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MLR's avatar

Just to make clear what we’re talking about, substitute the word fake for trans. So a trans female is a fake female and a trans male is a fake male. The transgenderism phenomenon is what happens when a mental illness is ‘transitioned’ into a civil rights movement. And who would champion this, democrats of course. Imagine if this insanity was not called what it is and someday schizophrenia was deemed a ‘normal’ human variant and it’s a persons right to be delusional (like transgenderism) and we were all required to acknowledge that yes, we too hear the voices. Just saying.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

If you read history, you realize that it's part of all human societies to cultivate mass-delusions, insanities, manias and panics. The tranny-terror is merely another case, hopefully soon to be relegated to the history books. But its destructive effects will linger, having produced thousands of incurably maimed children, doomed to live out their lives as lifelong freaks.

But it won't be humanity's last mass-delusion, mass-insanity, mania or panic..

Reddog's avatar

Maybe we need to start paying closer attention to who is doing it, and why. There is always a connection.

WTPuck's avatar

Tulips, anyone?

Wim de Vriend's avatar

I had to think about that, but you're right: that was the 17th century predecessor of subsequent stock market manias.

WTPuck's avatar

That was the first thing that came to mind when I read "transmania."

Subvet's avatar

I had to look that one up. I had never heard of it.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

At that time -- the 16th century -- The Dutch were traveling all over the world, in search of rare products to sell, and make their fortune. Besides lots of stuff from the Dutch Indies -- the future Indonesia, they had also discovered there was money in bringing tulips, from what is today Turkey, to western Europe. The result was people offering to pay insane prices for different colors of tulips, because -- as in all such manias -- they figured it was a sure way to make money. But it was a "bubble" that soon deflated.... as most of those do.

MLR's avatar

Transgenderism is the most personally destructive and anthropogenic global warming the most economically destructive canards ever perpetrated on humanity.

Jeremy R's avatar

While I agree in part, a fake dollar bill closely resembles a real dollar bill whereas a pretend dollar as is used in Monopoly™ looks nothing like real money. That is why I call them gender pretenders.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

I like the sound of that. Gender-Pretenders.

Albert P. Sweeney's avatar

The Overton Windows is constantly pushed to the left

ron's avatar

Not if you just keep saying, "no!"

Albert P. Sweeney's avatar

I keep pushing it to the right

ron's avatar

The main reason most people "support" this "transgender" insanity is that they keep hearing, from their so-called "social media" and cnn and msdnc, and their teachers and professors, that it's "the right thing."

They know better, but the peer pressure subsumes them, and they wanna be part of the "in" crowd, so they say, "trans is real!"

Suzie's avatar

It is literally suicidal empathy.

Sam Prentice's avatar

No, it is actually only mental illness facilitated by the madness of mobs.

Joseph Kaplan's avatar

I have always compared this to the Salem witch trials. The same irrational mania in each case

steph_gray's avatar

It did manifest and spread emotionally at Salem.

However, there is the theory of the ergot in spoiled grain.

Now you’ve got me wondering who came up with that theory and why - it exonerated the accusing girls.

Salem definitely has a long history of people who glommed onto it long ago as a center of “the craft.”

Demonic in my opinion.

Reddog's avatar

Joesph, please explain. Not sure your full meaning.

CactusMatt32's avatar

Yeah, but what does ‘Big Mike’ think?

Jeremy R's avatar

Looks like Big Mike is going back to not being proud of America. Maybe it can accompany Barry back to his adopted home and become proud of Indonesia.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

From your keyboard !!

Subvet's avatar
8hEdited

Bingo! Until BO pleanty and his beard bride Mikey entered the scene there was no transgender discussion. Boys and men who chose to act and dress as women where simply called cross dressers. Transgender started when the Obamas came to town.

Richard Luthmann's avatar

The Hack-Leftist press is already centering on the male athletes who lost. Conservatives should center the girls who paid the price. Every girl beaten out of a roster spot, medal, scholarship opportunity, locker-room privacy, or love of sport deserves to be named in this debate. Biology is not bigotry. Fairness is not hate. Protecting girls’ athletics is not cruelty. It is the whole purpose of having girls’ athletics. The transgender movement overreached when it demanded that girls become props in someone else’s identity performance. SCOTUS did not solve every problem, but it gave states permission to say the obvious: Girls' sports are for girls.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Good phrase—“…props in someone else’s identity performance”.

Damn the torpedoes's avatar

It’s like Angel Moms are treated by the democrats as speed bumps on the sanctuary city highway.

steph_gray's avatar

I suspect that PDJT will find a way of bringing the real girls front and center. Perhaps at his mid-term convention.

