The reason that so many on the Left believe that a man can be transformed into a woman or vice versa is because they believe in magical thinking. They also believe that mankind can control the temperature of the earth. The insanity that is gender dysphoria was “transitioned” if you will into a civil rights movement which immediately made this insanity the Leftist cause celeb which it has become. It is the most self destructive canard of this century which has also turned the medical profession into a cruel joke. Let’s hope that the tide is turning and that this modern version of societal insanity is crumbling.
It remains an evergreen truth that "When men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything," attributed to British writer G.K. Chesterton. Leftists believe in the perfectability of mankind; that social systems can make angels out of fallen men; that all that is ncessary is to educate people in the "right" ways of thinking and the world will be a place of perfect harmony. We have seen the result of such delusions. The questions is why do they not?
I love Chesterton's writings. He was brilliant. As such, he would have agreed with Hannah Arendt, who made a similar observation about people and authoritarian regimes. Authoritarian leaders constantly lie, so the people's faith in truth is lost. But, as she noted, rather than believing nothing, people are likely to believe anything. We see the result; about 35% of Americans are trapped in such delusions. The question is, Is there any hope for them? The answer, No. They've always been with us. As the Book of Ecclesiastes says, "There [this] is nothing new under the sun."
Oh, my main comment is at the very bottom of this thread. All my main comments are. Surber shoves them there - because maga is afraid of dissent. (All insecure people are afraid of dissent. Just look at Trump. He's terrified of it, so he's gotta crush it.)
NO, we're tired of lies and bullshit so we don't give you 'likes' which elevates your comment. It's called analytics. We get your BS 24/7 by the insane liars on mainstream media so we enjoy the respite here.
Doesn't he just so proudly and sanctimoniously show everyone how amazingly STUPID he is. Oh, boo hoo, Don shoved my comment all the way to the bottom because he doesn't like me saying things he doesn't like.
Such a lack of self awareness. Your comment goes to the end like everyone’s does. But you can be outraged about it like everything else. Get a friend and have an actual exchange of ideas for a change.
Low-knowledge voters backed Trump in 2024 by a net 11 points. Those voters now disapprove of Trump by a net 13 points - a 25-point negative shift. Low-knowledge voters don't read mainstream media. They do see the depravity of Trump's regime, and they're reacting accordingly. The negative-shift spread will continue widening, because the depravity won't stop.
Democratic cheating. Maga proves daily that "brainwashed" is a genuine clinical condition. It's similar to physical blindness. And it can't be cured by facts, either.
Yet he beat your moron candidate who spent all the dnc’s money in a month and a half and won NOTHING for it. As for depravity, where is your factual evidence? No, MS Now doesn’t count.
The feminist movement has outlived its purpose by far. I find it to be a complete joke when women in the Western world are still complaining about their lot in life. As women, we live in a time and in countries that allow us to achieve anything we want. Try being a woman in Afghanistan in the 21st century or in another shithole, medieval country like that.
TPG, i love a womens movement, especially walking behind her.
I think Americs’s original women’s movement (1848) had something to do with alcohol and voting, but I could be mistaken, then morphed into something else entirely.
In the early 1990’s, after Rush Limbaugh’s Show went national, he coined the term FemiNazi to describe what that movement turned into.
It's really not fair to be a man. Everyone else gets to complain about how tough they have it and how everyone is against them, bla, bla, bla. But nobody wants to hear our complaints about anything. We are supposed to just sit still, be quiet, and continue paying for everyone and allowing them to be morons without removing themselves from the gene pool. Ah, the humanity of it all. It's not fair..........
Oh hell, Sam, fairness has nothing to do with anything. That’s why there aren’t any real men in politics, we’re too busy working and rearing productive, responsible children and now enjoying our grandchildren and the fruits of our labor.
Well, Grumpy, it was indeed women (e.g., Susan Anthony) that led the fight for women to get the vote, which was somewhat contemporaneous with the Temperance movement.
But that didn't have really anything to do with the women's rights movement that arose in the 1960-70's. It was extremely sick that women's career options were limited to teacher, nurse, secretary, and that the entire "power structure" was that the men were in charge and the women were subservient serfs.
So the original women's movement of the 60-70's was essential, and it did succeed.
Rush Limbaugh indeed coined the term Femi-Nazi's, and his voice dripped with resentment and anger every time Rush spoke about women. This was why I never could stand listening to Rush. It was a big blind spot for him. Essentially, he never got over his own personal resentment in his personal experience with women, and projected that as a stereotype onto ALL women.
Like all bigoted prejudices, it was an unjust condemnation of an entire class of people--all women--that Rush bashed. And it is mentally lazy for men today to blame the Leftist politics in America on women. In order to do that, you have to blind yourself to the vast numbers of white men who are eagerly and gladly participating on the Left-- and they are FUNDING the Left, and they are it's spokesmen in Congress, and are a backbone of the administrative side of the Democratic Party. They also compose the backbone of the LEGAL attack on America.
Grumpy-- if you are honest, you would have to call for MEN to lose their power to vote, because a large chunk of white men are the backbone of the Left.
I do honestly think it is mentally lazy to just gripe at "women" for the political problems in the US and completely ignore the WHITE MEN that are integral to the Left's success.
You and others who "blanket bash" women strike a real nerve in me. A huge chunk of women--including all of those who comment here--are devoted to the freedom of America and are pouring our hearts, minds, and finances into the MAGA movement. I do, though, respect and share your views on most other things, and do love your frankness, so we're still friends!!!
