It has become common to blame certain countries, like Russia, Hungary, and Brazil, for becoming undemocratic because the govt leaders use govt powers to intimidate political enemies. Or maybe because they don't have enough Pride parades.
The above video lists many examples of the Biden administration using police powers to harass political enemies.
For a longer list of political persecutions, see American Gulag.
It's 2022, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) has just issued a belated apology because two of their past Presidents published papers on “aversion therapies” for “converting” gay and transgender individuals to the socially prescribed norms of sexuality and gender identity.So what is this unethical paper they are all embarrassed about? It detailed:Well, they didn't actually say this, nor did they name the prominent and distinguished clinical psychologists who authored these papers. Although these luminaries signed on to the mea culpa, there was no direct admission of the harm caused by these ill-advised practices. Instead, the document focused on “the courageous and historic role that some of our members have played in advancing SGM [sexual and gender minority] rights and mental health (e.g., Drs. Charles Silverstein and Gerald Davison).” ...
But documentation of this history and legacy is rather sketchy... Without naming names, the Apology cited the recent review of Capriotti and Donaldson (2022), which in turn asked “Why don’t behavior analysts do something?” about retracting the unethical paper of Rekers and Lovaas (1974).
The subject was treated sequentially in the clinic and home environments by his mother, trained to be his therapist. The mother was taught to reinforce masculine behaviors and to extinguish feminine behaviors, by using social reinforcement in the clinic and a token reinforcement procedure in the home. During this treatment, his feminine behaviors sharply decreased and masculine behavior increased. ...That is, the boy had some girlie behaviors, outside of accepted norms, and the mother successfully encouraged masculinity, resulting in a normal boy.Follow-up data three years after the treatment began suggests that the boy's sex-typed behaviors have become normalized.
This is now considered unethical by the clinical psychotherapists. I guess they are now supposed to steer the boy into being homosexual or transgendered or queer in some other way.
This is all you need to know about today's psychotherapists. They are evil, and should be avoided at all costs.
Justice Clarence Thomas just explained:
The court concluded that SPLC’s “hate group” designation was not provably false because “‘hate group’ has a highly debatable and ambiguous meaning.” Id., at 1277. Additionally, the court held that Coral Ridge had not plausibly alleged that SPLC acted with “actual malice,” as defined by this Court’s decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254, 280 (1964). See 406 F. Supp. 3d, at 1278–1280.The Court of Appeals affirmed but rested its decision exclusively on the “actual malice” standard. ...
I would grant certiorari in this case to revisit the “actual malice” standard. This case is one of many showing how New York Times and its progeny have allowed media organizations and interest groups “to cast false aspersions on public figures with near impunity.” Tah, 991 F. 3d, at 254 (opinion of Silberman, J.). SPLC’s “hate group” designation lumped Coral Ridge’s Christian ministry with groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis. It placed Coral Ridge on an interactive, online “Hate Map” and caused Coral Ridge concrete financial injury by excluding it from the AmazonSmile donation program. Nonetheless, unable to satisfy the “almost impossible” actual-malice standard this Court has imposed, Coral Ridge could not hold SPLC to account for what it maintains is a blatant falsehood. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc., 472 U. S. 749, 771 (1985) (White, J., concurring in judgment).
[The] decision adds to a growing list of Biden administration immigration policies that have been blocked by federal judges in Texas and Louisiana who were appointed to the bench by the previous administration; that’s prompted immigrant advocates to complain of “a shadow Trump administration” that is preventing Biden from charting his own course.And Trump has been out of office for 1.5 years!
As opposed to abortion law, which until yesterday was determinied by FDR and Ike appointments from many decades ago.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reportedly admitted to a senior European politician that the virus that causes COVID-19 most likely came out of a Wuhan lab. The Daily Mail reports that Tedros made the admission citing a catastrophic lab accident.This possibility has been covered up. Apparently the authorities thought that we would be angry if we learned the truth.The disclosure comes on the heels of a WHO investigative report that was published earlier this month, concluding that the pandemic may have started at a Wuhan lab and that Chinese authorities have been blocking access to crucial data.
At the same time, Jeffrey Sachs, leader of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19, now says that he is convinced that the pandemic started in a lab and that SARS-CoV-2 was created with the aid of U.S. biotechnology.
Sachs made his stunning admission last week at a conference in Spain where he had been invited by former Spanish prime minister José Luís Zapatero.
The admissions from two of the world’s most prominent COVID-19 authorities, who also happen to be establishment stalwarts with a record of appeasing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is a significant development in the search for the origin of the pandemic.
A broad majority of Americans did not want to see Roe vs. Wade overturned, polling taken before the Supreme Court's decision shows.When they ask people about the Roe v Wade decision, one of the most common answers is that was the decision desegregating the public schools.
When they ask liberal legal experts about it, they usually say that they agree with abortion rights, but do not agree with the court's reasoning.
There has never been a majority in Congress agreeing with the decision.
