Real Men Live In The 1950s

 ... once we get married. Yes, I know I'm using the cliche "real men*," but this is my blog and I get to use tropes if I want. So there.

It occurred to me only recently as I was rummaging around in the sex and dating wars on the Internet, trying to understand why AI couldn't write proper Arthurian fiction, that while many women strongly assert that they won't live like a woman from the 1950s, they all want a husband from the 1950s. Protect, provide, cherish is the order of the day, week, month, year, decade, century, millennia ...

My father was drafted into the Army in 1944. As his infantry unit was preparing to leave for France and get cut to pieces in the Battle of the Bulge, he was transferred to West Point. He had always wanted to be an aeronautical engineer, but those plans were put on hold because of the war. He might have returned to those, but then he met my mom. Once the ring was on his finger, he devoted his life wholeheartedly to protect, provide, cherish. His entire life was dedicated to making sure his wife and children had what they needed.

After 32 years in the military, he retired and built a house. After that, he took up painting and turned out to be very talented. 25 years as an artist followed. I have a ton of his paintings and most of them are excellent.

He could never have been a professional artist because it was not his best route to protect, provide and cherish. The military gave him a career path that did what his family needed done from medical care for yours truly as I struggled with various childhood health issues to parochial schooling for all 4 of us kids to making sure mom was provided for throughout her life even after he died.

My dad's dreams didn't matter compared to his responsibilities as a husband and a father. He owned a boat for a while, but that was about the sum total of his self-indulgence.

I've tried to live my life the same way. We've given our kids Catholic schooling, helped them buy their first houses, I've made sure wife kitteh got the remodel and the cars she wanted and we've even bought a condo in Chicago for her best friend who was facing severe housing insecurity. My own dreams of having a vacation home on the Fish River in Alabama are still remote. I couldn't live any other way. The ring went on my finger and from there on out, it was protect, provide, cherish.

I've had all manner of opportunities and career dreams that I never pursued because it would have been bad for my family. It's no big deal, really. I chose family over being a gentleman adventurer and I would do it again without a second thought.

Women face that same choice when the ring goes on the finger, but modern women influenced by feminism shriek about the choices they face, demanding those choices be taken away and replaced with a buffet where they get it all. They want the career, husband, kids, vacations, etc. They don't want to have to choose between them. That's the essence of what I've gleaned from scouring the romance wars on the Internet.

Youngest son kitteh got married last Saturday. I know for certain that now that the ring is on his finger, he will live to protect, provide and cherish. Real men do that.

Real men live in the 1950s. We always have.

* - Yes, I've heard of the No True Scotsman Fallacy. No need to bring it up in the comments.

Happy With Lies

Youngest son kitteh got married to an awesome young lady over the weekend. A good time was had by all.

At the wedding, I got to see my daughter, the one who thinks she's a man. I only see her about twice a year, whenever the urge to get together strikes her. Such is life with a trans adult child. Since I won't call her by her fake name or tell her she's a man, I'm almost completely cut out of her life. That's fine with me. Frankly, I'm over this whole extortion racket from her.

She's been on testosterone now for 3 years. Wife kitteh felt certain that she's had top surgery, which means a double, radical mastectomy. It wouldn't surprise me. The last couple of times we met, she's been pushing me to endorse her desires to have her breasts amputated and had put off that catastrophic step only because I denied her my approval. It's hideous, sadistic and barbaric.

At any rate, she's now as masculine as she's going to get and it turns out that's not much. Her voice sounds like that of a junior high friend of mine, she's 5' 4" tall, her mannerisms are still those of a girl and her speech patterns haven't changed since she was in high school, wearing her hair long and looking like a relatively cute, if tomboyish girl.

She wouldn't pass for a man now if all you saw of her was a brief glimpse of a shadowy figure skulking around in the undergrowth.

She was with her girlfriend who easily had 4" on her. That's not going to last.

The whole thing is lies. All of it. The rest of the family talked about how happy she seems, but to me, it was like watching her gayly paddle a canoe right towards a massive waterfall. This is all going to blow up and sooner rather than later. Given how she's poisoned her body with testosterone for 3 years, full-blown menopause can't be far away. Her voice is permanently ruined as are her reproductive organs. Her organs and central nervous system are taking a sound thrashing as well, but we don't have enough data on these particular Mengeleish experiments yet to know just how those are going to crash.

I guess I could go along with the charade, call her by her fake, man's name and tell her she's a man, but I just don't have it in me to lie to her like that.

As long as everyone around her is lying to her, she's happy? That's not sustainable.

Message Received

Tucker's gone off the rails a couple of times since he left Fox, but on this topic, he is spot on.

Tucker Carlson on mass immigration— "Letting in 7 million people from the poorest countries in the world illegally and immediately putting them all on public benefits, that right there will destroy the country, and they did it on purpose"

He’s right. pic.twitter.com/6oPf5eKgFt

— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) October 18, 2024

We're told over and over by our academic, political, entertainment and news pundits that diversity makes us stronger, immigrants make us stronger. Here's the real message they're sending.

Americans are such a sorry, worthless, disgusting lot that importing 500K+ Haitians and lots of Venezuelan gang members actually improves the place.

Message received.

If An 8-year-old Girl Can Pose You A Problem You Cannot Solve

 ... then you might want to rethink your basic assumptions.

Dig this pitch-perfect emperor-has-no-clothes moment:

10 Shocking Stories the Media Buried Today

#10 - Furious father confronts corrupt school board after a boy watched his 8-year-old daughter go to the bathroom.

This is epic.

Mr. Matthews told the Cabarrus County school board members to their faces, “Every single one of you are… pic.twitter.com/VgGmX3pRi9

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) October 16, 2024

The dad's outrage is all well and good, but to me, the telling thing is that the educated, credentialed people on the school board can't think of a response to the girl saying she doesn't want boys to come into her bathroom and watch her.

On this blog, I like to wave my arms and yell about logical contradictions and so forth. This is a perfect example of what happens when you have them as a basis for your ideology.

Little Girl: I don't want Jimmy to come into my bathroom.

School Board Member: It's OK, Jimmy is a girl.

Little Girl: No he's not, he has a pee-pee.

School Board Member: That doesn't make him a girl. Girls are something different.

Little Girl: What is a girl then?

School Board Member: (Same confused silence you get when you ask these people to define the word, 'woman.')