Lighten up, Francis. Women are, after all, "nurturers", but the old Playboy Bunny, Gloria Steinem, disagrees.
The NAG Movement served a purpose 150+ years ago, but not so much anymore. Now, it seems to be infiltrated by a bunch of fat, dawg-a$$ ugly, screaming, rainbow-haired harpies with nothing much to say. Paraphrasing Bertrand Russell, "...men and women are born ignorant, not stupid; both are made stupid by indoctrination masquerading as education...".
Because you never listened to Rush Limbaugh, nor read his books and syndicated columns or, even his children's books, you have no idea what you're writing about. He always pointed out democRAT hypocrisy and leftist-Marxist absurdity by being absurd.
Do a little research about a subject before proving this biblical proverb true: "...even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is considered wise...".
I prefer Mark Twain's, or was it Abe Lincoln's, aphorism: "...better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak (in your case, TPG, write) and remove all doubt...". There are other iterations I like, too, but these'll suffice.
I've read many of your comments, TPG, and your smarter than this. Just keep it civil.
Well, I think we all here do agree that the "women's movement" today is a mess and damaging to America, so we're in sync on that.
And, I'll admit I don't have ALOT of info on Rush to opine-- but I did repeatedly try to listen to him off and on over many years. AND, there was one fellow in particular that I knew who listened religiously to Rush, and this guy was a true bitter sexist and hardcore in his resentment of women, so by extension that did not give me a good impression of Rush.
I know many here really admired Rush. And they are probably right. But all humans have their weak spot, and in my view, Rush did have a weak spot when he came to respecting women in general. All of our leaders have aspects of them that are not up to their overall level of virtue. But that doesn't obliterate their value--it just means we're all human. I haven't yet met a perfect paragon of virtue and wisdom. Thankfully, many wonderful people make wonderful contributions to our world, and I will acknowledge that Rush was one of these.
But this sloppy tendency to blame "WOMEN" for the problems in America is emotion speaking, not reason. I've raised this point before about all the white men who are an integral part of the Left and driving alot of the damage to America, and no one has ever admitted that there's alot of MEN who are doing damage too.
Have a good evening! Tomorrow's a new day, and I always enjoy reading your comments. We shall all just Carry On. :) TPG
I think your most perceptive comment is “like all bigoted prejudices, it was an unjust condemnation of an entire class of people.”
People must be condemned for what they do and not what they are.
Women make wonderful teachers. So do men. I spent my entire professional life as a teacher. A very successful teacher both academically and pastorally. I worked in both public and private schools, coeducational and single sex, primary and secondary, rural and urban over more than forty years. I worked for both male and female principals, and as a head of department worked with both men and women.
Some of the best and worst were men, and not surprisingly some of the best and worst were women.
My closest friends and colleagues were the same: both men and women.
I can say with confidence that I could do and say things as a man that women couldn’t, and the women I worked for and with could and did say and do what I couldn’t.
Good teams of men and women work like good marriages. They complement and complete each other and are always more effective.
No, I did not think that over sixty years ago.
My conclusions are a consequence of lived experience.
"Good teams of men and women work like good marriages. They complement and complete each other and are always more effective." Amen. The thorn in the side of feminism is it tried (still tries?) to replace the feminine, by competing with, usurping, disparaging the masculine. Think of magnetic forces. When the poles are in sync, they attract and thereby create power. When in opposition, the potential force is in abeyance. You need both for success.
I liked listening to Limbaugh, because he was a true master of his craft. Very, very creative, and a star for a worthwhile cause because Conservatism has gone to sleep. And FUNNY ... So I regret that you avoided him.
Let me quote you: "... it is mentally lazy for men today to blame the Leftist politics in America on women. In order to do that, you have to blind yourself to the vast numbers of white men who are eagerly and gladly participating on the Left ..."
Have you watched any of the footage of the anti-ICE rioters -- excuse me, protesters -- ranting and raving and screeching foul language: There may be exceptions that I have not seen, but the great majority ARE women. Although I admit, it can be hard to tell, given the confusion sown by militant trannies, green hair, nose rings suitable for pigs, out-of-control tattooing and gross fatness ...
Well….that was the problem….the morphing….the original concept was necessary….I was an adult at the time and in the workforce…I knew what was going on…but it was taken over by radicals who are just as mentally unbalanced today as they were then….neither sex knew how to handle women going into non-traditional jobs, which was the core reason for it….what the end result was dominatrixes in the business and political worlds and the neutering and subjugation of men….
It matters not how necessary the beginning was. What matters is what the ending was…The same is true of gays coming out of the closet and integration…The beginnings were right but the radicals destroyed the societal changes.
But dancingtime, if only "the ending" matters, would you say that is true of America itself? That despite the amazing excellence of the Founding Fathers, since we now find ourselves in a difficult situation, that therefore everything that preceded today was in error?
The women's movement of the 60's-70's achieved some valuable things. What came after that went "under the guise" of a "women's movement", but it was a wolf in sheep's clothing--just another vehicle the Left used to contaminate everything.
The only valuable thing which came out of the 60/70s femlib movement, imho, was the opening of doors to non-traditional female vocations...all part of the meritocracy concept...."ending" was not perhaps an accurate word choice....we are never at "an end"....everything evolves and we will see the evolution of the male/female relationships continue with, hopefully, the balance between the typical strengths and weaknesses.....and the acceptance of those who do not naturally fall within those traditional categories.
