“‘Science allegedly showed trans women had larger hands and feet, bigger hearts and greater bone density and lung capacity.’ Allegedly! Amazing.”
Common sense is dead among our elites. What is so hard about respecting a person’s preferred pronouns while also respecting objective reality? “Trans women are women” is a nice slogan, but it is objectively not true. Trans women are trans women— biologically male, with all the biological differences that come with it. What is so hard about creating a third lane in sports? Why must biological women suffer because our cultural elites have deluded themselves so badly? Why do I feel uneasy about sharing this non-bigoted opinion? Oh yeah that’s right, anyone who dares breathe a word of truth on this topic is worse than Hitler.
I don't understand why it's so difficult for some people to pump the fucking brakes and consider things from the perspective of others. To categorically condemn an entire country and impose crippling boycotts, essentially destroying their economy and making it all but impossible to live in 2022 - do you think regular, everyday Russians who desire peace will take kindly to that? It's a recipe for resentment. Study a little history and you’ll learn real fast how powerful the collective resentment of an entire people can be. And it's borderline psychopathic to punish ordinary people as a way to “punish Putin.” I worry that we're racing towards a red light.
Remember the Cuban missile crisis - why would it matter if roles were reversed? The condescending tone in this article towards people noting that we promised not to extend NATO East with the fall of the USSR, and we lied, is inexplicable. Recognizing that Russia isn’t into the Davos driven dystopia the US and European left embraces isn’t a strange or silly view - it’s seeing the world as it is, not through some fantasy that thinks northern latitudes that are freezing and get little sun months out if the year can power themselves off of solar panels and ecologically destructive wind mills.
It’s also important because our affirmative action hire VP was “admiring” Zelenskyy wanting to join NATO the day before Putin invaded, and it’s rather cruel that zero attempts to save the Ukrainian people from this death were not pursued in the weeks and days leading up to this foreseeable invasion. It is actually insane to start WW III over Ukraine since WW III wouldn’t actually save Ukraine but would ensure far MORE death. Why were western governments so callous, knowing the evident risks, antagonizing Putin? Why not deescalate before the invasion????
It’s also important to see the war as it is, not as the propaganda would have you believe. Understanding the opposition is key to accurate responses. Putin may have hoped for a quick and bloodless fall, but he clearly had plans. That’s not “rooting for Putin.” It’s acknowledging reality. It took us 3 weeks to get the capital in Iraq when we blew up a smaller country in the name of “national security” based on a threat we made up in 2003 because we sought regime change in that smaller country. I pray for peace now, just as then.
Anyone cheering these extra judicial asset seizures and sanctions has a very simple, very short sighted, and very small mind. Wether it’s Canadian truckers or Russian billionaires, the long term result will be a move away from western banks, capital investments, and with the billionaire asset seizures, the US dollar. It will take some time, but this steal your crap because we don’t like your politics or nationality is incredibly authoritarian. There will be moves towards hard assets in foreign central banks and savings/ investments/ assets of huge sectors of the population so our zoom class bureaucrats can’t steal from behind a computer screen.
There was a chance to avoid this war - rather than ignoring those trying to see things from the perspective of the enemy, we could have declared Ukraine neutral like Finland. Rather than make everyday Russians starve with sanctions directed at the population, we could have maintained energy independence making it far more difficult for Putin to afford war. We can still target our sanctions towards the government.
As for the election in 2020 - why no mention if the special prosecutor report finding mass fraud in WI nursing home votes or that Zucky committed bribery?
Lia is a man and sports illustrated is now irrelevant.
I do wonder, if we care about death and democracy so much, why such a blind eye from the entire us left to Canel killing Cuban protestors in the streets last summer?
"Though it’s petty to talk about gas given what Ukrainians are going through..."
No. It is embarrassing. Embarrassing because it forces us to acknowledge that our feckless leadership put us (and arguably Ukraine - would Putin have moved if Trump were still President and we were pumping nearly 13 million barrels per day?) in this weak and awful position.
Nellie, did you notice that YouTube has no problem hosting any and all videos that continue to falsely claim that Trump and RUSSIA stole the 2016 election, which has thoroughly been debunked by the Durham Probe, but yet they can’t even tolerate anyone asking about the irregularities that still surround the 2020 election?