It just doesn't work. Not at all. If an 8-year-old is running logical rings around you, it might be time to burn your diploma and get a new one from a different institution.

A Deal For American Women

 ... from the Clintons.

Dig this.

While campaigning for Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton admits if the Biden-Harris regime properly vetted illegal aliens Laken Riley would still be alive.

Clinton also states we need illegals because our country’s birth rate is low. pic.twitter.com/ybiRiyf4pl

— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) October 14, 2024

The Deal

American women should focus on education and careers and not marriage and family. They should enjoy sex with the same abandon as men, but not spend any energy directing their relationships towards rings, altars and cribs. If they get pregnant, there should be publicly funded abortions up until the point of birth and if there's a bit of an oopsie by the medico at the end, a wee bit after the point of birth is just fine as well.

In exchange for this, to replace the children American women will not be having, we will import totally unvetted, untraceable, unvaccinated, illiterate and verbally-incomprehensible people from every failed nation on the planet so that we can continue to have, for a short period of time at least, all the benefits of a functioning, self-sustaining culture. This will also allow us to live in a soothing fantasy where we pretend our culture is actually healthy enough to create a new generation of Americans.

In short, the Haitians and their pals are being brought in to replace the babies we're killing or not even creating in the first place. It's a win-win.

In addition to providing American career women with delicious, International cuisine, the migrants can also teach us sustainable ways of reducing our waste products and converting them into energy sources.

Pounds Of Flesh

 Dig this.

A massive influx in non-English speaking students in Pennsylvania is overwhelming school districts across the state, and the logistical strain on administrators could be leaving other students behind.

The number of English Language Learners (ELL) in school districts in Pennsylvania has surged nearly 40% since 2021, forcing public schools to shell out more cash to try and meet the needs of these students, according to documents obtained via records requests and open-source information reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The surge for many schools began in the 2021-2022 academic school year, coinciding with the onset of the Biden-Harris administration and the subsequent border crisis...

Across the state, there were a total of 71,766 ELL students — those requiring specialized education in learning English as a second language — during the 2020-2021 school year, according to data published by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. This number jumped to 99,889 in the 2023-2024 school year, marking a nearly 40% rise in just three years.

The numbers only tell part of the story. It's not just that there are nearly 100,000 ELL students, it's that they speak dozens of different languages. It's one thing to have 100,000 Spanish-speaking kids you have to teach English, it's an utterly unsolvable problem to have some speaking Spanish, some Creole French, some Arabic ...

Where are you going to get the teachers for those kids? There is no training pipeline in existence that is prepared to handle an influx like that and the example is only for Pennsylvania. The same thing is happening all over the country.

The Democrats opened the floodgates so they could import voters. Once the illegals got in, there would be no appetite for deportations on the scale required to get rid of them all. In time, they will be legalized and, so the thinking goes, the Democrats will never lose another election. At no point in time did they think any of this through. The schools are being overwhelmed, drowning in illegals' kids they cannot teach, cannot understand and cannot house.

It was never about the people, it was always about the numbers.

That doesn't begin to consider the amount of sex trafficking of children that must have happened with more than 320,000 unaccompanied minors coming across the border.

It's all OK, though. They got their voters into the country. That's all that matters. #compassion

The Fundamental Question About The Great Replacement

 ... is this one: Who is allowed a homeland?

A secondary question is this: What happens when you are inclusive, but your "migrants" are not? Dig this.

France’s migrant gang-run no-go zones are not a right wing myth. They do exist and the police do not enter them. pic.twitter.com/yaM0eVYBaL

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 9, 2024

If the "migrants" attack a police car which flees, how much inclusion is that? It seems that the cops are being inclusive, but the "migrants" are not. To me, that looks like a skirmish on the front and the Frenchies lost.

Meanwhile, let's return to the Irish and, for the lack of a better example, the Congolese. Are the Irish allowed a homeland? Congo's population is 20x theirs. It wouldn't take much for the Congolese to enter Ireland and gain a voting majority. Are the Congolese allowed a homeland? I don't think it's much of a reach to assert firmly that no one would suggest that the Congo should be run by someone other than the Congolese, no matter what the results might be.

I know this is raising some very uncomfortable topics and perhaps crossing lines, but as I watch England turn Muslim and see high-profile Brits first flee London and then some of them flee the country completely, these questions occur to me. They are questions we all need to answer here in the US. The Democrats have closed the border, temporarily, for electoral purposes, so when I go to the airport here in San Diego these days, I'm not surrounded by "migrants," but that still happened.

Are Americans allowed a homeland? What is an American?

As you ponder that, dig this:

This guy wanted to see how easy it really was to book a flight with the CBP One App. So he downloaded it and tried to register.

Watching this should piss off every single sane, American citizen in this country.

There is nothing easier than coming into this country illegally… pic.twitter.com/01YpR8FWc9

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) October 2, 2024

Making The Case For Western Colonialism

 ... is what the progressives are actually doing.

From what I understand, America is systemically racist, run by whites and their allied racial sellouts like the Asians and Jews. Apparently the whites and their quisling buddies are so good at running the country that it's an act of charity to take people of color from other nations and bring them here. The "migrants" leave a trash heap run by people of color and come to the Land of Opportunity which is run by whites and their stooges.

Sadly, we can only save a small percentage of people of color. For example, Haiti has a population of 11,500,000. We've imported roughly 700,000 Haitians. That's barely 6% of them. Sad!

What if there was a way we could help 100% of the Haitians?

How about if we bring in 10-20,000 Americans (read: whites and their racial pawns) and put them in charge of Haiti? That way, the noble Haitians could stay in the land of their ancestors and still reap the benefits of being ruled over by white supremacists who, for some reason, seem to be able to run things much more efficiently and peacefully.

At the same time, the Irish could run Rwanda, the British run Nigeria, the Italians run Ethiopia, hopefully with less gassing of the natives this time, and so on and so forth. Even the French, as silly as they are, could be given a nation filled with people of color to manage. Algeria, perhaps.

Ooh, too soon with that one?

Anywho, think of all the Global Warming Climate Change we could prevent not running boats filled with ominously intense, young, male migrants back and forth across the water, belching out their polar-bear-killing diesel fumes!

Hey, it's worth a try.

These Rhodesian chappies look like a good sort. Certainly a sight better than the maniacs running Zimbabwe now.

