> Trump released a video in which he said abortion should be a matter for the states. It was a vague statement, and hardly a fully fleshed-out policy on abortion.
How is that "vague" or "[not] fleshed out" at all? It's EXTREMELY clear, extremely easy to implement (or rather, it's already implemented). These things shouldn't be federal issues. I get it's not the position the left or the hard right wants to see, but it's about as clear and concise a position as you can possibly get.
The pro Hamas Berkeley law school students who staged a demonstration at the Professor’s dinner party, exemplify the hateful, self entitled anti semitic obnoxious nature of this movement. It has never been about land or borders. It’s always been about annihilating the one Jewish state that is at the same time a pluralistic open and tolerant country.
The Rupa’s essay on the CASS report is excellent. However The Free Press posted it in yesterday’s evening post and gave it very little space this morning. What is going at The Free Press who has backed away from this scandal in spite of helping to break the story a year ago. TFPress published the two whistleblower accounts and the Psychiatrist from Finland.
This essay did not mention the WPATH files which Shellenberger and his staff released more than a month ago.
There is more than enough damning evidence to state there is no need for a bipartisan commission at this time. To protect minors the prudent path is to shut down this industry first. When EColi is found in a pkg of chicken , the plant is shut down and there is a massive recall of the product. The same with finding a problem with a child car seat. Protect the publuc( in this case minors) first, stop these drs and therapists from practicing ( at least a temp suspension of licenses) and then study how this was allowed to happen, how to handle these troubled kids( also explore the explosion in a new cohort of kids with GD since early 2010s),how to deal with the doctors and therapists who lied and committed this fraud.
This scandal will not go away.The Free Press has not explained why it has backed away from being at the forefront of exposing the scandal or from reporting on the intricacies of the ramifications to these kids and their families. There is wide variability from state to state. Following the money trail, etc.
Please stop. OMG just stop. Even if it's true, STOP! It's this type of over-the-top rhetorical horseshit that is the worst part about modern journalism.
"Speaking of WWIII, Matt Pottinger and Mike Gallager argue that America still isn’t taking the threat from China seriously enough."
That tends to happen with a president whose pockets are stuffed with ChiCom cash. Wake the F up. The senile imbecile befouling our White House is a traitor.
Regarding Lukianoff’s disagreement with Haidt on IDing kids to enforce Socisl Media Terms of Use.
1. There’s a drinking and smoking age because the government rightly* thinks that businesses should not have the freedom to profit from exposing kids to alcohol and smoking before they are 21 (giving parents a better chance of influencing their kids) why shouldn’t the same be true for preventing social media companies from profiting from exposing kids to porn, bullying, illegal drug pushers, human/sex traffickers, and alcohol “influencer” ads which aren’t legal before 9pm in legacy media.
2. Would he feel differently about enforcing age if there were a new ID that was anonymous - I.e., it verifies ownership of id and age without identifying the person or their actual age?
3. If the Age restriction were enforced on Social Media, there would be less justification for interfering with adult free speech.
* rightly thinks businesses will design alcohol and cigarette products to make them more addictive to make more money. Why wouldn’t technology companies also do this?
Polling and the Election- My electoral cynicism meter is sounding alarms about Presidential polls. As we approach the election, the Democratic machine cannot allow polls that show Trump with large leads because it will make their vote fuckery too obvious. The true poll margin for error now is keeping Biden within the range that would allow for only marginally obvious vote manipulation. There are only so many votes that can be magically created before it becomes clear to the electorate what happened. If every poll in October shows Trump up 4% and yet Biden magically wins that would be too visible a big fat middle finger in America’s face.
Abortion- Letting the states decide is the right decision. I say that knowing that it increases the chances of a D Senate and House, at least in the short term. Anti-abortion people, and I am one, need to stop trying to nationalize a state issue and focus on grassroots, local campaigns. Politics is the art of the possible. You can do good and save some children but if you try to be perfect you can end up saving none. Focus on states where the issue is in flux and make the country 90% anti-abortion. That will turn pro-abortion people into the extreme.
So the decrease in the inflation rate was TRANSITORY. Who could have predicted that? Maybe Paul Krugman or another economics maven at MSNBC. Look at the incremental interest on the 34 Trillion of national debt as a result of the increase in interest rates( 1% is 340 BILLION - ANNUALLY) . Even math is racist lecturers and modern monetary theorists can compute that a 3% increase in interest rates is greater than 1 TRILLION. PER YEAR. Imagine how much worse this would be if Joe and Chuck had not rammed through the Inflation Reduction Act.
