Intro

It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Friday, May 5, 2023

Forget about white supremacists, black privilege is here ...

 After all the years being lectured about the threat from white supremacy and pervasive ills of systemic racism it’s time we all took a breath and understand the reality.

That was all bullshit. 

There’s absolutely no evidence that white supremacists pose any kind of significant threat to minorities, much less American society as a whole today.  First, there aren’t that many of them – maybe a handful here and there in our nation of about 340 million. Nobody takes these crackpots seriously except for those constantly warning of never proven “threats” to minorities and our “democracy” from “white supremacists.” In fact, nobody can even provide tangible proof of how many exist or why we should care.  Not the DOJ, the FBI, or any other government entity. 

The reason is simple: there aren’t enough to count. The magnitude of the threat is completely made up. That’s not to say there aren’t isolated wackos out there who may be dangerous – there always will be – but there aren’t enough to justify mobilizing vast Federal resources, and worse, trampling on our basic rights under the Constitution, ostensibly to “protect” us and our democracy.  

The Feds, politicians on the left, and media types don’t want the public to realize how little we are threatened by such small numbers of loons.  So to keep up the facade everybody in government and the media keeps inferring “white supremacist” movements from unconnected things like NRA membership, support for Trump, opposition to government overreach, parental rights advocacy, pro-life sentiments, living in rural areas, and voting Republican.  

None of these things have anything to do with white supremacy.  Going to church, being politically conservative, and owning a gun shouldn’t make anyone suspect.  

Besides it’s not white supremacists we all see attacking minorities like Asians, Jews, gays, and Hispanic shopkeepers. The attackers are overwhelmingly not white.  And most often the reports of alleged attacks on minorities – especially on blacks – by white supremacists turn out to be hoaxes. Like Jussie Smollett. Like Bubba Wallace. Like so many others.  

Yet, it remains the popular boogey man.  These imaginary white supremacists are supposedly everywhere, according to Democrats and the media.  But nobody knows where they are or how many there are; all we need to know is that – like the demons and witches from the Middle Ages – they are around us all the time and need to be rounded up and exorcised. 

Of course that’s the problem.  You’d have to find them, first.  To do that, you’d have to identify them and in such large numbers we’d all have to accept they’re really a threat. 

That’s never going to happen. Just as the witch hunters never wanted to eliminate all witches. How would a self-respecting witch hunter make a decent living without witches? How would they keep their power to terrify others if they ran out of witches? That’s why they always found more witches (mainly by falsely accusing people they didn’t like).  

Think about that. What would all the DOJ, ATF, and FBI task forces do? What could professional race baiters like Sharpton, AOC, Joy Reid, Whoopi, Marc Lamont Hill, Joy Behar, and all the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC do?  Without the specter of whites targeting and oppressing minorities they really don’t have a lot of other fodder for their shows.  

Still, as fake as the mythical robe-clad white supremacists are, there actually is a threat today from other race-fueled supremacists.  Only this time, they’re black. 

Yes, I am saying out loud what we all know to be happening. 

Ever since a drug-addled, career criminal fat black guy with a bad heart died because a single stupid cop triggered his death, black privilege has taken off. 

Blacks were allowed to burn down cities, attack police, loot, and murder others, because ... well, they had the “right” to do that.  All because of an isolated arrest with tragic results.  

That led would-be black supremacist grifters such as BLM to realize they had now ascended to power they never imagined.  The power to extort payments from corporations for protection. The power to demand and get special treatment by police and the courts. The power to elect representatives to legislatures and even Congress beholden to them, and afraid to cross them. 

Blacks almost overnight became a super class in this country, with special privileges over other citizens.  They had achieved what they always accused whites of having. They had achieved black privilege.  They weren’t held to the same rules. They were excused from responsibility for criminal acts. Their felonies, even for violent crimes, were routinely downgraded to misdemeanors. 