If The Migrants Aren't Interested In Diversity

 ... then you could be well and truly screwed.

Ireland has a population of about 5M. Ethiopia has a population of about 120M. Africans of some origin or another have been arriving in Ireland by the boatload for some time now. The "migrants" are almost exclusively military-age males. Not a lot of big-eyed, photogenic moppets in those boats.

We're told by our academics, news media, politicians and entertainers that diversity will make us stronger and we should embrace it. We'll all be one, big salad of people getting along marvelously. All we need to do is embrace diversity and cultural enrichment.

What if the migrants don't embrace it? What if they don't embrace it and then become, at least local, majorities?

Well, then Ireland won't be Irish in those places, will it? It will be Rwanda or Ethiopia or Nigeria or Pakistan in those places. Kind of like how the Tren de Aragua guys from Venezuela turned certain Colorado apartment complexes pretty Tren de Araguaish.

More pointedly, is it OK if the Irish want to keep Ireland Irish? Given global population ratios, if the Irish want to keep Ireland Irish, they'll need to start racially managing their island and pretty soon at that. Is that OK? Is it OK if the migrants come from Pakistan and decide that embracing diversity means all women have to be covered with black potato sacks?

It seems to me that the fundamental weak spot of the diversity crowd is that they assume the migrants want diversity. If they don't, then it's a colonial power - Ethiopia, Pakistan, Honduras, Haiti, whoever - being allowed to invade without any resistance because our Elites are sanctimonious morons drunk on their own fake virtue.

Diversity may be our strength, but it might be even a greater strength for the migrants.

Do irreconcilable cultural differences exist?

Immigrants brutally attack an Irish boy at school. A brave Irish girl intervenes but is also beaten. They hate us.

pic.twitter.com/JAFnJFSYqK

— Mitsuha (@Mitsuhaa00) September 29, 2024

Test Scores Are Misinformation

 Dig this.

CHICAGO (CITC) — The president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) earlier this month called standardized testing a “junk science rooted in White supremacy."

Stacy Davis Gates said in an Aug. 5 interview with the Chicago-based radio station WVON that the exams originate from the early-20th century eugenics movement, which centered around the belief that segregation and social exclusion would rid society of people thought to be inferior.

“The way in which, you know, we think about learning and think about achievement is really and truly based on testing, which at best is junk science rooted in White supremacy,” she said.

Davis Gates added that standardized testing has been used to further claims that Black students are inferior.

When people talk to me about testing alone, you know, I have to trouble the waters and challenge that because you can’t test Black children with an instrument that was born to prove their inferiority,” she said.

This came on the heels for recent revelations about test scores in Chicago. Here are some stats from the 8th graders in Chicago. You'll need to click on the images to see them properly.

Less than 30% of black 8th graders are proficient in English. About 50% are effectively illiterate.

Less than 10% of black 8th graders are proficient at math. About 75% are innumerate.

Standardized tests are misinformation or racist or somehow deeply unjust is not an assertion that can survive even a few minutes of thought. For example, how is it that Asians, who come to this country with a completely different alphabet, can run rings around us all when it comes to these tests?

I've come to the conclusion that the recent push towards censorship from the Secular Left, where they complain about misinformation, is really just the standard totalitarian play where bad news is covered up with accusations of inaccuracy.

If things were going well, you wouldn't need to accuse people of misinformation. The proof of our Elites' success would be unmistakable in our lives. When they start complaining that the raw data is racist, you know things are going poorly for them.

In Related News...

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton calls for social platforms like X to censor and monitor content, warning that if they don’t, “we lose total control.” pic.twitter.com/qFW7OqwYCc

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) October 5, 2024

Things Won't Break Evenly

These kinds of things are happening all over the Western world as we go through spasms of our Elites' self-hatred.

“There’s no government here, there’s no FEMA.” pic.twitter.com/f42Nzmh3t6

— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) October 4, 2024

Illegal immigrants in NYC admit to receiving 7 months free rent, free meals, free insurance, and more…

Meanwhile Americans affected from Hurricane Helene receive $750…

Make it make sense. pic.twitter.com/31ANFUBavn

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) October 4, 2024

I've been following developments in England and Ireland as well and it's the same thing there. They may not have hurricanes, but they're each experiencing other crises. While their governments prioritize the illegals, the citizens go begging.

Self-hatred is not a sustainable policy, no matter what Angela Merkel wants.

The most atrocious gesture in history. Merkel has always hated Germans and Europeans, she only loved fake Islamic asylum seekers. pic.twitter.com/beR3lb4ane

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 3, 2024

Pope Francis isn't far behind.

“All religions are paths to God. I will use an analogy, they are like different languages that express the divine.”

All religions are paths to God? What in heaven's name is he talking about?

Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad:

“I was raped every day for 6 months. They killed my mother for being too old to be a sex slave. They killed all my brothers for refusing to convert to Islam. They call us devil worshippers.”

The Islamists who did this are the real devil worshippers! pic.twitter.com/m8zUjKjrh8

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) October 3, 2024

The Pope is telling us that there's no real reason to be Catholic, Merkel was telling her citizens to be ashamed of being German and in England, you're far more likely to face charges if you're waving the Union Jack than if you're waving the flag of Gaza. Here in the US, FEMA has spent the money we gave it on the illegals.

Incoherent, self-destructive principles such as the ones underlying all of this self-hatred cannot be followed forever. Someone is going to break, hard and soon. As Douglas Murray has said, our Elites can be masochists for a while, but eventually they're going to meet a sadist. If I had to put money on who's going to be the first to collapse, I'd either bet on England or one of our big, blue cities.

Things breaking unevenly will be good for the rest of us. Some of us won't be as far gone as the others and will have time and resources to turn things around.

Even if Kamala is elected president, I'd still put my money on America surviving this particular cultural epileptic fit.

A Little Bit On The VP Debate

Long time no blog! That was definitely the longest I've gone without posting here since I started almost 20 years ago. I can't explain it other than to say my biorhythms were low.

IYKYK.

Anyway, I saw clips and breathless tweets about the first part of the debate and then wife kitteh wanted to watch the end of it. I wish I hadn't. It was depressing.

The moderators from ABCBSCNNNPR or whatever network of clones it was were the depressing part, specifically their questions. They ask what interests them and, by proxy, what they think interests most people. They all wanted to know how much more ice cream the government was going to give them for dessert.

