Ahenobarbus@2227 Jan 21
Ahh, a voice crying out in the wilderness of Wokieville, Kali-Formula. In a perverse sort of way, elementary human touch can become a penological nightmare. Even fifty and more years ago California was tagged as the “land of fruits and nuts”.
Fruits, in the essence of that tag, may be emblematic by the fruit of Western Civ: Leonardo the Florentine. Yes, he was briefly incarcerated in Florence for having an affair with a fourteen y.o. of his own sex and of mutual interest. However, here in ManySnowta; he would be charged, found guilty, imprisoned for several years and thereafter held, perhaps for the rest of his life in the St. Peter, Mn. facility for “dangerous” sexual offenders.
On the straight side of the ledger, in several of my neighborhood district local bars; I’ve encountered fathers dealing with divorces or shack-ups and even one-night stands resulting in DNA testing.The “social service” industry here in the Gopher State is massively the province of edumacated females of the opposite sex who are mostly Psych grads, turned out by the tens of thousands, not of lakes, but of bureaucrats and administrators of those social service industries. In general, even low-paid men are obliged to cough up a major portion of their incomes (after taxes) to their former womb-mate on behalf of their offspring.
The gripe of these downtrodden pissants is usually that they are expected to supply their eX with funding on at least a middle-middle class monthly payment for care of their kid. Problem arises on a consistent level,wheret mom rakes off the lioness’ share of the take for her own needs and desires, while cooking up in her microwave, some crap food for the designated receiver of that largesse. Kids brought up exclusively or most of the time by their mothers…or with the male present being her current indifferent boyfriend…are often messed up for life in even this small rural county…a scene where there still remains some levels of community connections and adhesions.
Hating in a way to compare the travails of my little neck of the woods with Cali…where the mass-class, immigrant laden reality is retroprogressing at warp speed into the blazing facts of LaLaLand.
The ancient Chinese curse of “may you live in interesting times” comes to mind as for the current mass insanity of a world where there are precious few adults in the room.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 22:56 utc | 304

Sex and gender are two different things. Government should pass laws that make the distinction so as to delineate the rights and obligations that are connected to the real nature of the two.
What everyone is doing here is mixing these and miscommunicating all the time.
The EO of Trump attempts to make the difference and let in some cases sex preside over gender. Like in sports, woman shelters, bathrooms and other safe places.
It uses language that states the nature of gender as fluid and subjective: there I am not so sure about the second one.
And also, gender reassignment surgery should be an adult only affair.

Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 23:17 utc | 306

Trump added Cuba back to the list of state sponsors of terrorism. What a joke. When will the war on Cuba ever end? I am guessing Venezuela is in for a new round of shit too.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 21 2025 23:40 utc | 308

Posted by: alek_a | Jan 21 2025 20:18 utc | 259
Yes, climate change is real. Just happens without man’s input.
Today the US Gulf Coast is experiencing 5 inches and more of snow. Lows will be in the low teens (-10 C) and most areas will stay under freezing for the next 48 hours. This is on top of an abnormally cold January, with temps 10-15 degrees below normal.
This breaks snow records from the late 1880’s, which is when US weather service started.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jan 21 2025 23:48 utc | 310

Trump newest:
Tarriffs for EU and China
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to hit the European Union with tariffs and said his administration was discussing imposing a 10% tariff on goods imported from China on Feb. 1 because fentanyl is being sent from China to Mexico and Canada.
Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, said he had already imposed large tariffs on China during his first term. He said the European Union and others also had troubling trade imbalances with the United States.
“The European Union is very, very bad to us,” he said, repeating comments made Monday. “So they’re going to be in for tariffs. It’s the only way … you’re going to get fairness.”
Russia – Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would likely impose sanctions on Russia if its president, Vladimir Putin, refuses to negotiate about ending the war in Ukraine.
Trump said his administration was also looking at the issue of sending weapons to Ukraine, adding his view that the European Union should be doing more to support Ukraine.
“We’re talking to (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelenskiy, we’re going to be talking with President Putin very soon,” Trump said. “We’re going to look at it.”
Trump said he had pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping in a call to intervene to stop the Ukraine war.
“He’s not done very much on that. He’s got a lot of … power, like we have a lot of power. I said, ‘You ought to get it settled.’ We did discuss it.”

Posted by: JB | Jan 21 2025 23:59 utc | 312

Here’s Zakharova on the Cuba crap:

