Transmania on the Ballot Box

Just when you thought that all they needed was another pep talk from Barack Obama, along with an insinuation that if they did not vote for Kamala they were sexist, along comes Scott Jennings, a conservative commentator on CNN.

Why are black males not rushing out to vote for Kamala? Jennings said this on CNN over the weekend:

A lot of men think Democrats care more about dudes who want to become women than they do about dudes just wanna be dudes. No amount of hunting cosplay or cringy videos is gonna change it. The bed is made.

Almost on cue, the Wall Street Journal followed up yesterday morning with an editorial suggesting that transmania was on the ballot in a number of senatorial races. And that it was a sleeper issue, one that no one had expected, but that was compromising the electoral prospects of Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin and Montana Senator Jon Tester.

As the transwinds go, so might very well go the Senate.

Now a recent poll. Center Square Voters’ Voiced has found that 59% of the population favors national bans on gender affirming care on minors.

Politically speaking, the issue involves whether the government can outlaw what is falsely called gender affirming treatments. It also raises the issue of fairness, should a biological male who believes he is a female be allowed to compete in women’s sports? Should he be allowed in the girls locker room?

I need not tell you, though the point is often obscured, that no one is militating for allowing trans males, who were born female, to compete in men’s sports or to shower in the men’s locker room.

Back in the day, psychiatry recognized transgenderism as a delusional belief. Trans individuals believed, to the roots of their marrow, that they had been born in the wrong bodies. No physical evidence could convince them otherwise. 

Nowadays, we have dispensed with the notion of delusional belief and have declared the belief to be a person's truth. If you deny it, you are committing an act of violence against them, or against their beliefs.

Obviously, we are in the realm of disinformation or misinformation. Considering that there is no biological reality behind the assertion that one was born in the wrong body, any assertion to the contrary is disinformation or misinformation. In the vernacular, it’s a lie.

Amazingly, we are not dealing with people who have a constitutional right to lie to themselves. We are dealing with a cohort that arrogates to itself the right to force other people to believe that its lies are the truth.

They also insist on having the right to make up their own pronouns and force other people to use them. Totalitarian does it justice. 

Obviously, children are the victims of this mania. And yet, adults who try to persuade children that they can change their gender by changing their minds are culpable. They ought to be prosecuted.

The Wall Street Journal explains the political angle:

An ad in Wisconsin says Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin “voted to let biological men into women’s sports.” Republican challenger Eric Hovde gets spontaneous applause when he raises the issue at campaign events. In Montana, an ads says Sen. Jon Tester “voted to let men compete against our girls,” and “those aren’t Montana values.” The proliferation of these arguments against so many Democratic incumbents suggests it’s resonating with the public.

And then there is the question of mutilating children. It is not the least issue, and begins with offering puberty blockers to children. Among those who are offering such treatments are Planned Parenthood, of all groups.

You know that the British National Health Service has followed the recommendations of a report written by pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass. It has stopped offering puberty blockers to children and has stopped surgical attempts to play God.

In America some states have tried to pass laws banning what is called gender affirming care. As it happens, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio opposed such laws, because he wanted the decision to be limited to parents and doctors. So, if a thirteen year old girl decides that she wants a double mastectomy, there are no problems for Sen. Brown.

Do we really want it to be involving doctors when they have a considerable financial stake in the surgical procedures.

While Sen. Brown insists that he does not support puberty blockers and mutilating surgery, he does oppose banning them. It’s a distinction without a difference, well worthy of a politician.

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The Gender Gap

And then there was the gender gap, not to be confused with the thigh gap. The woke Democratic Party has a man problem. The Kamala Harris solution was to name a man called Tampon Tim as her vice presidential candidate.

Considering her husband’s track record dealing with women, we are not going to grant too much credence to the Harris choice. Besides, after railing and inveighing against toxic masculinity for these past few years, why did any sane Democrat imagine that America’s male voters would flock to Tampon Tim.