Michael Davis's avatar

As usual I’m confused by MSM and Lib positions on issues. After all those years of bitchin about women’s rights, glass ceilings, women are equal in every way and other nonsense they favor destroying girls sports by allowing males to compete alongside girls which clearly demonstrates females are not equal in some instances. Think of the crushed egos of young girls who have been practicing, training, and succeeding when they get wiped out by some mental outlier. What’s worse, the same MSM and progressive idiots support alien gang members that injure and kill young girls.

MSM has failed our country in support of leftist professor trained libs…

steph_gray's avatar

I haven’t been confused by the so-called MSM for nigh on ten years now.

Everything they say is a lie in support of the global Communist agenda. Simple.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

MSM has been a partner/collaborator of the left/socialist/democrats for as long as I can remember but have now come out as leaders in the movement. PDJT exposed them in 2015 and the new virus TDS was created but not in a secret lab. I am four score and change of age.

Michael Davis's avatar

My confusion arises from my fellow boomers who provide a market for this crap.

Cookie McCall's avatar

And to that comment, Richard, I say AMEN!

Stephen Fitzmaurice's avatar

Very well said, Richard!

Reddog's avatar

They won’t, but it would be only fair for the schools that allowed boys to compete as girls to now try to acknowledge that wrong by creating a permanent plaque in the school where every single girl who was denied a fair contest could be listed along with the schools apology. It’s a start at least. But in a world where no one has to take responsibility for their actions, it will never happen.

Steve (recovering lawyer)'s avatar

Once you really drill down into the subterranean depths of what passes for political philosophy today, you find that everything, yes, EVERYTHING advocated by the left is rooted and grounded in sexual debauchery. Gay rights? Check. Gay marriage? Check. Abortion? Check, again. Open borders? Qualified check, because although it would seem to have nothing to do with debauchery per se, it has everything to do with the same spirit of unbridled libertinism that manifests itself in sex without (moral) borders. And don't forget how it facilitates sex trafficing. And what is communism without the destruction of the family, which again facilitates sex without commitment, so again, Check. Which of the current crop of communists seeking power in the democrat party are advocates of traditional American married/family life? Mandami, you say? But he is a product of islamic fundamentalism, which advocates unfettered sex among its male adherents ("temporary marriage" and polygamy are right there in the koran) while imposing bondage on the females. So the next time you think you have found one of those elusive "mainstream democrats", scratch the surface. You will find a sexual degenerate. Looking at you, Bill Clinton.

Douglas Baringer's avatar

That was a tour-de-force on the Godless left.

Lee's avatar

As I have often said the 2 coasts are Sodom and Gomorrah of our country.

Reddog's avatar

It isn’t due to being on the coasts. Virtually all very large cities seem to become fertile breeding grounds for leftism, regardless of their geographic location. On the west coast, the rural parts of Wash, Oregon and CA are conservative voting but the population centers always control the vote. If you look at the rural areas you will see they occupy larger areas of land than do the large population centers but their votes do little to determine outcomes. The east coast likely is similar so I always chafe at hearing people say both coasts are lefty. The large population centers in both are but it is not the same definition. I have many ranching and farming friends in Eastern Oregon who would likely “disappear” someone for calling their communities liberal.

Lee's avatar

My Sodom comment was directed more at the immorality which seems to thrive in LA, SF, NYC, and DC. I was not covering all the bad mayors at the big cities.

Reddog's avatar

Thanks. It just rankles the people who are very conservative but live on the coasts to hear themselves associated with crazy leftists. But I get it.

Lloyd Garnett's avatar

This is absolutely true. Thank you for pointing this connection out.

NNTX's avatar

Very good points Steve.

What sparks my, yes, anger (though hopefully righteous) is the Left/Dem/Radical characterization of every political or “cultural” disagreement as a “war” Nonsense and they know it. The term is used by them to galvanize their immature and propagandized minions into various acts of violence, some quite deadly (to wit, Charlie Kirk and attemps on Congressmen playing baseball and a couple of SCOTUS justices).

One is also left annoyed by Nina Totenberg, who at 82, most assuredly did not grow up with these evil and looney ideas. Perhaps she was also trained in proper journalistic practices, such as obtaining verification and not printing gossip.

ron's avatar

nina totenbag is one of the original harpies from the beginning of npr, almost 55 years ago.. She almost literally did grow up that way. And while I lived there I listened to npr all day every day at my parents' house since it started. And it's STILL on every waking day at my dad's house when I visit!

nina's disclaimer to Alito that this was a "rare slipup in her 50-year journalistic 'career'" is quite the hoot!