Moscow has noted that among the decisions of President Donald Trump of January 20 that were canceled by President Donald Trump’s executive order of January 20 included the presidential memoranda signed a week ago on excluding Cuba from the US unilateral list of states “sponsors” of terrorism and on lifting restrictions on financial transactions with Cuban legal entities.
As arguments, the said decree notes that “the previous administration introduced deeply unpopular, inflation-causing, illegal, and radical practices in the activities of every department and institution of the federal government.” And the current step is allegedly being taken “to begin to implement policies that will again make the United States a united, just, secure, and prosperous country.”
It is only unclear what all this has to do with Cuba and on what basis it is again included in this notorious list. It is quite obvious that in fact we are not talking about the fight against terrorism. The previous US administration stated that there was no evidence of Cuba’s support for international terrorism. And this remains an indisputable fact. We consider it necessary to emphasise once again that Cuba has an impeccable and exemplary reputation as an active participant in international cooperation in countering terrorism.
There is also no doubt that the restoration of the Island of Freedom in this sanctions list is aimed at further tightening financial and economic restrictive measures in the hope of destabilising the situation and changing the government in Cuba. At the same time, it is clear that the relevant restrictions have an extremely negative impact on the quality of life of the island’s population. Perhaps it is the stake on provoking social discontent in this way? It is sad that after more than 60 years of the harsh sanctions regime against Havana and the political pressure exerted on it, Washington has not been able to admit the futility of imposing its will on the Cuban people.
For its part, Russia will continue to provide the necessary support to Cuba in defending its state sovereignty and upholding its demands for an immediate and complete end to the illegal and inhumane economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island by the United States, as well as the removal of Havana from the list of alleged sponsors of terrorism. [My Emphasis]

As I commented elsewhere, this was a sop to Rubio and his Mafia, who are the real Cuban Terrorists.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 22 2025 0:04 utc | 314

JB | Jan 21 2025 23:59 utc | 317–
Trump busily displaying his ignorance. Looks like we have another unrealist as POTUS who has a different type of mental problems which we all noted during his first term.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 22 2025 0:09 utc | 316

@ karlof1 | Jan 22 2025 0:04 utc | 319
i agree with your conclusion.. thanks.

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2025 0:17 utc | 318

psychohistorian | Jan 22 2025 0:04 utc | 320–
Thanks for your reply. There’s also good news regarding Russian-Armenian relations as Lavrov met with Armenian FM Ararat Mirzoyan, which I’ll publish tomorrow, although there was this closing question at the presser about Trump:

Question: How would you comment on US President Donald Trump’s first statements in the field of foreign policy, from the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation, as well as the intention to impose duties on the BRICS countries and the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico? Jui Rubio was recently appointed US Secretary of State. Can we expect a resumption of contacts between Moscow and Washington?
Sergey Lavrov: I can comment on the decisions announced by President Donald Trump. Many political scientists are engaged in this. In short, I will say that this is an obvious indication of the methods by which President Donald Trump and his administration intend to promote the interests of the United States on the world stage.
The interest of the United States has never changed, regardless of whether the Democrats or Republicans are in the White House. It is to always be stronger than any competitor. The previous administration was guided by the same task. President Donald Trump has shown what methods he wants to use to achieve this goal.
We respect the choice of the American people. As far as I understand, the US leadership under President Donald Trump has also repeatedly given reason to say that they also respect the choice of the Russian people.
As for contacts. President Vladimir Putin, answering this question, answered in the affirmative. Subsequently, President Donald Trump said that he intended to get in touch with the President of the Russian Federation in the near future. The answer has been known for a long time. [My Emphasis]

Lavrov channeling The Who: Meet the Old Boss…

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 22 2025 0:31 utc | 320

plutokleptokakistocracy?
or
THE USA?
https://x.com/TristanSnell/status/1881478862619697280
Tristan Snell @TristanSnell
plutocracy – rule by the wealthy
kleptocracy – rule by corrupt thieves
kakistocracy – rule by the worst, least qualified
But what if it’s all 3 — what’s the word for that?

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 22 2025 0:34 utc | 322

DEI was an exercise in population thought control and if it had succeeded it was but a short path from there to large-scale totalitarianism.
Now that the tide has turned (because the exercise thankfully failed) it should be no surprise that there will be a strong backlash. Some people may get hurt.
There will be a lot of wailing and tearing of garments about the loss of protection for the transgendered. The plain fact is that most of us are quite willing to accept the choices of adults regarding their sexual behavior with other consenting adults. While most of us are uncomfortable with using the public education system to coach children that biological sex is not real while gender fluidity is real. And a lot of us do not care to pay for the expense of sex-change operations, which are entirely optional.
Thank you to b for his courageous blog post today, as I’m sure he knew it would be incendiary and would receive a lot of pious criticism.
I am very supportive of the White House statement on Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism. Because, with just a little attention to ongoing events it is clear that the one important result of DEI gender ideology is the erasure of women as a group. Once people accept that anyone can be a woman, what does it mean to be a woman?
And pursuant to that, a result which some people seem not to have processed, once womanhood is erased there is no reason to think of manhood as a thing, since it exists only in relation to its opposite, womanhood.
And if there is no womanhood and no manhood, then everyone is interchangeable. Which is the problem that troubles Renaud Camus. The concern is not about replacing Caucasians with Indians, Africans with Chinese, of Polynesians with Native Americans. It is about reducing all people to the lowest denomination of commonality. And that is manifestly a totalitarian project, as it would sweep all people into the totality.
Interchangeability, by the way, is very desirable to the interests of those who see ordinary people (working people) as merely a commodity (labor). If labor is interchangeable then there is no friction if the labor force is moved from one continent to another, or simply made redundant and put aside.
DEI Gender Ideology was only ever the thin edge of the blade to push this new version of totalitarianism into the societies of the 21st century. If I have to thank Trump for stopping it in its tracks, I guess I’ll do so.
Not that I have any confidence in what comes next.