Consequently, with no fear of incarceration or serious punishment, mobs of mostly younger blacks felt entitled to do whatever they wanted, to take whatever they wanted, and to destroy whatever they wanted.  Their mobs rampaged through major cities such as Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and others. 

They’re still doing it. And they’re still not being held accountable. 

So the often violent attacks on Asians, Jews, gays, and other minorities by blacks continue. Storming and looting convenience stores, drugstores, other retailers by mobs of black juveniles remains an everyday thing.  As are their beatdowns of people just waiting for a subway or a bus.  

Blacks are also shooting and killing each other every day in our major cities. It’s not unusual for a city like Chicago to record almost 25 shootings – typically black on black – in an ordinary weekend.  Holidays are even worse.   Black teens are settling scores with other black teens by spraying gunfire indiscriminately at block parties, concerts, festivals, and even birthday parties and funerals. Innocent black kids as young as toddlers are often collateral damage.  

Yet nobody wants to call out what can only be described as systemic violence by blacks. 

Maybe it’s because nobody cares when it’s black on black. Or when a black violently attacks another minority.  Or maybe it’s because blacks now get a pass for just about anything.  

Maybe that’s what their new-found black privilege buys them.     

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Sorry, but your kid's probably not really transgendered ...

Having a kid that claims to be trans is the new sign of status. Woke parents are weirdly proud to proclaim publicly that their little Johnny is now a Jessica, and their Suzy is a Sam.
 
Or when one parent said their preteen was still working their way through something called the “gender spectrum” to decide for themselves what they want to be.  And, of course, what pronouns they will insist on.  For now.
 
So by all means stay tuned while we wait for this breathtaking moment in history.  What will these children with their vast life experience at 6, 10, or 12 choose to be for the rest of their lives?  (Or until they change their mind.)  Will they pick new, liberating names to celebrate their transition?  Or a gender-neutral name like Spider or Mango or Buttercup? 
 
And will he or she become a ze? Or a zie? Or a wa/waz or a fae/faeie? Or whatever? Because, you know, you can’t use the boring old he/she they/them stuff – not if you want to feign outrage when someone meets you for the first time and doesn’t know your pronouns. 
 
The bigger problem is that kid’s probably not transgendered at all.  Certainly not in any biological sense.  Confused, perhaps. Socially awkward, most likely, Desperate for attention, sure.
 
But not really somewhere in between or beyond male or female.  At times a child may feel they are; at other times they may also feel like a an Indian princess, or a Viking, or a dinosaur, for that matter. It’s all make-believe and usually temporary. However, their biological sex hasn’t changed from the time they were born. Nor will it any time soon.  That’s a matter of chromosomes.
 
And as of now, no one can change their chromosomes on demand for whatever reason that make them male or female. That’s the real science.
 
Still, what about gender?  
 
A lot’s been made in recent years that gender has nothing to do with biological sex.  Now gender is supposed to be a fluid thing; it depends solely how someone “feels.” As if gender is just a matter of what clothes and makeup you prefer.  You can change it any time you like. 
 
Redefining gender – and especially coming up with terms like transgender – is another in a long line of sad attempts to change the meaning of a perfectly good word that accurately describes a real thing into something now completely meaningless. Something that can be exploited, too. 
 
Because it’s usually done for profit and power. As this is. 
 
There have always been effeminate boys and masculine girls.  There have always been others who aren’t necessarily more effeminate than other boys, or more masculine than other girls, but are sexually attracted to others of the same sex. Still others are sexually attracted to both sexes.  Those things are real.  It’s not a question of gender but according to a lot of real, objective science, those sexual preferences may result from chromosomes, as well.
 
Because some things are predetermined in some way at the chromosome level, it’s not a matter of choice. It’s something some folks are already hardwired to be. 
 
None of that has anything to do with the transgender movement.  More importantly, even less to do with gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy now being pushed on children by adults.  I don’t care much what other adults do to themselves, but I do have a problem when adults are making irreversible life-altering decisions for kids. 
 