Worse yet, yesterday, man’s man Tim decided to show off his prowess at pheasant hunting. Unfortunately, he did not know how to load his gun and ended up looking like Elmer Fudd.

Batya Ungar-Sargon offered this intriguing interpretation of the Walz fail:

This "outreach" to men is actually outreach to women. There's a contradiction between what Democratic women expect aesthetically & sexually out of men and what they demand politically. The result is this uncanny valley of politically emasculated men LARPing as manly macho men:

For those who want to read a concise essay about manliness, I recommend my post entitled “What a Piece of Work is a Man.” It was written last Thursday.

As you doubtless recall, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is a far better shot than Tim Walz. In order to show off her manliness, and thus her qualification to be a vice presidential candidate, she bragged about shooting a puppy.

Of course, shooting innocent pets does not make you very manly and the Noem political career went up in smoke.

Which brings us to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a rising star in the Democratic Party. A couple of days ago Whitmer allowed herself to be filmed mocking the Roman Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist. It was certainly a new political low.

Decked out in a Harris cap Whitmer handed a supplicant a Doritos chip, which is not quite the same thing as a communion wafer.

To the best of my knowledge the Church does not allow for female priestesses. Thus, Whitmer might count as a drag queen, which would be even more offensive.

Ed Morrissey recounts the reaction in Michigan:

After participating in a weird submissive-porn version of Catholic communion, or just a demonstration of how Kamalites operate, the governor of Michigan has gotten a deluge of outrage and criticism. Catholic bishops in all seven dioceses in the state issued a statement demanding an explanation and apology for Whitmer's campaign video for Kamala Harris and its "offensive impact" in mocking the Eucharist.

Of course, Whitmer did not accept responsibility. She blamed it on a misinterpretation:

Over 25 years in public service, I would never do something to denigrate someone's faith. I’ve used my platform to stand up for people’s right to hold and practice their personal religious beliefs. My team has spoken to the Michigan Catholic Conference. What was supposed to be a video about the importance of the CHIPS Act to Michigan jobs, has been construed as something it was never intended to be, and I apologize for that.

She apologizes because people misinterpreted her intention. Obviously, this is a non-apology, taking no responsibility for the offense given. And not recognizing that once you post such bile you are no longer the supreme authority on what it means.

Morrissey offers an extended interpretation, emphasizing the echoes of pornography:

Exactly how does placing a Dorito on Plank's tongue while she kneels before Whitmer present an argument about the importance of the CHIPS Act? How in fact is this a policy argument at all? The video looks more like a prelude to a WHIPS Act. To the extent it argues anything at all, it argues for submission to elected officials in the manner of idolatry, transforming Whitmer into some sort of goddess-queen to be obeyed, not a public servant with a duty for accountability.

The moral of the story is that you can toss out your Whitmer ‘28 buttons. The saving grace is that now Whitmer will be known for something other than her enduring love affair with Botox.

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Saturday Miscellany

 First, just in case you have been wondering what bad thoughts can get you suspended from the U. Penn Law School-- tenure be damned-- consider these remarks from Amy Wax, who has recently been relieved of her teaching responsibilities for a year.

As you probably know by now, Wax got into trouble by questioning DEI dogma. Consider this:

"What's going on out there is that people who would otherwise get a high school diploma and really technically shouldn't be going to universities in the sense that...[they] aren't smart enough to get a real university education. They're being churned through these institutions and there they are getting an ideological education in lefty ideas. They're being propagandized with the most crude sort of unthought out lefty ideas and then they are going out into the world."

Evidently, this is beyond the pale, for institutions that claim to value diversity of opinion.

Second, on the same subject, we read this from a coddled affluent professional on Twitter:

Wokeness is a liberatory movement for midwits. It gives them *moral authority* over people who are smarter and more talented than they are. The power to scold is a major reason why wokeness became so popular.

Third, then again, you have heard it so many times that you  might even believe that there is something to it. Donald Trump is a unique threat to democracy, or some such.

Bonchie redstate replies on Twitter:

Look, Democrats just want to protect our democracy and restore norms by packing the Supreme Court, getting rid of the electoral college, outlawing "misinformation," censoring their opponents, banning guns, and ending the filibuster.