Posted by: Clever Dog | Jan 22 2025 0:42 utc | 324

No comment on Trump’s massive crypto scam?
@ Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 21 2025 23:44 utc | 314
Lambert at NakedCapitalism thinks it’s a very big deal:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/01/trump-shreds-emoluments-clause-with-new-memecoin-while-norms-fairy-weeps-and-melania-joins-the-fun.html
It’s disconcertingly bizarre to see virtually nothing about this in the MSM. Then again, the entire international mise-en-scene is disturbingly bizarre, lately. Over-the-top excitement of many here (including our host) over any official measures promoting transphobia and homophobia strikes me as sickeningly strange. People with obsessions like that are usually dealing with family tragedies they want to blame on an inchoate sense of malevolent forces outside their family. It’s pathetic to me. In a world threatened with nuclear destruction, we waste brainwaves arguing over why some children play dress-up. We are surely doomed.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 22 2025 1:04 utc | 326

This thread has gone the way of… a shitstorm
So let me be properly punished for things that cannot/should not be said.
AGW:
1. There’s a natural trend since the 18th century, it is more than half of any of the debatable numbers with heat islands and satellite adjustments
2. Critical problem, nobody can state if the main driver, clouds, is a positive or a negative feedback (check if you don’t believe)
3. As others have mentioned, there are a ton of environmental/ressource problems, being thrown under the bus to focus on co2
4. Someone is bulshiting you, care to wonder why?
Sex gender:
1. There is XX, there is XY, there are even some outliers no more important than mongoloids in doubled chromosomes.
2. Some men like to be fuck things for other men, some enjoy dressing up, some of these groups overlap, but dick love and a skirt not a woman make
3. Will quickly ignore penis envy girls (mussel liking was always a hobby, not a full time job)
4. Sucessful men earn more than women spend, successful women get a successful man, those who don’t will go to one form or another of prostitution, where you’ll also find less than capable men spending in the lower tier of the activity. Polyandry is only present on resource poor environments.
Trump:
1. Will try to do what he wants
2. Will get to do what he can
3. Some are sure to upset you, don’t let it make you loose your focus
4. Best case scenario he’ll be our kind of SOB
5. as a P.S. don’t expect to see the us disappear, to fade from more global subjects will have to do and likely have some ups and downs in the next 2 or 3 centuries
And now that I have probably upset a large set of the public, I’ll retire for the night

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 22 2025 1:07 utc | 328

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 18:35 utc | 183
I praised your presentation of native American unity, aristodemos. This post I will challenge since you are presenting as historical facts an interpretation of history that is without substance. Why you do this constantly I cannot imagine. Please, people, if you want to believe this garbage, do try to extract from aristodemos whatever it is he is basing his statements on. I have tried in the past, and I have failed.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 22 2025 1:08 utc | 330

Interesting times! LOL 🙂
Did not the foolish supporters note the fact free fiction that riddled his entire inauguration speech ! From start to finish.
He demonstrates.One can fool the fools idiots and mononeurons. For stupid is as stupid does.
Thus for the next four years the USSA is but doomed to fail. At every endeavour he instigates.
Pitiful , really! lol;lol;lol;

Posted by: BadDealMotorsOn | Jan 22 2025 1:09 utc | 332

Please, people, if you want to believe this garbage, do try to extract from aristodemos whatever it is he is basing his statements on. I have tried in the past, and I have failed.
Posted by: juliania | Jan 22 2025 1:08 utc | 335
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Glad I am not the only one who finds most of Aristo’s comments a mish-mash.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 1:24 utc | 334

