Roundup
The holidays are over, and the news just keeps coming and coming…
(1) A mother’s story of how she was brainwashed into thinking she should raise her child without any messages whatsoever about belonging to one sex or another, and how the consequences of that decision finally were brought home to her and she changed her approach. It took a fairly dramatic situation to do it, too.
(2) A sizable majority – 63% of likely voters – wants the FBI’s involvement in social media censorship investigated. That’s impressive, considering how the MSM has sat on the story.
(3) Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become Speaker keeps running into snags. The narrow House majority for the GOP means he can’t afford to lose many votes. The conservative holdouts have been pressing him for concessions, and he’s granted some:
McCarthy’s central concession is allowing for any five Republican representatives to force of vote of no confidence in the speaker. He also vowed to end the practice of proxy voting and virtual participation in hearings, requiring lawmakers to be in Washington to participate in hearings and votes.
My problem with all of this is simple. I have no great love for McCarthy, but I’d like to know what challenger in the GOP can get the support to win the job. I don’t think supposed contender Andy Biggs has a chance of amassing the requisite number of votes, but who knows? Without a viable alternative to McCarthy, this doesn’t help the right – unless in the end they are doing this to get concessions from McCarthy in order to force him to the right and then will join the vote to elect him Speaker.
(4) It’s come out that Ray Epps wrote a text to his family on January 6th claiming that he “orchestrated it.” Andrea Widburg sums the situation up this way:
The videos of Ray Epps, a tall, gray-haired man urging people to the Capitol, that are posted at The Revolver will suffice to show that Epp’s behavior was open and perfectly met the Democrats’ own description of what constitutes an “insurrection.” (I’m not agreeing with their definition, I’m just saying that Epps meets it.)
What’s truly bizarre is affirmative disinterest that the Democrats and the FBI (but I repeat myself) are showing in Epps. And by “affirmative,” I meant that, despite the FBI having him on its radar, it erased him entirely from consideration, while the January 6 Committee called him a good guy.
(5) Blogger Gerard Vanderleun of American Digest, who’s also a sometime commenter here, is having various health problems. Good wishes and prayers are welcome.
The mother’s story may remind some of the tragic tale related by John Colapinto in As Nature Made Him about the sad case of David Reimer, whose life was destroyed by the irrational and destructive theories of John Money, a charlatan who taught at Johns Hopkins and is widely considered one of the founders of radical gender theory. As for the FBI, no rational and informed person can regard it as anything other than a tool of oppression, implicated in egregious and highly-politicized misconduct, failure to act on good evidence, manipulation of the public through lying and gaslighting, entrapment and instigation, not to mention no doubt having played a major role in the “Fedsurrection”.
In a sane world #1 would have her children taken from her.
She’s left a branch of the cult…but it’s still got her. The story is about her. She’s still a narcissist and still playing it with 2 mommies. She doesn’t want to see the wider implications.
GV… Godspeed. Praying for good outcomes.
John Guilfoyle:
I utterly disagree with you about #1. It’s not just about her; if you read the entire essay, plenty of it is about her children and how they were harmed. The whole thing is a mea culpa on her part, and it is written as a warning to other parents not to make the same mistakes she did. I don’t see that as a narcissistic effort at all.
Also, she’s a lesbian. She’s not going to suddenly become heterosexual. She has two children (one her own biological child and one her partner’s biological child) who are already very bonded to these two parents. Taking them away would damage the children far more than has already occurred.
Thanks for the first article, that was great. However, I’d love to see more articles where she digs deeper into the experience of “leaving the cult.” At least she recognized it for what it was. I mean, come on – being told to write letters to everyone in your life telling them that you’ll cut them off if they don’t unquestioningly accept that your child is transgender?
James Lindsay’s site New Discourses tried to make the case that Anti-Racism was a cult in 2020. I think it could be, or could have become one, but I don’t think it has as loyal a following as the cult of “gender ideology.” There, people really do cut their friends and family members out of their lives. People get told to consider people who affirm their identity “family” and to leave their old family behind. They’re told that horrible things will happen – kids will develop mental health disorders, become suicidal, etc. – if they don’t go along. When it comes to gender ideology, a lot of people have really taken a plunge. When people decide to come out as gay, trans, or non-binary, it takes over their life; they see it as virtuous to obsess over their own identity and how they portray it; for example, showing pictures of their gender-bending outfits every day, or making every social media post something about LGBT-related news. I just don’t see this level of intensity or as many people buying in when it comes to other left-wing issues.
I’m hoping that the concessions will be enough to elect a Republican Speaker. None of the opponents has nearly enough support to defeat McCarthy.
Looks like a cult. Walks like a cult. Quacks (pronouns) like a cult. Nothing to see.
There’s power and money in the cult (therapists, influencers, doctors, lawyers, educators, bureaucrats).
Victims of the cult? Nothing to see.
Took courage to leave the cult. A parent’s love won out.
I remember Epps from videos that came our right after January 6. On the 5 th he was standing in the crowd trying to stir them up and people started chanting “fed, fed, …”. The next day he was videoed standing on an 8 foot step ladder doing the same thing. Who brings a step ladder to a demonstration? At the time people were claiming he was an FBI contractor. I’d bet that they were and still are correct.
