single one of them would have gone to the gallows.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 21 2025 20:33 utc | 261

Going back to the OP, ignoring all the trans nonsense, it is also important what is left out: An open invocation of America’s so-called manifest destiny. This is a commitment that puts Europe—including Germany—in second place, if they’re lucky. Right-wing culture war is it seems why someone who has argued against how Germany is drafted to fight Russia, to its own detriment, against its own interests, leads the same person to think of themselves as allies of people who simply aren’t. Both sides in the culture wars are playing divide and rule politics, diverting attention from the class war.
There seem to be far too many comments that tacitly assume all manner of bizarre notions. The notion that children are an endangered species, in a world with billions of people, is manifestly nuts. The notion that polygyny is protection of women is too. Multiple wives/concubines (whether formal or informal) is exploitative, inherently unequal, not just for the women but for the discrimination between children of favorites. (Read the Old Testament. By the way polyandry both formal and de facto has been found where single men cannot support a wife and children, so she takes multiple partners, such as brothers in old Tibet.) The notion that government should not regulate marriage overlooks issues of property, divorce, legitimacy of heirs, medical decisions, inheritance in general, pensions. The notion that physical superiority in heavy lifting and hand to hand combat some means some sort of required masculinity overlooks the use of machinery for heavy lifting and combat, and also ignores the value of superior endurance (showed by longer life spans.)

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 21 2025 20:39 utc | 262

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 17:59 utc | 157
Thank you for sharing this. I’ve not seen this anywhere else. Finally!
“We do not know who shot our FBI agents, but somebody has to pay!”
American justice at its finest.

Posted by: Merv Ritchie | Jan 21 2025 20:49 utc | 263

1969LimaPeru | Jan 21 2025 16:25 utc | 75
*** This website used to have a reputation for progressivism and left leaning activism.***
The real “left” was long ago destroyed by a combination of such ID cultists as you support, the CIA psychological warfare division, and big business via its sponsorship of wokist excesses and marketing/advertising concocted by persons of dubious provenance. Those you support then semantically disguised themselves as “the left”. Captured mass-media did the rest.
Rather like the “White Helmet” fakes in Syria. Same masters, too.

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 21 2025 20:52 utc | 264

The relative androgynous explosion in contemporary American culture appears to be trending towards the historical norm…a millennials old patterning of tribal cultures which long preceded Abrahamic cultism and its patriarchal imperatives which can be described as “one size fits all”.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 19:18 utc | 212
Do you have any references that androgyny is in fact the historical norm? I had assumed the opposite. I see eliminating the brainwashing towards cultural norms of female and male as one of the more useful elements that came out of the recent movements, but I also find the notion that it is all a construct merely nihilism. Impressive background on being a founder of the Movement, I am under the impression that you are one of MOAs better heads.

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 20:54 utc | 265

Posted by: teri | Jan 21 2025 20:15 utc | 252
No source listed there. It”s repeated by ADAM in a tweet. Again, no source.

Posted by: Mary | Jan 21 2025 20:54 utc | 266

The Chaser
@chaser
Trump pledges to send astronauts to Mars to hunt down “illegal aliens”
https://x.com/chaser/status/1881542345512149481

Posted by: Menz | Jan 21 2025 21:03 utc | 267

Rana Ayyub
@RanaAyyub
The times they are a changin
Quote
Rush Doshi
@RushDoshi
·
Jan 21
Is that really the CEO of TikTok sitting next to the next Director of National Intelligence — Tulsi Gabbard — at President Trump’s inauguration?
Evidently, yes.
https://x.com/RushDoshi/status/1881420689552585086

Posted by: Menz | Jan 21 2025 21:04 utc | 268

Not only do men in womanface arrogantly appropriate the concept of womanhood, and twist it for their perversions, they also arrogantly appropriate native culture, claiming that Native Americans loved trannies, and they were elevated in native society.
In response, not only do women react negatively to men in lipstick and high heels forcing their way into women’s spaces, people from indigenous cultures aren’t real thrilled about the whole “Two Spirit” bullshit either.
https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/toward-an-end-to-appropriation-of-indigenous-two-spirit-people-in-trans-politics-the-relationship-between-third-gender-roles-and-patriarchy/