This is not a forum for writing a tome on the subject. If you are a literalist, please do not further respond. I am a generalist and speak in broad strokes. The femlib movement, like all movements, had noble beginnings but was hijacked by radicals. We opened doors, got gays out of the closet and accepted, and opened opportunity to blacks....then the radicals came....
Done on the subject. I am in my 8th decade...lived it all....
I tend to agree. Not sure all its original intent was clear but it lost its way quickly. It appeared to be based on far too broad and generalized agenda.
Like...a lot!! Really true. As Don notes, puberty is hard - harder on some that ohrrs... It is not only physical but the pressurrs to adopt socialogical norms and to decide where to stand amid a swirl of confusion for a young person.
So, on top of all that some want to further this complex maelstrom by telling kids...pssst, you can control this and be what you want be.... and that snarky message comes BEFORE that kid is anything still evolving thru puberty. All thst makes it extra evil.
None of the proponents of any of these ridiculous things actually believe a single word of what they say. Everything is about political power and destroying the glue holding America's culture and society together. Nothing progressives or Democrats say is ever actually about what they are saying. They are all fraudulent deceitful lowlifes.
Yes, that THINK SYSTEM worked so well for Professor Harold Hill in the Music Man and look how many people bought into that! We would like to believe it is just movie fiction but look around us, so many people are just that gullible.
The victim’s families should absolutely sue the doctors/hospitals/parents into bankruptcy! Burn their institutions to the ground and leave them all penniless.
I wonder how this is playing out in doctrinaire lefty circles, like maybe on Bluesky: yet another tranny mass shooter. It's such a bad look for trannies.
And trannies look bad enough as it is, especially the obese males wearing a dress and sporting a five o'clock shadow. Lefties are appalled and disgusted by these men (just as you and I are) in their private thoughts, but they would never ever admit that because they would be kicked out of the Good White People™ club.
Lefties tell each other that trannies murder children indiscriminately out of frustration with the world not accepting them for their "true" identity. But this is now getting to be one of those 80-20 issues, or even 90-10, where the vast majority of people, even many Good White People™ with NPR memberships, recognize that trannies hopped up on hormones are malevolently insane.
The Daughters* of the American Revolution have bought the S atanic lie, hook, line, and sinker. They are very proud to accept amended birth certificates from men but even prouder of the complete control system they devised beforehand to stifle members’ speech and discussion about the issue. The womyn in charge of the D*AR would rather run the entire Society into the ground than admit to anyone that these men have real and consequential mental issues and that, maybe/possibly, their tragically hip decision to impress the Democrat Party was a colossal blunder.
I don't think it is very likely to have any kind of intelligent conversation with anyone who believes that anyone can change their sex just by declaring it to be so. They're not likely to be wrapped too tightly to begin with.
FBI statistics have shown for decades that around 50% of all convicted murderers are tranvestities/transgenders. These are very sick people (almost all males who need help, not injections of God-knows-what.
Any doctor who plays along with these people's insanity should receive the death penalty. Parents go to prison. Psychiatrists know these people are catastrophically ill, but they aren't allowed to say so anymore. The democrat politicians who champion this madness should be tossed into a volcano.
I think a few more multimillion dollar verdicts by “detransitioned” victims may finally bring the house down on the criminals in the kid butchering medical industrial complex. Though I won’t be satisfied until every teachers union goon and sick parent pays a very high price.
The quote regarding giving hormones for the sex that the person is instead of the hormones for the opposite sex.....I have been saying that for some time...we know that many foods and chemicals lower the testosterone level....why are they trying to make girls out of boys instead of increasing their maleness? I am putting aside the mothers who actually wanted a girl (they are fun to dress and buy for) but gave birth to a boy and who push their boys into this. Does no one know that puberty is a difficult stage of life (well, to be honest, all stages of life are difficult but the ones after puberty are less hormonally driven). Parents are not friends. They are parents.
And if parents do their jobs well, they get to be friends with their adult children. I'm 68 and every day find something to say "Thanks mom and dad. You were right."
Nine people are dead. That is the headline. When a mass killer spirals through mental instability, heavy drug use, and years of medicalized identity intervention, the system does not get to shrug and say “nothing to see here.” We are watching institutions prioritize ideology over early intervention, politics over prevention, and narrative management over truth. Schools fail. Mental health systems fail. Law enforcement messaging fails. And afterward, everyone argues about language instead of causes. If we cannot ask hard questions about psychiatric drugs, youth medicalization, and radical online subcultures, we are not serious about stopping the next tragedy. This is not compassion. It is cowardice dressed as virtue.
I’m hoping we have peaked at the “acceptability” of transvestitism and it’s waning in popularity.
I’m also hoping the modern day Dr. Mengele’s pushing these drugs are held to account. What is the difference between a street level drug dealer and a doctor prescribing these drugs?
Not hardly. The real difference is that doctors should not deliberately harm their patients. Street level drug dealers don't care; they didn't ever care.
As for today’s article, it is well worth remembering that that boy killer was once just a 12 year old, mixed up and confused kid, when he fell into the grips of some of the most malevolent, diabolical and evil adults who proceeded to poison and torture his mind and body, driving him insane, who then went on to not only take his own life but as many others as he could in the process.
There is no hell horrid enough for these people to end up in.
Stop acting as though Our Heavenly Father "made a mistake". He didn't. Satan gets ahold of people. They spread the lies. People die needlessly. It is a "good white people's" lie and one that should dissappear from our lives.
