Saturday Miscellany

First, is anyone more pathetic and useless than Hillary Clinton? Having spent years denying the results of the 2016 election this incompetent fraud keeps herself in the public eye by saying stupid and outrageous things.

The fault lies in the craven media and the even more craven Democrat party that refuses to call out her stupidity and her totalitarian yearnings.

This woman has never accomplished anything and expected to be rewarded for covering up her husband’s sexual predations. Better yet, as Bill Clinton was accused of sexual harassment and rape, the silence of the feminists-- based on an abiding affection for Hillary-- was deafening.

Now, Hillary has stepped out of the shadow to declare that Trump supporters are cult followers who need to be committed, against their will to a deprogramming camp. It used to be called brainwashing or thought reform.  

Yes, indeed, brainwashing will soon be back in vogue, largely because the American intelligentsia will shrug and let it go. Don’t you think that Hillary has simply ensorcelled people, because she is a witch?

Second, on the good news front, the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, stood tall and proud for common sense and reality. In a party speech the other day, he said this:

It shouldn’t be controversial for parents to know what their children are being taught in school about relationships…. We shouldn’t be bullied into thinking that people can be any sex they want to be. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. It’s just common sense.

As you know, Sunak and his Tory party have been doing rather poorly in the polls recently. We will see whether this newfound backbone helps him electorally. Evidently, the assembled Tory politicians loved it.

Third, Sunak’s fellow Tories added this:

Tory MP Kemi Badenoch: “I will not apologize for fighting for a society that knows what a woman is.” 

And then Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced a lifetime ban on sex offenders changing their name and gender to evade the sex offender registry. 

Fourth, speaking of transmania, a study from Denmark showed that trans women who were born male but are trying to correct their gender by taking female hormones are 95% more likely to suffer heart attacks and strokes

A study published in the European Journal of Endocrinology showed that all trans people were at a “significantly higher risk” of a host of serious and potentially deadly medical conditions, including heart attacks and strokes.

The authors used health data from 2,671 trans people in their early to mid-20s living in Denmark.

As for trans men-- females who are taking male hormones in order to become ersatz men--, they were 63 per cent more likely to have heart disease than women, and more than double as likely than men.

One recalls that health counselors have been telling the parents of confused children that if they are not allowed to transition they will commit suicide. And yes, it is completely appalling.

Now we know, if children transition, they will develop serious medical conditions. By the by, they are also far more likely to commit suicide.

Fifth, as you, an Antifa social justice warrior was stabbed to death on the streets of Brooklyn the other day. This replicated the murder in Philadelphia of another do-gooder. Recall that the Philadelphia man had pronounced the city perfectly safe. In fact, he had tried to befriend the man accused of murdering him.

The same story played itself out in Sweden. You know that Sweden, for having allowed itself to be overrun by Muslim migrants is now suffering an extreme crime problem-- led by Muslim drug gangs.

Mikael Ekvall, a well-known politician in Jönköping, Sweden, recently fell victim to a brutal robbery and assault carried out by a gang of Afghan Muslims. Ekvall, who is known for his liberal views on immigration and identifies as ‘anti-racist,’ has expressed concern about the future safety of his children following this incident.

Ekvall’s liberal stance on immigration has been a defining feature of his political career. However, the recent incident has shaken him, prompting him to question the current state of society and safety in Sweden. He was reportedly targeted by an Afghani Muslim gang, who brutally assaulted and robbed him….

What is the old line about being mugged by reality?

Sixth, in Chicago the people who voted for the government officials who opened the city to illegal migrants, do not like what is happening. 

Colin Rugg is not having it:

Chicago residents melt down over the surge in migrants in their communities, say they "won't have it." They voted for this so continue to give it to them. They will vote for this again in 2024. 

No remorse. Chicago (Cook County), who overwhelmingly voted for Joe Biden at a rate of 74%, is learning in real time what it means to be a Sanctuary City. 

Seventh, meanwhile, in that great Democratic city, Washington, D. C. they are having a crime wave. It could not have happened to a more worthy city:

Car-jackings are up 106%. Robberies are up 69%. Homicide is up 38%. Theft is up 23%.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

In Washington Highlands, a chronically violent neighborhood in the nation’s capital, a dozen or so children who often meet up at a community center recently discussed what to do when gunfire erupts. Such lessons carry added urgency, facilitators say, amid a jump in shootings. One left an 18-year-old dead near the center in September. 

