For better or worse, most readers of newneo are oldpaleo, so we’re not aware of radical gender theory’s pervasive impact on teenagers. This report from a high school teacher is painfully eye-opening (https://tinyurl.com/4v8j4wen).
Please read the whole thing, but here’s a sample paragraph:
“In other words: It used to be that childhood transition was a way for gay kids to make themselves straight, but now it’s primarily a way for straight kids to make themselves gay. And why wouldn’t they? In these internet-poisoned youth subcultures, being a boring straight kid (especially a boring straight girl!) puts you at the absolute bottom of the hierarchy, a totally acceptable target for barely-concealed contempt and passive bullying. I had a group of queer students who ate lunch by my desk every day, and every other joke they made was about the one ‘token heterosexual’ who liked to hang out with them. Of course, she was non-binary too by the end of the year – you can only take peers ‘punching up’ at you for so long before you’d want to join them on their level.”
It makes one long for the days when bitchy behavior like that would only be tolerated for so long before someone rearranged the smart ass’ teeth. And then harmony would reign again.
Some commenter on this blog (I hope it was this blog) asked for a recommendation for an audiobook of Don Quixote. Filed it away in my memory banks because I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Anyway, I’m about half way through Edith Grossman’s translation narrated by George Guidal. It’s great! In fact, one of the best audiobooks I’ve ever listened to. Highly recommend.
I think this nails it. The deep state criminals behind Russiagate were convinced by Patel’s comments that Trump had copies of the documents that exposed their crimes. They immediately started the process which eventually resulted in the raid.
The timeline is eye opening.
Cornflour– If you think Wesley Yang’s account of the gender theorists’ war on teenagers is bad, here’s a horror story for you about a Mexican-American guy who is not only an activist for illegals living here but is openly gay and works with little kids. He started a GoFundMe account to cover the cost of his monkeypox treatment while he blamed the United States for his suffering with monkeypox (yeah, I know, so why didn’t he go back to Mexico already?)
It gets much worse: the guy is a preschool teacher who works at the Fruit and Flower Child Care Center in Portland, OR (where else would you find a preschool with a name like that?). But after Reyes Rojas’ social media accounts came to light, the State of Oregon issued an immediate suspension order barring him from working with children. He had been posting “sexually explicit and highly concerning posts about his physical and emotional state while working with child care children on his personal social media account.” The bio-line of his Twitter account reads, “30 year old Mexican oral power bottom living in Portland, OR. Preschool teacher by day and sensual bottom by night. 18+.”
I guess that kind of sorts things out — him joining The Dispatch, where David French resides. I am sure there will be subscription rush over the next week or so…
He does make one point in his parting shot that I find it hard to argue with: “What cause does the Republican Party presently serve? It has no meaningful policy agenda. It literally has no platform.” He says more in the full context, which may or may not be valid. But in any case, I guess we’ll have to wait till 2024 to see how the candidates sort themselves out and what the primary winner will establish as his or her platform. Until then, I guess the main objective is to try to put sand in the gears of the current administration’s efforts. (I don’t think anyone foresees the GOP winning a veto-proof majority in Congress in November.)
So what is Allahpundit’s real name? He says he’ll be using it at The Dispatch. Not that I’ll be reading there.
I put this on the previous post, but I’m putting it here also. Monica Crowley starting at about 7:50 mark really lays out what is happening
“What cause does the Republican Party presently serve? It has no meaningful policy agenda. It literally has no platform.”
That is a valid point. You don’t run against your opponents bad policies, you run convincing people of your good policies.
I do think we need a new Contract With America, and designate a spokesman in the Republican leadership that can articulate it (Not Kevin McCarthy).
1. Securing the border and recognizing the benefits of legal immigration
2. Restoring American energy independence
3. Continuing to promote the re-shoring of American manufacturing– improving the living standards of blue collar, black and hispanic workers.
4. Promote strong Families and protect our children from the excesses of wokeism, CRT and the radical agenda of those who are trying to tear down our country.
5. Bringing Federal spending under control, not continuing to burden future generations with debt.
6. Putting America First, while continuing the American tradition of helping the needy around the world.
An addendum to a longer piece laying out mRNA shortcomings. Conspiratorial or insightful?
“We are approaching two years from the widespread rollout of the mRNAs. We are awash in them; hundreds of millions of doses sit unused in freezers in the United States and Europe. Why hasn’t the largest country in the world, a country that could easily buy or make billions of doses, the country from which Sars-Cov-2 emerged, offered a single mRNA dose to its citizens?” https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/just-emailed-this-to-a-reporter-i/comments
Democrats are nationalizing the abortion debate with some success.