Fourth, the Biden administration would have us believe that we have never had it as good as we have now. Anyone who thinks that the economy is not roaring ahead has simply failed to read enough Paul Krugman columns.

To that, famed statistician Nate Silver replies:

GDP growth last year was 2.5%. That's a nice number! But also almost exactly the long-term average. The idea that it's the "best economy in decades" is straight-up misinformation.

Fifth, the war against hate proceeds apace. Unfortunately, the anti-hate contingent has resorted to expressing their deeply held feelings by hating one presidential candidate.

Paul Joseph Watson reports from Los Angeles:

An “art exhibit” in Los Angeles designed to protest against Donald Trump “spreading hate” featured participants kicking around a soccer ball shaped like the former president’s head.

Sixth, Ta-Nihisi Coates, touring his new book encouraging anti-Semitism, has declared himself a potential terrorist. At the least he understands why terrorists did what they did on October 7. If he were not such a serious person he might have done the same thing:

And I grow up under that oppression and that poverty and the wall comes down. Am I also strong enough or even constructed in such a way where I say this is too far, I don't know that I am.

The great mystery is why major media outlets take this idiot so seriously.

Seventh, when you ask where Coates learned it all, he seems to have learned it from his father, Paul Coates, a man who believes that Jews were responsible for the slave trade.

Eighth, meantime for those gullible souls who have bought the Tommy Friedman swill about a two-state solution in the Middle East, Eric Dawe reports on an independent journalist by name of Zane Sage Fox who went to Gaza and the West Bank to ask people what they really, really wanted.

He reported:

What the diplomats, politicos, and pundits in the media refuse to recognize is that the majority of Palestinians are far from being the helpless victims of a repressive Hamas regime that thwarts any two-state solution. Rather, the mindset of the Palestinians themselves absolutely forbids any two-state solution with Israel. Israel would accept it; Israelis have been amenable every time it’s been proposed. To our western, civilized thinking, it seems only logical that Palestine would prefer peace over the endless fighting and death they have experienced under Hamas rule. But that’s exactly where we ‘civilized’ westerners go wrong. It’s not just Hamas that hates Israel and all its people; the Palestinians themselves hate Israel and the Israeli people with an intense, even self-destructive hatred we cannot comprehend.

Zach Sage Fox discovered this:

He took a cameraman with him to record his ‘man on the street’ interviews and document the actual opinions and perspectives of ordinary Palestinians. What he learned -- and what you can view for yourself -- was that far from wanting a two-state solution where they could live in peace with Israel, every Palestinian Zach interviewed -- without exception, both men and women -- did not want peace with Israel. They voiced a uniform wish to see Israel ‘deleted’. They want a one-state solution, with that one state being Palestine.

Ninth, just in case you missed it, Ta-Nehisi Coates is going all-in on anti-Semitism. Speaking on the Ezra Cohen podcast, he said this:

 “I don’t know how you’re different [than the evil Zionists].” On 10/7: “I don’t care what their leadership [Hamas] did.”

Tenth, a University of Kansas lecturer, by name of Phil Lowcock, told his class that any man who does not vote for Kamala Harris should be taken out and shot.

Lowcock has now been fired from the University.

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Manufacturng Renaissance?

The least I can say is that the topic does not lie within my ken. And yet, why not present some contrarian views about the coming manufacturing renaissance, from a seasoned economist by the name of Rebecca Patterson. 

Her essay appeared in the New York Times. The thrust of her argument is that engineering a manufacturing renaissance, not to mention a revival of the American middle class, is more of a pipe dream than a real possibility.

The problem is human capital. We do not have the people needed to man these industries. The people we have available are largely incapable of doing the jobs. 

So, we are going to be obliged to import foreign workers, which is well and good, except that these workers in most cases will be required to hold a bachelor’s degree from university.

How many of the subliterate masses who are coming into the country from the third world can read, write or count, not to mention, do algebra at college level.