@bar michaelj72 | Jan 21 2025 22:41 utc | 306. Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 21 2025 23:40 utc | 313. karlof1 | Jan 22 2025 0:04 utc | 319
Apologies. Seems in the previous thread I got the Cuba EO completely arse-about.
Thanks. The @bar does what it does best, and quickly provided the correction.
Much appreciated.
~~~
Panama, {Greenland}
IMO, Trump has no case.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 21 2025 23:56 utc | 316
Might = Right. Always has. Always will.
Question is, does the U$ actually possess the “might” to take that to which it believes it has the right?
…………
Trump said he had pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping in a call to intervene to stop the Ukraine war.
“He’s not done very much on that. He’s got a lot of … power, like we have a lot of power. I said, ‘You ought to get it settled.’ We did discuss it.”
Posted by: JB | Jan 21 2025 23:59 utc | 317
Xi to Trump: “pottery barn rules = you broke it. You own it” Aand. BTW. Fluck you.
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michaelj72 | Jan 22 2025 0:34 utc | 327
But what if it’s all 3 — what’s the word for that?
Congress?

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 22 2025 1:35 utc | 336

Trisha @ 72:

… But why all the “craze” around transwomen but nothing is ever said about transmen (i.e. female to male)? The history behind this is basic: what men do – being in positions of power – counts more than what women do …

Perhaps it is because the general public in Western nations now perceives that most “transwomen” are simply men who don women’s clothing or claim to be transwomen (without intending to undergo sex-change surgery) in order to gain access to physical spaces reserved for women or girls – physical places such as bathrooms, change rooms and women’s refuges (to escape domestic violence or being stalked) – so that they can do the things they want to do that they couldn’t do otherwise if they did not declare themselves “transwomen”.
The general public perceives that to invade and usurp the physical space and resources reserved for women and girls, by transwomen, is hardly a form of respect for females and could be construed as a form of misogyny – especially if the transwomen also claim that men can be “women” and still retain their original male genitalia.
On the other hand, one rarely hears of transmen invading the physical spaces or usurping the physical resources intended for the exclusive use of men and boys – probably in part because there may be more transwomen than there are transmen. I have seen a statistic that states that, globally, one in 30,000 people is a transwoman and one in 100,000 people is a transman, so the ratio of transwomen to transmen worldwide would be 3:1. But there are other studies apparently that put the worldwide ratio of transwomen to transmen at 4:1 (to take one extreme) and 2:1 (the other extreme).
Counting Trans Populations
One other possibility that transmen appear not to invade or usurp the physical spaces and resources of men and boys is that many transmen themselves are pressured to undergo gender transition from female to male, and may have regrets about transitioning later on. In such cases, they may re-identify as women and try to go back to what they were originally as much as they can. (They may not be 100% successful of course, if they have had operations to remove ovaries, uteri and breasts, and have taken testosterone treatments while they were young.)

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 22 2025 1:46 utc | 338

Re: Man made climate change
When is RogerBoyd going to stop driving and get rid of his A/C ?

Posted by: Exile | Jan 22 2025 1:50 utc | 340

…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 | 237
NO! That is entirely wrong!!!
The mechanism is to become so popular with the people you serve as to be invincible when attacked. That is what Putin did! And that is a task up to both President Trump and to us citizens.
We cannot expect him to accomplish this alone.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 22 2025 2:00 utc | 342

There may be many reasons that polygyny.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 21 2025 22:40 utc | 304
LoveDonbass @ 166 and elsewhere, Roger Boyd @ 190 and elsewhere:
And: Refinnejenna | Jan 21 2025 22:40 utc | 304
People who do DNA studies claim that polygyny was common in the past Something like a third of all men fathered most of the children. For some reason modern societies favor the one woman, one man arrangement, or some close variation of it.

Posted by: Jmaas | Jan 22 2025 2:13 utc | 344

It’s all so fucking boring, just about everything I’ve read in this thread is the same old tired amerikan exceptionalism. Take the two ‘executive orders’ which b takes to trump to task over.
The WHO was a fine organisation responsible for assisting contemporary health delivery in many high poverty, low development nations, but bill gates an amerikan oligarch, screwed it up to assist in turning a formerly socialist organisation into one where he & his fellow greedies can profit.
amerikans have lived since the inception of their godforsaken abortion of a nation by stealing resources from other less fortunate humans, initially their own indigenous population, until they ‘expanded’ into other less fortunate populations about this planet.
WHO was designed & implemented as way to force the parasites who live in so-called developed nations to pay a minuscule tax on the resources whose theft allows their dissolute & thieving lifestyle, yet scungy self-centered amerikans now refuse to pay even that!
The inevitable outcome of this is that those nations which depended on WHO to overcome endemic disases many of which entered those communities on the backs of imperialists will favour corporations & individuals from nations which support WHO ahead of those who do not when negotiating resource agreements.
Well now they are out of WHO at least they won’t be able to divert its scarce resources into their own pockets as they have been doing.
. Hopefully this snowball will begin an avalanche where amerika like england is regarded by other humans as simply too much hassle cos whilst they are a member they spend all their time and effort perverting tha organisation’s goals & attempt ‘to get their way’ by incessantly threatening to leave like some spoilt kid.
There was a much simpler fix, when after amerikan pressure WHO began accepting huge donations to undermine the organisation’s basic precepts amerika blocked that effort to focus WHO on real issues at every turn. As they always do.