But how difficult is it to get an abortion in the US.
Here’s an interactive map based on policies as of 9/1.
Southern states are restrictive.
Georgia- 6 weeks
Florida- 15 weeks
S Carolina- 22 weeks
N Carolina-20 weeks
Virginia- third trimester
This is kind of a red herring, IMO. I think it rankles many women that anyone is telling them what they can’t do, even if they don’t intend to do it.
Anyway, “True Story!” as our Imbecile-in-Chief is wont to quaver: Once I had a girlfriend, Terry The Secretary — in fact, Paul Simon’s secretary. Terry was real pretty and real tall and had real long legs, but was, alas, proprioceptively challenged, and might topple over anyplace, so that, e.g., one pleasant eve, strolling side by side down Chestnut Street, boom! down she went, like a perfect demolition. Knee blood seeping through pantyhose — been there, seen that.
She spoke kindly of her boss, and looked up to him, figuratively.
Brian E, Georgia’s six weeks might reasonably be called restrictive, but fifteen, twenty, twenty-two, and more weeks?
Kate,
These southern states ban abortion with very limited access:
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
The other states with bans
South Dakota
Idaho
This came up in a conversation with my son who said women in the south would have to travel 9 states to access an abortion. As can be seen from the graph, abortions aren’t going away.
In addition I read that half of all abortions are now chemical, and I assume it will be difficult to control mail order abortions.
Any reduction in abortions is a good thing. Too bad the left couldn’t accept “safe, legal and rare.”
Google News is still flogging MAL as its top story, but #2 is Russia cutting off the Nord Stream gas pipeline to Europe. It’s a dark horse but quite important.
____________________________
Russia’s Gazprom PJSC said its key gas pipeline to Europe won’t reopen as planned, moving the region a step closer to blackouts, rationing and a severe recession.
The pipeline was due to reopen on Saturday after maintenance. But in a last-minute move, the company said a technical issue had been found and the pipe can’t operate again until it’s fixed. The European Union said Gazprom was acting on “fallacious pretenses,” and Siemens Energy, which makes the pipeline’s turbines, said what Gazprom had found didn’t justify cutting the gas.
It’s a massive blow to Europe, which is scrambling to cut its dependency on Russian gas before winter and has been waiting for Moscow’s next steps in the energy war. As the continent tries to implement measures to get through the winter, the indefinite closure of the pipeline is an escalation that threatens more economic turmoil.
This is particularly a dagger aimed at Germany, whose manufacturing (and therefore its economy) depends heavily on Russian gas, since the German bid to Zero Carbon with Green Tech has rolled snake-eyes.
Some commenter on this blog (I hope it was this blog) asked for a recommendation for an audiobook of Don Quixote.
Mike Plaiss:
I asked commenter, miguel cervantes, if he knew a good translation. However, he had no joy to offer.
So, thanks, I’ll put Edith Grossman’s “Don Quixote” on my bucket list. Not sure if I want to read or listen or both.
I had no idea it was so laugh-out-loud funny. It reminds me a bit of Huck Finn. A novel I enjoyed so much I wish I could go back to a time before I read it so I could experience it for the first time again. It’s giving me a little bit of that. Which is great.
“This is particularly a dagger aimed at Germany, whose manufacturing (and therefore its economy) depends heavily on Russian gas”
It’s true that the situation of Germany is fascinating and super-important to world trade etc so they will get the lion’s share of coverage by media. But let me note in passing that Italy is more in danger. Their gov’t is every bit as clueless, they are every bit as dependent on Russian hydrocarbons but they are far from being as organized as Germany. Germany has plans which likely will come up short but at least the plans exist. People are thinking about the problems. Italy is simply in chaos with no direction.
Perhaps being farther to the south Italy has warmer winters? Other than that, they are in a world of hurt. (This has been covered for some months by the YouTube channel “Joe Blogs”).
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For better or worse, most readers of newneo are oldpaleo, so we’re not aware of radical gender theory’s pervasive impact on teenagers. This report from a high school teacher is painfully eye-opening (https://tinyurl.com/4v8j4wen).