Funny how that works. You’d think there’d be just a little more professional curiosity about that, and why it is, from anyone in the media not associated with Fox News or Glenn Greenwald. 🤔
Nicole Hannah-Jones of the NY Times says "too much sympathy for Ukraine’s plight is just another sign of—what else?—white supremacy. Also, bizarrely, that Europe is not a continent."
There is a glaring hypocrisy and double standard. What if someone said too much sympathy for the poor in Somalia is racist? The left would crucify them. But if Hannah-Jones says this about Ukraine - it's not racist ?
Supremacy is when people bully others and dictate what they can, or cannot, say or think or do. Screaming "racist" every time someone has a view or opinion that differs from yours is a belief that your view is somehow superior. In that way, Hannah-Jones is pushing Black Supremacy.
Using the term "racist" as an attack on opponents with different views is WRONG and it must stop. The country is being divided by race-baiters like Hannah-Jones who make big $$ by stoking racial animosity.
Sweden didn’t lockdown and said early on COVID lockdowns and mandates were not effective. Now Sweden also says surgeries and hormone blockers for gender dysphoria in children is harmful and there can be ways of curing or treating gender dysphoria. Why can’t we be like Sweden?! Their scientists are not corrupted obviously.
And Elon Musk is amazing - he’s helping Ukraine more than our own government! Bimbo Biden is a fool for excluding and purposely bashing the most innovative genius of our time.
Regarding Ukraine, this is as frustrating a column as Bari Weiss has ever written. She skewers a lot of nonsense on Ukraine from both the right and the left. She is correct to take down the DSA's anti-imperialist pacifist nonsense as well as Adam Kinzinger's rightwing war lusts. However, she pulls punches with regard to all the hoopla out there now, the sudden love for the Ukrainians by a feckless NATO alliance and our politicians and media, none of whom in fact will do a thing for Ukraine at all in the end except get a lot more Ukrainians killed.
Her view, for example, seems to be that Americans are whiney to complain about the higher energy prices that we must endure due to our "tougher" sanctions. This ignores how we have hamstrung ourselves and given Putin his BIGGEST advantage in this, his energy stranglehold on enviro-mad Europeans (and now Biden here) who fear fossil fuels more than they do the Russian bear. Americans are damn right to be outraged by higher energy costs. They are an unnecessary self-inflicted wound that is in fact a gift to Putin, not a sanction. He WANTS our oil prices to be high because they are the oil prices HE can charge us. Perhaps that upcoming piece by Michael Shellenberger will allow her to clarify this point.
Aside from the head in the sand sort of isolationism she skewers, Bari knows full well that very NON-isolationist policy makers like George Kennan warned a long time ago that our hubris would lead us and Ukrainians as well into this dead-end. "My heart goes out to the Ukrainians," too, like everyone else's. But it's a cheap sentiment. My heart goes out to the 40 million or so enslaved in all sorts of places still, to the Syrians, Libyans, Congolese, Somalians, Afghans (whom we just abandoned totally) and all the other victims of failed states, etc. Big deal for me. I take no pride in my sentiments about any of them. Anyone can have those sentiments. But they are not a good guide at all for what our nation can and should do. In this case they lead us to play with fire -- or appear to. I do not think anything good can come of it.
I'm confused. They want out of NATO because it's "imperialist" and "mililtarist," but were appalled that Trump weakened it? Feels like somebody didn't get a memo.
Mar 4, 2022·edited Mar 4, 2022Liked by Nellie Bowles
I just got hit with a firehouse of real timely news laced with objective opinion that was either non-partisan or mildly so. Bravo. Keep this up!
"Biden officially announced his nomination of Jackson to the Supreme Court to replace Stephen Breyer. She is qualified and smart and even comes with the endorsement of her relative, Paul Ryan. Her ascension would have been slightly sweeter if Biden had not explicitly said he was only looking at Black women."