Begin with the demographic problem:

In 1950, when manufacturing was near its peak as a share of total employment, the mostly male working population was growing at a steady clip, thanks in part to a fertility rate of 3.1 children per woman.

The complexion of the working population and its growth rate has since changed. While women and immigrants helped offset the slowing growth of the native-born population, it hasn’t been enough: Two-thirds of respondents to a National Association of Manufacturing survey this past spring said that their biggest challenge was attracting and retaining employees.

Aside from the fact that Americans are not reproducing enough, they are educating more females than males. More women receive college degrees than men do. But, ask yourself this, how many of said women want to work in manufacturing? And, how many of them have majored in fields that qualify them for such work.

By now, we have fallen behind and depend on foreign countries for too many products:

While the United States is working to reduce its dependence on China, particularly in certain strategic sectors, it cannot succeed in its national security goals by doing so alone. In numerous industries, such as semiconductors, where key parts of the supply chain are dominated by one or a small handful of companies in countries including Taiwan and the Netherlands, the United States has to partner with companies overseas. It doesn’t have the needed expertise at home, at least for the foreseeable future.

Now, Patterson notes that some of these jobs can be taken over by automation. This is true. And yet, considering the rancorous strike of the longshoreman’s union, among whose issues is a refusal to automate, and ask yourself whether American unions will ever allow such a thing to take place. Otherwise, the solution will be to move factories out of the country. 

But, Patterson notes, we can try to deal with these problems by imposing tariffs on imported goods. Everyone loves tariffs. They sound like a great idea:

Tariffs are likely to spark a trade war that puts at risk needed overseas’ investments in the United States — which would likely work against manufacturing employment. A 2019 Federal Reserve research paper found that U.S. tariffs levied under Mr. Trump in 2018 and 2019, along with retaliatory tariffs from foreign countries, led to a 1.4 percent reduction in manufacturing employment, or roughly 175,000 jobs that would have otherwise been created.

This assumes that the tariffs on foreign manufacturing open shelf space for American products that are of equal quality and that are not overly costly.

The moral of the story is that we should not take what politicians are promising at face value. It will take more than some new legislation, even a new industrial policy, to bring us back from that brink.

A little skepticism will do us well when thinking through these issues.

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What a Piece of Work Is a Man

The first rule is this: if you want to know what masculinity is, don’t ask a woman. 

Ruth Whippman is certainly a competent journalist, but her mind runs afoul in her recent New York Times essay on masculinity. The reason is simple. Aside from the interspersed studies, she tries to understand masculinity in terms of feelings, emotions and her own capacity for empathy.

The truth is, a man who claims to feel your pain is lying to you. If you insist that he become more empathic he will teach you a new kind of pain.

As we have occasionally pointed out, research has shown that the best way to enhance empathy circuits in the brain is to get pregnant. Most men miss out on this experience. 

Besides, being a man has to do with what he does, not how he feels.

It is basic sociology that when a society is feminized, when men are deprived of their rules of protecting and providing, the only form of masculinity that seems viable is a grotesque caricature called machismo.

Machismo involves thuggery. It involves being a man by beating on and abusing women. The alternative is manliness as gentility, whether the gentility of the Victorian gentleman or of the Confucian gentleman.

It involves acting responsibly and reliably. Being someone women and men can count on. Being someone who protects and provides. And especially someone who follows the rules, even when they contradict how he feels or what he really, really wants.

Naturally, the problem has been feminism. Once feminism persuaded women that making homes was a form of enslavement, they chose to develop careers outside of the home. They could provide for themselves and could protect themselves-- because they are strong and empowered.

This meant first that women were now competing with men in the marketplace and the battlefield. The notion of protecting and providing for such a being became superfluous. 

But it was also disruptive. Feminists imagined in their fever dreams that men would compensate for women’s unwillingness to do housework by becoming house husbands, by spending more time doing laundry and chestfeeding babies. Men felt that the demand was an indignity and they either went on strike or else walked away from the home.