The CNN poll asked this question:
Q6. The 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision established a woman's constitutional right to an abortion, at least in the first three months of pregnancy. Would you like to see the Supreme Court completely overturn its Roe vs. Wade decision, or not?No, that decision did not establish a constitutional right, as the Supreme Court explains today. Only text in the Constitution can do that. It asserted a policy that abortion should be legal throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
Completely overturning the decision would say that a fetus has a right to life and 14A rights. No one expressed that opinion today.
The decision today leaves abortion up to the legislatures. If most people support abortion rights, then we may not see much practical change, except that the law will be ore responsive to the people.
(37)(A) The term ‘dating relationship’ means a relationship between individuals who have or have recently had a continuing serious relationship of a romantic or intimate nature.A comment:(B) Whether a relationship constitutes a dating relationship under subparagraph (A) shall be determined based on consideration of—
(i) the length of the relationship;
(ii) the nature of the relationship; and
(iii) the frequency and type of interaction between the individuals involved in the relationship.(C) A casual acquaintanceship or ordinary fraternization in a business or social context does not constitute a dating relationship under subparagraph (A).
Both those proposals, and this article, are openly sexist. First close the girlfriend loophole, where any woman can accuse damn near any man who has ever been the same city with "domestic violence", and due process be damned.This is Leftist craziness. First, the federal govt should not be tracking dating relationships. Second, such relationships should have no bearing on gun ownership. Third, this is all just a scheme for the Amber Heards of the world to make life difficult for the Johnny Depps.Exactly. When I went back to college I was lab partners with a guy who was a former police officer. His ex-wife filed a complaint against him for pointing his service weapon at her. When it was investigated it was found that at the time she says it happened he was testifying in Court in another State. The DA wouldn't back him because it was a political issue and his Union wouldn't for the same reason. "Other women might be afraid to come forward if we prosecuted her." As a result of the COMPLAINT he lost his certification from the State to be a Police Officer. That was why he was going to school. He was never charged, just the complaint was enough.
Update: The US Supreme Court just upheld gun rights, Clarence Thomas writing the 6-3 majority opinion.
An “epidemic” of loneliness. Prolonged grief. Rising levels of anxiety and depression. And that feeling you didn’t have a name for — languishing.That’s just a starting list of what our brains and bodies have been dealing with during the two years of the Covid pandemic. So, if you’ve felt recently that you needed an extra hand, and asked for one, you’re not alone.
“All the therapists I know have experienced a demand for therapy that is like nothing they have experienced before,” said Tom Lachiusa, a licensed clinical social worker in Longmeadow, Mass., one of the many counselors The New York Times interviewed for an article about the state of mental health in America.
A Gallup poll from December confirms the current crisis: “Americans’ ‘excellent’ mental health rating remains at a 21-year low amid the Covid-19 pandemic, holding at 34 percent after dropping to that level a year ago.” Before 2020, that rating reached 42 percent or higher.
Times Opinion would like to hear from readers who began therapy in the past couple of years. We’d like to know what encouraged you to seek help, what your biggest takeaways from counseling were and how you are feeling now.
The Mental Health Profession Is at a Crossroads Between Science and Politically-Biased Narratives ...This is just Jewish Freudian nonsense. The whole profession is sick, as it allows this thinking to dominate.Take Ann*, for example. She was in a dire psychological situation. She was 16 and experienced explosive rage after being ejected from school after school. Her family were at the end of their tether. Ann told me she was plagued with violent and suicidal thoughts. Her parents were increasingly rejecting and hostile towards her. Social services (in effect) threw in the towel on her family. They wanted Ann placed in a ‘trauma-informed’ residential care unit and attending specialist education provision where the teachers were trained in ‘attachment‘ and ‘trauma-informed’. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) insisted that because of emerging parental dismissive attachment, ‘something’ must have happened to Ann in the past to cause her immense pain. A harsh spotlight fell on the parents. Sessions probed for trauma or adversity; these were blind alleys, leading to failed interventions. Professionals were single-minded and driven to look for trauma. Some, yet to be revealed significant childhood trauma was in the formulation for Ann, CAHMS assured me. The effect on the parents and Ann was devastating, worsening their relationships along with extreme parental anxiety. Her problems would resolve once adversity and trauma were revealed, then discussed and ‘attachment repair’ could occur. Who could argue with this appealing formulation?
As the essay explains, Psychology has gotten more political than scientific.
Snopes tells us what Lincoln really said:
During his famous debates with Sen. Stephen Douglas, Lincoln explained to the crowd: “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races … I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”Some say that Lincoln was part Black:
But if Lincoln was Black, he could be one of several “white” U.S. presidents who may have had multiracial roots. Historians like Rogers have argued that Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Warren G. Harding, Dwight Eisenhower, and Calvin Coolidge could have been Black.USA Today reports:
"Kamala Harris will not be the first person of color to serve as vice president of the United States. In 1928, Charles Curtis — a Native American lawmaker and member of the Kaw Nation — was elected as President Herbert Hoover's vice president. He is the highest-ranking enrolled Native American to ever serve in the federal government."Some say that USA was founded on all men being created equal, and other say it was founded on White supremacy.