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Totebag Nina has always been a biased reporter whose voice and speech pattern drove me nuts but my co-driver used to listen to NPR and if he is driving the radio is his .

Albert P. Sweeney's avatar

The cat missed the obvious answer for the poll Don.

“I don’t care” would have been the overwhelming top choice 😂

While the wedding is going to cost $20MM, it begs the question, “What will the divorce cost?”

As far as the tranny train, it’s going off the tracks, only the media and the extremely retarded give it any credence.

To all my Surber-ite friends, may you all have a safe and happy 250th Independence Day, celebrate our Nation. Even with its faults, it’s the best damn place to live on GOD’s Green Earth!!!

May GOD Almighty continue to bless and protect President Donald J. Trump and these United States of America!!!

APS

Cookie McCall's avatar

And congratulations to our USA soccer team for their win last night! I know nothing about soccer, but I did check on the score a couple of times

Retirednottired's avatar

I know a great deal about soccer, and they played a stunning game, and earned a well deserved victory.

WTPuck's avatar

And you too!

Retirednottired's avatar

Since both of these people have wealth far beyond their just deserves, the only winners in their divorce will be the lawyers.

UncleWiggly's avatar

I don't understand how any woman or person with a daughter can vote for democrats, but then, I'm not insane. And really, what other reason is there?

Sam Prentice's avatar

I don't understand how any decent person can be a Democrat, period! Nothing good has ever come from them and everything they rail against America on was caused by their own Democrat Party, and yet they continue to belong and support them. Anyone who is a Democrat might as well wear a sign around their neck saying "Caution - Defective Person Ahead."

donald b welch's avatar

they don't see past feminism and the power/authority, bling and privilege the donks offer the girls and women...even at the expense of men.

Suzie's avatar

The entire trans-mania is the most ANTI-feminist stance any woman (in her right mind) could take. It is decimating life and opportunity for actual females, and enabling every sort of perverse behavior that specifically targets women. It literally serves to abolish the entire reality of FEMALE itself.

So-called feminists who claim that it promotes their “feminist cause” are 180 degrees dead wrong delusional.

John Swindall's avatar

I still don’t understand how women have allowed this nonsense to go on. Where are voices of women in positions with platforms who could call it out. If Ms Swift continues to support Democrats openly, gets married and has children. And I wish they do. Maybe her first child should be named Knot So Swift.

Alice Ball's avatar

That’s cultural fear on her part, being locked out of the Democrat tribe. She staked her claim against Trump years ago, and they worship her, she can’t turn her back on that. But J. K. Rowling did and they vilified her for it and she said too bad—boys aren’t girls. She has been a figure from the left, calling out the insanity of boys playing girls sports, men being in women’s prisons, etc.

John Swindall's avatar

And she is still standing. She has character and FU money.

ron's avatar

And she still lives in a country where free speech isn't allowed.

Anne Emerson Hall's avatar

And wonderfully, she has given away so much that she is no longer a billionaire, I read recently.

John Swindall's avatar

She has always been generous. With great investments she will be back in the three comma club in no time. Carry on!

steph_gray's avatar

Oh and by the way, her books are NOT anti-Christian.

I give you the dozen Christmas trees in the Hogwarts hall as evidence.

(I do suspect there were none such in Slytherin though.)

Rowling’s great series is a wonderful good versus evil story.

And in real life she is fighting on the right side here too.

Alice Ball's avatar

I could not agree more! Definitely good versus evil, filled with Christian morality. And Christmas trees!

Joe LaGreca's avatar

I'm not into today's music - especially female pop singers as they all sound the same. I didn't know much about Swift or her music - but I realized what a POS she is when she said she's happy we have a country where young boys can grow up to be princesses.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

She just published her IQ with that sentiment Joe.

Sam Prentice's avatar

I made the huge mistake of attending a concert Tuesday night at Tanglewood in the Massachusetts Berkshires. It was featured as the Jerry Garcia Symphony Orchestra in concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I should have done better due diligence before attending but didn't. I didn't consider that the Deadheads would also see this as a necessary venue to attend. The crowd was largely senior-aged males who all looked completely wasted and like they had just woke up from the park bench. They all stood up, walked around, talked loudly, and had not the slightest consideration for anyone around them. The two guitar players sounded like high school kids playing in their garage. The BSO was completely drowned out. It was like a cult with the people all doing very strange dances. My wife and I left before intermission. I never saw such a rude display of uncouth behavior in what should have been a refined setting. Big mistake in going.

Damn the torpedoes's avatar

Sam, nothing good lives near Lenox. They probably came from Northampton.

steph_gray's avatar

🤣 Nailed that one!