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 21 2025 21:04 utc | 269

@Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 21 2025 20:16 utc | 257
If you said that the Sun revolved around the Earth I would call you a science denier. The same for those that reject basic biology, and the same for those that reject basic physics and Earth Science. I am equal opportunity in this.
In each case it is usually denial of a specific piece of science, no one that I know rejects all of science, which is based on cultural beliefs (including religion and ideology), self interest and/or mental illness. We are not talking about “cutting edge” science or the corrupted BS of pharmaceutical drug trials but the basic science which has resisted falsification long enough to be accepted as basic science.
The science of greenhouse gas driven climate change is basic science, there may be differences in the details in areas such as cloud feedbacks etc. but the warming action of greenhouse gases (and the cooling action of some aerosols) is very well understood and accepted.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 21:09 utc | 270

Republicofscotland | Jan 21 2025 16:26 utc | 77
*** The WEF meetings began in Davos yesterday – it probably went under the radar due to the Yankee presidents inauguration – English footballer David Beckham received an award from the WEF either today or yesterday – is Beckham part of the Deep State Faction? – the Great Reset is well underway.***
Thoroughly detest that kabbalist bastard. Very glad not to be English when, complete with mass-media dicksuckers, he infested the England football team.
Remember when he appeared in adverts for Gillette razors — face on every packet — yet by then he had a beard.
So even people with zero interest in football would have ended up subsidising him. Just the same with other “celebs” and product advertising … which effectively amounts to a corporate tax on the public, to further enrich those prodigiously overpaid already.
Given the highly interlinked and multi-layered structure of big business nowadays, a tax that’s practically impossible to avoid.
Earlier, he had appeared in adverts that were basically anti-education.
Exactly the WEF’s kind of rotten creature.
Surprised they didn’t give the even worse Bono an award as well.

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 21 2025 21:14 utc | 271

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 20:54 utc | 268 Androgyny as a historical norm? Not sure the idea makes any sense. In today’s culture wearing dresses is deemed feminine…unless it’s a priest. In old China, scholars wore gowns. In ancient Rome men and women basically wore the same tunics, even if upper class men might add a toga…none wore pants, which was male in the US for a couple of centuries. (I’ve never figured out why the anti-trans crowd don’t worry about regular women in tees and jeans?) It is historically common for upper class men to dress like peacocks, a display of the body today deemed feminine. How is the codpiece functionally different from a woman showing cleavage? Dresses and petticoats acted almost like chains, which is why clothing reform. Look up Amelia Bloomer. Today the burka, even the hijab, but in its own way four inch high heels, are perceived as female. But it is entirely unclear to me how they express any “immutable” biological femaleness. One hides femaleness by coding it and the other challenges walking, not as badly as foot binding to be sure.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 21 2025 21:15 utc | 272

wagelaborer@2104 Jan 21
Appears that as a proud wage laborer; you probably have relatively little time to do some serious research. Take the Berdache/two-spirit in some tribes as an example. Those men who took on female chores, refused to be warriors and who were both obliged and pleased to wear female garments ,may be described as cross-dressers, similar to the predilections of the founder of the FBI, J. Edna Hoover; but NOT as “Trannies” In traditional cultures, where medical readjusting of one’s overt sexuality would not have been possible.
From my researches, there are very few gay men, per se, who prefer to invade women’s “Janes” or other protective spaces. Most of that ilk are either mildly samesex Bi’s OR, more nefariously actually strait men who wanna get at the least close looks at their potential prey.
Golden Gay men are that minority within the gayscape who have never pumped a pussy and are basically turned off by the female body…however much they may enjoy their fascinating psyches and frequently attractive faces.
Hoping you have learned some insights you would never encounter on Main$cream media. One would hope that your use of the term “perversions” would specifically be aimed at those haunters of female spaces, rather than the now totally discredited meme prejudiced against samesexers in general… except among the religious-wrong, who inevitably go by Constantine’s “Holy” Bible.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 21:21 utc | 273

@Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 21:09 utc | 274

If you said that the Sun revolved around the Earth I would call you a science denier.

You probably would, because you do not have a science oriented mind.
The truth is that the Sun and the planets revolve around a common barycenter, which most of the time is not within the surface radius of the Sun.