There was also the black guy, who turned out to be the head if Antifa in Idaho, who was videoed inside the Capitol building riling up the crowd. He was held for a day and then released.
Bleh, the whole thing was a setup by Nancy Pelosi who rejected all offers of help from Trump, the Nat. guard, the Capitol police, and others.
Paul in Boston.
Yes, it was a setup by the Dems and Trump was so stupid that he walked right into it. That’s one of the main reasons why I’m done with him: Too stupid.
Regarding #1, today’s Left is a mental disease that hates America and children. At least that woman wised up before she gave those kids puberty blockers.
Also, she’s a lesbian. She’s not going to suddenly become heterosexual.
Lesbianism is pretty circumstantially contingent.
Art Deco:
Only now and then when circumstances are limited, such as in a women’s prison. Ordinarily no, it’s not contingent – and this woman does not indicate any history that would lead you to believe it to be true of her.
Neo…the first two or so paragraphs give away the game.
” I was one of the cool kids…”
“Within this context I came out…”
If she ever leaves, as some have, the fullness of the leftist gravitational field we’ll see where she ends up.
Glad she’s made the part of the trip she’s made, but it feels pretty “look at me” still. I appreciate your disagreement.
Ordinarily no, it’s not contingent –
Actually, bouncing back and forth is more common than lifelong lesbianism.
Read the mom’s story, glad it came out a happy ending, I hope.
On in depth Ray Epps read the Revolver report
https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/
Art Deco:
Engaging in occasional same-sex behavior is nothing like what this woman – a lesbian – is describing. Lesbians are a different group, and this woman is a committed lesbian in a marital relationship of many years’ duration with a woman. I said she is a lesbian and unlikely to change. That’s the case, and the number of woman who occasionally have engaged in same-sex behavior or experimented with it in their lives is irrelevant.
I’d like to draw attention to the opening of the transgender piece:
____________________________
I was a true believer.
I was a social justice organizer and facilitator before social justice overtook the world. I was on the forefront, introducing the concept of intersectionality to progressive organizations, and having people share their pronouns. My friends and I felt we were the cool kids, the vanguard of revolutionary work to change the world, to achieve what people in the social justice movement call “collective liberation.” I was deeply committed to the work of creating another world that was possible.
Within this context, I came out as a lesbian, and identified as queer. And then I fell in love, entered a committed relationship with my spouse, and gave birth to our first son.
____________________________
I’ve read many comments on this blog which conclude A->B->C that all on the left are monsters committed to evil and the destruction of America.
A few are, but rank-and-file progressives and Democrats are not. They believe they are decent people doing decent things in the face of Evil Conservatives.
I grant they are brainwashed and wrong on most of it. But I was like that too until not long after 9-11.
Most conservatives, from what I can tell, have never had to take a Red Pill to find their way out of The Matrix. It’s a serious, frightening journey. Such a changer really is making a bonfire out of their old social world.
Oh, and here’s the kicker: If a progressive does down the Red Pill, they will, guaranteed, run into conservatives who will be no more sympathetic than their former, now vicious, comrades on the left.
Salut to our new Guest Post lesbian mother friend!
The lady has realised the lies she has been told, and is trying her best to correct what she did as a result. She needs support for what she is doing, not criticism.
It’s that appalling “therapist “, who needs to be criticised.
Talk about delusion!
In her comments as she leaves the post of Speaker Pelosi lauds her fellow Democrats as “the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination ever assembled.”
A “collection of malevolent clowns” might be far closer to the truth.
P.S.—Since virtually everything the Democrats say and every accusation they make is projection, this characterization by Pelosi should be taken for its opposite.
Feel free to make whatever substitutions you care to make for her grandiose and utterly wrong evaluation and over the top praise.
Naturally, the big concern is that the GOP vote for Speaker will be fractured, and the Democrats will elect the next Speaker. I fear that they will fumble the ball.
Strange that the GOP has elected McCarthy to lead the Caucus all of these years in the wilderness, but now that real power is within their grasp, some have other ideas. Maybe not so strange, eh?
I have been a little dubious about McCarthy at times. On the other hand, I recognize that he is from California and no doubt has to walk a fine line if he wants to stay in Congress.
(4) There is some interesting new information in that piece for me. So some FBI agents were not in on the Ray Epps fix in the early days. Does that peel back the curtain an inch?
What are the odds that Epps was an FBI informant from the get-go, and the lower level agents didn’t know? Possible, but I’d guess unlikely. It’s more likely that Epps was acting for the CIA or somebody in the government; not the FBI.
It’s beginning to sound more like a mediocre Hollywood script. Then again, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason was a creator of said scripts and a very close friend and associate of Bill and Hillary C.
Will the Stupid Party Prevail, having in theory gained the House but some have decided they would rather be a minority after all?
Cornhead
So Trump is stupid? He accomplished a lot with the entirety of the Washington establishment, media, etc. against him and he’s stupid? That is prima facie idiotic.