Posted on 12/17/2024 5:20:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
A thing spins out of control, but look who’s riding it.
I’m repeating myself a bit to get started, but I’ve been stuck for days on House Democrat Betty McCollum, whose words have dug into me like a tick:
A seventy year-old woman, who is both a longtime state and federal politician and a former high school social studies teacher, has asserted with confidence, in congressional debate, that warriors can’t make it home safely from the battlefield if their children can’t get publicly funded drugs and surgery to live as trans teens. When Congress funds pediatric castration and colon vaginoplasty for young boys, they’re winning wars. It’s the support our troops need! They can’t even serve without it!
“I said I sure hope my little boy is getting his vagina sewed in right now, sergeant!”
And it’s at least the tenth time this week that I’ve thought the Democratic establishment has just disappeared into its hall of mirrors, living so entirely in a set of performances and projections that it can’t see anything but the signs of its own performance. They occupy physical space — I’m told you can pass them on the sidewalk in their apparent human forms, though I have not yet dared to attempt it — but they don’t live in it. They live in a world of stranded symbols. You can read similar observations this week from Martin Gurri:
The political obsessions of the elites—open immigration, energy “transition,” race- and sex-based “equity”—are at best irrelevant to the public’s concerns, at worst highly unpopular. These pet projects can only be imposed from above as moral imperatives—as electoral issues, they are losers…
But if the Democrats and their institutional allies are no longer able to vilify populism, and at the same time are deprived of the progressive agenda, what is left for them to do or say? The catastrophic failure of the Biden-Harris experiment has brought elite politics to the edge of a stark ideological wilderness, where the only justification for power is the will to attain it.
We seem to be transitioning to a moment when everyone discovers that the “mainstream” formation of media plus academia plus Democratic officials is entering “a stark ideological wilderness.” See also this discussion: “It takes little imagination to recognize how brittle the progressive monolith has become.”
Living in locked compartments, the “mainstream” can’t seem to notice how astonishingly far it’s rocketing outside the mainstream. This Luigi kid may really be on to something, explain…United States Senators. Chris Murphy recently taped a talking-into-your-phone video like a TikTok kid, explaining in response to the murder of a CEO that private health insurance is inherently tainted by the presence of profit — the existence of which proves the moral degradation of a system. Did the almost-human Chris Murphy performance object think through the implications of a moral rejection of markets and profit? I don’t mean that as a real question.
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You can come up with the most crazy concept and there are plenty of crazy people that will run with it. The crazier the better.
Heck I'm still trying to figure out “Klaatu barada nikto”.
I want the term “gender affirming care” stricken from use. That is as much upside down gobbledygook as I have ever heard. Child butchery is more apt.
Could you imagine seeing this phrase 30 years ago, and trying to figure out what it meant?
And what kind of nutter had puked it up?
Golden Rule:
Those with the gold make the rules.
The military is funded to defend the country, not to pander to Munchausen moms.
Dear Mrs McCollum (notice the "Mrs". That should make her go wild)
As a man who served his country honorable during the Vietnam era I can promise you that I never,for a single second,feared that any of my three sons would be chemically,or surgically,mutilated by a "doctor" who believed that he was a girl when,in fact,God had made him a boy. I repeat...never ONCE did that thought enter my mind.
I’d bet my last dollar that she doesn’t know a single person who served in the United States Armed Forces.
Congressional power to fund military family medical care is limited to that which is necessary and proper.
There has always been a small elitist cabal of self-proclaimed arbiters of “true conservatism.” The original leader was William F. Buckley Jr, followed into the larger marketplace by George Will. They inspired a crop of wannabe’s who thought they too could prosper by jumping on the conservative bandwagon.
The leftist media, sensing the need to control this potentially popular movement, adopted the strategy of fronting their version of “conservative” spokesmen. They gave us captive dancing bears such as William Safire, David Brooks, now David French, who would obediently dance and sing for their supper but present no threat of introducing critical thinking into the public discourse.
Their progeny, spoiled children like Bill Krystal and the like, being highlighted here, found their place being usurped by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Instead of joining, they took their marbles and went away, setting up their own little space, pretending to be the “true conservatives” but in some sort of exile, awaiting— who knows what. They will grow old and feeble in their autistic bell jars, invisible and inaudible to anyone but each other.
That'll blow her head up. :)
“a longtime state and federal politician and a former high school social studies teacher”
Never had a legitimate job, never had a business, never had an employee.
Nothing to be learned from this lifelong Teat sucker.
“Klaatu barada nikto” means “all elected Democrats are nincompoops.”
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