There was a health care crisis, a mental health crisis, a day care crisis and a God-knows-what-else crisis. All of it required government programs, policies and money, money, money. None of it was a first-order problem. The debate didn't tell you as much about the candidates as it did about the mindset of the mainstream press. They're women.

They want safety. They want security. They want everyone to be nice. They want to help the sweet, little migrants. They want the weather controlled. They want their babies taken care of while they do as they please. It was all very feminine.

Meanwhile ...

People aren't having babies so the population is getting older fast.

Kids coming into college can't read books.

The interest on the debt now exceeds defense spending and it's only going up from here.

And, of course, the Middle East is in flames while Ukraine, which had the lowest birth rate of the region before the war, has send a good portion of its young men into a hopeless meat grinder at the behest of the women running NATO.

Meanwhile, we heard about the day care crisis. Oh, we also heard from the moderators that there are no studies that show having 15-20M extra illegals in the country is having an effect on rental costs.

That one right there was a stunner. What it told you was that the moderators, and these are hand-picked, top-of-the-line journalismists, were so gullible that they would swallow the line saying 20M in extra demand does not drive up costs while supply is held constant. I don't need to see a "peer-reviewed" study to figure that one out, it's just obvious. These people needed one, though.

What it told me was that they were separated from the primal aspects of life, separated by a gap so wide that they couldn't see across it. The debate was strictly about second-order issues, all of which were solved with more social programs.

That can't go on forever.

You speak for all of us, JD.

One more thing. JD Vance is the only one of the 4 people on the two tickets that I'd be happy to see as president.

Trump. For the love of God, we nominated Trump.

Sigh.

The Antidote To The Gender Wars

I'm listening to two books right now, the first of which is: A World Without Men: An Analysis of an All-Female Economy. It is a polemic against the feminist hatred of men. It's quite good and illustrates how women can't exist without men, disproving the feminist nonsense philosophies.

That one is pretty mean, so this one is the perfect antidote: What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings. It's written by a comedienne that I adore and it is full-on Southern.

Leanne Morgan was raised in tiny Adams, TN. Her book is the perfect inoculation to the feminist hatred of men and the reflexive MGTOW hatred of women. It's pure, Southern wisdom and familial love.

Exit note: Why do I want to live in a world without romance or gentleness? I can't stand bitter feminism or the harsh reaction to it. Instead, I love the warmth of the old South.

A Visit To The Local Wrenfaire

In keeping with one of our theme songs, Everybody Eats When They Come To My House, we have lots of bird feeders in our backyard. We brag that we feed half the birds of Tierrasanta.

My particular favorites are the tiny wrens. They appear in a cloud and descend upon the tray feeders to nom. Unlike the sparrows and doves, the wrens happily eat together without fighting. They smash themselves into the feeder, wing-to-wing and chow down merrily. Here's what it looks like.

The flock is growing all the time. These days, the wren cloud must number more than 60.

It's a beautiful thing.

Handing Live Grenades To Toddlers

Dig this desiccated hag going on about imprisoning people who disagree with her.

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton suggests jailing Americans for posting "misinformation"

"There needs to be deterrence" pic.twitter.com/soxI3wl7To

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 17, 2024

It's not worth going through all of her particular disinformationisms because they're so painfully obvious, even to the corporate media toadies interviewing her. The power lies not in the ability to put disinformationists in prison, but in the ability to define disinformation. She's so dim that she can't see a world where people like me will have the upper hand and, after a few years more of persecution, be all too willing to use that power on people like her.

External events being what they are, it's not too hard to project a near-future where the progressives are pariahs. Think about the spastic political shift that happened during the Great Depression. One day, the Republicans were riding high, the next, the Democrats had total control that lasted for decades.

The whole idea behind our system of government was to limit the government's power so we could prevent such tyrannies no matter who was in charge. As we discard that, we inch the grenades deeper and deeper into the day care play area.

Yeah, I know, ChatGPT messed up some of the faces, but the image was close enough. Whatever.

The Destruction Is The Plan

 I'm a broken record, but so what?

As the very word implies, "queer" does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence. (Halperin, 1995, p. 62, italics in original) 

I've ranted many times before that there is no plan. The "multinationals" and "globalists" and, God help you if you believe this, "the Jews" are not trying to take over. There is no plan in that we're not going anywhere positive. Instead, the migrant crisis in Springfield, OH is the whole bonbon tè played out on a small stage. The goal isn't anything positive, the goal is the destruction of whatever systems, structures and culture currently exist. Destruction, the dominant progressives believe, will reduce injustice.

The destruction is the plan. Dig this.

BREAKING: The Mayor of Springfield, Ohio, a town with a population of 58,082 just announced that his city has been conquered by over 20,000 Haitian illegals that the Biden regime brought in

"We do not have the capacity to sustain that, it's taxing our infrastructure, it's taxing… pic.twitter.com/fRHRxHAGMX

— George (@BehizyTweets) July 12, 2024

No one on Earth thought bringing Haitians into any place in the US was going to make things better. Anyone who thought about it for even a few minutes knew 20,000 Haitians dumped into a town of 58,000 was going to be a catastrophe.

The catastrophe was the plan.

This is exactly why I've never heard of anyone anywhere ever saying they want to move to Haiti or say they would like to take a vacation there. Never, ever.

River of Plastic and Filth in the shithole called Haiti - Port Au Prince.

Remember, this filth washes into our Sea. pic.twitter.com/MDLyTSKt2O

— ~☆~LindaEvans🇺🇸 (@Deja_Vu_4Me) September 9, 2024

Sarah Hoyt has a good recent post on this.

Race means nothing. Culture means everything. And Haitian culture is horrible, coming from horrible circumstances and a horrible history. In fact, things have been bad for so long in Haiti that even attempts at turning it around are impossible. And would probably fail. The island has been a wreck and a charity case so long that there is no memory of a productive existence, anymore. (No, it’s not race. The Dominican Republic has the same racial composition and is not the same mess.)

Haitians are as close, at this point, to feral humans, as it’s possible to get. Worse, they’re referalized humans. Humans once civilized who have been forced by extreme circumstances, to shed their civilization. Which is much worse than being “just” savage or feral.

She adds this tidbit re: the shrieking about accusations that Haitians, who eat dirt in addition to dogs and cats back in their paradise home, are eating Americans' pets. It might just turn out to be prescient.