Sam Prentice's avatar

That was exactly my thoughts as well.

ron's avatar

And the competitors. It's easy for me to say, since I'm not a competitor enjoying the program, but if the girls simply refuse to compete with men, and maybe organize their own. albeit informal, league just for girls' competition, the men will be left there with no one to compete with except maybe another man or two. They will go away.

Douglas Baringer's avatar

It really doesn't work that way. The dingbats on the left have no shame. You can't embarrass them with their own absurdities. Especially when the leftist press takes the wrong side. After all, they are the Commiecrat Marxist Hate America crowd

Alice Ball's avatar

I get that and that works as a protest, but these girls have worked hard and probably a lot of them need or want scholarships for all of that work. And then a boy steps in and knocks them out of the competition so that they don’t get the credit they deserve? The entire thing is so completely absurd, which reveals the intellectual bankruptcy of not just the left, but the entire Democrat party.

Reddog's avatar

You are correct. It is deranged. It was never about the kids, it was always about control. If a group can control a seemingly normal event such as female sports then that control gives them a win and with it political power. You can’t separate the two. In this case, the girls are just political fodder.

Alice Ball's avatar

Yes. Same with climate & you can’t own gas stoves. Same with race. Same with communists. Same with Islam. ALL of it is about control. That’s how totalitarianism works.

steph_gray's avatar

It’s a series of Long Cons.

The latest is anti-Semitism as a Dim policy plank. It’s in the pipeline.

Good for Fetterman for an early reveal on it!

Reddog's avatar

Yes, Fetterman seems to be more GOP than many in the GOP. The left is going to squash him come reelection time.

Reddog's avatar

Yet so many people ignore it and buy into the craziness. Just nuts.

Reddog's avatar

Those girls were treated worse than we treat illegals. Appalling to see.

Sam Prentice's avatar

Today's boys have successfully been neutered. Back in my day this problem would never have taken place because the twisted boy would have had his sorry butt beaten so badly he would never forget what private parts he had down there again. Even gays knew enough to remain in the closet or they would receive the same fate and beatdown. We administered self-government ourselves back then. And no more problems.

Joe LaGreca's avatar

But I'll predict that they'd sue.

steph_gray's avatar

I chose Nothing.

But I was looking for an option that said:

Remind Me Again, Who Is This Taylor Swift Person?

Lloyd Garnett's avatar

Right! Other than a social barometer what contribution does she offer?

Sam Prentice's avatar

You can't even sneeze in Watch Hill for less than a $million!

Vince Gallo's avatar

You really gotta wonder what kind of parents the tranny boy have to let their kid be so deluded into thinking he is a she.

Of course the school district and teacher’s unions should e cast into the hot place for destroying these kids and our culture.

The word millstone comes to mind.

Playswithneedles's avatar

The key word is parent singular. I have never seen any mention of a father on the scene. The mother did this to her son.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

It becomes only a matter of deciding which evil motive possessed the mother: hatred of men, revenge on her husband, or Münchausen syndrome.

Ms. Bert's avatar

Wim.... how about retarded from birth; stupid, uneducated, unwanted pregnancy.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

Yes, another possibility to be added.

WTPuck's avatar

I'm sure I sound like a broken record, but thank God I had an outstanding patriarchy. My brothers are real men, good husbands and fathers, and it's against my religion to say anything nice about them. Good job, Dad, grandpas, and uncles.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

I prefer to refer to the child factories as begetters as PARENTS would not abuse the seed they raised. The begetters are mentally unwell and transfer their aspirations upon the offspring.

steph_gray's avatar

I highly approve this term “transmania.”

That one’s going in my Bon Mots file.

Sam Prentice's avatar

I thought that Mots file was only for apple juice!

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

The doctors who violated the oath to do no harm should all be charged with fraud. The begetters of the children who endorsed and urged them on in their fantasy should be charged with felony child abuse and any public official [ ie teacher etc ] aiding them charged as conspirators under RICO. jmho Cat mail it in today ??

Vince Gallo's avatar

You just can’t loathe Obama enough.

Leonard Wechsler's avatar

For the wedding, "Shake it Off." It's her money (and his, probably to a lesser degree). As for the rest, remember, cockatoos of a feather flock together. The trans movement ignores the girls, real girls, who are the victims. We don't want to hurt tranny feelings but the leftist scum, buoyed (or would it be "transboyed"?) of the media, don't care about ruining the dreams of girls. Don't care about "safe spaces."