Instead of or rather than spend the effort, money and time on gun controls and mindless ineffective laws, take those funds and start aggressive mental health programs and countermeasures.
Lots of mental health problems going around nowadays. I wonder if we've always been this way or it's something in our food/water. Why doesn't the brain work correctly in some people?? The one thing we have to do for sure is quit the indoctrination of kids that this diaspora is normal.
Rockefellers, Rothschild's, WEF, the people behind Epstein, the Green Movement, the climate hoax. It's all related. My friend is writing about it in story form. She unloads a lot of truth in a fiction novel.
It ess the sprouting from about 4 to 86 that shpul raise eybrows...and it happened only after legislation protected vaccine-makers from being sued for 'side effects' that says a lot about it in and of itself...
That legislation, The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, was signed into law by President Reagan in 1986. The rationale was that vaccine makers would not produce new vaccines if they were liable for the damages vaccines caused. Big mistake.
I think there has been "crossdressers" and same sex attracted people around forever but what changed was the "medical " community getting involved in once again playing God - just as they think they can keep a person alive for way longer than they often times should
Get the government out of health care. Get the insurance companies out of health care. Who decides how long anyone SHOULD stay alive? Last I read it is G-d who rules as sovereign.
It's in the food...keep in mind that Canada is the only other country which has embraced GMO...and no, that does not include grafting...we are going to find that Monsanto and Dow are responsible for what is going on....it's in the food...and the meds....no one reads side effects and no side effects are bad enough, in the eyes of the medical profession, to take someone off of the meds...
Read Unshrunk. The doctors are not treating the mentally ill. They push the drugs of big farma that are not completely and rigorously tested. It's all a deceptive charade.
I firmly believe that the tranny craze is just another mental epidemic, taking advantage of a a fashionable mass-delusion. One such were the witch-hunts of the 15th and 16th centuries, but a more recent one was the "satanic ritual" child abuse in day care centers, which had elements in common with the first one named. Much of the blame for that one should land on the "caring community" -- that army of counselors and psycho-psychologists and social workers who indoctrinated innocent little kids with claptrap.
Today’s survey omitted one very important option. Reopen mental hospitals (i.e. insane asylums). Although I doubt even that would solve the problem when I see daily reports of judges releasing murderers, rapists and all manner of violent criminals onto our streets. It seems unlikely those same judges would confine the mentally ill.
Common sense gun control would work, require all teachers to under go firearms training and to be armed or have an accessible firearm close by under a biometric lock that the teacher can access.
Next train them to react like the Israeli military who close with and neutralize the threat.
When teachers start shooting back, thrill killers will find other targets.
I love your idea about February 10th being a Day of Remembrance for Victims of Transgender Violence. Of course the liberals who run Canada and much of the USA would never allow it.
It’s ok to risk our kids’ lives but don’t you ever offend the deluded lost trannies of the world.
Hmmm…Joey Mannarino is on to something! But if you give a confused boy more testosterone, he might turn into a football player instead of a lifetime ward of the AMA, (or Canada’s version of specialists)with continual drugs and aftercare for the botched butchery the sick surgeons put him through to get him to the impossible pronoun of “her.” The only thing that stopped this madness in Europe was lawsuits. I think we’re catching on, and this tranny madness will soon disappear, along with its pink and baby-blue ribbons, into the deep hellhole of bad lefty ideas. Now let’s take on the PC idiots in BC who cover up the truth.
The reason that so many on the Left believe that a man can be transformed into a woman or vice versa is because they believe in magical thinking. They also believe that mankind can control the temperature of the earth. The insanity that is gender dysphoria was “transitioned” if you will into a civil rights movement which immediately made this insanity the Leftist cause celeb which it has become. It is the most self destructive canard of this century which has also turned the medical profession into a cruel joke. Let’s hope that the tide is turning and that this modern version of societal insanity is crumbling.
It remains an evergreen truth that "When men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything," attributed to British writer G.K. Chesterton. Leftists believe in the perfectability of mankind; that social systems can make angels out of fallen men; that all that is ncessary is to educate people in the "right" ways of thinking and the world will be a place of perfect harmony. We have seen the result of such delusions. The questions is why do they not?
"The questions is why do they not?"
Your list of what leftists believe is exactly what the serpent did in the garden so we have an indisputable clue as to the origin of leftist thinking.
We know what's right and that leaves... what's left...
Absolutely correct.
The sense that mankind is more powerful than GOD is the devils selling pitch to egoists desiring power over the masses.
Mankind is powefully swayed ny its own massive hubris.
💥 boom
Ouch. A direct shot at Trump & Apparatchiks. (Welcome to the Resistance.)
What?
I love Chesterton's writings. He was brilliant. As such, he would have agreed with Hannah Arendt, who made a similar observation about people and authoritarian regimes. Authoritarian leaders constantly lie, so the people's faith in truth is lost. But, as she noted, rather than believing nothing, people are likely to believe anything. We see the result; about 35% of Americans are trapped in such delusions. The question is, Is there any hope for them? The answer, No. They've always been with us. As the Book of Ecclesiastes says, "There [this] is nothing new under the sun."
Oh, my main comment is at the very bottom of this thread. All my main comments are. Surber shoves them there - because maga is afraid of dissent. (All insecure people are afraid of dissent. Just look at Trump. He's terrified of it, so he's gotta crush it.)
NO, we're tired of lies and bullshit so we don't give you 'likes' which elevates your comment. It's called analytics. We get your BS 24/7 by the insane liars on mainstream media so we enjoy the respite here.