I think most normal people feel the same.  Why is it suddenly okay – and actually celebrated – to intentionally and permanently surgically disfigure a child, or pump them full of hormones causing long-term physical changes?  All because some activist wannabe school psychologist or teacher thinks your child suffers from something called gender dysphoria.
 
And why is it so prevalent?  Remarkable, isn’t it?  
 
You have to wonder who profits from our society’s new-found obsession with finding, treating, and “protecting the rights” of the suddenly transgendered. Especially children.    
 
I think it’s all so psychologists and pseudo scientists in academia and healthcare can publish papers and books about it and invent profitable “treatments.” So newly-minted “experts” can get lucrative positions and speaking engagements. So “researchers” can tap new sources for grant money to “study.” And to provide an infinitely small number of people a way to claim to have their own interpretation which makes them extra special victims, and worthy of disproportionate power.
 
Honestly, it’s largely a scam. 
 
I have no doubt some people do in fact have mental issues that make them believe they are a sex other than that they were born with.  Just as some people believe they are getting messages from aliens or instructions from God to kill their landlord. It’s a mental illness, not a “condition.”  
 
And last I checked, in the USA we don’t normally treat mental illness with surgery anymore. Therapy and medicine have taken the place of lobotomies and other invasive treatments.   
 
Furthermore, these days we’re talking mostly about children who aren’t really capable of making informed decisions about something as serious and life altering as gender reassignment surgery.  Dressing up and pretending to be something other than what you are is something many kids do before they reach puberty. And even after.  I understand that. 
 
But after then? WTF is wrong with these parents? 
 
Folks, we are allowing parents to let others unnecessarily mutilate and mentally and physically poison their children. Hospitals and doctors are getting rich. Trans activists in schools are acting like feeder channels to deliver kids to this carnage.  And gloating. 
 
And instead of being arrested, parents, the activists in schools, and the participating members of the medical establishment are all being praised for being on the cutting edge – literally – of a revolution in helping children develop. 
 
It’s insane. There’s no other word for it.    

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

WTF is wrong with us, anyway?

Seriously.
 
Since when did we just sit by and let clearly delusional people intimidate us with their madness?  Or to permit them to try to gaslight us into believing everything we’ve always known to be true suddenly isn’t? That their “reality” is real, while ours is not? 
 
We know that’s what’s actually happening. Why aren’t we trying to stop them? 
 
Staying silent or cowering in the face of their unrelenting assault on reality is a mistake, as we’ve seen. It signals tacit approval which just encourages more insanity. 
 
Too many appear afraid to say what they honestly believe or even joke about the silliness of it all. They claim it’s not worth it.  If they speak out they fear being targeted by a mob of self-appointed scolds who will harass them and their families at home, at school, and even at work. 
 
All of which, sadly, happens too often.   
 
Still others suspend their disbelief and pretend it’s all okay. Yet they know it’s not okay. We all know it’s not okay. Everyone needs to stop pretending.  
 
Most of what the left, activists, and the media promote these days is not just untrue but increasingly dangerous to our country, our young people, and generations to come. When Biden said: “we choose truth over facts” we laughed.  They didn’t; they agreed. Unfortunately, their “truth” often isn’t remotely connected to reality. Perhaps intentionally.     
 
So why don’t we, as rational thoughtful citizens, stand up and fight back?
 
All it takes is for enough of us to refuse to comply.  Just say no thanks.
 
And when they overreact, don’t go straight to outrage, which is what they want.  Instead, publicly ridicule them. Libs of TikTok on Twitter provides a master class in in this.  They repost videos created by loonies on the left describing themselves and their beliefs.   
 
It’s scary at times, yet frequently hilarious to see people passionately expose their stupidity and bizarre ideas out there for all the world to see. The original creators of these posts never intended this to happen; these were only supposed to be seen by zealots just like them. They expected to be praised by their peers who agree trans women can have periods, children should be taught about anal and oral sex in kindergarten, and teachers should be able to coach elementary students into changing gender without ever letting parents know that’s going on. 
 