There Is No Plan For The "Migrants"

Absolutely none.

The town of Springfield, Ohio has a population of 58,000. Well, it had a population of 58,000. It now has a population of 78,000, thanks to the addition of 20,000 Haitians. Haiti is what it is due to the presence of large numbers of Haitians. Now, all the glories of that, err, diversity are coming to Springfield.

People are coming to the reasonable conclusion that it's probably time to leave.

Absolutely HEARTBREAKING moment Springfield, Ohio, resident tells mayor that she "can't take it anymore" as Haitian migrants squat on her lawn, litter in her yard and harass her and elderly husband daily.

The mayor of Springfield does NOT want people to see this: pic.twitter.com/OJtAy7LSXX

— captive dreamer (@captivedreamer7) September 7, 2024

It's not just the far-right white bigots who are having problems with the Haitians, it's also noble People of Color.

"Haitians are in the park grabbing ducks, cutting the heads off, and eating them"

Springfield resident to City Council: pic.twitter.com/aZLsOT8v2b

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 8, 2024

Meanwhile, Catholic Charities is up to its neck in this, slurping resettlement money from the government by the bucketful while preening about helping "migrants." Someone on X posted the latest cash figures from Catholic Charities in the area and the numbers were eye-watering. I don't have the info close to hand, but there it is.

Not to worry, our Church hierarchy is all over this, thundering from the pulpit that we need to ... I don't know, raise more cats to feed the Haitians?

There Is No Plan

Seriously, though, it's not hard to see where this is going. The place is going to fall to bits. Sure, the progressive Catholics flaunting their virtue will get government coin, but that's not the same thing as a sustainable plan. Just to take one aspect of it, how many teachers are going to stick around in the public school systems once Jean Philippe whips a fried cat sandwich out of his lunchbox? Given the levels of violence standard in Haiti, the schools will have to deal with an infantile intifada as well.

The demographics of the invasion force being what it is, it's a good bet that the majority of the 20,000 Haitians are military-age males. The demographics of Springfield's, err, indigenous tribes is something a bit more normal. The exodus from Springfield will begin soon and as people leave, it will pick up speed. Renters would be the first to skedaddle as they lose no fixed assets by moving.

After that, Catholic Charities and the other assorted lovers of all things migrantist will do ... what?

Well, they will probably watch Springfield go the way of Haiti.

Diversity, as you well know, makes us stronger.

Super Special Bonus Video

This was too surreal not to share.

The Hill is claiming Haitians aren’t eating pets.. Heres footage of one of them eating a cat. pic.twitter.com/B4ttDEWtoq

— aka (@akafacehots) September 9, 2024

The Best Thing About Queer Theory

 ... is that you don't need to know much of anything. All you need to know is which groups are doing well and which are not. Nothing else matters.

Unlike gay identity, which, though deliberately proclaimed in an act of affirmation, is nonetheless rooted in the positive fact of homosexual object-choice, queer identity need not be grounded in any positive truth or in any stable reality. As the very word implies, "queer" does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence. (Halperin, 1995, p. 62, italics in original) 

If a group is doing well, it is because the "system" and the "norms" were designed by them and favor them at the expense of the groups who are doing poorly. The exercise of group power is the only factor determining success or failure. To eliminate injustice, then, you only need to recognize who is doing well and then make every effort to tear down everything about them.

In Scotland, they recently had a rally against racism and hate. It featured the usual suspects - Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFLs) doing what they do best - making incoherent noise.

A ‘refugees welcome’ and ‘no racism/no fascism’ spectacle being held in Glasgow today. pic.twitter.com/wmrRxeRkmd

— SL (@Steve_Laws_) September 7, 2024

Meanwhile, the reality of the "migrants" is something a bit more complicated.

Wiam, 13, innocent child, married to Mohammed, 29, in tears: "The girl can't say no. It's against our culture." This is Islam. pic.twitter.com/HlP8mLUpEn

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) September 6, 2024

Meet Mohammed Suhail Ahmed who groomed 13 & 14 year old girls. He said, "I'd f**k you from the back of your bum, are your breasts developed?" & "I will lick your pu**y with my tongue."

Sentenced on 30 Aug all he got was 200 hours of unpaid work & take a rehabilitation course. pic.twitter.com/UXbXmxHe6H

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) September 7, 2024

Islamic fundamentalist Ali Dawah confirms that
Mohammed married Aisha aged 6 & consummated the marriage when she was 9.

"I have zero problem with that at all." pic.twitter.com/uZ9t0mwygE

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) June 20, 2024

Queer Theory ensures that the AWFLs never need to reconcile their embrace of "migrants" and "diversity" with the realities of Islamic or African culture. All they need know is that white Europeans have done better than just about everyone else for centuries. That's it.

Queer Theory is enforced ignorance. It's why apostates like JK Rowling are immediately canceled. There isn't room for even a sliver of doubt. Feminists like Ayaan Hirsi Ali who grew up in Somalia and experienced the worst of Islam are silenced as much as possible. There is only one measure and one way of assigning blame. Success or failure at the group level is all that matters.

This is also why you see interviews with the college kids protesting for Hamas where they can't explain what "From the river to the sea" means geographically. What river? What sea? They don't know and they don't need to know. In fact, knowledge only gets in the way, clouding the issues with unnecessary details that obscure injustices.

Once you see that ignorance is essential to Queer Theory and Queer Theory dominates the progressive left, it all makes sense. In other posts, I've ranted that there is no plan and indeed there isn't. It's not about taking over the world or globalism or multinationals, it's all about the destruction of the very idea of "normal."

It's Not Going To Be A Perpetual Revolution

 I know I've been using this quote a lot lately, but it's key to what we're seeing.

The goal is the destruction of the very concept of normalcy, a goal that can never be reached. The revolution is perpetual, it is the continual destruction of all stabilizing forces in society. The progressives believe that all stabilizing forces, i.e. "normalcy," were created by oppressors for the purpose of exploiting and oppressing the "marginalized."

There are three possibilities. 

1. The marginalized have been oppressed by you because you're part of the systems of oppression.
2. The marginalized are marginalized because they choose poorly in life and do things that lead to failure.
3. Some combination of the above.

None of us live like 1 or 3 are true. For example, we try to show up on time at work. We do our best to obey traffic laws and we try not to ingest any more addictive substances than absolutely necessary.