If a lesbian only desires same-sex dates that’s not bigotry, it’s her rightPerhaps a real patriarchy would tell her that God made her vagina for male penises. No, she is getting pushback from those who think lesbians should accept female penises.
Two such people are quitting in protest:
Two trans journalists are pulling out of the Guardian’s Pride special coverage due to what they claim is “ingrained prejudice against trans women” by the newspaper, VICE World News has learned.They have their own vaginas:In a letter to the UK newspaper’s bosses seen by VCE World News, freelance journalists Freddy McConnell and Vic Parsons said they were declining all future work with the Guardian. They were commissioned to write pieces about their experiences of being trans for the paper’s upcoming Pride special in its G2 magazine.
They say they have a “moral duty to stand in absolute solidarity” with trans women and trans feminine people who are receiving the most negativity from the paper, adding they will “no longer write for The Guardian until it changes its trans-hostile and exclusionary stance.”
Transgender journalist Freddy McConnell is fighting the U.K. government to be listed as the father on his child’s birth certificate.I have wondered who a woman could give birth to a child, and object to being called a mother. I watched the video trailer. She apparently did not want a penis in her vagina, as she used a sperm donor. After giving birth, she went back to pretending to be a man.McConnell – whose experience with pregnancy as a transgender man was the subject of the documentary Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth – is now appealing a September 2019 High Court decision by the president of the court’s Family Division stating that McConnell has to be listed as the mother because he’s the one who gave birth to the child.
Though McConnell began testosterone treatments in April 2013 and had a chest reshaping surgery in 2016, he stopped hormones in order to get pregnant using a sperm donor.
The Guardian bends over backwards to try to please the LGBTQ+ crowd, and cannot do it. It is difficult to cater to mentally ill folks, because their demands do not make any sense.
I conclude from this that these folks have nothing substantial to complain about. If they did, they would not devote so much energy into such trivial things. And I think that their movement will self-destruct. It is just too crazy.
More than half of Republicans believe the U.S. is drifting toward another civil war, according to a new poll released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which said it detected evidence of radicalization among both Democrats and the GOP.The SPLC actively promotes division and hatred at every opportunity, and demographic changes. These are big fund-raisers for them.The survey, taken in late April and covering 1,500 adults, also found a distressingly high level of support for assassinating politicians whom the respondents believed were “harming the country or our democracy.”
Young Democratic men were the most agreeable to the idea, with 44% saying they could countenance such an assassination. Younger Republican women ranked second, with 40% approving of the idea. ...
SPLC’s polling found widespread acceptance of the tenets of the theory, with 48% of respondents believing that “progressive and liberal leaders” are “actively trying to leverage political power by replacing more conservative white voters.”
That included two-thirds of Republicans, but also a surprising 35% of Democrats, and 42% of independents. Young Democrats were particularly inclined to believe the demographic changes are being orchestrated by liberal leaders for political power.
In case you doubt that the mainstream press promotes Replacement Theory, here is a 2018 NY Times article:
New Hampshire, 94 Percent White, Asks: How Do You Diversify a Whole State?Policy makers are meeting to plot strategies for replacing Whites with non-whites. That is what is says.Melina Hill Walker and Dick Martin at a gathering of business leaders, government officials and others this week on how to make New Hampshire more diverse. ...
New Hampshire, like its neighbors Vermont and Maine, is nearly all white. This has posed an array of problems for new arrivals, who often find themselves isolated and alone, without the comfort and support of a built-in community.
It has also posed problems for employers in these states, who find that their homogeneity can be a barrier to recruiting and retaining workers of different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.
The issue prompted about 100 business leaders, government officials and members of nonprofit organizations to meet Thursday to search for ways that New Hampshire — which is 94 percent white — might lure other racial and ethnic groups, as well as younger people.
Will Arvelo, New Hampshire’s director of economic development, said the gathering appeared to be the first broad-based effort in New England, if not the country, to focus on how to diversify an entire state.
With nonwhites poised to make up a majority of the American population in the next three decades, he said, diversity has become a bottom-line imperative ...
What should I do when my child misgenders someone? My son is 4 years old and has twice misgendered trans men. Once at school he asked if a teacher he didn’t know very well was someone’s mother, and once at a party he insisted a man was a woman. I didn’t want to make a big deal about it in the moment because I didn’t want to make the person he’d misgendered uncomfortable,Slate recommends some books, but neglects the one about the emporer having no clothes.
If a women dresses up as a man, and cannot even fool a 4-year-old. then what is the point?
One recommendation is this vidoe, which says:
There is nothing you as a parent can do to change your kid's gender identity.No, this is false. LGBT parents have kids with odd gender identities at a much higher rate than the general population.
Leftists commonly deny that people have free will. So I guess that parents with no free cannot do anything to change anything. But there is no science to say that there is nothing parents can do.