Really pleased to see Lisa Davis's article on the Cass Report. There is more major fallout in the UK.
The Health Minister has ordered an investigation/review of the Adult Clinics and their practices after they failed to cooperate with Cass. They are also ordered to release the data. Fool around and find out. Basically as the novelist Philip Henser pointed out twitter the Adults Clinic said “We’re not going to supply you with data for your research because we think you’re going to criticise us.” P.303 of the full report. https://twitter.com/PhilipHensher/status/1778338224068329561
And of course the PO scandal inquiry (really watch Mr Bates v the PO on Masterpiece Theater) continues to provide popcorn eating revelation about how badly the PO behaved in the Horizon scandal. Including the ex PO boos apologizing for celebrating the conviction of a pregnant subpost mistress. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/11/post-office-inquiry-live-latest-updates/
The article on transgender studies takes great pains to analyze the statistics of suicide attempts made by teens who sought or were given transgender medical interventions. This is backwards. What is really in need of study is why we have so many suicidal teens, and why they are being steered to puberty blockers and surgery to address their suicidal tendencies. There is a tacit assumption that psychiatric therapy is unable to address these troubled teens' issues, so drugs or cutting off healthy tissue is the only path forward. Teen years are difficult, and that difficulty is amplified by social media. I know this is already in the discussion, but the absurdity of gender affirming care (itself an oxymoronic term) is still lost on American medical and psychiatric experts.
Assange - Isn't it time to move on from this whole episode. All seems a little mute by now.
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Never have watched it and probably never will. So I guess my life will stay incomplete.
The Dead are starting to be polled by Reuters/Ipsos and that is why numbers are changing. The dead love Sleepy Joe and the Mistress. Great times had by so many people dying in wars and unrest worldwide under them. But they will get to the bottom, oh wait, we are pretty close to there already. Nice job fools.
> Trump released a video in which he said abortion should be a matter for the states. It was a vague statement, and hardly a fully fleshed-out policy on abortion.
How is that "vague" or "[not] fleshed out" at all? It's EXTREMELY clear, extremely easy to implement (or rather, it's already implemented). These things shouldn't be federal issues. I get it's not the position the left or the hard right wants to see, but it's about as clear and concise a position as you can possibly get.
The pro Hamas Berkeley law school students who staged a demonstration at the Professor’s dinner party, exemplify the hateful, self entitled anti semitic obnoxious nature of this movement. It has never been about land or borders. It’s always been about annihilating the one Jewish state that is at the same time a pluralistic open and tolerant country.
The Rupa’s essay on the CASS report is excellent. However The Free Press posted it in yesterday’s evening post and gave it very little space this morning. What is going at The Free Press who has backed away from this scandal in spite of helping to break the story a year ago. TFPress published the two whistleblower accounts and the Psychiatrist from Finland.
This essay did not mention the WPATH files which Shellenberger and his staff released more than a month ago.
There is more than enough damning evidence to state there is no need for a bipartisan commission at this time. To protect minors the prudent path is to shut down this industry first. When EColi is found in a pkg of chicken , the plant is shut down and there is a massive recall of the product. The same with finding a problem with a child car seat. Protect the publuc( in this case minors) first, stop these drs and therapists from practicing ( at least a temp suspension of licenses) and then study how this was allowed to happen, how to handle these troubled kids( also explore the explosion in a new cohort of kids with GD since early 2010s),how to deal with the doctors and therapists who lied and committed this fraud.
This scandal will not go away.The Free Press has not explained why it has backed away from being at the forefront of exposing the scandal or from reporting on the intricacies of the ramifications to these kids and their families. There is wide variability from state to state. Following the money trail, etc.
Remember when the cry of horror from the left was, Trump will start WW III! Now they left says, Bring on WW III!
Does TFP know what the word vague means? Trump's statement about abortion wasn't vague.
Who edits these articles?
Another FP where I skipped most of the articles. Does Wiseman have to write every day?
"It's Democracy itself"
Please stop. OMG just stop. Even if it's true, STOP! It's this type of over-the-top rhetorical horseshit that is the worst part about modern journalism.
...except when Nellie does it with a wink.
"Speaking of WWIII, Matt Pottinger and Mike Gallager argue that America still isn’t taking the threat from China seriously enough."
That tends to happen with a president whose pockets are stuffed with ChiCom cash. Wake the F up. The senile imbecile befouling our White House is a traitor.
Awwww! I enjoyed reading the Cupid entries. I’m happily married, but I’d like to be friends with all three!