Rather than simply banning these blatantly strings attached private donations, which had screwed with the organisation amerikans decided they would no longer ante up the minuscule tax on their thieving. This move is so corrupt that it is a dead certainty that their greed and indifference to others will come back to haunt them.
As for the Paris Accord, the same egocentric selfishness is on display there for all to see.
At the time of the Paris ‘summit’ peoples of the world had unified their voice calling for change because the planet’s rapid deterioration was down to so-called developed societies crude & exploitative efforts to do WTF they wanted, when TF they wanted, the sole determinant being next quarter’s profit.
I seem to remember there was some debate over whether amerika should even be invited & of course many of the more corporate brainwashed amerikans insisted they not attend.
What too few humans realised was that amerika in league with all the worthless neolib ‘leaders’ which amerika had blackmailed, bribed & bullied by interfering within other sovereign nations to get that gig, conspired to make the Paris Accord completely unworkable.
This was achieved in the main by insisting that all nations developed or not, must have the same restrictions on regulations, so that amerika who already led the world pollution league tables at the time would be able to increase the amount of crap they pump out just as much as some joint where no one had reliable energy sources, communications or even water reticulation.
In other words amerikan interference in the climate accords meant that the simple strategy of ‘catching up’, the bill of goods imperialists had sold the rest of the planet on since the start of the thievery, was now plainly impossible – except of course none of the amerikans or neoliberal creeps who dominated the agreement said that out loud.
Personally I don’t give a flying fuck that amerika has pulled outta these deals as long as it is ensured that no amerikan, government, oligarch or private citizen, can have any influence on these concords ever again. The money issue is being overcome as changes to the way that we the humans who are not greedy, egocentric or amerikan, do business with each other & shift our economies outta the control of uncle scam.
Trump has set y’all on the one-way path to irrelevancy, and the best bit is that y’all are too stupid, ignorant or both to comprehend that.
Yeah, yeah I know, TLDNR which kinda proves my point.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 22 2025 2:19 utc | 346

When is RogerBoyd going to stop driving and get rid of his A/C ?
Posted by: Exile | Jan 22 2025 1:50 utc | 345
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Genuinely curious as to how you know that he drives and has home A/C.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 22 2025 2:23 utc | 348

@ Newbie | Jan 22 2025 2:22 utc | 352
Sounds like a certain play by Arthur Schnitzler…

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 22 2025 2:27 utc | 350

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 21 2025 16:40 utc | 88
FIRST LAW OF TROLLOGY:
When a poster poses as a down-to-earth, regular guy with a regular name, HE IS NEITHER, but a PAID TROLL.
b.: Trump pardoned participants of the Jan 6 (2021) ‘riots’ which had never amounted to much more than a hustle.
PAID TROLL:
Putting scare quotes around a simple fact is an appalling symptom of stupidity, dishonesty or an ugly combination of both.
Actually, whether or not a series of actions legally qualifies as a “riot” is a LEGAL DETERMINATION that depends both on observable facts and on an assessment of the surrounding circumstances (including GOVERNMENT INSTIGATION and ENTRAPMENT), and of the MOTIVES of those involved. In other words, whether or not something is a “riot” is not an observable “fact.”
SECOND LAW OF TROLLOGY:
When a poster cites various reasons why a point is BEYOND DISPUTE, e.g. because it is a “fact,” has been decided by “experts” (or even “97% of experts in the field¨), that objections have been “debunked,” etc. etc., nine times out of ten the poster is a LYING TROLL, and likely a shill paid for his (rarely her) word salad.

Posted by: Ad Hoc | Jan 22 2025 2:33 utc | 352

Why, exactly, is it impossible to find an average surface temperature of any arbitrary surface?
Good question. Let me try to provide a comprehensible answer. Essentially, temperature is measured locally, while things are not in a stable equilibrium … it’s a tricky notion for sure. –
Imagine you’d spill a drop of ink on a sheet of paper. Is there an average amount of ink on each unit square of surface now? Yes, but you need to relate the sheet size to the amount of ink in the drop. If you have to crawl around on the surface to measure [ink concentration] in single spots, you’ll only be converging (over time) towards the true number if both sheet size and the amount of ink are kept constant. This, however, is not the case in our atmosphere with regard to the energy fluxes behind local temperature.
[jukebox] Genesis – The Carpet Crawlers
Fun thread, btw. Thanks all!

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 22 2025 2:44 utc | 354

Trish assures us that men are more violent than women, so transwomen should be allowed in women’s spaces to protect them. Women know that men are more violent than women. Women also know that transwomen are actually men. That is why women do not want men in their bathrooms or changing rooms or prison cells.
On the other hand, I agree with Aristo that the insistence by some women that all men are violent, or that an unwanted pass is the same as rape, is ridiculous.
But Aristo, like some others here, confuses same sex attraction with the trans issue. Trans are not usually homosexual. They are men with a fetish called autogynephelia.
Very few people care about other’s sexuality, meaning who they prefer to have sex with, as long as they do it in private. No one cares if men wear dresses or women wear jeans. The objection is the ruling class insistence that people can change their sex if they say so, and everyone else has to pretend that self ID makes a person the opposite sex, entitled to bully girls and women into submitting to their personal fetish.
This comes from the top, and I am happy that Trump put an end to it.
Sadly, the Establishment push to normalize transgenderism has led to some parents transing the gay out of their children, as employees at Tavistock noticed.
The most famous is Jazz Jennings, who was a gay boy whose parents decided they would rather have a straight girl. They got a reality show, great fame, and a book deal out of it.
What he got out of it was a stunted penis, thanks to the puberty blockers, and a painful castration with multiple complications. He will never have an orgasm, thanks to said puberty blockers.