This last sentence should be part of THE conversation about race in this country. First, why did Biden not nominate an Asian justice? Second, why do blacks not stand up to this negative branding of their capabilities by white liberals that clearly see them as a political virtue signaling entity and not an equal? Jackson is forever tainted as being appointed primarily because of her race and gender. It will be interesting to hear how she handles the questions she will get. If she is as bright as she needs to be she will say that she was happy to get the nomination, believes she is qualified and is disappointed in how the President came out to say he was going to nominate a black female. I doubt she will say this... and if not... it would indicate that she does lack the qualifications for a SCOTUS level jurist.
a) Lori (intellectual) Lightweight does not have the biggest d__k in Chicago. She IS the biggest d__k in Chicago.
b) Ketanji Brown has been universally evaluated as a judicial lightweight, as well. Her few opinions read like a third-grader's essays. As a supposedly coequal branch of government, the Supreme Court is of, well, supreme importance and should be composed of only the best and brightest. And I mean the very brightest, since there are only nine of them and they have the unequalled power reserved for final judges. Having the primary qualifier comprised of Checking The Right Racial/Sex Boxes does not inspire confidence. I've seen Affirmative Action doctors in, er, action and it's a sad thing.
c) Adam Kinzinger is already in the dustbin of history. Thank God.
d) The people at Youtube should all be forced to tattoo Lewis Brandeis' quote on their foreheads: “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." Or, paraphrasing the Washington Com-Post: Democracy dies in censorship.
e) Texas - like every state and the nation as a whole - has an interest in protecting its children from permanent damage done in service to temporary manias. A somewhat troubling approach? Yes. But the first procedure at a massive trauma is to stop the bleeding, and they're doing that.
f) Lia (erstwhile Will) Thomas broke no records. He's a man.
g) I bend the knee to the estimable Michael Shellenberger. May his tribe increase.
If prosecution for crimes is only for the little people then being held to account for war crimes is only for the leaders of small countries. Watching the press impotently shake the threat of prosecution in the Hague at Putin is pathetic. And why has the same threat not been leveled at Xi for what is happening to the Uighurs?
How did our society arrive at this point here a state gov't would be forced to write a law that says biological men and boys aren't allowed in women's and girls' sports?
All you voting age ladies and mothers of girls, please note that it took a legislature controlled by Republicans and a Republican governor to stand up for the rights of biological women.
BECAUSE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY WILL NOT DO THAT ANYMORE.
“‘Science allegedly showed trans women had larger hands and feet, bigger hearts and greater bone density and lung capacity.’ Allegedly! Amazing.”
Common sense is dead among our elites. What is so hard about respecting a person’s preferred pronouns while also respecting objective reality? “Trans women are women” is a nice slogan, but it is objectively not true. Trans women are trans women— biologically male, with all the biological differences that come with it. What is so hard about creating a third lane in sports? Why must biological women suffer because our cultural elites have deluded themselves so badly? Why do I feel uneasy about sharing this non-bigoted opinion? Oh yeah that’s right, anyone who dares breathe a word of truth on this topic is worse than Hitler.
I don't understand why it's so difficult for some people to pump the fucking brakes and consider things from the perspective of others. To categorically condemn an entire country and impose crippling boycotts, essentially destroying their economy and making it all but impossible to live in 2022 - do you think regular, everyday Russians who desire peace will take kindly to that? It's a recipe for resentment. Study a little history and you’ll learn real fast how powerful the collective resentment of an entire people can be. And it's borderline psychopathic to punish ordinary people as a way to “punish Putin.” I worry that we're racing towards a red light.
Remember the Cuban missile crisis - why would it matter if roles were reversed? The condescending tone in this article towards people noting that we promised not to extend NATO East with the fall of the USSR, and we lied, is inexplicable. Recognizing that Russia isn’t into the Davos driven dystopia the US and European left embraces isn’t a strange or silly view - it’s seeing the world as it is, not through some fantasy that thinks northern latitudes that are freezing and get little sun months out if the year can power themselves off of solar panels and ecologically destructive wind mills.
It’s also important because our affirmative action hire VP was “admiring” Zelenskyy wanting to join NATO the day before Putin invaded, and it’s rather cruel that zero attempts to save the Ukrainian people from this death were not pursued in the weeks and days leading up to this foreseeable invasion. It is actually insane to start WW III over Ukraine since WW III wouldn’t actually save Ukraine but would ensure far MORE death. Why were western governments so callous, knowing the evident risks, antagonizing Putin? Why not deescalate before the invasion????
It’s also important to see the war as it is, not as the propaganda would have you believe. Understanding the opposition is key to accurate responses. Putin may have hoped for a quick and bloodless fall, but he clearly had plans. That’s not “rooting for Putin.” It’s acknowledging reality. It took us 3 weeks to get the capital in Iraq when we blew up a smaller country in the name of “national security” based on a threat we made up in 2003 because we sought regime change in that smaller country. I pray for peace now, just as then.