Doesn't he just so proudly and sanctimoniously show everyone how amazingly STUPID he is. Oh, boo hoo, Don shoved my comment all the way to the bottom because he doesn't like me saying things he doesn't like.
Looks like someone on the Left decided we needed to be “corrected” by one of their tame trolls.
Mr. Carpenter errs in thinking that he can impose his ideas on this group, one of the most independent (and experienced) on the Substack.
Just peddle your papers somewhere else buddy
No, he hates my correcting all his disinformation. That also frightens him. So he buries it. Good. Proves my point.
Such a lack of self awareness. Your comment goes to the end like everyone’s does. But you can be outraged about it like everything else. Get a friend and have an actual exchange of ideas for a change.
shrugged et al. let this guy bloviate. without replies he'll move on, paid by the comment.
Low-knowledge voters backed Trump in 2024 by a net 11 points. Those voters now disapprove of Trump by a net 13 points - a 25-point negative shift. Low-knowledge voters don't read mainstream media. They do see the depravity of Trump's regime, and they're reacting accordingly. The negative-shift spread will continue widening, because the depravity won't stop.
If true, that loss will be more than offset by the losses the Dems will face from the Save Act and other fraud controls that are long overdue.
If elections weren’t rampant with leftist cheating the Dems would be a small fraction in Congress and never win a Presidential election again.
Democratic cheating. Maga proves daily that "brainwashed" is a genuine clinical condition. It's similar to physical blindness. And it can't be cured by facts, either.
Please define low-knowledge voters. Voters who disagree with you not included.
Yet he beat your moron candidate who spent all the dnc’s money in a month and a half and won NOTHING for it. As for depravity, where is your factual evidence? No, MS Now doesn’t count.
No, turnip, your comments go to the bottom because you are stupid and no ones has any regard for what you say. Go home and have a good cry.
We aren’t afraid of dissent at all. We just don’t like to waste time debating morons who think boys can become girls.
The most destructive was the femlib movement of the 60/70s....it gave birth to all of this...
The Femi-Nazi's led the way.
Could not disagree more. The original women's liberation movement was very necessary and was effective.
What it morphed into later is another matter.
The feminist movement has outlived its purpose by far. I find it to be a complete joke when women in the Western world are still complaining about their lot in life. As women, we live in a time and in countries that allow us to achieve anything we want. Try being a woman in Afghanistan in the 21st century or in another shithole, medieval country like that.
TPG, i love a womens movement, especially walking behind her.
I think Americs’s original women’s movement (1848) had something to do with alcohol and voting, but I could be mistaken, then morphed into something else entirely.
In the early 1990’s, after Rush Limbaugh’s Show went national, he coined the term FemiNazi to describe what that movement turned into.
It's really not fair to be a man. Everyone else gets to complain about how tough they have it and how everyone is against them, bla, bla, bla. But nobody wants to hear our complaints about anything. We are supposed to just sit still, be quiet, and continue paying for everyone and allowing them to be morons without removing themselves from the gene pool. Ah, the humanity of it all. It's not fair..........
Oh hell, Sam, fairness has nothing to do with anything. That’s why there aren’t any real men in politics, we’re too busy working and rearing productive, responsible children and now enjoying our grandchildren and the fruits of our labor.
Well, Grumpy, it was indeed women (e.g., Susan Anthony) that led the fight for women to get the vote, which was somewhat contemporaneous with the Temperance movement.
But that didn't have really anything to do with the women's rights movement that arose in the 1960-70's. It was extremely sick that women's career options were limited to teacher, nurse, secretary, and that the entire "power structure" was that the men were in charge and the women were subservient serfs.
So the original women's movement of the 60-70's was essential, and it did succeed.
Rush Limbaugh indeed coined the term Femi-Nazi's, and his voice dripped with resentment and anger every time Rush spoke about women. This was why I never could stand listening to Rush. It was a big blind spot for him. Essentially, he never got over his own personal resentment in his personal experience with women, and projected that as a stereotype onto ALL women.
Like all bigoted prejudices, it was an unjust condemnation of an entire class of people--all women--that Rush bashed. And it is mentally lazy for men today to blame the Leftist politics in America on women. In order to do that, you have to blind yourself to the vast numbers of white men who are eagerly and gladly participating on the Left-- and they are FUNDING the Left, and they are it's spokesmen in Congress, and are a backbone of the administrative side of the Democratic Party. They also compose the backbone of the LEGAL attack on America.
Grumpy-- if you are honest, you would have to call for MEN to lose their power to vote, because a large chunk of white men are the backbone of the Left.
I do honestly think it is mentally lazy to just gripe at "women" for the political problems in the US and completely ignore the WHITE MEN that are integral to the Left's success.
You and others who "blanket bash" women strike a real nerve in me. A huge chunk of women--including all of those who comment here--are devoted to the freedom of America and are pouring our hearts, minds, and finances into the MAGA movement. I do, though, respect and share your views on most other things, and do love your frankness, so we're still friends!!!
Lighten up, Francis. Women are, after all, "nurturers", but the old Playboy Bunny, Gloria Steinem, disagrees.
The NAG Movement served a purpose 150+ years ago, but not so much anymore. Now, it seems to be infiltrated by a bunch of fat, dawg-a$$ ugly, screaming, rainbow-haired harpies with nothing much to say. Paraphrasing Bertrand Russell, "...men and women are born ignorant, not stupid; both are made stupid by indoctrination masquerading as education...".