Pres. Biden announced Pride Month celebrations. It was all in favor of grooming school kids for LGBTQ.
If there were any doubt about it, Biden was introduced by some homosexual South American man. He told how he was turned gay by an openly gay fifth grade teacher. He attacked the Florida anti-grooming law. Biden spoke out in favor of transgender children.
Biden went on to propose an executive order to induce therapists to encourage kids to go LGBT, while prohibit therapy to go straight.
This is sick. This is not Libertarianism. This is forcing perversions on children.
Last year, the editor of The Lancet, a British medical journal, apologized for a cover that referred to “bodies with vaginas” rather than women.If you advocate for women's rights, then you are a bigot, because you are not using inclusionary language.Today, “pregnant people” and “birthing people” have elbowed aside “pregnant women.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a section on “Care for Breastfeeding People,” the governor of New York issued guidance on partners accompanying “birthing people” during Covid, and city and some state health departments offer “people who are pregnant” advice on “chestfeeding.”
The Cleveland Clinic, a well-known nonprofit hospital, posed a question on its website: “Who has a vagina?” Its answer begins, “People who are assigned female at birth (AFAB) have vaginas.” The American Cancer Society website recommends cancer screenings for “people with a cervix.”
This reflects a desire by medical professionals to find a language that does not exclude and gives comfort to those who give birth and identify as nonbinary or transgender.
Fox News broadcast a pro-trans video. The girl showed boyish tendencies at age 2, and the parents fully supported transitioning at age 5. The mom said that she was convinced that the child might commit suicide otherwise.
I tried to follow the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard case, but I missed how it was ultimately driven by Leftist hatred of Pres. Trump. An ACLU deposition disclosed that the ACLU wrote to Heard's publicist, saying:
“I’d like your and Amber’s thoughts on doing an op-ed in which she discusses the ways in which survivors of gender-based violence have been made less safe under the Trump administration, and how people can take action.” ...That's right, the libelous newspaper op-ed was ghostwritten by a Leftist organization to make false sexual violence claims against Depp in order to create an impression that Pres. Trump has somehow made the nation worse.“If she feels comfortable, she can interweave her personal story, saying how painful it is, as a GBV [gender-based violence] survivor to witness these setbacks.”
Here is a video presentation from a public school system bragging about LGBTQ+ Books for School Libraries and Classrooms. They specifically recommend books for all grades, K-12. They say that California law not only protects teachers doing LGBTQ+ instruction, it is required.
I think that the LGBTQ+ lobby has gone too far. They are using public money to groom small children for perverted activities. It is sick and dishonest and destructive.
From 1907 to 1932, 32 states passed explicit eugenics laws that allowed for the government to sterilize the “insane,” the “feebleminded,” the “dependent” and the “diseased” — all of whom were deemed incapable of making their own decisions about reproduction. Nearly all of these laws have been repealedA lot is on the Relf sisters, who suffer disabilities and live on welfare. Lawyers argue that they should be compensated for being sterilized.
If they had kids, those kids would have been a burden on society for decades to come.
I kept expecting the article to give a good anti-eugenics argument, but it did not. It did have some legalistic arguments about whether the consent was truly informed.
His political views are not so well known. He was a Communist, and belonged to Communist front organizations when Communism was the world's greatest evil. He assisted the Kremlin by spreading anti-American propaganda.
The biggest Commie tactic was to spread racial and class animosity and division. 2018 Manchester Guardian article:
The publication of Albert Einstein’s private diaries detailing his tour of Asia in the 1920s reveals the theoretical physicist and humanitarian icon’s racist attitudes to the people he met on his travels, particularly the Chinese.He was a Zionist who considered Jews better than everyone else.Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries see the scientist musing on his travels, science, philosophy and art. In China, the man who famously once described racism as “a disease of white people” describes the “industrious, filthy, obtuse people” he observes. He notes how the “Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.” After earlier writing of the “abundance of offspring” and the “fecundity” of the Chinese, he goes on to say: “It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”
Consider his 1946 essay on the Negro Question. The ethnic groups mentioned are Jews, Whites, Americans, Negroes, and Greeks. He had been living in America for 13 years and had white skin, but does not consider himself either American or White. He says he is a Jew. He did not practice Jewish religious customs, so he is referring to his race and/or nationality.
He badmouths everyone except Jews. He has a low opinion of all non-Jews, and resists admitting that any non-Jew could be better than any other.
You do not see much comment on this, because his views were not that ununusual among Jews. There were many Jewish Commies at the time. Today, our leading Jewish politician is Senator Chuck Schumer. While he is not a Commie, his primary allegiances are to Israel, and he works for racial animosity between Whites and Blacks at every opportunity.
Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor when the agency first received allegations against him, lawyers said Wednesday.The gold diggers do not quit, even after collecting $500 million.There’s no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts, but they failed to act, leaving him free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. He pleaded guilty in 2017 and is serving decades in prison.