Anyone cheering these extra judicial asset seizures and sanctions has a very simple, very short sighted, and very small mind. Wether it’s Canadian truckers or Russian billionaires, the long term result will be a move away from western banks, capital investments, and with the billionaire asset seizures, the US dollar. It will take some time, but this steal your crap because we don’t like your politics or nationality is incredibly authoritarian. There will be moves towards hard assets in foreign central banks and savings/ investments/ assets of huge sectors of the population so our zoom class bureaucrats can’t steal from behind a computer screen.
There was a chance to avoid this war - rather than ignoring those trying to see things from the perspective of the enemy, we could have declared Ukraine neutral like Finland. Rather than make everyday Russians starve with sanctions directed at the population, we could have maintained energy independence making it far more difficult for Putin to afford war. We can still target our sanctions towards the government.
As for the election in 2020 - why no mention if the special prosecutor report finding mass fraud in WI nursing home votes or that Zucky committed bribery?
Lia is a man and sports illustrated is now irrelevant.
I do wonder, if we care about death and democracy so much, why such a blind eye from the entire us left to Canel killing Cuban protestors in the streets last summer?
"Though it’s petty to talk about gas given what Ukrainians are going through..."
No. It is embarrassing. Embarrassing because it forces us to acknowledge that our feckless leadership put us (and arguably Ukraine - would Putin have moved if Trump were still President and we were pumping nearly 13 million barrels per day?) in this weak and awful position.
Nellie, did you notice that YouTube has no problem hosting any and all videos that continue to falsely claim that Trump and RUSSIA stole the 2016 election, which has thoroughly been debunked by the Durham Probe, but yet they can’t even tolerate anyone asking about the irregularities that still surround the 2020 election?
Funny how that works. You’d think there’d be just a little more professional curiosity about that, and why it is, from anyone in the media not associated with Fox News or Glenn Greenwald. 🤔
CALLING OUT BLACK SUPREMACY
Nicole Hannah-Jones of the NY Times says "too much sympathy for Ukraine’s plight is just another sign of—what else?—white supremacy. Also, bizarrely, that Europe is not a continent."
There is a glaring hypocrisy and double standard. What if someone said too much sympathy for the poor in Somalia is racist? The left would crucify them. But if Hannah-Jones says this about Ukraine - it's not racist ?
Supremacy is when people bully others and dictate what they can, or cannot, say or think or do. Screaming "racist" every time someone has a view or opinion that differs from yours is a belief that your view is somehow superior. In that way, Hannah-Jones is pushing Black Supremacy.
Using the term "racist" as an attack on opponents with different views is WRONG and it must stop. The country is being divided by race-baiters like Hannah-Jones who make big $$ by stoking racial animosity.
Sweden didn’t lockdown and said early on COVID lockdowns and mandates were not effective. Now Sweden also says surgeries and hormone blockers for gender dysphoria in children is harmful and there can be ways of curing or treating gender dysphoria. Why can’t we be like Sweden?! Their scientists are not corrupted obviously.
And Elon Musk is amazing - he’s helping Ukraine more than our own government! Bimbo Biden is a fool for excluding and purposely bashing the most innovative genius of our time.
This was your best yet! I so appreciate how you explain the absurdity of both the far left and far right. It's why I subscribe. Thank you.
Regarding Ukraine, this is as frustrating a column as Bari Weiss has ever written. She skewers a lot of nonsense on Ukraine from both the right and the left. She is correct to take down the DSA's anti-imperialist pacifist nonsense as well as Adam Kinzinger's rightwing war lusts. However, she pulls punches with regard to all the hoopla out there now, the sudden love for the Ukrainians by a feckless NATO alliance and our politicians and media, none of whom in fact will do a thing for Ukraine at all in the end except get a lot more Ukrainians killed.
Her view, for example, seems to be that Americans are whiney to complain about the higher energy prices that we must endure due to our "tougher" sanctions. This ignores how we have hamstrung ourselves and given Putin his BIGGEST advantage in this, his energy stranglehold on enviro-mad Europeans (and now Biden here) who fear fossil fuels more than they do the Russian bear. Americans are damn right to be outraged by higher energy costs. They are an unnecessary self-inflicted wound that is in fact a gift to Putin, not a sanction. He WANTS our oil prices to be high because they are the oil prices HE can charge us. Perhaps that upcoming piece by Michael Shellenberger will allow her to clarify this point.