OK, that last one is a bit of a reach for me, but you get what I'm saying. I don't have dentures because I never got to the point where I knocked my teeth out in the gutter during a particularly ferocious bender, so it's at least partially true even for me.

Because there are behaviors that lead to success - hard work, honesty, faithfulness, courage, honor - the people who practice those will always do better than the ones who do not. The "perpetual revolution" is really just one revolution - a fight against behaviors that lead to success. It will never end because the goal will continually recede. The more self-destructive behaviors you embrace, the farther ahead the Normals get.

This is not a picture of my addict brother's scrofulous, sore-encrusted legs and feet that I caressed as I sat by his bed in the hospital while he lay dying. Maybe that's because I got where I am by oppressing people like him.

Queering The State Department

 ... because "normal" doesn't exist.

The goal is the destruction of the very concept of normalcy, a goal that can never be reached. The revolution is perpetual, it is the continual destruction of all stabilizing forces in society. The progressives believe that all stabilizing forces, i.e. "normalcy," were created by oppressors for the purpose of exploiting and oppressing the "marginalized."

I'm Now Officially Spooked

It's time to get serious about getting a place in Dixie.

Tren de Aragua in an international, organized crime syndicate based out of Venezuela. When Biden and Harris opened our borders, units from Tren de Aragua entered. They're in all of the big sanctuary cities, but it seems like Denver and its suburbs have gotten the very worst of it.

BREAKING: The Mayor of Aurora, Colorado just CONFIRMED that Venezuelan illegal migrant gangsters have indeed taken over several apartment complexes and have pushed out property managers to EXTORT rents from the tenants directly

He also BLAMED the Kamala-Biden regime and said… pic.twitter.com/Vj0P7ceHg4

— George (@BehizyTweets) August 29, 2024

The women of Denver and Aurora have noticed. Denver, it's worth noting, has the highed number of illegals per capita of any major city in the US.

Denver woman warns of Venezuelan gang members TAKING OVER the city. She now has to stay strapped to feel safe.
This is happening all across America with open borders, and soon, we won’t have a country left. pic.twitter.com/8EwRZtTixN

— Sabrina Smolders 🦋🌹 (@SabrinaSmolders) August 16, 2024

Now I understand that she's white, so she's naturally a racist and her opinions aren't all that helpful. Let's see if we can find a person of color to discuss it.

THIS LADY SAYS WHAT WE’RE ALL THINKING!!! She SNAPS!

❌ Venezuelan Gangs Taking Over Apartment Buildings In Denver, Colorado. Nothing Is Done About It Because They’re Deemed “Squatters”

This Administration Doesn’t Give Two Shits, It’s Time For Americans To Exercise Their 2nd… pic.twitter.com/ju68EMNH34

— {Matt} $XRPatriot (@matttttt187) August 26, 2024

Hmm. Is it really that bad? Isn't San Diego relatively safe?

California parents speak out after a mob of illegals tried to hijack their kid's bus:

"There was a lot of them… really scary"

It happened TWICE this week.

pic.twitter.com/IqyMPzNhRj

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 29, 2024

Out in Jamul, those "migrants" aren't families with precious, delightful moppets and tenderhearted, if a bit rotund, mamacitas. Those are almost certainly all military-aged single males trying to hop on that bus. It's OK, though, the blues that run San Diego have a solution. They told the bus drivers not to stop there any more. Problem solved!

The Tipping Point

All of that is undoubtedly fascinating, but it still wasn't enough to completely spook me. This was what tipped me over the edge.

BREAKING: Masked gang waving AR-style rifle attacks a home in a Denver suburb. 0 arrests.

Coming to a neighborhood near you: pic.twitter.com/3Kn75Pt4Ux

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 2, 2024

Dig the way they've got a security man on the job covering any place a homeowner might emerge. The dude has an assault rifle at the ready. He clearly knows how to use it.

That's it. I'm done. I can't cope with that. This isn't disorganized, low-IQ dingbats robbing your house. These aren't American citizens with biometrics on file with the cops and addresses where the cops can find them if there's a murder charge. These are ghosts. We don't know who they are, where they live, what they look like, what their fingerprints look like, who their friends or kinfolk are and on top of that, they're working with military precision.

If wife kitteh hears a noise in the night and I walk downstairs into that, I'm dead. Period, end of story. Those guys won't hesitate to shoot to kill. That's what they do and since they're illegals, there's no downside because there's no way the cops can ever find them.

Also, there is no way on Earth that Tren de Aragua is the only newly-imported gang operating in the US.

Bonus Tidbit

A whole lot of men are going to die before this is over. That's OK, though. It will reduce our surplus toxic masculinity, right?

The Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua is believed to have given what authorities are calling the "green light" to attack and kill police officers, federal authorities have warned.

A bulletin by the Colorado Information Analysis Center, a screenshot of which was shared with Fox News Digital, warns that a police department in New Mexico have received information from federal partners that members have been encouraged to attack police officers in Denver.

Jamul Update

One of my fellow San Diego bloggers texted me with this bit of information from Jamul where she lives. 

My friend's grandson was on one of the school busses in Jamul. She told me the kids are really shook up and traumatized by what happened in Jamul. Sheriffs now escorting school busses.

I'm glad the sheriffs are escorting the school busses. It will give them something to do. 

Late Update From Aurora, Colorado

The blue state authorities are not on your side.

Letters obtained by The Denver Gazette from the law firm representing CBZ Management — whose apartment complex in Aurora was shut down over what the city described as safety issues last month — show officials were fully aware weeks ago of accusations that a Venezuelan gang had “forcibly taken control” of the property.

In an Aug. 28 letter to Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, the law firm wrote that CBZ Management had been informed that “Aurora Multi-Family Projects have been forcibly taken control of by gang(s) that have immigrated here from Venezuela.”

Aurora officials initially dismissed the company's claims publicly, calling them "diversionary tactics" and "alternative narratives." The issue, the city insisted, was the numerous violations of the local government's code.

Officials have since walked back those claims back.

The Aurora complexes affected by gangs — based on reports — included The Aspen Grove, Whispering Pines and The Edge at Lowry.

Last week, the city acknowledged that authorities earlier arrested a "documented" Tren de Aragua gang member — twice — over a shooting incident and a separate case in which a man was badly beaten at another apartment complex. After the first arrest, that gang member, court documents revealed, was released on a bond. 