Moreover, men who are competing against women are not in a relationship of cooperative complementarity. This fostered hostility between the sexes. 

When household roles are not defined, this creates confusion and chaos. Disrespecting traditional male roles leads men to become resentful.

Among the other rules that define masculinity is this: A real man does not marry a courtesan.

That is to say, a woman who wants to be respected must act as though she respects herself. Everyone knows what that means. I will not explain it in more detail. 

In addition, a third rule is this: a real man does not marry an idiot. Clearly, men should respect women for their minds, not just their physical attributes. That means that they should marry women who have minds, who do not dribble word salads while giggling like schoolgirls. 

Some men might find this form of mindlessness to be attractive. One would not be surprised to discover that said men mistreat women.

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Wednesday Potpourri

First, it was a cold day for the radical left when their champion, that would be Noam Chomsky, was asked about his views on the war in Ukraine.

Noam Chomsky, in an interview this week, says "fortunately" there is "one Western statesman of stature" who is pushing for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine rather than looking for ways to fuel and prolong it.

"His name is Donald J. Trump," Chomsky says. 

Second, strange things are happening at CBS. First, there was the vice presidential debate, conducted by two suitably biased females.

Now, Heather Mac Donald wrote in City Journal that the questions and the lines of argument were completely feminized. What a shock and surprise:

No, it was the choice and presentation of topics that most revealed the feminization of the elite world view. The moderators turned subjects that should have been landmines for the Biden–Harris record into indictments of Trump–Vance. This transformation was driven not just by contempt for the GOP ticket. It grew out of a reflexive focus on putative victims of conservative policies. More abstract questions of costs and benefits and less favored victims were all ignored.

Third, but then CBS interviewed Kamala for their 60 Minutes show. By all accounts the interviewer did an excellent job. His name was Bill Whitaker:

60 Minutes: "What I was asking was, was it a mistake to kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place?"

Kamala: "I think-- the policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem, okay?"

60 Minutes: "But the numbers did quadruple under your watch."

Kamala: "Because of what we have done-- we have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half. We have cut the flow of fentanyl by half. But we need Congress to be able to act to actually fix the problem."

Fourth, as though that was not bad enough, CBS ran an interview with the anti-Semitic Ta-Nehisi Coates. As you know, Coates just brought forth a new book denouncing Israel for being an apartheid state and for being racist. He has done his best to make it safe to be anti-anti-Semitic. He has helped mainstream the question of whether Israel has a right to exist. 

So, in a brilliant move CBS chose Jewish journalist Tony Dokoupil to interview Coates. He called Coates an extremist and was later called to account by CBS News’ female CEO”

Ahead of their blockbuster interview with Kamala Harris, CBS News has lurched into chaos over Tony Dokoupil's tense interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates over the author's anti-Israeli views in his new book. 

Dokoupil accused Coates of being an 'extremist' during a tense on-air chat about his latest release, 'The Message' on CBS This Morning.

CBS News' CEO Wendy McMahon reportedly dragged Dokoupil - who converted to Judaism and whose ex-wife and children live in Israel - over the coals, claiming he 'did not meet editorial standards for impartiality.' 

Dokoupil was quick to criticize the author for not including an Israeli perspective in his work claiming it delegitimizes the pillars of the country.

'The content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist,' Dokoupil said.

'Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it? Why leave out that Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it?

'Is it because you just don’t believe that Israel in any condition has a right to exist?'

Fifth, in her 60 Minutes interview Kamala tried to put some distance between her and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Apparently, her nonsense has been edited out of the version that was shown.

Amid friction with Israeli leadership, Vice President Kamala Harris sidestepped a question about whether she considers Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be a “real, close ally.”

“I think, with all due respect, the better question is, do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people? And the answer to that question is yes,” Harris told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in a preview clip.

Since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre in which 1,200 Israelis were killed, the Harris-Biden administration has, at times, found itself at loggerheads with Netanyahu over his response.