Please read the whole thing, but here’s a sample paragraph:
“In other words: It used to be that childhood transition was a way for gay kids to make themselves straight, but now it’s primarily a way for straight kids to make themselves gay. And why wouldn’t they? In these internet-poisoned youth subcultures, being a boring straight kid (especially a boring straight girl!) puts you at the absolute bottom of the hierarchy, a totally acceptable target for barely-concealed contempt and passive bullying. I had a group of queer students who ate lunch by my desk every day, and every other joke they made was about the one ‘token heterosexual’ who liked to hang out with them. Of course, she was non-binary too by the end of the year – you can only take peers ‘punching up’ at you for so long before you’d want to join them on their level.”
It makes one long for the days when bitchy behavior like that would only be tolerated for so long before someone rearranged the smart ass’ teeth. And then harmony would reign again.
Some commenter on this blog (I hope it was this blog) asked for a recommendation for an audiobook of Don Quixote. Filed it away in my memory banks because I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Anyway, I’m about half way through Edith Grossman’s translation narrated by George Guidal. It’s great! In fact, one of the best audiobooks I’ve ever listened to. Highly recommend.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/fbi-raid-mar-a-lago-trump-russiagate-lee-smith
I think this nails it. The deep state criminals behind Russiagate were convinced by Patel’s comments that Trump had copies of the documents that exposed their crimes. They immediately started the process which eventually resulted in the raid.
The timeline is eye opening.
Cornflour– If you think Wesley Yang’s account of the gender theorists’ war on teenagers is bad, here’s a horror story for you about a Mexican-American guy who is not only an activist for illegals living here but is openly gay and works with little kids. He started a GoFundMe account to cover the cost of his monkeypox treatment while he blamed the United States for his suffering with monkeypox (yeah, I know, so why didn’t he go back to Mexico already?)
It gets much worse: the guy is a preschool teacher who works at the Fruit and Flower Child Care Center in Portland, OR (where else would you find a preschool with a name like that?). But after Reyes Rojas’ social media accounts came to light, the State of Oregon issued an immediate suspension order barring him from working with children. He had been posting “sexually explicit and highly concerning posts about his physical and emotional state while working with child care children on his personal social media account.” The bio-line of his Twitter account reads, “30 year old Mexican oral power bottom living in Portland, OR. Preschool teacher by day and sensual bottom by night. 18+.”
Many more disturbing details and a NSFW photo at the link: https://www.newsweek.com/preschool-teachers-disturbing-social-media-gets-him-barred-job-1737068
Meanwhile, Oregon has reported its first case of pediatric monkeypox.
Salem Media canned AllahPundit. He’s been hired by The Dispatch.
Poor AllahPundit (sarc) he is being repressed! Did the Salem door hit him where he deserved it?
Continuing with Art Deco’s comment…
Here is the farewell post: https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/09/02/farewell-to-hot-air-n494121
I guess that kind of sorts things out — him joining The Dispatch, where David French resides. I am sure there will be subscription rush over the next week or so…
He does make one point in his parting shot that I find it hard to argue with: “What cause does the Republican Party presently serve? It has no meaningful policy agenda. It literally has no platform.” He says more in the full context, which may or may not be valid. But in any case, I guess we’ll have to wait till 2024 to see how the candidates sort themselves out and what the primary winner will establish as his or her platform. Until then, I guess the main objective is to try to put sand in the gears of the current administration’s efforts. (I don’t think anyone foresees the GOP winning a veto-proof majority in Congress in November.)
So what is Allahpundit’s real name? He says he’ll be using it at The Dispatch. Not that I’ll be reading there.
I put this on the previous post, but I’m putting it here also. Monica Crowley starting at about 7:50 mark really lays out what is happening
https://rumble.com/v1ibl9r-raymond-arroyo-jd-vance-jim-jordan-and-monica-crowley-respond-to-divisive-b.html
“What cause does the Republican Party presently serve? It has no meaningful policy agenda. It literally has no platform.”
That is a valid point. You don’t run against your opponents bad policies, you run convincing people of your good policies.
I do think we need a new Contract With America, and designate a spokesman in the Republican leadership that can articulate it (Not Kevin McCarthy).
1. Securing the border and recognizing the benefits of legal immigration
2. Restoring American energy independence
3. Continuing to promote the re-shoring of American manufacturing– improving the living standards of blue collar, black and hispanic workers.
4. Promote strong Families and protect our children from the excesses of wokeism, CRT and the radical agenda of those who are trying to tear down our country.
5. Bringing Federal spending under control, not continuing to burden future generations with debt.
6. Putting America First, while continuing the American tradition of helping the needy around the world.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/28/editorial-what-is-the-gops-election-platform/
An addendum to a longer piece laying out mRNA shortcomings. Conspiratorial or insightful?