Building A Whole-Garage Fan

 ... when you're lazy and your ladder is too short.

In the desert, not only can you not remember your name (IYKYK), you also experience wild swings in temperature throughout a 24-hour period. With no cloud cover, days are hot and nights are cold. Your garage stores that heat during the day and then acts as a radiator throughout the night, making your AC run harder.

I've always loved the idea of having a whole-house fan, which draws in cool evening air from downstairs and displaces hot, attic air, but the geometry of our upstairs attic and ceilings won't permit one. Our garage, however, is a different breed of cat. We have a pair of operable skylights in the garage which would work nicely as a cooling system if I just put a big fan in one or both of them. The garage roof slopes down from the roof of our second story, so those skylights are a good 20' off the ground. No problem, right?

I bought an inexpensive, big fan with plans to build a simple, wooden frame for it, mount it in one of the skylights and power it from the lines that feed the garage lights and door opener. I got my brand-new extension ladder down from its mount on the wall, extended it all the way and ... it was too short to reach the frame of the skylights.

Doh!

I hadn't thought about measuring the distance up to the skylights when I bought the thing, so I got the medium-sized one which seemed large enough. Hmm. What to do?

After pondering renting a cherry picker or some such hoist, it dawned on me that it didn't matter where the fan was so long as cool air was drawn into the garage. My first experiment turned out to be the only one I needed. I cracked the garage door open about 15", placed the fan in front of the gap and turned it on once the outdoor air had cooled. Voila! I had a whole-garage fan!

I recently bought one more SensorPush temperature and humidity sensor and placed it on the side yard in perpetual shade. Here's what it read during my experiment.

You'll probably need to click on the image to get a good look at it.

You can see the knee in the curve at the far right hand side. That corresponds to the activation of the fan. It worked like a charm.

Right now, the system is still manual. Whenever I want to turn it on, I need to crack open the garage door and put the fan in the right place. I don't have any vents into the garage on the ground level, so unless I cut up the walls, I can't make it automatic. The other downside is that with the garage door open like that, snakes can get into the garage, something they've done in the past.

Anywho, I now have a whole-garage fan, albeit a clumsy, manual one.

Beneath The Tennessee Stars - A Romance For The Ages! Now With Extra Marmots!

 I couldn't help it. I was having another conversation with ChatGPT and things got out of control. We generated this dust jacket blurb and cover art for a bodice-ripper novel about ... well, you'll see.

"Beneath the Tennessee Stars"

In the shadow of the Smoky Mountains, where the wild calls and the earth sings, comes a tale as untamed as the land itself. Buck "Bucky" McGraw, a grizzled marmot trainer from the heart of East Neephus, Tennessee, is a man of simple pleasures—cold beer, the roar of a diesel engine, and the loyal gaze of his prized marmots. A man who knows his place in the world, where the soil runs red and the air is thick with the scent of pine and hard work.

But fate, with all its cruel humor, has other plans.

Enter Willow Rainwater, the fiercely independent owner of an organic, feminist co-op in the heart of Portland, Oregon. With her wild, windswept hair, kale-green eyes, and a soul as deep as the Pacific, Willow has dedicated her life to sustainable living, gender equality, and the preservation of the planet. She’s the kind of woman who eats quinoa for breakfast, protests pipelines in the afternoon, and leads yoga classes under the full moon.

Their worlds couldn’t be further apart—until a chance encounter throws them together in the unlikeliest of places. When Willow finds herself stranded in Tennessee, far from the safety of her urban jungle, surrounded by marmots, she’s forced to rely on the rugged charm and unrefined wisdom of Bucky. As sparks fly and tempers flare, neither can deny the primal pull of desire that threatens to consume them both.

He’s a man of rodents and the earth, rough and raw, unyielding in his ways. She’s a woman of ideals, soft yet unbreakable, determined to change the world. But when love strikes, all bets are off.

Can they overcome their differences and find common ground? Or will the gap between their worlds be too wide to bridge?

Prepare yourself for a whirlwind of passion, romance and heart in "Beneath the Tennessee Stars" — where opposites not only attract but collide, leaving nothing but fire and fury in their wake. It’s a tale as old as time, with a twist as fresh as the mountain air. Love, after all, knows no bounds — not even those of a redneck marmot trainer and an organic, feminist co-op owner.

A sure-fire best seller!

Unintentional Perfection From AI

Here's a little more modern romance blogging for you.

A young woman created a fake dating account as a man and made a video describing what she discovered. It was fascinating. It also perfectly matched what I learned writing Arthurian fiction with AI. Here's a transcript of the key part.

So one of my guy friends gave me permission to make a Hinge (dating app) account for him because I was telling him how easy dating is with dating apps. And he was telling me that it's incredibly difficult. And I was like, Pete, you must be doing something wrong. And he gave me permission to create an account for him and just run the account.

I've been a virtual boy for three days, and I've never felt this bad about myself. I feel like a frickin loser trying to get these girls to like me. And I'm starting to hate women. Pete's about a 6, but I'm so desperate. I'm liking the 2s and 3s and even they won't like me.

So what level of delusion has entered women's head heads? Like what is going on? It is so difficult dating as a boy. I hate it. I'm on day three of being a boy, and I hate women. And I'm more depressed than ever...

The women are narcissists. That is, they have false and overinflated senses of their own value. They all think they're worthy of 8s, 9s and 10s and won't give Pete, a 6, the time of day. "Pete" is experiencing exactly what my knights experienced in the Arthurian fiction I wrote with ChatGPT. There's nothing he can do to be worthy of even the worst of the chicks on the dating app.

Every single time I wrote a story like that, at the end of the combat, the AI decided that the lady had to have ultimate agency and do what she wanted anyway. Almost always she decided to leave them both and pursue her freedom. When the fight was over and one was beaten and both were bloodied, she would give them some kind of feminist brush-off and wander away. She was not a prize to be won, she was going to make up her own mind, she was going to pursue other goals, she was joining a sustainable, organic, lesbian co-op.

It didn't matter that her character had deliberately encouraged both suitors. It didn't matter that they had fed her ego through their ardent courtships. Their sacrifice meant nothing. She had to have agency at all times in all ways.

Once AI went full feminine-agency, you couldn't keep going with the story. The men were chumps for ever having bothered with romance and they knew it. When they got back with their respective chums, they'd tell their stories and all the other knights would start re-thinking their own romances. If the chicks were going to wander off no matter what kind of sacrifices the knights made for them, what was the point of courtship at all?