He is not the only one. Now that the children who were subjected to the lucrative transing industry are adults, many of them regret their treatment.
They are doing double mastectomies on girls as young as 13 years old. When those girls grow up they frequently regret the loss of their breasts.
Sexual reassignment surgery is a misnomer. Plastic surgery does not change your sex, any more than a face lift makes you 20 years younger.
Castration and silicone implants do NOT make a man a woman.
Cutting off a girl’s breasts or skinning her arm and fashioning a non-functional penis does not make her a man. Nor do testosterone injections, even if she grows a beard from them. She’s still female.
This is not that difficult to understand. The fact that so many can’t understand is a testament to the power of propaganda.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 22 2025 2:51 utc | 356

Posted by: bisfugged | Jan 21 2025 17:34 utc | 138
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…
<=Peace in Ukraine and stability within and by and between each nation of the nation state system is fully dependant on the intentions of those entities (Oligarchs, stock markets, corporations, trusts, partnerships, banks, energy bandits, and the like) with a presence in the city of London? The war against Russia will probably go on until those entities with a presence in the City of London are destroyed? The Belt and Road initiative and the BRICS projects seem to be the only project with a chance in hell at accomplishing that destruction. Posted by: LikeItsHot | Jan 21 2025 17:45 utc | 145 The master illusionists behind the curtain <=the wizard is the City of London.. Posted by: Exile | Jan 21 2025 17:12 utc | 119 The only way Trump can succeed is by "restructuring' the Federal Debt plus slashing the Federal Gov't by 30% PDQ. <=Its not about Trump success? Its about finding ways to make the nations and all elements in the nation state system respect human rights and about keeping the king of mountain crowds out of nation state politics and about establishing competitive public ally owned economies instead of privately owned monopolistic economies. 2ndly there are several ways the debt could be restructured. Simply write it off (File Bankruptcy, let the greedy investors take the fall). There is another way: restructure the money system by making it open source. Let the nations of the world print and issue and trade in the same dollar that the private banking system (Federal Reserve) now prints. In such a scenario, the bankers valuation disappears and with it the debt. Open source currency by definition has zero value so there is no way the private bankers can expect to collect interest and without interest the open source dollar becomes the global currency used in every exchange of values[trade] that happens in the world. Currency needs no value, it needs only to be universally recognized and globally used and globally printed as needed to accommodate between buyer and seller the time discrepancies that occur in every transaction. Open source currency returns all nation state protected economies from monopolistic to competitive..

Posted by: snake | Jan 22 2025 2:52 utc | 358

And that is the undisclosed love story of society
Sounds bad?
Sounds true?
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 22 2025 2:22 utc | 352
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The book “Sperm Wars” tells a very different tale!
It’s the females who are in the driver’s seat, getting alpha male DNA if they can for their children, but letting the hubbies assume the offspring are theirs.
Not being an expert in this field, I can’t guarantee that this tale is true. OTOH you offer no evidence to support your tale.
Hey, I thought you were going to bed!
Where is your wife:???? [(:-))]

Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 2:56 utc | 360

Thank you james atJan 22 2025 2:44 utc | 358
As to the aristodemos bit, I am transferring your comment to the Week in Review thread. Far too many off topic posts on this one. Sorry to have been one of the offenders.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 22 2025 3:07 utc | 362

FIRST LAW OF TROLLOGY:
When a poster poses as a down-to-earth, plain Jane with a regular plain Jane make, HE (yes, HE) IS NEITHER, but a PAID TROLL.

Posted by: Ad Hoc | Jan 22 2025 3:12 utc | 364

FIRST LAW OF TROLLOGY:
When a poster poses as a down-to-earth, plain Jane with a regular plain Jane make, HE (yes, HE) IS NEITHER, but a PAID TROLL.
Posted by: Ad Hoc | Jan 22 2025 3:12 utc | 368
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I sure won’t be finagling any DNA from Ad Hoc!

Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 3:27 utc | 366

FIRST LAW OF TROLLOGY:
When a poster poses as a down-to-earth, plain Jane with a regular plain Jane make, HE (yes, HE) IS NEITHER, but a PAID TROLL.
Posted by: Ad Hoc | Jan 22 2025 3:12 utc | 368
First law of “I was there 3.000 years ago” , tits or there are no girls on the internet 😀

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 22 2025 3:35 utc | 368

P.S.
“How much does the government subsidize renewable energy?
$15.6 billion
Renewable energy, led by wind and solar, received $15.6 billion in federal government subsidies in fiscal year 2022, far more than fossil fuels. –Oct 17, 2023”

Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 4:05 utc | 370

“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
Several years ago a front-page photo on a college alumni magazine, which arrived in the mail, featured an alum who did DEI for BlackRock. My god, how the college and its students had changed since I was a student there. Unthinkable in my day, working for the monster man.
It made me wonder… When US corporations moved operations to cheaper labour markets overseas — opportunists of labour arbitrage, keeping the profits themselves and charging domestic consumers the same high prices, did this not render many college graduates here somewhat redundant?
Young people (or their parents) spent small fortunes on getting degrees from private colleges but found limited job opportunities, so make-work jobs were invented for them? Clinton’s “service economy”? And Biden made sure they were indentured if they couldn’t pay back the student debt by featuring a bill which denied bankruptcy declaration to student debt holders.
So this entire DEI schtick was partly invented to provide employment for kids who’d “invested” in an expensive education and had nowhere to go and nothing useful to do — for lack of capital and imagination?
And it coincided with a changed college curriculum, one from teaching core subjects like economic history, economics, history and the maths and sciences to teaching postmodern identity politics related goobldygook.