Because you never listened to Rush Limbaugh, nor read his books and syndicated columns or, even his children's books, you have no idea what you're writing about. He always pointed out democRAT hypocrisy and leftist-Marxist absurdity by being absurd.
Do a little research about a subject before proving this biblical proverb true: "...even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is considered wise...".
I prefer Mark Twain's, or was it Abe Lincoln's, aphorism: "...better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak (in your case, TPG, write) and remove all doubt...". There are other iterations I like, too, but these'll suffice.
I've read many of your comments, TPG, and your smarter than this. Just keep it civil.
the Grumpy Old Man
Well, I think we all here do agree that the "women's movement" today is a mess and damaging to America, so we're in sync on that.
And, I'll admit I don't have ALOT of info on Rush to opine-- but I did repeatedly try to listen to him off and on over many years. AND, there was one fellow in particular that I knew who listened religiously to Rush, and this guy was a true bitter sexist and hardcore in his resentment of women, so by extension that did not give me a good impression of Rush.
I know many here really admired Rush. And they are probably right. But all humans have their weak spot, and in my view, Rush did have a weak spot when he came to respecting women in general. All of our leaders have aspects of them that are not up to their overall level of virtue. But that doesn't obliterate their value--it just means we're all human. I haven't yet met a perfect paragon of virtue and wisdom. Thankfully, many wonderful people make wonderful contributions to our world, and I will acknowledge that Rush was one of these.
But this sloppy tendency to blame "WOMEN" for the problems in America is emotion speaking, not reason. I've raised this point before about all the white men who are an integral part of the Left and driving alot of the damage to America, and no one has ever admitted that there's alot of MEN who are doing damage too.
Have a good evening! Tomorrow's a new day, and I always enjoy reading your comments. We shall all just Carry On. :) TPG
Whew! Tell it like it is TPG.
I totally agree.
I think your most perceptive comment is “like all bigoted prejudices, it was an unjust condemnation of an entire class of people.”
People must be condemned for what they do and not what they are.
Women make wonderful teachers. So do men. I spent my entire professional life as a teacher. A very successful teacher both academically and pastorally. I worked in both public and private schools, coeducational and single sex, primary and secondary, rural and urban over more than forty years. I worked for both male and female principals, and as a head of department worked with both men and women.
Some of the best and worst were men, and not surprisingly some of the best and worst were women.
My closest friends and colleagues were the same: both men and women.
I can say with confidence that I could do and say things as a man that women couldn’t, and the women I worked for and with could and did say and do what I couldn’t.
Good teams of men and women work like good marriages. They complement and complete each other and are always more effective.
No, I did not think that over sixty years ago.
My conclusions are a consequence of lived experience.
Bless xx
"Good teams of men and women work like good marriages. They complement and complete each other and are always more effective." Amen. The thorn in the side of feminism is it tried (still tries?) to replace the feminine, by competing with, usurping, disparaging the masculine. Think of magnetic forces. When the poles are in sync, they attract and thereby create power. When in opposition, the potential force is in abeyance. You need both for success.
I liked listening to Limbaugh, because he was a true master of his craft. Very, very creative, and a star for a worthwhile cause because Conservatism has gone to sleep. And FUNNY ... So I regret that you avoided him.
Let me quote you: "... it is mentally lazy for men today to blame the Leftist politics in America on women. In order to do that, you have to blind yourself to the vast numbers of white men who are eagerly and gladly participating on the Left ..."
Have you watched any of the footage of the anti-ICE rioters -- excuse me, protesters -- ranting and raving and screeching foul language: There may be exceptions that I have not seen, but the great majority ARE women. Although I admit, it can be hard to tell, given the confusion sown by militant trannies, green hair, nose rings suitable for pigs, out-of-control tattooing and gross fatness ...
Well….that was the problem….the morphing….the original concept was necessary….I was an adult at the time and in the workforce…I knew what was going on…but it was taken over by radicals who are just as mentally unbalanced today as they were then….neither sex knew how to handle women going into non-traditional jobs, which was the core reason for it….what the end result was dominatrixes in the business and political worlds and the neutering and subjugation of men….
It matters not how necessary the beginning was. What matters is what the ending was…The same is true of gays coming out of the closet and integration…The beginnings were right but the radicals destroyed the societal changes.
But dancingtime, if only "the ending" matters, would you say that is true of America itself? That despite the amazing excellence of the Founding Fathers, since we now find ourselves in a difficult situation, that therefore everything that preceded today was in error?
The women's movement of the 60's-70's achieved some valuable things. What came after that went "under the guise" of a "women's movement", but it was a wolf in sheep's clothing--just another vehicle the Left used to contaminate everything.
The only valuable thing which came out of the 60/70s femlib movement, imho, was the opening of doors to non-traditional female vocations...all part of the meritocracy concept...."ending" was not perhaps an accurate word choice....we are never at "an end"....everything evolves and we will see the evolution of the male/female relationships continue with, hopefully, the balance between the typical strengths and weaknesses.....and the acceptance of those who do not naturally fall within those traditional categories.
This is not a forum for writing a tome on the subject. If you are a literalist, please do not further respond. I am a generalist and speak in broad strokes. The femlib movement, like all movements, had noble beginnings but was hijacked by radicals. We opened doors, got gays out of the closet and accepted, and opened opportunity to blacks....then the radicals came....
Done on the subject. I am in my 8th decade...lived it all....
... with the end product of all that being tranny generals who announce their idiotic pronouns.