Remember the key element in the left is betrayal. Men have been betrayed. CNN talks about sending men to camps where WOMEN will tell them how men should behave. It used to be we learned from our fathers; now we learn from weird men-haters. Workers have been betrayed. How do you make them suffer? Bring in low-paid others to depress salaries, raise taxes to pay for these newcomers being on all sorts of aid that most citizens don't get, give them subsidized housing so rents go up. And then have the media call the workers selfish. Who cares about them? Feminists of the past fought to establish women's sports and now want them to praise the only women they like: the ones with penises.

They say they are building a big tent. But they've thrown out manly men, young women with dreams, workers, Jews, and people who want to be safe. And we have leaders who praise them.

At least, Taylor Swift enjoys real men. Let her have fun.

Alice Ball's avatar

God save us from the feminists, and God save us from the communists!

donald b welch's avatar

same same. it may be too late alice. benedict barrett is doing all she can to destroy america.

Lloyd Garnett's avatar

Barrett’s and Robert’s too frequent transgressions beyond the fences of supportable interpretations can not be explained by mere “judicial independence”, except by and to naive imbeciles.

donald b welch's avatar

i believe they're both very smart. so...ideologically compromised.

Cookie McCall's avatar

I'm with you, Alice!

WTPuck's avatar

IIRC, clowns are found under big tents. Along with horse and elephant excrement. Been a long time since I've been to a circus. On purpose.

Tmitsss's avatar

Tomorrow’s poll should be on how much profit The Swift Wedding will generate

ron's avatar

I'm still waiting for it to actually happen. Even I am starting to think it might actually go down, but anything could still turn up. It's all show biz.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Ok, may I be the first person to give a shout-out for “Viva la de-France in zee oui-oui”! Genius is at play here!!!

And on a serious note— how true: “…the 4 saddest words in the English language—‘what might have been’. What comes immediately to mind is Henry Nowak in England and the girl on the subway in Charlotte, North Carolina— two young lives literally cut down in their youth.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

I know that when you have to explain a joke it's no longer funny, but I just cannot understand the humor in "Viva la de-France in zee oui-oui”! Maybe it was concocted for people who know no French at all, including Don himself?

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Wim, you’ve made me more keenly aware of the challenges (legal) immigrants face in becoming adept in English. There’s an old French saying “Viva la difference”. (Pronounced Dee-fair-ance). It refers to just a healthy celebration of the difference between men and women.

Don deliberately butchered it by spelling “difference” as “de-France”. Then he also made a pun by identifying the difference as being how men versus women go to the bathroom, or do “wee-wee”(pee-pee), spelled here using the French word for “Yes” , which is spelled “oui” but pronounced “wee”. Don used “zee” instead of “the” to imitate a French accent. So you get “the difference” in the way men versus women “go wee-wee”.

Yes, it’s silly, but very amusing!!!!!

Wim de Vriend's avatar

I suppose the amusement is in the brain of the speaker. Or the listener. Like the way we adolescent boys pronounced "United States" in Dutch: "Je naait me steeds" -- which literally meant "You screw me all the time".

BTW, it's not "Viva la difference". Viva would be Spanish or Italian. The correct French spelling is "Vive la différence". In high school I had 6 years of French, 5 of English, 4 of German (in descending order of difficulty for Dutch people), plus 2 years of Spanish in college. Oh, and 4 years of Latin and Greek besides. Because of disuse I've forgotten most of the latter two, but I recently revived a bit of my Greek in writing an essay about the real meaning of Romans 13:1-7. If you're interested in that topic I can email you a copy.

Reddog's avatar

Go wee-wee? Haven’t heard that term since my boys were small. Too funny.

Trumps Owner's avatar

Make the 10th Amendment Great Again.

Sam Prentice's avatar

I'm in favor of promoting the 2nd Amendment first. It's time to cull the herd and dispose of the rotten apples.

Alice Ball's avatar

Razz her for not spending 40 million!😂😂😂😂😂 I mean, come on Tay-Tay, you’re a billionaire!💸💸💸💸

Don Surber's avatar

No one says what we could do with her money

Alice Ball's avatar

I wasn’t saying that WE got to spend her money, just razz her for not spending more! I mean, 20 mil, that’s probably what she spent on clothes in a year.

Suzie's avatar

Emphasis on “D”

CactusMatt32's avatar

So is Bezos, Taylor Swift is just a thrifty, talented, and focused woman - they are spending THEIR After-Tax money as they see fit. Media should look into brides & grooms w net worths less than $5,000 that spend $50,000 - but they operate NGOs ‘helping’ Governments spend our tax money ‘prudently’ too. How much was Chelsea Clinton’s? Biden kids? Bush kids? Pritzker kids? McTurtles grand kids?