The science of greenhouse gas driven climate change is basic science, there may be differences in the details in areas such as cloud feedbacks etc. but the warming action of greenhouse gases (and the cooling action of some aerosols) is very well understood and accepted.

No, There is no evidence in observation that it is so, therefore it is wrong.
The Key to Science
What you preach is the position promoted by the establishment, it is their power base until it falls apart due to its absurdity. Much the same is happening in other areas of science, such as the science of human civilization older than only 12000 years. The evidence is there, but it is not allowed to be recognized.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 21 2025 21:28 utc | 274

@257
once again, just cos you type it down doesn’t make it true ….
AGW/CC/Catastrophe/Climate Boiling/
there’s a reason “they” keep changing the name. Models, soup to nuts.
Suggest you go 1st in your decarbonisation quest. I hear Canada and Switzerland can help…..

Posted by: AleaJactaEst | Jan 21 2025 21:31 utc | 275

Like much of what you do but apparently you havent seen film of the violence, especially against police, at the capitol. And the trans thing is ridiculous. Its less than half of a percent of the population. Who cares? Just more red meat to distract the “basement dwellers” as he apparently privately describes his base, from real issues

Posted by: Hes a deadbeat | Jan 21 2025 21:33 utc | 276

They should be on https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/ I only see 25 there, not 200+.
Also going to the whitehouse page, the intro video will probably dash any hopes people had of them being less militaristic than previously.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 21 2025 21:38 utc | 277

Biologically speaking, the scientific observation is that femininity is expressed by women bearing children. If expressing “immutable” biology is so important, then that explains why women who can’t have babies (or even husbands) historically have been deemed inferior. I fear this attitude is not yet gone, hence the panic in some quarters of the commentariat about the right kind of women not having the right kind of babies.
Some of us are inclined to think of sociological type reasons, as in, historically children were your family’s retirement plan/Social Security. (The Old Testament story about the man who refused a Levirate marriage was about a man who was too greedy to give the widow a place in the family where she could be supported, I think.) Modern pension plans and Social Security thus might prompt less emphasis on child-bearing?
The tacit notion that sexual responsiveness is taught is ludicrous. The notion that sexual identity can be taught borders on that. Gender identity is in fact vigorously taught, if only by example. That I think is why right-wing culture warriors are so intent on enlisting punitive measures, to enforce their notions of what is proper, heedless of what living people actually do. Apparently this is driven by a political agenda to unsavory to unmask itself.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 21 2025 21:42 utc | 278

Deniz152 @2054 Jan 21
The history of the androgyne goes back into the very earliest accounts in ancient history. SCIENTIFICALLY, the biological reality of males is that we possess not only the male y chromosome, but also the FEMALE x one. Thus on the elementary basis of the chromosome, all males have an androgynous nature. However, this pyhsiopsychic level has been deeply repressed in all three of the Abrahamic belief systems. Particularly in a number of South Seas cultures and in lands like Thailand, numerous males openly express their individual androgynic natures.
Cultural acceptance is quite common in lands which were never conquered by the Abrahamic monomaniacs.
I do find it mordantly amusing and highly ironic that the very last word in your message is “heads”. Over decades I have discovered that a probable majority of medically re-engineered removals of the most sensitive sheathing from the male organ, most particularly when innocent newborn infants are deprived of their innate capacity to provide utmost pleasure in the traditional male-female act. Due to this re-engineering which exposes the HEAD; a probable two-thirds of such victims solidly PREFER oral gratification.
Some significant proportion of females eventually come to enjoy their role in intersexual oral gratification…though some absolutely do not like that, much preferring the “old reliable”.
When those acts become mutual, their male partner eventually in some cases, comes to enjoy oyster-shucking. Women who have been locked up in all women institutions are usually not totally satisfied by the somewhat similar efforts of their male partners…as they had become used to those who have deeper understandings of how to massively please a woman.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 21:42 utc | 279

Do you have any references that androgyny is in fact the historical norm?
Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 20:54 utc | 268

Norman O. Brown’s Love’s Body perhaps. It’s a masterpiece in its way, but more for its poetic side than as a history book.