I want to know when he had the surgery....no surgery...just a simple cross-dresser...
In the 19th century, visiting Europeans wrote that American women didn't need the vote; they were self-assertive enough.
I tend to agree. Not sure all its original intent was clear but it lost its way quickly. It appeared to be based on far too broad and generalized agenda.
Like...a lot!! Really true. As Don notes, puberty is hard - harder on some that ohrrs... It is not only physical but the pressurrs to adopt socialogical norms and to decide where to stand amid a swirl of confusion for a young person.
So, on top of all that some want to further this complex maelstrom by telling kids...pssst, you can control this and be what you want be.... and that snarky message comes BEFORE that kid is anything still evolving thru puberty. All thst makes it extra evil.
Puberty is hard, but being stupid is much harder and impossible to cure.
Did you get that from John Kennedy (R, LA)? He’s full of interesting & humorous quips.
None of the proponents of any of these ridiculous things actually believe a single word of what they say. Everything is about political power and destroying the glue holding America's culture and society together. Nothing progressives or Democrats say is ever actually about what they are saying. They are all fraudulent deceitful lowlifes.
I disagree. I think you are correct about the politicians but many on the Left sadly really believe it. They are the magical thinkers.
My doctor says every one of his peers who do not treat this as mental illness should be disbarred from practicing medicine.
Yes, that THINK SYSTEM worked so well for Professor Harold Hill in the Music Man and look how many people bought into that! We would like to believe it is just movie fiction but look around us, so many people are just that gullible.
The families of victims should sue the doctors/hospitals creating these young monsters.
The victim’s families should absolutely sue the doctors/hospitals/parents into bankruptcy! Burn their institutions to the ground and leave them all penniless.
Amen to this Lee !
Don’t forget the politicians and media chattering-a$$e$ promoting this nonsense.
And they should sue their parents.
This being Canada, their courts may throw out the suits, in order to maintain the tranny lie.
I wonder how this is playing out in doctrinaire lefty circles, like maybe on Bluesky: yet another tranny mass shooter. It's such a bad look for trannies.
And trannies look bad enough as it is, especially the obese males wearing a dress and sporting a five o'clock shadow. Lefties are appalled and disgusted by these men (just as you and I are) in their private thoughts, but they would never ever admit that because they would be kicked out of the Good White People™ club.
Lefties tell each other that trannies murder children indiscriminately out of frustration with the world not accepting them for their "true" identity. But this is now getting to be one of those 80-20 issues, or even 90-10, where the vast majority of people, even many Good White People™ with NPR memberships, recognize that trannies hopped up on hormones are malevolently insane.
and the "male" trannies don't belong anywhere near women's prisons - yet another one of the absurdities we seem to have these days
Or our children. It's just sick they let them in schools and parents take them to Tranny performances.
IKR?!
Anyone who thinks that hormone therapy is safe has never dealt with a raging woman with PMS.
Agree. That is why I go the natural route by joining the “We Do Not Care Club”
https://youtu.be/LXnkZkLXqHE?si=Sdkqm__1cYgwVAjp
Love those videos Sheila!
PMS is the training ground for menopause without the hot flashes.
So glad those days are over!
Its why whores moan after all...
No man can make a hormone, it takes something a Lot bigger.
The Daughters* of the American Revolution have bought the S atanic lie, hook, line, and sinker. They are very proud to accept amended birth certificates from men but even prouder of the complete control system they devised beforehand to stifle members’ speech and discussion about the issue. The womyn in charge of the D*AR would rather run the entire Society into the ground than admit to anyone that these men have real and consequential mental issues and that, maybe/possibly, their tragically hip decision to impress the Democrat Party was a colossal blunder.
I don't think it is very likely to have any kind of intelligent conversation with anyone who believes that anyone can change their sex just by declaring it to be so. They're not likely to be wrapped too tightly to begin with.
FBI statistics have shown for decades that around 50% of all convicted murderers are tranvestities/transgenders. These are very sick people (almost all males who need help, not injections of God-knows-what.
injections of rat poison and/or massive doses of fentanyl would end this nonsense.
Was not Hoover one of those???
Any doctor who plays along with these people's insanity should receive the death penalty. Parents go to prison. Psychiatrists know these people are catastrophically ill, but they aren't allowed to say so anymore. The democrat politicians who champion this madness should be tossed into a volcano.
I think a few more multimillion dollar verdicts by “detransitioned” victims may finally bring the house down on the criminals in the kid butchering medical industrial complex. Though I won’t be satisfied until every teachers union goon and sick parent pays a very high price.
Last sentence Vince .
The quote regarding giving hormones for the sex that the person is instead of the hormones for the opposite sex.....I have been saying that for some time...we know that many foods and chemicals lower the testosterone level....why are they trying to make girls out of boys instead of increasing their maleness? I am putting aside the mothers who actually wanted a girl (they are fun to dress and buy for) but gave birth to a boy and who push their boys into this. Does no one know that puberty is a difficult stage of life (well, to be honest, all stages of life are difficult but the ones after puberty are less hormonally driven). Parents are not friends. They are parents.
And if parents do their jobs well, they get to be friends with their adult children. I'm 68 and every day find something to say "Thanks mom and dad. You were right."