Biles and the others never filed a criminal complaint. If sex crimes occurred, then Biles is responsible for covering them up as much as anyone else.
And not just Biles. 367 others also say that they were sexually abused, and kept quiet about it, until they could collect millions by speaking up. It all sounds fishy to me. Much of the supposed abuse took place with parents in the examining room, and they said nothing either.
So, basically having no choice, Professor Katz told the story. Most unfortunately, at this point, the alumna with whom he’d had the affair (by now, nearly a decade and a half earlier) turned on him and filed complaints with the university. She made various claims, but only one survived and became the focus of a new investigation. This was the claim, now publicly known, that during their affair, Professor Katz discouraged the woman from receiving needed mental health care in order to prevent their relationship from being revealed.Of course no one knows whether he discouraged her 15 years ago.
Say it is true. What could be wrong with giving her advice?
Offficially, Katz is not being punished for having an affair with an undergraduate while being her thesis advisor, as he was already punished, and not for speaking out against BLM groups, and not for complaining about being called a racist, and not for marrying an ex-student.
Katz is being fired for supposedly advising a student not to get counseling.
I suppose you might say that the advice is problematic because his motive was to keep the affair secret. But the affair was only secret because they both wanted to keep it secret. And counselors have an ethical duty to keep info secret anyway.
Why would she keep quiet for 15 years and suddenly make a complaint that he did not recommend counseling? Did she become jealous when she discovered that he married another student?
This does not add up. Katz is being fired in order to intimidate the rest of the faculty into silence.
Update: A law professor writes:
Based on Professor George's account, if I have understood it correct, there seem to have been two differnet wrongful acts: the affair itself (for which Katz was previously punished), and then discouraging the student involved in the affair from seeking mental health counseling, a wrongful act not known about at the time of the first proceeding. It’s not “double jeopardy” if Joe is punished first for robbing a bank and then also punished for extorting someone afterwards not to alert the police to Joe’s participation in the robbery: there are two wrongful acts, each of which can be tried and punished.I am pretty sure that would be double jeopardy. Every bank robber discourages his collaborators from calling the police. If that were a separate crime, you might see someone charged with that after a robbery acquittal.
No, Katz had no power over the student getting mental health counseling. She could have gotten that confidentially, and no one would know. Maybe she did.
What was confidential then, is not anymore. I think the woman's identity should be revealed, if she is going to bring forward such a silly complaint with such big consequences.
At least that professor criticizes Georgetown U. Law for announcing that: Offensive or even possibly offensive extramural speech is forbidden by Georgetown faculty.
It used to be that professors could be fired for advocating a violent Communist overthrow of the government. Now they can be fired for saying that a Black women is not the best Supreme Court candidate.
Here is another employee punished for expressing an opinion:
Washington Commanders head coach Ron Rivera on Friday fined his defensive coordinator, Jack Del Rio, $100,000 for calling the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol a “dust-up” and referring to the racial justice protests of 2020 as a “summer of riots.”He was telling the truth.
Gun-rights activists point to the 2008 Supreme Court decision in Heller v. District of Columbia as finally establishing, some 219 years after the ratification of the Second Amendment, an individual right to possess a gun in the home,Actually, nearly every court decision refers to the 2A as an individual right. The only exceptions were the lower federal courts in the latter XX century.
Such a popularized version of our Constitution’s meaning was in part vindicated by a conservative Supreme Court majority, whose opinion in Heller focused principally on the second half of the Second Amendment, which reads, “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” ...That court opinion was poorly explained. So let's not ignore the first half.But this version of the Second Amendment ignores the first half, which reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.”
Everyone had guns in Colonial America. Citizens were required to have guns. They believed that for a state to be free, the people had to have guns. The Militia was a word for the people having guns.
That may seem quaint today, but Switzerland is free because the people have guns.
Libertarians want guns for themselves. 2A believers want to live in a country with the bulk of the citizens have guns.
While the "being necessary" clause is a rationale for the right to keep and bear arms, it is notthe only rationale. It is like saying "open politial discourse being necessary for democracy, the right of free speech shall not be infringed." That would mean we need free speech for democracy, and we get free speech for other things also.
They showed some video of the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol protest, but they have still refused to release the 20,000 hours of video they have. So they just showed carefully edited video to push their political stance.
They produced evidence that Trump advisors were of the opinion that there was no suffient proof of fraud to get the court to change vote counts enough to alter the outcomes. They acted asa if this were a smoking gun. But didn't everyone know that? The court hearings were public, and everyone knew that the judges ruled that the evidence was insufficient.rev
The election could still have been stolen, even if fraud could not be proved in court.
The fact is that the procedures of previous elections were not followed, and there were millions of votes that cannot be verified. The evidence for the votes being legitimate or fraudulent does not exist.
“This sacred obligation to defend the peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every American president except one,” Cheney said.It was a peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 20. Does she think we had a coup?
Trump had some arguments about use of the Electoral Count Act. All the Democrats disagreed with him, but it was all for a peaceful transfer of power.