To which Morgan Ortagus replied on Twitter:

Refusing to stand by the democratically elected leadership of an ally state is quite literally breaking norms and institutions she is supposed to protect. The left loves to undermine democratic leaders around the world if they get in their way.

Sixth, meanwhile, New Zealand, more woke than thou, gave a woman command of a naval vessel. Her name was: Yvonne Gray. The result, the vessel sank:

The Royal NZ Navy ship’s HMNZS Manawanui sank this morning after running aground on a reef near the southern coast of Upolu, Samoa, last night and catching fire.

To which Roger Kimball responded:

But at least the NZ Navy (like, unfortunately, the US Navy) gets good grades on hiring females and promoting them beyond their capability.

Seventh, remember when Joe Biden, our commander in chief, told the Israeli government that it should respond to Iran’s attack proportionally. 

Myron Magnet responded on Twitter:

An analogy: Japan destroyed our naval fleet in a sneak attack. We obliterated two of their cities with atomic bombs. Overwhelming force, not “proportionality,” wins wars. War is not ping pong, where you just volley.

Eighth, now that Columbia University has allowed itself to be embroiled in anti-Semitic violent protests, lo and behold, its donors have been cutting back on their giving.

The New York Post has the story:

Columbia University saw donations at its annual fundraiser drop nearly 29% after the spate of anti-Israel protests on campus earlier this year.

The annual “Giving Day” event brought in $21.4 million in 2024, compared to $30 million in 2022, the last time the event was held, according to campus newspaper Columbia Spectator. Giving Day was postponed in 2023 due to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the ensuing protests.

The Ivy League university also saw a nearly 28% drop in the number of gifts, falling from 19,229 in 2022 to 13,870, the lowest since 2015, the paper said.

Ninth, just in case you missed the earlier stories of Doug Emhoff’s misogyny, the Daily Mail has more details:

Kamala Harris's husband was 'inappropriate' and 'misogynistic' at work, his former colleagues tell DailyMail.com.

Attorneys who worked with Doug Emhoff at his former firm Venable say he yelled expletives, held a men-only cocktail hour in the office, revoked work perks from women who didn't flirt with him, and took only young, attractive associates in a limousine to a ball.

A 2019 lawsuit also claimed sex discrimination by other partners in the LA office Emhoff ran, and that while engaged to Harris, he hired an 'unqualified' part-time model as a legal secretary 'because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office'.

A true feminist, don’t you think?

Tenth, we are so accustomed to our mealy-mouthed president telling Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, that the following remarks, from the Canadian opposition leader, come as something of a shock.

When asked whether he would support Israel striking the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear facilities, Canadian opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, responds: “It would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.”

Eleventh, apparently Joe Biden is not a full throated supporter of his vice president.

Collin Rugg reports:

This is hilarious. Kamala Harris told reporters that Ron DeSantis was being selfish and ‘utterly irresponsible’ for not taking her call regarding Hurricane Milton. Hours later, Ron DeSantis says in her 3 and a half years in office, Kamala Harris hasn’t called him once to offer assistance. “She has no role in this. In fact, she's been vice president for three and a half years.” “I've dealt with a number of storms under this administration. She has never contributed anything to any of these efforts.” “She's the first one who's trying to politicize the storm, and she's doing that just because of her campaign.”

And then, someone asked President Biden about his work with Ron Desantis:

“The Governor of Florida has been cooperative. He’s said he's gotten all that he needs. I talked to him again yesterday and I said — a — boy — I said I know you're doing a great job. It’s being all — being done well, we thank you for it and I literally gave him my personal phone number to call, so I don't know — there was a rough start in some places, but every governor — every governor — from Florida to North Carolina, has been fully cooperative and supportive and acknowledged what this team is doing and they're doing an incredible job. But we got a lot more work to do.”

Twelfth, apparently transmania is big business. Billboard Chris reports:

Between 2019 and 2023, U.S. hospitals charged at least $120 million for sex-change procedures on 14,000 children! Actual numbers are even higher. These numbers don’t include self-pay, Veterans Affairs claims, or patients covered by Kaiser Health Plans.

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