“We are approaching two years from the widespread rollout of the mRNAs. We are awash in them; hundreds of millions of doses sit unused in freezers in the United States and Europe. Why hasn’t the largest country in the world, a country that could easily buy or make billions of doses, the country from which Sars-Cov-2 emerged, offered a single mRNA dose to its citizens?”
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/just-emailed-this-to-a-reporter-i/comments
Democrats are nationalizing the abortion debate with some success.
But how difficult is it to get an abortion in the US.
Here’s an interactive map based on policies as of 9/1.
Southern states are restrictive.
Georgia- 6 weeks
Florida- 15 weeks
S Carolina- 22 weeks
N Carolina-20 weeks
Virginia- third trimester
This is kind of a red herring, IMO. I think it rankles many women that anyone is telling them what they can’t do, even if they don’t intend to do it.
https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/pennsylvania/abortion-policies
Anyway, “True Story!” as our Imbecile-in-Chief is wont to quaver: Once I had a girlfriend, Terry The Secretary — in fact, Paul Simon’s secretary. Terry was real pretty and real tall and had real long legs, but was, alas, proprioceptively challenged, and might topple over anyplace, so that, e.g., one pleasant eve, strolling side by side down Chestnut Street, boom! down she went, like a perfect demolition. Knee blood seeping through pantyhose — been there, seen that.
She spoke kindly of her boss, and looked up to him, figuratively.
Brian E, Georgia’s six weeks might reasonably be called restrictive, but fifteen, twenty, twenty-two, and more weeks?
Kate,
These southern states ban abortion with very limited access:
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
The other states with bans
South Dakota
Idaho
This came up in a conversation with my son who said women in the south would have to travel 9 states to access an abortion. As can be seen from the graph, abortions aren’t going away.
In addition I read that half of all abortions are now chemical, and I assume it will be difficult to control mail order abortions.
Any reduction in abortions is a good thing. Too bad the left couldn’t accept “safe, legal and rare.”
Google News is still flogging MAL as its top story, but #2 is Russia cutting off the Nord Stream gas pipeline to Europe. It’s a dark horse but quite important.
____________________________
Russia’s Gazprom PJSC said its key gas pipeline to Europe won’t reopen as planned, moving the region a step closer to blackouts, rationing and a severe recession.
The pipeline was due to reopen on Saturday after maintenance. But in a last-minute move, the company said a technical issue had been found and the pipe can’t operate again until it’s fixed. The European Union said Gazprom was acting on “fallacious pretenses,” and Siemens Energy, which makes the pipeline’s turbines, said what Gazprom had found didn’t justify cutting the gas.
It’s a massive blow to Europe, which is scrambling to cut its dependency on Russian gas before winter and has been waiting for Moscow’s next steps in the energy war. As the continent tries to implement measures to get through the winter, the indefinite closure of the pipeline is an escalation that threatens more economic turmoil.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/gazprom-says-nord-stream-to-remain-shut-after-technical-issue
____________________________
This is particularly a dagger aimed at Germany, whose manufacturing (and therefore its economy) depends heavily on Russian gas, since the German bid to Zero Carbon with Green Tech has rolled snake-eyes.
Some commenter on this blog (I hope it was this blog) asked for a recommendation for an audiobook of Don Quixote.
Mike Plaiss:
I asked commenter, miguel cervantes, if he knew a good translation. However, he had no joy to offer.
So, thanks, I’ll put Edith Grossman’s “Don Quixote” on my bucket list. Not sure if I want to read or listen or both.
I had no idea it was so laugh-out-loud funny. It reminds me a bit of Huck Finn. A novel I enjoyed so much I wish I could go back to a time before I read it so I could experience it for the first time again. It’s giving me a little bit of that. Which is great.
“This is particularly a dagger aimed at Germany, whose manufacturing (and therefore its economy) depends heavily on Russian gas”
It’s true that the situation of Germany is fascinating and super-important to world trade etc so they will get the lion’s share of coverage by media. But let me note in passing that Italy is more in danger. Their gov’t is every bit as clueless, they are every bit as dependent on Russian hydrocarbons but they are far from being as organized as Germany. Germany has plans which likely will come up short but at least the plans exist. People are thinking about the problems. Italy is simply in chaos with no direction.
Perhaps being farther to the south Italy has warmer winters? Other than that, they are in a world of hurt. (This has been covered for some months by the YouTube channel “Joe Blogs”).