Posted by: Leuk | Jan 21 2025 21:45 utc | 280

Trump, “pragmatic and sensible”?. Thats a hoot

Posted by: Hes a deadbeat | Jan 21 2025 21:46 utc | 281

The hue and cry raised by (primarily) white males about the “threat” posed to women by transwomen is a distraction from their own behavior, for the real threat posed to women comes from men, always has been.
In the U.S., 75,000+ cases of rape were reported in 2024, which is usually taken as about 25% of the actual number (so ~300,000 actual cases), the unreported cases commonly attributable to the attitude taken by predominantly male cops towards rape.
Regarding domestic violence, 1 in 4 women (24.3%) have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner. My own informal survey results are that every woman I’ve ever asked – including my mother – has stated that at one time or another she had been assaulted by a man.
Close to 85% of domestic violence victims are women. 95% of females killed in domestic violence incidents were killed by male intimate partners.
Don’t even get me started on sexual abuse, again the predominant territory of men.
So before you go opening your yap about threats posed by transwomen, man up – so to speak – to acknowledging where the real threat lies and stop standing by doing nothing but enabling aggressive behavior which – by the way – is increasing.

Posted by: Trisha | Jan 21 2025 21:47 utc | 282

Does this mean that I can no longer
self-identify as
a barfly? 🙂
Posted by: librul | Jan 21 2025 14:33 utc | 13
When this absurdity went public, I often told those that thought gender invention that I too then can self-identify;
I self-identified as an asshole!
When the protesting became too shrill I merely said, “That is how fraudulent this mis-gendering is”.
All it is is a fraudulent nomenclature of individuals publicly stating who they will to go to bed with.

Posted by: Mann Friedmann | Jan 21 2025 21:56 utc | 283

@RogerBoyd # 274
Since your all about science, do a little research on Milankovitch cycles and the Vostok ice cores.
That’s indisputable science that you seem to glance over (or just ignore) to support your cult of AGW.
All that secondary schooling and missed the studying of earth sciences.
CPA. What a f’ing joke. Should have studies geology, astronomy, geoclimatology, geochemistry, or a real science like a real man.
Now get back to charging your EV in this brutal cold.

Posted by: joedontsurf | Jan 21 2025 21:59 utc | 284

@ Trisha | Jan 21 2025 21:47 utc | 287
it would be interesting to read your response to @ Jane | Jan 21 2025 18:55 utc | 193m
or did i miss it??

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 22:03 utc | 285

OT interjection:
There’s much discussion about the upcoming Anniversary and all the work happening behind the scenes, which I close with some commentary, “Pobeda/Победа and the 80th Anniversary,” https://karlof1.substack.com/p/pobeda-and-the-80th-anniversary
Later I’ll have a posting up about the phone talk between Xi and Putin along with some additional Chinese news.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 21 2025 22:15 utc | 286

Ffs WHO are mass murderers (there are no viruses. Would you please wake tf up already?) Man made climate change is a scam. Co2 is life. No co2 = death. Would u pls WAKE TF UP???

Posted by: Really? | Jan 21 2025 22:25 utc | 287

alek_A@2009 Jan 21
There is no such animule as “Social SCIENCE”. Liberal arts, featuring primarily history, geography and literature; along with the fine arts; is the more proper description.
The entire concept of social science is rotten to its core. Somewhere in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the many new wonders such as automotive transportation, aircraft, radio, television and other science based discoveries and developments tended to totally ensorcel the masses…including academics who positioned their sociology, psychology, anthropology, ad nauseam into declaring that their presentations were also forms of scientism.
Centralizing these cultural tendencies was the word “progress”. Progressivism even developed into a partisan political movement, most particularly in the state of Wisconsin. Viewed by a non-academicism generalist historian such as myself; the whole notion of materialistic progress can be equated with the “bitch goddess success”. Those allegedly, self-proclaimed “social scientists” are a manifestation of academicist nonsense.
Over time, I have come to the realization that numerous engineers achieve status in governmental fields…and military ones…totally outside of not only their bailiwicks, but also beyond their levels in genuine liberal arts, most particularly history, geography literature and perhaps foreign languages and even the Classics. In those fields even excellent engineers are but fish out of water…their levels of competence is that which we could broadly describe as questionable.
Still remaining and retaining high levels of generalized bases of governmental competence; are but a relative handful of private liberal education colleges. Comparing a brief stint at Washington University versus the University of Minnesota where I was institutionalized for all too many quarters ; might be comparable with a comparison of people with sheeple.
As a nation…and possibly across many nations…educational reforms are desperately needed. Colleges of “education” should be eliminated. ALL scientific and technical scholars should be obliged and enabled to receive no less than two years of real liberal arts courses before they can be encouraged to levitate into their chosen professional fields..
On state levels, the current curriculums and most administrative staff should be eliminated from public schools. Teacher courses should not be the solitary province of edjumacasional grads. Their curriculums are mostly horse-shit. Junior high schools should NOT be co-educational…too many distractions for serious study. Nor should those adolescent years be “gifted” with indifferent and often incompetent instructors. Quality education for all. Some of the Federal taxing powers should be removed from the powers of the Federal government and returned to the states. The Department of Education needs to be ELIMINATED. In general, bureaucracies are bureaucraczies.
Overall, the question in this ruptured republic, is whether reform is possible…or would a ground-up peaceful revolution be a preferable option?