Aside from the head in the sand sort of isolationism she skewers, Bari knows full well that very NON-isolationist policy makers like George Kennan warned a long time ago that our hubris would lead us and Ukrainians as well into this dead-end. "My heart goes out to the Ukrainians," too, like everyone else's. But it's a cheap sentiment. My heart goes out to the 40 million or so enslaved in all sorts of places still, to the Syrians, Libyans, Congolese, Somalians, Afghans (whom we just abandoned totally) and all the other victims of failed states, etc. Big deal for me. I take no pride in my sentiments about any of them. Anyone can have those sentiments. But they are not a good guide at all for what our nation can and should do. In this case they lead us to play with fire -- or appear to. I do not think anything good can come of it.
The Lightfoot bit sounds like a scene out of The Sopranos.
I'm confused. They want out of NATO because it's "imperialist" and "mililtarist," but were appalled that Trump weakened it? Feels like somebody didn't get a memo.
"Josh: Come to LA and hang out with the baddies. We even have gay beer (ie: any beer that comes from my refrigerator)."
And bring Mayor Lightfoot and her impressive appendage. Bring Lia Thomas, too: they can compare whing-whangs.
I just got hit with a firehouse of real timely news laced with objective opinion that was either non-partisan or mildly so. Bravo. Keep this up!
"Biden officially announced his nomination of Jackson to the Supreme Court to replace Stephen Breyer. She is qualified and smart and even comes with the endorsement of her relative, Paul Ryan. Her ascension would have been slightly sweeter if Biden had not explicitly said he was only looking at Black women."
This last sentence should be part of THE conversation about race in this country. First, why did Biden not nominate an Asian justice? Second, why do blacks not stand up to this negative branding of their capabilities by white liberals that clearly see them as a political virtue signaling entity and not an equal? Jackson is forever tainted as being appointed primarily because of her race and gender. It will be interesting to hear how she handles the questions she will get. If she is as bright as she needs to be she will say that she was happy to get the nomination, believes she is qualified and is disappointed in how the President came out to say he was going to nominate a black female. I doubt she will say this... and if not... it would indicate that she does lack the qualifications for a SCOTUS level jurist.
a) Lori (intellectual) Lightweight does not have the biggest d__k in Chicago. She IS the biggest d__k in Chicago.
b) Ketanji Brown has been universally evaluated as a judicial lightweight, as well. Her few opinions read like a third-grader's essays. As a supposedly coequal branch of government, the Supreme Court is of, well, supreme importance and should be composed of only the best and brightest. And I mean the very brightest, since there are only nine of them and they have the unequalled power reserved for final judges. Having the primary qualifier comprised of Checking The Right Racial/Sex Boxes does not inspire confidence. I've seen Affirmative Action doctors in, er, action and it's a sad thing.
c) Adam Kinzinger is already in the dustbin of history. Thank God.
d) The people at Youtube should all be forced to tattoo Lewis Brandeis' quote on their foreheads: “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." Or, paraphrasing the Washington Com-Post: Democracy dies in censorship.
e) Texas - like every state and the nation as a whole - has an interest in protecting its children from permanent damage done in service to temporary manias. A somewhat troubling approach? Yes. But the first procedure at a massive trauma is to stop the bleeding, and they're doing that.
f) Lia (erstwhile Will) Thomas broke no records. He's a man.
g) I bend the knee to the estimable Michael Shellenberger. May his tribe increase.
If prosecution for crimes is only for the little people then being held to account for war crimes is only for the leaders of small countries. Watching the press impotently shake the threat of prosecution in the Hague at Putin is pathetic. And why has the same threat not been leveled at Xi for what is happening to the Uighurs?
meanwhile this week in Iowa:
"Iowa bans biological males from women's sports"
How did our society arrive at this point here a state gov't would be forced to write a law that says biological men and boys aren't allowed in women's and girls' sports?
All you voting age ladies and mothers of girls, please note that it took a legislature controlled by Republicans and a Republican governor to stand up for the rights of biological women.
BECAUSE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY WILL NOT DO THAT ANYMORE.
Wake up and stop voting for Democrats, ladies.