Nine people are dead. That is the headline. When a mass killer spirals through mental instability, heavy drug use, and years of medicalized identity intervention, the system does not get to shrug and say “nothing to see here.” We are watching institutions prioritize ideology over early intervention, politics over prevention, and narrative management over truth. Schools fail. Mental health systems fail. Law enforcement messaging fails. And afterward, everyone argues about language instead of causes. If we cannot ask hard questions about psychiatric drugs, youth medicalization, and radical online subcultures, we are not serious about stopping the next tragedy. This is not compassion. It is cowardice dressed as virtue.
Here! Here! Well said!
Well put R.L. !
I’m hoping we have peaked at the “acceptability” of transvestitism and it’s waning in popularity.
I’m also hoping the modern day Dr. Mengele’s pushing these drugs are held to account. What is the difference between a street level drug dealer and a doctor prescribing these drugs?
Profit margins.
Not hardly. The real difference is that doctors should not deliberately harm their patients. Street level drug dealers don't care; they didn't ever care.
I give... whats the answer??
As for today’s article, it is well worth remembering that that boy killer was once just a 12 year old, mixed up and confused kid, when he fell into the grips of some of the most malevolent, diabolical and evil adults who proceeded to poison and torture his mind and body, driving him insane, who then went on to not only take his own life but as many others as he could in the process.
There is no hell horrid enough for these people to end up in.
Stop acting as though Our Heavenly Father "made a mistake". He didn't. Satan gets ahold of people. They spread the lies. People die needlessly. It is a "good white people's" lie and one that should dissappear from our lives.
Instead of or rather than spend the effort, money and time on gun controls and mindless ineffective laws, take those funds and start aggressive mental health programs and countermeasures.
Surely those that died as a result would approve.
Lots of mental health problems going around nowadays. I wonder if we've always been this way or it's something in our food/water. Why doesn't the brain work correctly in some people?? The one thing we have to do for sure is quit the indoctrination of kids that this diaspora is normal.
It's something going around in our media, in our schools, in the democrat party. The indoctrination is intentional and is criminal.
Right...but the question is...why? Who gains? Its a wierd agenda. Its it foreign- sourced...Russia or China??
Rockefellers, Rothschild's, WEF, the people behind Epstein, the Green Movement, the climate hoax. It's all related. My friend is writing about it in story form. She unloads a lot of truth in a fiction novel.
https://thedarksideofhungermountain.substack.com/
I'm no doctor, but I would suspend all childhood vaccines until they are PROVEN safe.
It ess the sprouting from about 4 to 86 that shpul raise eybrows...and it happened only after legislation protected vaccine-makers from being sued for 'side effects' that says a lot about it in and of itself...
That legislation, The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, was signed into law by President Reagan in 1986. The rationale was that vaccine makers would not produce new vaccines if they were liable for the damages vaccines caused. Big mistake.
I think there has been "crossdressers" and same sex attracted people around forever but what changed was the "medical " community getting involved in once again playing God - just as they think they can keep a person alive for way longer than they often times should
The medical community is responsible and liable for scrambling to the almighty dollar. Not following the money but chasing the money.
It's appalling, disturbing and disgusting.
Get the government out of health care. Get the insurance companies out of health care. Who decides how long anyone SHOULD stay alive? Last I read it is G-d who rules as sovereign.
The government AND the insurance companies are in cahoots and the operation is organized crime. Every single one of them are chasing the $$$.
It's in the food...keep in mind that Canada is the only other country which has embraced GMO...and no, that does not include grafting...we are going to find that Monsanto and Dow are responsible for what is going on....it's in the food...and the meds....no one reads side effects and no side effects are bad enough, in the eyes of the medical profession, to take someone off of the meds...
Better living thru chemicals...
Over 50% of people have a mental disorder. The vast majority are democrats.
Mis-edubrainwashing by design Jake pure and simple.
Read Unshrunk. The doctors are not treating the mentally ill. They push the drugs of big farma that are not completely and rigorously tested. It's all a deceptive charade.
I firmly believe that the tranny craze is just another mental epidemic, taking advantage of a a fashionable mass-delusion. One such were the witch-hunts of the 15th and 16th centuries, but a more recent one was the "satanic ritual" child abuse in day care centers, which had elements in common with the first one named. Much of the blame for that one should land on the "caring community" -- that army of counselors and psycho-psychologists and social workers who indoctrinated innocent little kids with claptrap.
Today’s survey omitted one very important option. Reopen mental hospitals (i.e. insane asylums). Although I doubt even that would solve the problem when I see daily reports of judges releasing murderers, rapists and all manner of violent criminals onto our streets. It seems unlikely those same judges would confine the mentally ill.
Common sense gun control would work, require all teachers to under go firearms training and to be armed or have an accessible firearm close by under a biometric lock that the teacher can access.
Next train them to react like the Israeli military who close with and neutralize the threat.
When teachers start shooting back, thrill killers will find other targets.
I love your idea about February 10th being a Day of Remembrance for Victims of Transgender Violence. Of course the liberals who run Canada and much of the USA would never allow it.
It’s ok to risk our kids’ lives but don’t you ever offend the deluded lost trannies of the world.
Hmmm…Joey Mannarino is on to something! But if you give a confused boy more testosterone, he might turn into a football player instead of a lifetime ward of the AMA, (or Canada’s version of specialists)with continual drugs and aftercare for the botched butchery the sick surgeons put him through to get him to the impossible pronoun of “her.” The only thing that stopped this madness in Europe was lawsuits. I think we’re catching on, and this tranny madness will soon disappear, along with its pink and baby-blue ribbons, into the deep hellhole of bad lefty ideas. Now let’s take on the PC idiots in BC who cover up the truth.