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 22:25 utc | 288

Posted by: Mann Friedmann | Jan 21 2025 21:56 utc | 288
I never had to use it, but if someone were to ask me my pronouns, I would say “fuck” and “you.” I sort of wish I had the occasion to use it. But just sort of.
Here’s a great cover of the Kink’s Lola by the Raincoats.

Posted by: lex talionis | Jan 21 2025 22:26 utc | 289

Close to 85% of domestic violence victims are women.
Posted by: Trisha | Jan 21 2025 21:47 utc | 287
.and a bunch of other bullshit stats. I am very familiar with the California court system for example. In California a woman merely has to allege she was the victim of “unwanted touching”, literally a touch, no injury, no actual violence. On that basis any man can be legally convicted of domestic “violence”.
It is exceedingly rare in any of these domestic “violence” cases for a woman to be killed or injured in any significant way.
Yes, men have testosterone which makes them more aggressive and likely to commit violence. That’s just nature. However, the scale of the problem, like all proofs of sexism in the woman worshipping west, are serially and grossly overstated. When I hear a western bitch gripe about sexism and male violence I just want to send them to a country where it is really an issue. Go bitch to the Taliban if this is your crusade.
Look, nature gives men a capacity for violence. It gives women a capacity to create sexual chaos. In a civilization, both sides relinquish their primitive advantages and treat each other with a degree of respect. Men aren’t angels in the west, but they’re only half the problem, toots.
As for trans “community”, it’s a test tube baby created by Dem psyop specialists. Again, in California 15 years ago, there was no fucking trans community.
I pity the victims of that psyop in the same way I do the victims of a child molestation (here by the ruling class, not an individual, so much worse) but the bullshit has to stop somewhere. I’m sorry for the victims, but they need to find out who their enemies really are: the section of the ruling class that psyoped their innocent minds at a tender age via the cell phone and the schools.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jan 21 2025 22:27 utc | 290

@ Trisha
Like many people, I have no problem with you believing that some operations, or even your own willpower, made you a woman. Your choice. However, there’s a very serious problem when the general public is asked to believe it.
IIRC it was in the UK that a father was sentenced to prison (for contempt of court) because he persisted in referring in the masculine form to his under-age son, which the courts allowed to make a so-called transition to the other sex. This means we’re obliged to believe that men can also be women.
That’s why I was talking about doublespeak: you have to believe in a reality that doesn’t exist. You have to believe that a man (reality) is at the same time a woman (reality bis). You have to believe two contradictory things, often under threat of sanctions, professional sanctions for example. In this sense, wokism is an exercise in submission to society.
My previous reflections don’t prevent me from calling Chelsea Manning, whom I admire, by her female name (and I strongly recommend her book, README.txt).

Posted by: Leuk | Jan 21 2025 22:27 utc | 291

The science of greenhouse gas driven climate change is basic science, there may be differences in the details in areas such as cloud feedbacks etc. but the warming action of greenhouse gases (and the cooling action of some aerosols) is very well understood and accepted.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 21 2025 21:09 utc | 274
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Excellent use of the passive voice by a parrot!