Exceptionalism, the scourge of harmonious polymodal civilization, will never die without the cultivation of basic societal norms teaching people to treat each other with mutual respect and equality. Regardless of whichever manifestation encountered.
For corporations, it’s all about the $. Salaried do-gooder college graduates engineering a DEI corp profile doesn’t get to the root of the problem, and prolly made it worse.

Posted by: suzan | Jan 22 2025 4:28 utc | 372

Debsisdead | Jan 22 2025 2:19 utc | 351
Thanks for that excellent post. I’m spending a lot of time here shaking my head wondering if these people are serious. I’m leaning towards serious but misguided or outright deluded.
The difference with Trump vis a vis previous US presidents is that he states things they were silent about and kept undercover
Trump will do some good things, but as the leader of the oligarchy, do a lot of bad things. The rest of the world is getting sick of the US and it’s domineering violence and Trump will only accelerate this disgust. The thing is, as more and more states see things this way it becomes easier for them to ignore the US and harder for the US to do anything about it.

Posted by: ZimZum | Jan 22 2025 4:38 utc | 374

This must be the most bizarre comment thread I have read here in years. The American-dominated “plandemic plot conspiracy” discourse against the WHO should have ended years ago FFS. Or the Paris Accords, just symbolic institutions, no force of law. even if it was, the US never bothered with international laws anyway. it’s no big deal, just a way to save US money to spend on more wars. Same with cutting social security, Medicare etc.
That money will still be spent on killing millions, just not through international institutions. All “foreign Aid” the US sends anywhere, like IMF or World Bank loans, have a string of harsh self-destructive “conditions” which must be met before being considered “worthy”, then mostly only used to buy American armaments for the MIC oligarchs & bankers.
As for the trans-genderism, a 1st world trendy fad of promoting delusory mental illness &/or sexual fetishism as a public spectacle, that should never have been codified into civil law in the first place. Never had a problem, until they decided to FORCE the ideology through changing laws & education systems Yet you dudes, seem to think that sort of ideological legal & social enforcement of unscientific Orwellian reversals is quite OK, destroying women’s & children’s lives, but vaccine mandates are not? At least be consistent.

Posted by: Rain | Jan 22 2025 4:42 utc | 376

Whitehouse.gov has some of them. They should have all, but for for some reason it was missing. (btw- the website completely changed after noon on monday ;))
Leaving Paris was good (many big banks renounced their green agenda even before monday). Hypocritical about WHO since he started lockdowns and did yang’s UBI.
Agree with you about zionists (and his lunatic UN ambassador more so), but he’s also just cancelling out Joe
‘s everything. He’s very angry over the first 4 years and more so the next 4 years.
All that said, pardoning Ross Ulbricht (from my graduating class, although he wasn’t AP stream, so I never met him) was the best so far. Also men cheating in women’s sports (note: not adult non-athlete transgenders).

Posted by: Sal | Jan 22 2025 4:49 utc | 378

Jane@1.24 Jan 22
If you are indeed a woman, you have been a busy little beaver on this thread. If you find my statements to be a “mishmash”, please regale us with your interpretation of that word. Or perhaps, my offerings are simply beyond your comprehension quota and therewith you become frustrated. I’m sure we all have those moments, but tonight you are being special.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 22 2025 5:17 utc | 380

@ Debsisdead | Jan 22 2025 2:19 utc | 351
excellent commentary which goes into the heart of the matter on WHO.. thanks..

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2025 5:42 utc | 382

Re: Trans surgery
Who pays the roughly $2 1/2 million for a single tarns surgery and associated therapy ?
Who gains from that business ?

Posted by: exile | Jan 22 2025 5:50 utc | 384

Juliana@108 Jan 22
So you happen to be a believer, not particularly a woman of faith but of imposed belief systems. I get that and do not how to break it to you more gently, even though I consider you as sincere in your beliefs as well as in a general sense as an individual. Among numerous other historical research areas; I have delved somewhat in to the exegetical works of those who have deeply researched thoroughly into the true history of the Canonical churches.
Calling my statement “garbage” is signatory of an outraged female of belief in the Emperor Constantine’s invention and production of the “Holy” Bible.
When I developed into a fully mature adult; I once again turned to that book into far deeper levels and armed with less gullibility and faith in “authority” than during my Lootern Sunday school years. When I encountered the Old Testicles books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, I almost lost my lunch.
The constant and consistent evilness of the Yahweh member of the Elohim was right there openly exposed to my wondering eyes. The bloodthirstiness and the hatefulness of that demonic entity as fully exposed in those two books simply shattered my previous belief system.
No Creator in his right mind would favor an alleged “Chosen People”. At that post, I began to realize that those Old Testicles were not the words of “God”. The Deuteronomists of the Age of Aries were patriarchal fanatics, denigrating women and deliberately destroying native peoples in old Palestine who had their own faiths, beliefs and traditions. Those demented followers of Yahweh were not capable of human compassion…as their states of mind had fallen into the clutches of the evil ones….the exclusivists.
As I have written in previous testimonies; I am not a Constantinian Crosstian, rather a traditional Jesusite. Jesus was the Great Spiritual teacher. This is revealed within the Gospel of Thomas and in other gospels and texts which were buried in the Qumran Caves in Egypt at a time when the ruling bishops were intent on destroying all evidence of a more spiritual approach to the teachings of Jesus. Thomas, whom the Romanites call “Doubting Thomas” was one of the twelve original Disciples.
Why did faithful Jesusites feel obliged to hide his textual recollections fo the Master?
This is a question you should ask yourself, Juliana. Why doubt the words of some of the gospels while falling into belief into the ones which were politically canonized?
Faith is innate. As spirits, we are emanations of Creator. As emanations of Creator we live eternally in many lifetimes and many dimensions.