There was a bunch of talk about the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. They were controlled by FBI informants, and it is not clear that Trump knew anything about them. The Proud Boys leader is being prosecuted, even though he was not even there on Jan. 6.
Some of the Democrat talking heads were Black. This seems to be part of a plot to portray the protest as a White supremacist thing. That appears to be just desperate race-baiting. The House Democrats even introduced a White supremacy replacement theory resolution.
The Democrats are facing a tough election because we have runaway inflation, shortages, invasions at the borders, rising crime, racial unrest, and two lost wars. They want to distract us from all that, and whip up some anti-Trump hysteria. This is Impeachment 3.0.
Washington Post politics reporter Dave Weigel has been suspended following uproar over a sexist joke he retweeted.He is suspended for a month without pay.The newspaper suspended Weigel Monday without pay, CNN reported, after he reposted a tweet from Youtuber Cam Harless that stated, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.”
The humor comes from some truth to this, along with the play on words. And that is what makes it offensive, also.
Maybe that was Johnny Depp's problem. He could not figure out if Amber Heard was bisexual or bipolar. Both, it seems.
Last Wednesday’s verdict in the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp defamation case has been criticized for multiple reasons, particularly for the chilling effect the decision is likely to have on the #MeToo movement, jeopardizing survivors’ ability to speak openly about their abuse.Similar opinions have been expressed by the NY Times, NPR Radio, and others.
The case was not about Heard speaking openly about her abuse. She was the abuser, and was not abused, according to most of those who looked at the evidence.
Yes, you could say that defamation law has a chilling effect on making unsubstatiated charges that ruin someone's reputation. It is supposed to have that effect.
Obviously Heard got legal advice that a women can tell whatever abuse stories she wants, and they will be to her advantage, as long as she sticks to her story.
The #MeToo movement is all about making irresponsible accusations.
The rest of the article complains that Depp won in the court of public opinion. The trial was televised, and everyone could see the evidence.
It is an odd complaint, as Heard was the one who decided to go public with her accusations in the op-ed.
The NY Timex says, in its podcast:
We have to remember that, one of the original purposes of the MeToo movement was to create a space for women to come forward, and not be fearful that their lives will be destroyed by men who are much more powerful and well-resourced than them.There you have it. The NY Times says that the whole purpose is for women to make unsubstantiated accusations against powerful men, without any fear of repercussions.
If a woman has evidence of a crime, she can take it to the police. Nobody is quarreling with that. No, this is not about criminal evidence. This is about taking down powerful men with bogus stories, and not fearing the consequences.
There was no good reason Heard, the ACLU, and the Wash. Post needed to libel Depp. They did it out of spite (Heard), corruption (ACLU), politics (Post). They should have had to fear the consequences of false accusations.
Background: There has been considerable debate around mask requirements in schools in the United States and other countries during the Covid-19 pandemic. ...And a British Medical Journal paper explains:Findings: Replicating the CDC study shows similar results; however, incorporating a larger sample and longer period showed no significant relationship between mask mandates and case rates. These results persisted when using regression methods to control for differences across districts.
Vaccination policies have shifted dramatically during COVID-19 with the rapid emergence of population-wide vaccine mandates, domestic vaccine passports and differential restrictions based on vaccination status. While these policies have prompted ethical, scientific, practical, legal and political debate, there has been limited evaluation of their potential unintended consequences. Here, we outline a comprehensive set of hypotheses for why these policies may ultimately be counterproductive and harmful. ...Mandating vaccination is one of the most powerful interventions in public health and should be used sparingly and carefully to uphold ethical norms and trust in institutions. We argue that current COVID-19 vaccine policies should be re-evaluated in light of the negative consequences that we outline. Leveraging empowering strategies based on trust and public consultation, and improving healthcare services and infrastructure, represent a more sustainable approach to optimising COVID-19 vaccination programmes and, more broadly, the health and well-being of the public.
Another reported a trans woman physically forcing her to have sex after they went on a date.Of course she actually said that HE raped her with HIS penis. The woke editors changed it so as to not "misgender" the trans woman with a penis. I am surprised they didn't change it to "her penis"."[They] threatened to out me as a terf and risk my job if I refused to sleep with [them]," she wrote. "I was too young to argue and had been brainwashed by queer theory so [they were] a 'woman' even if every fibre of my being was screaming throughout so I agreed to go home with [them]. [They] used physical force when I changed my mind upon seeing [their] penis and raped me."
California releases report calling for 'comprehensive reparations' to compensate African Americans for the 'racial terror' they've endured by offering free college, payouts and a higher minimum wage for predominantly black industriesHere is the report.A California task force released a 500-page draft calling for 'comprehensive reparations' for African Americans that are decedents of 19th century slaves
Wednesday's draft is only part one of two and did not detail the finances of the proposal. The second part is expected to be released by summer 2023
The draft reportedly lists recommendations for reparations, including offering free four-year college and raising the minimum wage in predominately black industries
It also proposes an office to help African Americans residents to file claims and trace their lineage to prove eligibility for individual restitution
African Americans make up nearly six percent of California's population and nearly nine percent of people living below the poverty level
It finds that California Black men are burdened by past-due child support payment orders, with interest, for the kids they have abandoned. Much of the money is owed to the welfare agencies who have been supporting the moms.