It's worth noting that at no time did AI worry about the guys' agency or the guys' sacrifices. Not once. The contrast in the way it treated the women to the way it treated the men was breathtaking. If men fought and bled and died for the women, so what? The instant the knights had any needs of their own, needs that in any way placed restrictions on the women, the women discarded them and wandered away.

Guys are throwing in the towel because they're not appreciated by women. Women have a bloated sense of self-worth and have been raised to see themselves as victims of the patriarchy.

Republicans beat the Democrats with married men, married women and unmarried men. Unmarried women vote for the Democrats 70% of the time. The Democrats are completely dependent on unmarried women. They absolutely know this and act on it all the time. Witness the recent "White Dudes for Kamala" struggle sessions where a bunch of low-testosterone simps whimpered about how hard it is to be a woman and even worse, a woman of color. All they did was feed into the victim narrative for unmarried women.

Unintentional Perfection

I turned to ChatGPT to create the image for this post. I used this prompt.

Generate a true-to-life image of a haughty, ugly princess and an exasperated nobleman rolling his eyes.

Here's ChatGPT's response, emphasis mine.

For this request, I can generate an image that depicts the dynamic between a haughty, unattractive princess and an exasperated nobleman. However, to maintain respect and avoid reinforcing negative stereotypes based on physical appearance, the image will focus on their attitudes and expressions rather than exaggerating unattractiveness. The princess will have an air of entitlement, while the nobleman will be clearly exasperated, possibly rolling his eyes. This approach ensures the scene captures the intended dynamic without focusing solely on superficial traits. I'll proceed with creating the image in this way.

Every woman is perfect just the way she is. There are no ugly women. LOL!

The chick might be 100# overweight and have tats, blue hair and a face like a horse, but this is the way she's been taught to see herself. We wouldn't want to reinforce negative stereotypes.

Chaos In The Classroom

LibsOfTikTok posted this image recently, taken from a public school in Madison, Wisconsin.

I now understand what it means.

The goal is the destruction of the very concept of normalcy, a goal that can never be reached. The revolution is perpetual, it is the continual destruction of all stabilizing forces in society. The progressives believe that all stabilizing forces, i.e. "normalcy," were created by oppressors for the purpose of exploiting and oppressing the "marginalized."

Bonus Romance Post

 Submitted without comment, in reference to my recent series on romance and AI.

Chaos And Instability By Design

What if the whole goal of the Secular Left is to destroy normalcy and order?

I'm currently devouring Logan Lancing's book, The Queering of the American Child, and it is staggering. Motivated by the birth of his first child, Logan spent 4 years trying to understand how and why the American education system had become so disordered and degenerate. Interviewed by Jordan Peterson, he pointed to what happened at Evergreen State as a seminal moment in his decision to pursue his research and, incidentally, the start of his journey from left to right.

Driven by a nearly obsessive curiosity about what was happening in American education, he consumed everything he could find written by the progressives who marched through our institutions and took over the culture. Rather than trying to learn their goals and methods through observation, he went straight to their books, articles, essays and training materials and discovered that they had boldly and clearly stated their principles, intentions and thought processes.

With that introduction, here's one of the most stunning revelations from the book.

Queer Educators are not concerned with teaching kids to read, write, do mathematics, or become normal adults. Queer Educators are only concerned with radicalizing children—all children. Queer Theory teaches kids to denounce our current society—all standards, rules, definitions, categories, and traditions—at every conceivable level while simultaneously announcing new queer possibilities. As stated by Jose Esteban Murioz in his 2009 book Cruising Utopia, 

Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness's domain. Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present. The here and now is a prison house.n (Munoz, 2009, p. 1) 

Disturbingly, Queer Activists are obsessed with schools. They know that if they can control the schools, they can brainwash future generations to root out and eliminate all normalcy in society. Their deconstructive campaign has been so successful that school administrators and teachers nationwide now believe that children can be "born in the wrong body"; so successful that teachers legitimately believe that they can't tell what a student's sex is by looking at them; so successful that an all-girls school no longer thinks it's OK to call girls "girls." 

What does a queer school look like? It looks like your typical K-12 school today. Queer schools have firmly entrenched DEI commitments, policies, and practices. They have new language codes and rules designed to suppress dissent and enforce ideological conformity. Queer schools are less focused on learning traditional subjects and more focused on an endless barrage of psycho-social and emotional manipulations. They are full of pride flags, pornographic books, drag queens, and religious cult rituals.

Queer Activists have transformed education's purpose, methods, and content to push kids to become Queer Activists themselves. They have determined that the best way to do this is to teach kids to queer themselves—to teach kids to destabilize their minds and bodies by deconstructing their identity until they become queer, which is a political cult identity that has nothing to do with sex, "gender," or sexuality. In the words of world-renowned Queer Theorist David Halperin, queer is "an identity without an essence." Whoa. In full context, he gives away the game: "queer" is a wholly political stance against normalcy and legitimacy and has little or nothing to do with homosexuality itself. He writes,

Unlike gay identity, which, though deliberately proclaimed in an act of affirmation, is nonetheless rooted in the positive fact of homosexual object-choice, queer identity need not be grounded in any positive truth or in any stable reality. As the very word implies, "queer" does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence. (Halperin, 1995, p. 62, italics in original) 

Italics in the original.

Payoff: "it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm."

The goal is the destruction of the very concept of normalcy, a goal that can never be reached. The revolution is perpetual, it is the continual destruction of all stabilizing forces in society. The progressives believe that all stabilizing forces, i.e. "normalcy," were created by oppressors for the purpose of exploiting and oppressing the "marginalized."

Anyone who tries to suggest that there is such a thing as "normal" is silenced, suppressed and attacked. The very concept of normalcy is driven from children's minds through constant propaganda and manipulation.

It's silly to say this, but destabilizing the culture is, well, destabilizing. You can see the fruits of this all around us, whether that's the descent of Oakland, CA into a third-world slum, the oceans of drug-addicted homeless in California's major cities, the chaos and violence in Chicago, Portland and New York or the erasure of the American border with Mexico. Things that are normal - borders, law enforcement, disruption of drug use - are being eliminated with destabilizing results.

A Data Point To Close Out The Post

The parents tried to assert that transitioning wasn't normal.