Original sin and Heaven and Hell were not the beliefs of the original Jesusites. Imperial politics created those fear-laden belief memes. People are ruled by the self-chosen elites, primarily by imposed fear. THAT was the message of the Dark Ages…a roughly 500 year tragedy during which only the clergy were ALLOWED to be literate.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 22 2025 6:15 utc | 386

Bernhard
Not quite like the old days, eh? The signal to noise ratio has gone down and comment focus on posting subject has worsened but, for me, it is still worth reading your posts and skimming the comments to find additional pearls of wisdom and insight.
I try to add value where/when I can and wish you ongoing health so this forum may continue……Blessings to you!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 22 2025 6:39 utc | 388

Goood morrrn…. Holy shit!
400 comments ?
Who’s been organising a pissing contest on the bar room floor???
Anyone get their head around the 8k pardons ?
I’m feeling too sober this dawn to wade in to this to find out the pearls …I’ll pass until the next thread.
Carry on …urm having fun.. 400!
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PS.
Hey b, you in here?
are you feeling ok?
Give us an update old chap, it’s been a while.
All best.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 22 2025 7:59 utc | 390

Trump will do some good things, but as the leader of the oligarchy, do a lot of bad things. The rest of the world is getting sick of the US and it’s domineering violence and Trump will only accelerate this disgust. The thing is, as more and more states see things this way it becomes easier for them to ignore the US and harder for the US to do anything about it.
Posted by: ZimZum | Jan 22 2025 4:38 utc | 378
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Clear comment and that is exactly how it will happen.
Trump will now take on Putin before he has to understand and that Putin will not jump the gun as the USA wants him to in order to save face.
He will threaten and possibly impose even more sanctions and even more weapons.
Sanctions will bring the USA into conflict more quickly and will quickly keep him busy with unrest in his own country, fuelled by his “friends” Democrats and friends.
Supply weapons, yes, some, completely plunder their own reserves or sell out the EU.
EU residents in their thousands will reinforce the demonstrations that are already taking place today “Ami go home” EU residents will vote much more right-wing and send their US-dependent governments to hell if the wonder boy in the wise house goes too far…in Germany alone it would be enough to stop supplying US bases with energy or to only supply them to a limited extent, to undermine services and to refuse them. And as an expert on the subject, I know that the spark is still missing, and not just in Germany!
But we’ll see what happens when the arrogant meets the objective…on the subject of Ukraine and ceasefires, etc. Putin would have to abdicate and would no longer have any support in his own country, and he would also have enemies in his own ranks if he agreed to such demands. There have been too many deaths in Russia and there are too many hardliners who are NOT afraid of the final consequences and have been relying on deterrence for a long time…
If the pressure comes from Europe, the USA can be lucky, if it clearly comes from the USA (arms delivery sanctions), the USA is a target.
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Posted by: stiller | Jan 22 2025 8:14 utc | 392

Posted by: stiller | Jan 22 2025 8:14 utc | 397
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There is a lot of thinking, and it is important to remember that not only in the USA many people are putting their hopes in Trump.
In Europe in particular, all supporters expect him to solve the Ukraine problem, but the majority of these people have also realized that Trump’s approaches that have become known so far are the wrong ones. Putin will never allow himself to be blackmailed…it seems that Trump still hasn’t recognized the realities in Ukraine.
Or he is already trying to conceal this reality in order to save face.
He must find ways to present the outcome of the negotiations as a victory for himself at all costs. If he succeeds, the EU and its governments would not care at all, and the rest of the world would laugh at them and not at him.
But wait and see, one wrong step and all sympathy for him, at least in Western Europe, would be lost, and the USA as a whole cannot afford that right now. Tighten sanctions…now one answer could be to stop oil and gas deliveries from Russia for 2 weeks…oil would be the END for Trump in his own country, woe betide the Americans who have to pay at the gas station, then it would be no matter who is sitting in the white house.
Trump already knows why his slogan before the election was
“Pump, pump, pump” Venezuela will be his target before China..

Posted by: zensierder | Jan 22 2025 8:39 utc | 394

On nicknames, a confession
It took me years to get over my abhorrence of Trump enough to write his name correctly — so I’d resort to silly nicknames which undercut any seriousness I had in mind. My abhorrence is still there, but I’ve come to realize the stink arising from Trump is an archetypically US American aroma. So he deserves the same respect I have for other cogs in the apparatus: None at all, that is, but I can’t make up nicknames for everyone and everything.
Maybe I could, but it would be unbearably tedious. I wish b would refrain from misspelling Netanyahu’s last name — as it makes the same problem I’ve created for myself at times: an impression of nonseriousness. I can’t allow myself any joking around in future; people seriously need to know when I’m serious, or else not know when I’m not serious, or something like that!

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 22 2025 9:31 utc | 396

From Simplicus:
In the Pentagon, everyone who was responsible for Ukraine has been fired and suspended. They will all face an investigation into the use of US budget money.
The US this morning in Washington, withdrew all applications to contractors for logistics through Rzeszow, Constanta and Varna. At NATO bases in Europe, all shipments to Ukraine have been suspended and closed.
According to foreign military analysts, this is on the order of several thousand tons of weapons and equipment.

Posted by: Rich | Jan 22 2025 10:02 utc | 398

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 | 196
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That’s Darwin 101. Darwinism is indifferent to right or wrong.

Posted by: abc | Jan 22 2025 10:26 utc | 400