Wednesday Potpourri

First, it was only a matter of time before the Biden administration would turn against Israel. After all, its policy is costing its votes in Michigan and we cannot have that.

Anyway, whereas Donald Trump was a great friend of the Jewish state, Joe Biden, not so much.

From the Washington Post:

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a reversal of the Trump administration’s position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Friday, saying they are “inconsistent with international law.”

Second, you might not have noticed, but Jewish voters in New York have noticed that the Democratic Party is infested with anti-Semitism. The result, most New York Jews prefer Donald Trump to Joe Biden.

The New York Post has the story:

A staggering 53% of Jewish voters in New York state plan on voting for former President Donald Trump in the November election, a new Siena College poll found. 

Just 44% of the Chosen People in the deep-blue state will back President Joe Biden in the race, according to the survey, which polled 65 Jews out of 806 total voters.

The spike in New York Jewish voters backing Trump has come in the wake of the murderous Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, with antisemitic hate crimes and anti-Israel protests surging in New York City. 

Third, on the transmania front, Meg Brock takes the measure of grooming in American elementary schools. She offers a succinct summary of how teachers manipulate children, the better to turn them non-binary and transgendered.

She wrote on Twitter:

Kids believe what you tell them. If you tell an 8-year-old there is something wrong with, they will believe you. If you tell a girl she’s a boy over and over again, she’ll listen. If you find trusted adults to echo that message throughout her impressionable preteen years and give her a ‘solution’ to ‘fix’ herself, she’ll follow every word. In her teen years, if you surround her with messages from media, friends, and school, all telling her the same thing: the only way to be accepted and loved is to change who you are by harming your body, she’ll cut her boobs off to find acceptance. By the time she’s 18, she will have spent 10 years being conditioned to accept that only the medicalization of her body can fix her broken self. She will be so entrenched in this lie, she’ll be excited to *finally* have the opportunity to mutilate her genitals, never be a mother, lose sexual function, and become a lifelong medical patient. That’s not helping a child. That’s not informed consent. That’s not ‘medically necessary’ healthcare. That’s mutilating a child’s body. That’s taking away a child’s future. That’s an epic tragedy. Good societies do not allow this to happen to their children. It must be stopped.

Fourth, the most recent science on puberty blockers tells us what we suspected all along. They are bad news. As for what is dishonestly called gender affirming care, it causes serious mental health problems.

From the Twitter account, called Two Genders One Truth:

Increased suicidality & major depression in children follows increases in “gender affirming care.” According to trans activists, we should see declines in suicidality with more children on blockers & hormones than ever before. The exact opposite is occurring. A sharp increase of depression begins in 2017 when: - The number of youth gender clinics in the US increased from 41 to over 100 between 2017 and 2022. [1] [2] - The % of children who identified as trans increased from .07 to 1.4% from 2017-2021 [3] - 121,882 U.S. children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria between 2017-2021. 42,000 were diagnosed in 2021, up 70% from 2020. [4] - Double mastectomies on minor girls increased 13 fold in a 7 year period, with the majority occurring between 2018-2020. [5] Telling children they were born in the wrong body, stopping their natural puberty, doping them with hormones, and mutilating their body is creating the problem “gender affirming care” pretends to solve.

Fifth, in her new book on Bad Therapy Abigail Shrier explains how schools have become grooming factories. This excerpt comes to us from Bari Weiss’s Free Press:

Over the past two years, I have been so inundated with parents’ stories of school counselors encouraging a child to try on a variant gender identity, even changing the child’s name without telling the parents, that I’ve almost wondered if there are any good school counselors. One parent I interviewed told me that her son’s high school counselor had given him the address of a local LGBTQ youth shelter where he might seek asylum and attempt to legally liberate himself from loving parents.

Sixth, once upon a time, and it was not very long ago, our vaunted military decided it was going to stop the Yemeni Houthi terrorists from disrupting shipping in the Red Sea. We are tough and strong and intense virile. Obviously, we can easily dispatch the Houthis.

Apparently, not so fast. The New York Post reports that the Houthis are making us look like fools:

Houthi rebels in Yemen have knocked out a series of underwater cables over the past few months — causing major communication disruptions between Europe and Asia, a report said.

The Iranian-backed militia — who launched a missile attack on a British-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden last week — damaged four submarine communication cables in the Red Sea between Saudi Arabia and Djibouti in East Africa, according to Israeli outlet Globes.

Yemen’s government warned this month that the Houthis were seeking to sabotage crucial infrastructure, including the internet cables in the Red Sea.

One understands that the Biden administration tends to avoid anything that might discomfort the ayatollahs in Iran.

We are paying a price.

Seventh, according to an academic psychologist named Clive Boddy, women can be just as psychopathic as men. Apparently, Villanelle is not an anomaly. I am sure that the thought will brighten your day.

The Daily Mail reports:

According to Dr Boddy, female psychopaths use deceit and sexually seductive behaviour to gain social and financial advantage more than male psychopaths do. 

'Psychopaths are driven by a need to have power over and control other people via whatever resources they have available to them,' he told MailOnline.

'For male psychopaths this may veer towards physical domination through violence, bullying and threats.

 

'For female psychopaths this may veer towards manipulation through seduction, relational aggression, and spreading rumours and lies about people aimed at gaining personal advantage and preferment over those people.' 

Eighth, Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears was presiding over a meeting of the Virginia House of Delegates. A delegate, named Danica Roem asked her a question. Sears responded.

So far so good. And yet, Roem is transgendered-- he thinks he is a girl-- and Sears misgendered him. She called Roem: Sir! In truth, Roem is the first transgender member of the House of Delegates, elected in 2017.

So, Roem took grievous offense by being called “Sir” and quickly walked out of the chamber.

If only he had stayed out of the chamber.

Ninth, remember the National Health Service in Great Britain. It has been touted as the royal road to socialized medicine.

Yet, problems arise when you get sick. You get a place on a waiting list, not proper care:

People in the UK have been treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy less often than patients in comparable countries, and faced long waits for treatments, according to two new studies published in The Lancet Oncology.

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