This all relates to slavery and George Floyd somehow.
A North Charleston man is facing charges after an argument involving his girlfriend and their baby turned physical, according to an incident report. ...It does not say whether he is the father of the child. Maybe she is on welfare, and some other man is paying child support.Reid's live-in girlfriend told police that he came home intoxicated. After seeing her on the phone, he grabbed it from her and called the person she had been talking to, threatening to shoot their residence, according to the report.
The woman began to call 9-1-1, at which time Reid slapped her in the face, grabbed the phone, took the couple's baby and walked out, police say.
The victim attempted to call 9-1-1 again, and for a second time, Reid grabbed the phone from her. This time, according to the report, he threw the baby at the woman, began to choke her and bit her on her shoulder.
The woman was able to free herself after biting Reid's hand and yelled for her child to call 9-1-1.
I actually agree that the child support system is not helping here. If Blacks convince everyone that child support is a racist holdover from slavery and must be abolished, so much the better.
We keep having mass shootings, but the Nigerians have outdone us:
Over 50 feared dead in Nigeria church attack, officials sayI do not know what type of gun was used.Gunmen opened fire on worshippers and detonated explosives at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday, leaving dozens feared dead, state lawmakers said.
The attackers targeted the St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state just as the worshippers gathered on Pentecost Sunday, legislator Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole said. Among the dead were many children, he said.
Six Jewish Companies Own 96% of the World’s MediaIt then explains Jewish control of Disney, ABC, Viacom, CBS, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.
A new article reexamines this, and finds it to be exaggerated. AT&T is not run by Jews, for example.
Not everyone in the Biden administration is Jewish either. This Jewish article lists:
Ron Klain Chief of StaffThis does not include Harris's husband, and Biden's inlaws.
Janet Yellin Secretary of Treasury
Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security
Tony Blinken Secretary of State
Merrick Garland Attorney General
Jared Bernstein Council of Economic Advisers
Rochelle Walensky Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Wendy Sherman Deputy Secretary of State
Anne Neuberger Deputy National Security Adviser for Cybersecurity
Jeffrey Zients COVID-19 Response Coordinator
David Kessler Co-chair of the COVID-19 Advisory Board and Head of Operation Warp Speed
David Cohen CIA Deputy Director
Rachel Levine Deputy Health Secretary
Jennifer Klein Co-chair Council on Gender Policy
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a policy organization based in Ottawa, argues for an “open category” for men, transgender athletes and biological females, anyone who cares to try her/his/their hand.But that suggestion is the way it has been in the past. Women are not actually excluded from elite men's sports.An exclusively female category would remain for biological women. This solution would forestall the need for transgender women to take hormone-suppressing drugs.
Some transgender activists argue such distinctions would be insulting, notwithstanding the decision of those such as Mr. Henig to race in their former gender.
The solution, a balance of gender and biology, looks distant. And yet, no end of anguish accompanies the status quo.
The problem is that today's LGBT activists will not go along with it.
They have already convinced the sports authorities that men should not have to have surgery to compete as women. Soon they will argue that men should not have to take drugs to compete as women. Just as everyone agrees that someone should not have to take steroids to be competitive, they will say that a man should not have to take hormone suppressants to compete against women.
The only real solution here is to abolish elite women's sports. I am all in favor of recreational sports for girls and women, but I just do not see any good purpose for elite female sports competitions. They are not even particular entertaining, unless it is something like beach volleyball. They do not further any worthwhile social goals.
Subway restaurants have been declining, here is one of the reasons:
Megan Rapinoe kicked up another round of controversy at the Tokyo Olympics — and now a group of Subway franchisees are pressuring the fast-food giant to give her the boot.Her team has lost games to 15-year-old boys. Everyone hates Rapinoe. We would be better off if her team were abolished.The 36-year-old, purple-haired soccer star — who kneeled ahead of a match before leading the United States to a bronze medal this week — began a stint as a pitchwoman for the fast-food giant this spring.
In one spot, Rapinoe — who has been a vocal proponent of equal rights and equal pay for women — knocks a burrito out of a guy’s hands by kicking a soccer ball at him. ...
“If our soccer team, headed by a group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze,” Trump said in a statement. “The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics instead of doing her job!”
Update: Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder has a new video on trans athletes. She summarizes the science, and says that elite sports are freak shows anyway, and will never be fair.