In gentrified Shaw, where trendy restaurants dot blocks with condos listed for more than $1 million, unusually high levels of gun violence have longtime residents feeling under siege. As some businesses struggle or think of leaving, a prominent developer warns massive investment is “going down the tubes.”

Eighth, the migrant problem is so bad that the Biden administration has noticed it. In fact, so many people have noticed it that it is starting to eat into the Democrat electoral advantage, so the administration feels obliged to pretend to be doing something about it.

They are building a wall. In fact, they are circumventing all manner of government regulations to build a wall right away.

One is especially amused by the fact that as Biden builds a wall he refuses to accept that he is building a wall. Didn’t he say that he would never allow one more foot of the Trumpian wall to be built?

So, poor Joe Biden has been reduced to claiming that he could not do anything but build the wall, because it was the law.

Ninth, speaking of political polls, Marquette University has discovered that the public thinks that Trump will do a better job than Biden at dealing with the relevant issues. 

And yet, when it comes to casting a vote, Biden leads Trump. Count it among the mysteries of the American mind.

Tenth, from the free therapy front. Lyman Stone reports, in regard to dialectical behavioral therapy:

Giving free therapy to a bunch of teens who don't have mood disorders caused a bunch of them to develop mood disorders, and caused their relationships with their parents to get durably worse.

Figure that one out, if you dare.

Eleventh, the question of the hour is this: Does God make mistakes?

 

In 2019 a teacher in Florida told a high school student that he would not use their preferred pronouns, because “God makes no mistakes.”

Naturally, the school fired the teacher. Now, the New York Post reports that the teacher has been reinstated, because the judge in the case refused to be intimidated by the new religion:

A Florida law judge has ruled in favor of a Miami teacher who was fired for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns, calling transgenderism a “new secular faith” in his controversial ruling.

The teacher, Yojary Mundaray, told a student during a 2019 classroom exchange that she would not use their desired pronouns due to her Christian beliefs that “God makes no mistakes.”

The student — referred to as “Pat” in the decision — told administrators at Jose de Diego Middle School about Mundaray’s comments and the teacher was eventually terminated after an investigation.

But administrative law judge John Van Laningham called for a formal exoneration on Monday and argued that the educator was wrongly fired.

“Advocates of transgenderism can be as doctrinaire as religious zealots these days,” he wrote in his decision. “As this case demonstrates, adhering to the traditional view that gender is biologically determined can get a person excommunicated, from a job in this instance.”

Twelfth, a former ESPN host Sage Steele told Bill Maher that that interviewing President Biden was “the saddest thing” because he seemed confused and “couldn’t finish his sentences.”

“He struggled,” Steele said of the oldest president in US history who “trailed off” on topics even more than two years ago.

“The human aspect of what we’re witnessing right now, to me, is heartbreaking,” she said of the now-80-year-old president facing escalating pressure over his age and a series of gaffes as he runs to stay in office.

Steele told the comedian that she interviewed Biden in March 2021 for a pre-recorded segment ahead of the MLB’s Opening Day that year.

This was over two years ago.

Thirteenth, on the fat burning front, you may have heard of a drug called Ozempic. It helps people to manage diabetes, but it has been adopted as an appetite suppressant, thus a weight loss drug.

Rumor has it that so many people are using it that sales of produce amd chips have dropped precipitously at Walmart.

Anyway, the New York Post warns of some potential side-effects of the drug:

A-listers are burning off excess fat with Ozempic — but the drug is burning away this grandmother’s genitals. 

Hollywood hotshots such as multibillionaire Elon Musk, Sharon Osborne and countless “Real Housewives” stars have successfully slimmed down at cyclonic speeds after injecting themselves with the Type-2 diabetes medication, which has been widely hailed a “miracle” drug for its weight-shedding properties. 

However, a less notable Texas woman claims she suffered “severe burns” and “charred skin” on her vagina, anus and buttocks owing to the once-weekly jabs — fearing, at one point, that she would die from the excruciating pain.

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