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ARE WE TOO DUMB TO SURVIVE?
Powerline ^ | 29 Sep 2024 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 09/29/2024 5:38:23 PM PDT by Rummyfan

A society can reach a point where it is literally too stupid to survive. Are we getting close to that fatal juncture? Here is one of many thousands of data points: a judge in Indiana has ordered that state to pay for sex-change surgery on a convicted murderer.

Not just any murderer, but Jonathan Richardson, who is serving a 55-year sentence for strangling his own stepdaughter. He now goes by Autumn Cordellionè. The accent is a nice touch.

The inmate has sought sex reassignment surgery, including an orchiectomy and vaginoplasty, arguing it is the “only remedy” to treat “persistent gender dysphoria”.

The state of Indiana prohibits its prison service from funding gender reassignment surgeries for its inmates.

But the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Indiana Department of Corrections on Cordellionè’s behalf, arguing the state law violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment”.

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A federal judge in Indiana has now agreed that denying the surgery would be unconstitutional.

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 01yesweare; culture; johnhinderaker; powerline; society; stupid

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...In any prior historical era, at any time and place, a man who strangled his own stepdaughter would have been executed. In today’s America, he is humored, given a name change, treated with hormones and other drugs, supplied with “panties, make-up, and form-fitting clothing,” and may be given a free sex change operation.

We can only hope that the taxpayers haven’t been forced to pay for Richardson’s tattoos:


1 posted on 09/29/2024 5:38:23 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Yes.

Next question?


2 posted on 09/29/2024 5:41:14 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan

The Answer is to Assess the Incomes, Tips, Wages and ASSETS of All Officers of the Court to pay for ALL Judicial Decisions that have a cost to the Taxpayers without Going through The proper Legislative body of Government beforehand.


3 posted on 09/29/2024 5:43:30 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Rummyfan
(The inmate has sought sex reassignment surgery)

There is a determined effort to normalize this all over the world 🌏🌎🌍.
I am encouraging people not to attend nor support this stuff. 

Just like those blindly following a false prophet
preaching a 'post-Christian' America




The apostasy and the Days of Lot are upon us.

As prophesied by Jesus Christ Himself.


Do NO harm, Christians, but reject this Godless Reprobate Agenda.
(For the thread)




4 posted on 09/29/2024 5:43:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan

We could have asked that question in the late 90s and early 2000s, when the free traitors sent our jobs, manufacturing, technology, money, and tax base to China, and many even at this forum supported it for the promise of cheaper toys.


5 posted on 09/29/2024 5:47:08 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: eyeamok

The Answer is to Assess the Incomes, Tips, Wages and ASSETS of All Officers of the Court...”

Exactly right!

I’d say there’s hope yet for America.

“Yes, we can.”


6 posted on 09/29/2024 5:47:21 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Kamala: "understand that some people need more, so we all end up in the same place, right?”)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Most of the Chinese-made stuff is no longer cheap.


7 posted on 09/29/2024 5:48:32 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Kamala: "understand that some people need more, so we all end up in the same place, right?”)
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To: Brian Griffin

Very true. Talk about adding insult to injury.


8 posted on 09/29/2024 5:50:38 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: SaveFerris
A society can reach a point where it is literally too stupid

"Yes."

"Next question?"

You nailed it. Without a moral core we will not survive.

9 posted on 09/29/2024 5:57:06 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Rummyfan

The dirty secret is that surgery, as a treatment for gender dysphoria,
actually IS cruel and unusual punishment, and you can read about the
sad, sordid tales of a growing number of regret filled willing victims.


10 posted on 09/29/2024 5:59:33 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-A)
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To: Rummyfan

Yes


11 posted on 09/29/2024 6:03:49 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: SaveFerris

Yes, this country is overflowing with stupid people.


12 posted on 09/29/2024 6:15:12 PM PDT by abbastanza (Oh boy. Can’t wait. Go nuts kids)
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To: Rummyfan

Mostly yes. Unfortunately they are taking a lot of good people down with them.


13 posted on 09/29/2024 6:25:59 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: abbastanza

Yes, this country is overflowing with stupid people.


Yes, the Western world overflowing with stupid people./Fixed


14 posted on 09/29/2024 6:28:13 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Rummyfan

Democrats are.


15 posted on 09/29/2024 6:32:50 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: EasySt
"....sad, sordid tales of a growing number of regret filled willing victims....."


16 posted on 09/29/2024 6:39:04 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Rummyfan

This is not dumb

It is evil.

We might be too evil to survive. However. God restrains the worst in us. Satan may run to the end of his leash but leashed he remains.


17 posted on 09/29/2024 6:45:05 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: SaveFerris

Or is it too smart to survive?


18 posted on 09/29/2024 6:51:57 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Rummyfan

The governor of Indiana needs to send a letter to the federal judge proclaiming the state of Indiana will not enforce the judges order. Rationale:

1). The enumerated powers for the federal government under the constitution do to include requiring a state to provide any kind medical treatment for citizens of a state nor do they grant the federal government power over the states in administration of the prison system.

2). The 10th Amendment clearly states the federal government has only the enumerated powers in the Constitution.

3). The power of the federal courts to review state court decisions is not an enumerated power of the federal judiciary in the Constitution. That power has been incorrectly assumed by the federal judiciary through years of interpretations of what justices believe should be the law, not the words of the Constitution.

4). Requiring the state to pay for an elective medical procedure on a convicted criminal who is in a state prison is an unconstitutional tax on the citizens of the state. The Constitution does not give the federal judiciary the power to tax.

The federal court has overstepped its bounds under the Constitution. The state is adhering to the Constitution and state law.

It is long past time for the states to refuse to respond to the whims and arbitrary decrees of unelected federal judges who are not following the Constitution and the law.


19 posted on 09/29/2024 6:53:50 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: Rummyfan

Gosh, we did the surgery, but he never came out of anesthesia...


20 posted on 09/29/2024 7:02:02 PM PDT by null and void (Kamala sucks!)
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