Regarding Lukianoff’s disagreement with Haidt on IDing kids to enforce Socisl Media Terms of Use.
1. There’s a drinking and smoking age because the government rightly* thinks that businesses should not have the freedom to profit from exposing kids to alcohol and smoking before they are 21 (giving parents a better chance of influencing their kids) why shouldn’t the same be true for preventing social media companies from profiting from exposing kids to porn, bullying, illegal drug pushers, human/sex traffickers, and alcohol “influencer” ads which aren’t legal before 9pm in legacy media.
2. Would he feel differently about enforcing age if there were a new ID that was anonymous - I.e., it verifies ownership of id and age without identifying the person or their actual age?
3. If the Age restriction were enforced on Social Media, there would be less justification for interfering with adult free speech.
* rightly thinks businesses will design alcohol and cigarette products to make them more addictive to make more money. Why wouldn’t technology companies also do this?
Polling and the Election- My electoral cynicism meter is sounding alarms about Presidential polls. As we approach the election, the Democratic machine cannot allow polls that show Trump with large leads because it will make their vote fuckery too obvious. The true poll margin for error now is keeping Biden within the range that would allow for only marginally obvious vote manipulation. There are only so many votes that can be magically created before it becomes clear to the electorate what happened. If every poll in October shows Trump up 4% and yet Biden magically wins that would be too visible a big fat middle finger in America’s face.
Abortion- Letting the states decide is the right decision. I say that knowing that it increases the chances of a D Senate and House, at least in the short term. Anti-abortion people, and I am one, need to stop trying to nationalize a state issue and focus on grassroots, local campaigns. Politics is the art of the possible. You can do good and save some children but if you try to be perfect you can end up saving none. Focus on states where the issue is in flux and make the country 90% anti-abortion. That will turn pro-abortion people into the extreme.
So the decrease in the inflation rate was TRANSITORY. Who could have predicted that? Maybe Paul Krugman or another economics maven at MSNBC. Look at the incremental interest on the 34 Trillion of national debt as a result of the increase in interest rates( 1% is 340 BILLION - ANNUALLY) . Even math is racist lecturers and modern monetary theorists can compute that a 3% increase in interest rates is greater than 1 TRILLION. PER YEAR. Imagine how much worse this would be if Joe and Chuck had not rammed through the Inflation Reduction Act.
Really pleased to see Lisa Davis's article on the Cass Report. There is more major fallout in the UK.
The Health Minister has ordered an investigation/review of the Adult Clinics and their practices after they failed to cooperate with Cass. They are also ordered to release the data. Fool around and find out. Basically as the novelist Philip Henser pointed out twitter the Adults Clinic said “We’re not going to supply you with data for your research because we think you’re going to criticise us.” P.303 of the full report. https://twitter.com/PhilipHensher/status/1778338224068329561
Even the Guardian are reporting on it: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/10/adult-transgender-clinics-in-england-face-inquiry-into-patient-care
This scandal has some way to run yet...
The Scottish Hate Crime Act continues to unravel. Joan Smith has a great piece in Quilette about JK Rowling's role in this: https://quillette.com/2024/04/11/queen-of-the-gender-crits/?s=08
And of course the PO scandal inquiry (really watch Mr Bates v the PO on Masterpiece Theater) continues to provide popcorn eating revelation about how badly the PO behaved in the Horizon scandal. Including the ex PO boos apologizing for celebrating the conviction of a pregnant subpost mistress. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/11/post-office-inquiry-live-latest-updates/
The article on transgender studies takes great pains to analyze the statistics of suicide attempts made by teens who sought or were given transgender medical interventions. This is backwards. What is really in need of study is why we have so many suicidal teens, and why they are being steered to puberty blockers and surgery to address their suicidal tendencies. There is a tacit assumption that psychiatric therapy is unable to address these troubled teens' issues, so drugs or cutting off healthy tissue is the only path forward. Teen years are difficult, and that difficulty is amplified by social media. I know this is already in the discussion, but the absurdity of gender affirming care (itself an oxymoronic term) is still lost on American medical and psychiatric experts.
I just can't get over the fact(?) that 45.3% people think Joe Biden's performance deserves another term....WTF.
Assange - Isn't it time to move on from this whole episode. All seems a little mute by now.
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Never have watched it and probably never will. So I guess my life will stay incomplete.
The Dead are starting to be polled by Reuters/Ipsos and that is why numbers are changing. The dead love Sleepy Joe and the Mistress. Great times had by so many people dying in wars and unrest worldwide under them. But they will get to the bottom, oh wait, we are pretty close to there already. Nice job fools.