Saturday Miscellany

First, Scientific American is supposedly a serious publication. It cares about science, don’t you know. Now its editor is named Laura Helmuth, about whom you might ask how such a deranged individual could have been elevated to head such a publication.

Now, in the aftermath of the election, Helmuth said this:

I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is so full of fucking fascists.

Fair is fair. She quickly deleted her idiotic remarks. But, you still have to wonder about the mindset of the people who run Scientific American. And you need but await the reckoning that will show up in declining subscriptions.

Second, a few words from Nellie Bowles at TGIF, in the Free Press. The extent of the electoral wipeout is clear when you take a look at California, and especially about the overthrow of the progressive regime that had been governing that state, and that had produced rampant homelessness and crime.

Los Angeles’s very progressive district attorney George Gascón was ousted in favor of a moderate. San Francisco’s mayor London Breed lost her reelection bid, ousted by Daniel Lurie, a great guy and, yes, another moderate liberal. Kids, we’re doing extra helpings of granola for dessert tonight! 

And the biggest news: Crime is illegal again in California with a new tough-on-crime bill. For years, anything stolen worth less than $950 was considered a misdemeanor, which local DAs explicitly said they wouldn’t pursue, leading to a whole industry of folks clearing out our Rite Aids and reselling stuff on Amazon. Now, with Prop 36 passed, your third low-level theft can be considered a felony. I’m happy for California, but I’ll always treasure my stolen printer cartridge, which I bought on Amazon and keep as a prize. 

Third, women are not taking it lying down. America’s failure to elect a manifestly unqualified woman counts as an offense against all women. Thus a movement has arisen: women are going on a sex strike. It has been happening in South Korea and it is as old as Lysistrata.

The Telegraph reports:

“Men will always be against women,” read the caption in one TikTok video of a young woman crying in a car, encouraging women to join the 4B movement. “Women are just as capable to be presidents as a man.”

In another video, a woman says that “for the next four years I am going to abstain from sex with men”.

A separate video was captioned: “I think it’s time for American women to participate in our own 4B movement.”

Many of the videos addressed concerns over abortion, which was on the ballot in 10 states and was central to the Harris campaign.

“If men won’t respect our bodies, they don’t get access to our bodies,” one woman said. “All I have to say is, good luck getting laid. Especially in Florida, because me and my girlies are participating in the 4B movement.”

If you look carefully at this level of thinking you will thank your stars that we will not have it in the White House. Maybe the American people knew something that these young women did not.

Fourth, there is an old psychoanalytic theory called projective identification. It involves people who accuse others of doing what they themselves are doing, but refuse to acknowledge.

More than once these past days conservative critics have denounced the attacks on Donald Trump, on the ground that the people doing the attacking have been doing what they have accused Trump of doing.

Now, Heather Mac Donald explains it all in the City Journal. In response to those who believe that Republicans are waging culture war:

Here is how you wage a culture war: You ban teachers from telling parents that their child has “changed” his gender. You require everyone around that child to adhere to the child’s new counterfactual “pronouns.” You pass regulations making opposition to male athletes competing against female athletes in female sports a civil rights offense. You assign graphic novels depicting sex, in this case, gay sex, to school children. You make celebrations of sexual identity, in this case, “queer” and every other type of “non-heteronormative” sexual identity, a routine part of the school curriculum and calendar. You make race and sex, that is, non-white race and non-male sex, a qualification for scientific hiring and research grants. Opposing those radical changes is not waging a war; it is belatedly trying to play defense.)

Want some more? This in relation to the social disruptions the nation has been suffering:

Actually, what initiated a period of disruption beyond anything current generations have seen is enabling millions of Third World illegal aliens to enter the country, enforcing a mass delusion regarding the malleability of biological sex, ending meritocracy in favor of race and gender quotas, and setting up a collapse of the electrical grid through fantastical requirements regarding “green” energy.

Fifth, for those who are still running around shrieking that Trump is Hitler, we learn that Trump received 50% more votes from Jews this time.

He also received record numbers of black and Hispanic votes.

Sixth, Jon Stewart offered the voice of reason about the election-- contrary to the absurd declamations of more than a few Democratic governors.

The New York Post reports:

Jon Stewart admitted Friday that liberals are shocked that President-elect Donald Trump so easily won re-election fair and square, saying bluntly, “F—k us, f—k me — I was wrong.”

On his podcast “The Weekly Show,” the seasoned political comic said the most shocking thing about Trump’s spectacular comeback victory is that he achieved it through a legal democratic process.

“I feel like we were prepared for all scenarios and in each one of those scenarios it was, how is Donald Trump going to finagle his way back into the [White House]? How is he going to use undemocratic principles?” Stewart said in the episode, which aired Friday.

“What measure of intimidation and underhanded [shenanigans] will this man use to worm his way back into the Oval Office?” he asked of conspiracies soon proven wildly unfounded.

“And it turned out, he used our electoral system as it is designed. And in that moment, I thought, well, f—k. I’m not sure we have a team of lawyers for that,” he quipped with a glum inflection.

Seventh, a few words from Charlamagne tha god.

“Don’t y’all find it strange that now that he’s won, they’re not calling him a threat to democracy? They’re not calling him a fascist ... I would think that, if you really believe that, then somebody’s speech would be about how America effed up and how things are about to be really bad. It just makes you wonder how much of it did they really believe, or how much of it was just politics." 

Eighth, a few brilliant comments from a New York Times reader, in their letters section:

The very best thing that the Democrats can do for themselves is not ideological. It is to make the deep Blue cities and states where they have a  supermajority into American paradises. Los Angeles, New York, California, Baltimore, Chicago, etc. Show us that you can got her an effectively. Low crime, great schools, moderate taxes, excellent mass transit, etc.  Then the rest of the country will come to believe that your way is the right way. Because it is not what we have seen.”

Ninth, I have not been following the story of the Spanish floods. Apparently, they have caused significant damage, to lives and property.

As a sidelight, Daniel Hannan explains that it was all exacerbated by the green agenda:

The most under-reported aspect of the tragic floods in eastern Spain is that dams had been demolished, partly as a result of EU demands and partly under pressure from local eco-activists.

Tenth, apparently the Biden administration transmania seriously compromised Kamala’s electoral prospects. Wesley Yang summarizes the policies that America just rejected:

Before the Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services pressured WPATH to strip out all age limits for puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, surgeries; before thousands of schools districts with millions of students mandated that teachers actively deceive parents about the mental health of their children; before thousands of girls as young as 11 had their breasts amputated after being caught up in an online fad; before thousands of school districts began teaching kids that anyone can be male, female, both or neither as a fact; before social media networks instituted bans on correctly sexing or referring to the pre-transition names of someone claiming to be the opposite sex; before the House of Representative issued rules calling for avoidance of non-inclusive words like "mother." 

Eleventh, the Democratic Party was seriously outmanned in the recent election. America rejected the girl power agenda, as well as the constant whining about authoritarian males.

You can tell when you remark that the 2028 election campaign has already begun. New Jersey Governor Murphy; Illinois Governor Pritzker, California Governor Newsome and New York Governor Hochul have all issued statements emphasizing their willingness to fight, fight, fight. 

Now where do you think they got that idea?

They are not conceding manliness, at least, not yet.

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