Even before the verdict came in, the six-week-long trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had ramifications beyond the courtroom. Experts were warning that anti-feminist groups were using the trial to mobilize and that defamation lawsuits were being used to silence survivors of domestic violence. Now that a jury has sided with Depp, advocates say the verdict could have a chilling effect on other survivors looking to speak out against their abusers.No, Heard is not a survivor of domestic violence. She is a perpetrator."It just adds another barrier to what victims and survivors have to deal with, as they're determining how to get the support and safety they need," said Ruth Glenn, president and CEO of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
We can only hope that lying perps like her get deterred. Just tell the truth, and no one will sue for defamation.
It is almost impossible to ever have a court order someone to pay damages for defamation. It only happened to Heard because of her relentless and vindictive lying to damage her ex-husband.
NPR illustrates crazy feminist thinking. MeToo has come to mean believe lying women.
At the other extreme, Daily Stormer writes:
From there you had this downward spiral, with Jewish feminist lawyers attacking basically all men in Hollywood with the metoo movement, which culminated in Harvey Weinstein being sentenced to prison on claims that he “raped” his girlfriend one time during a years long sexual relationship she had with him. No evidence was presented to support the claim, and the court decided that a woman’s words are effectively the word of God – it is impossible she is lying because she is a woman.Yes, there have been a lot of MeToo hoaxes.So, maybe the Depp win rolls us back to Brock Turner – to 2015 standards. It’s not going to affect women’s privileges in the workplace, their ability to weasel out of traffic tickets and shoplifting arrests, or the sentencing standards for serious crimes. It will just slightly dull the blade of the fake rape and abuse charges that women have been successfully lodging against men for the past several years.
But that’s not a small thing – gaining any ground at all against the left is a big victory in a society that has been on an uninterrupted slide into the abyss for decades. This isn’t as big as the Trump 2016 victory, but it’s in the same category as that – it is a gaining of ground by sanity against the insanity of Jewish leftism. I think “this is women’s Jussie Smollett” is a good description of what transpired this week.
The NY Times movie critic writes:
In this post-#MeToo moment, misogyny and celebrity go hand in hand. ...No, the case was not about misogyny. The public would have favored Heard, if she had not lied so much.Let’s at least be clear about what that means. It means that we value the comfort and self-regard of men, especially famous ones, more than we value the safety and dignity of women, even famous ones.
Update: If you wonder why people like Johnny Depp, watch this video compilation of opinions from other actors. Then ponder that one bitter and crazy ex-wife ruined his career with false accusations.
California is repealing the law requiring crimes in the schools to be reported:
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTThe ACLU says this needs to be done because most of the school criminals are Black or Latino!SB 1273, as amended, Bradford. School safety: mandatory notifications.
(1) Existing law provides that any person who willfully disturbs any public school or any public school meeting is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $500.
This bill would exempt pupils who are currently enrolled in the school district from that provision.
(2) Under existing law, whenever any employee of a school district or county superintendent of schools is attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by any pupil, the employee and any person under whose direction or supervision the employee is employed who has knowledge of the incident are required to promptly report the incident to specified law enforcement authorities. Failure to make the report is an infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000. An act by specified persons to inhibit or impede the making of the report is an infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000.
This bill would repeal those provisions.
(3) The federal Gun-Free Schools Act prohibits a local educational agency from receiving certain federal funds unless the local educational agency has a policy requiring referral to the criminal justice or juvenile delinquency system of any student who brings a firearm or weapon to a school served by the local educational agency.
Existing state law requires the principal of a school or the principal’s designee to notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of the county or city in which the school is situated of certain acts committed by a pupil that may be unlawful, including, among others, the selling or possession of narcotics or other designated controlled or regulated substances, and acts of assault, as specified.
This bill would delete the acts referenced above from the category of acts for which the principal or the principal’s designee is required to notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities, as described above.
On Tuesday, ABC’s "The View" co-host Tara Setmayer blamed the Uvalde school shooting on a "rise in violent Christian nationalism."This is pretty crazy. Christians are the least racist people in the world. The shooter was a Mexican-American killing other Mexican-Americans."It’s part of the Christian nationalism, this rise in violent Christian nationalism, that we have seen, which is also disturbing. They use biblical principles, they pervert them to justify this," Setmayer said.
"Particularly in Texas, this is a growing movement," she continued. "It’s God, guns and Trump. Or God, guns and whatever. It’s a part of their ethos." ...
The View’s comments reflect a pattern by some in the media to label Christianity as a vehicle for violence and white supremacy. Last month, TIME published an article titled "It’s Time to Stop Giving Christianity a Pass on White Supremacy and Violence."
The jury saw through this, and found her culpable.
The public has been overwhelmingly on the side of Johnny Depp, with Heard seen as a crazy liar. It was not so clear that the jury would find defamation.
The ACLU and Wash. Post should also be responsible for publishing these lies.
As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer. His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him.Floyd was a criminal junkie who died of a fentanyl overdose while resisting arrest.
The Uvalde children were innocent victims of mass murderer.
The ex-President sees these as similar somehow?
I once thought that electing a Black President would improve race relations in the USA. Okay, half-Black, raised by Whites, and married to a Black woman.
No, that was foolishness.