Posted by: Jane | Jan 21 2025 22:31 utc | 292

Posted by: lex talionis | Jan 21 2025 22:26 utc | 294
Yeah, I have said the same.
But my self-identification does make some of them think.

Posted by: Mann Friedmann | Jan 21 2025 22:31 utc | 293

Maalenkov@2003 Jan 21
Telling insights and astute analysis of yet another of our myriad cultural deficiencies. Thanks

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 22:32 utc | 294

Trump’s cabinet is very white, isn’t it? Needs some DEI.

Posted by: D J G | Jan 21 2025 22:32 utc | 295

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 21:42 utc | 284
Perhaps culture drives this but at the most reduction level an organ isn’t a concept. I might believe I was born to fly, but that doesn’t mean I was meant to have an actually wing attached to my body, even if Doctor so and so has worked with Pfizer and can now attach wings to my body. The non winged set would certainly question my sanity and rightly think, perhaps I should be locked up.

Posted by: Turk 152 | Jan 21 2025 22:34 utc | 296

YAY Women are back!!!!
I am fine with whatever you as an individual do with your bits but I sure am sick of trans being shoved down my throat.
XY is not and never will be XX…and putting on a dress to ‘become’ a woman just reinforces gender roles.

Posted by: furies | Jan 21 2025 22:35 utc | 297

My previous reflections don’t prevent me from calling Chelsea Manning, whom I admire, by her female name (and I strongly recommend her book, README.txt).
Posted by: Leuk | Jan 21 2025 22:27 utc | 296
I admire him too. But, Brad was in a lot of hot water. I believe his Dem attorney conceived of the transition to save him from harsher penalties. Dem judges give more leniency to the party’s pet identities. Plus, as a white male you don’t get the Dem activist team supporting you at all. As a trans guy, you’re guaranteed to get a small army with signs bitching about your treatment.
But yes, if I met him, I’d call him Chelsea or whatever because I respect him immensely and wouldn’t want to upset him needlessly.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jan 21 2025 22:36 utc | 298

LoveDonbass @ 166 and elsewhere, Roger Boyd @ 190 and elsewhere:
There may be many reasons that polygyny was historically practised in many societies. No two societies that had polygyny necessarily had that custom for the same reason or reasons.
In some societies where all men are expected to defend the community, the number of women over a certain age could exceed the number of men of the same age or higher. This might have meant there was a surplus of women needing marriage partners, along with many widows (and widows with children), in communities where families traditionally relied on their menfolk to build houses and other forms of shelter, to support them, and to give them status. I believe this was the rationale for Islam permitting the Prophet Mohammed to have several wives in his time: most of his marriages were confirmations of alliances with various tribes and factions but some of his wives were war widows with children at the time of their marriages to him.
In other societies where polygyny is expected of wealthy men, some such men with more than one wife can find having several wives a burden in many ways (financially and emotionally). At the same time, some women do benefit from being in a polygynous marriage, as it can give them access to resources and status they might not be able to acquire otherwise. Polygyny may be one way to redistribute resources away from being concentrated in one family to other families.
Likewise, polyandry (a situation where a woman has more than one husband) doesn’t necessarily benefit women. The only society I know of that practised polyandry was Tibetan society, in which it was usual for several brothers in the one family to marry one woman, and all the children she bore to those brothers were regarded as the children of the eldest brother. This custom was practised to preserve property in the family and prevent property from being broken up into small useless lots, in a society where all brothers received equal inheritances when their father died.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 21 2025 22:40 utc | 299

The hue and cry raised by (primarily) white males about the “threat” posed to women by transwomen is a distraction from their own behavior, for the real threat posed to women comes from men, always has been.. . .
Posted by: Trisha | Jan 21 2025 21:47 utc | 287
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Uh, no.
The threat of trans-women to women is real.
Also of trans-women to young children and also preadolescents and adolescents.
Throwing up dust clouds of statistics about rape and other social ills doesn’t change that reality.
Women are being shut up and pushed about, literally and figuratively, by trans-women demanding to be seen as speaking for all women and as knowing more about women than women do.
One example suffices: J K Rowling.
But there are many more.
For instance, the school library dust-ups.
It is pathetic and sad.
Your resentment of both men and women shines through.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 21 2025 22:40 utc | 300

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