Suddenly, when they realize ordinary people might see how they are subverting parents’ rights and indoctrinating their kids on the sly, overtly sexualizing children, while bragging about how they get away with it, they are furious. Showing the world what they’ve posted in whole in original context without editing – in short, exactly what they said in their own words – is hateful.  Transphobic. Homophobic. Anti-LGBTQ. And whatever else they can come up with.
 
But it’s their own words. Out of their own mouths. Stuff they intentionally posted. What I think troubles them most, however, is that down deep they know what they claim to be true just isn’t.  There’s no way they can honestly believe that a man who pretends to be a woman can get pregnant, or that a woman who pretends to be a man can produce sperm. Or that using their authority as a teacher to psychologically manipulate kindergarteners or elementary school kids to choose a different gender or sexual orientation is in any way appropriate. They know that's wrong.  
 
In their videos they think they are revealing their soul, their overwrought hand wringing, and their pride in their misdeeds to what they hope are their legions of followers.  But they end up as the object of well-deserved ridicule on Libs of TikTok. That has to sting.  
 
There’s a reason why the loons on the left and their suck-up pals in the media and Hollywood hate when the quiet things they say to each other, and nod in agreement, are inadvertently said out loud for all the world to see.  Because most of what they want to hide is crazy.    
 
And frankly, they know it.   
 
Our collective mistake is taking it all too seriously. I stopped doing that a while ago and I’ve felt better ever since.  Calmer. More relaxed. More should try it.  
 
The media and our leaders pound us with lie after lie about the threats to our democracy, or very existence, every day if we don’t take them seriously. And how morally bankrupt we are not to accept and embrace their twisted world view. But really, there’s no reason to.  Most of it is silly and demonstrably false.  
 
That’s why we shouldn’t.  I’m surprised they still do.
 
It amazes me that we’re now supposed to ignore basic biology, human physiology, science, our own history as a nation, the role of the Constitution, and a lot more, most of which we learned in public school and college decades ago. Suddenly, we need to question all we ever learned.      
 
But of course, we’re not allowed to ever question them.   
 
If we dare question anything they say, no matter how ridiculous, we are monsters. Racists. Sexists. Homophobes. Transphobes. Religious fanatics.  Science deniers. Right-wing nutjobs. Bigots. Ignorant hillbillies. And, most recently, and most curiously, fascists.
 
Confronted with facts, they have no valid counter argument, except name calling. 
 
Their core beliefs are so preposterous, and so obviously wrong to anyone who graduated public high school more than 30 years ago.  I’m not talking about kids who took accelerated courses, National Honor Society types, or anybody who went to college. Just ordinary high school students graduating with a passing grade. 
 
For the record, there haven’t been huge breakthroughs in biology or basic science in those past 30 years that would make it true that humans have more than two sexes, biological men can get pregnant, bear children or breast feed, or that that anyone born a biological male who later decides he’s actually a girl can suddenly do any of those.  It’s not physically possible, despite bathing him in puberty blockers at an early age, extensive hormone therapy, doing breast implants, or mutilating his genitals
 
Biologically, he’ll always be a boy, not because of how he feels, but because of his chromosomes.  He can grow his hair long, he can dress up like a girl, he can have doctors cut off his testicles and turn his penis into a vagina, and he may appear to be a girl and live as one, but he won’t be.   Despite what many teachers are instructing students as young as kindergarteners, no one can actually change the biological sex they were born with. 
 
And “feeling” like you might be another sex is a far cry from being one.
 
Which is really the problem here: the crazies want us to accept what they “feel” as real.  They have no facts, just feelings. And they demand we accept their feelings and agree to their completely wacko view of human biology, science, history, and much more. 
 
We really don’t have to. And we shouldn’t.