Tuesday, May 2, 2023

TLDR DIGEST APR 24-MAY 1


HEADLINES


Biden's Refusal to Retire Is Presenting a Very Real National Security Risk


Vermont School District To Remove Terms "Male" And "Female" From Sex Ed Curriculum


Trans Marathoner Defeats 14,000 Women in Race after Competing as Man Months Earlier


Student claims he was sent home over shirt that said ‘there are only two genders’


Vivek Ramaswamy Debated Gender With Chuck Todd, and It Was Absolutely Bonkers


The Left Is Showing Us When Banning Books Is Okay In Certain Situations


Mexican National Wanted For Allegedly Murdering 5 Neighbors In Texas Is Thrice-Deported Illegal Alien: Reports


Epstein’s Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief, Goldman’s Top Lawyer

[…and Noam Chomsky ym”sh]


Report: Biden Is Only Functional Six Hours A Day, Five Days A Week


Biden Falsely Claims He Has Six Grandchildren, Leaves Off Hunter’s Arkansas Daughter


Brittney Griner: It’s A ‘Crime’ To Stop Biological Males From Competing Against Women





QUOTES

“…one final note for the businesspeople who may be reading this (some perhaps even working at Anheuser): If you really want to make some money, put Riley Gaines on a beer can.”


I hold no brief for Tucker Carlson — I somehow doubt we’ll ever speak after my last few pieces about him — and his behavior during the Dominion case was but one in a series of glaring ethical lapses; he was the agent of his own demise in the end, just as Nixon was his own worst enemy. But I am also under no illusion that the weapons successfully used to turn the screws on him from the outside — social media pressure campaigns, coordinated attempts at driving away advertisers, and the like — will not now immediately be turned against other inconvenient targets as well. These are the master’s tools; they are unethical to use, but know that soon they will be used in an attempt to master us as well.


Let’s put the shoe on the other foot here, folks. Let’s say there was a wave of bigoted violence against Palestinian Americans living in New York, and right-leaning lawmakers refused to back a similar initiative supporting them just because a left-wing group was leading the charge. It does not take a rocket scientist to predict the incessant handwringing that would come from the left as a result…The fact of the matter is that Hanif and her ilk do not wish to support the initiative because they care more about politics than protecting people who are victims of bigotry. It is yet another example showing how selective these people are with the “marginalized” groups they choose to protect.


““Equitable grading” seeks to make sure students master concepts while acknowledging home-life issues. But the approach nixes homework—and some teachers don’t like it.”


“Weingarten was a driving force behind keeping schools closed for more than a year in some areas…She took zero responsibility for pushing medically needless, prolonged school closures that led to historic learning losses for kids,…Even as a new report showed that she and her union were key to Biden-era Centers for Disease Control directives that restricted so many kids to the farce of ‘remote learning’ for so long.”


“…in the end, no one did more to destroy trust in public-health officials more than Anthony Fauci.  Now he admits something “went wrong” with the nation’s COVID response, yet blames “political divisiveness,” “the culture wars,” a failing “local public-health and health-care delivery system” and “racial and ethnic health disparities.”  Anything, that is, but his own horrendous advice.  That includes not just unavoidable mistakes in dealing with an unknown virus, but a host of intentional lies, coverups and flip-flops on key issues…”


“If Gardner were merely a Soros-backed ide[o]logue hellbent on “reimagining” the criminal justice system, it would be bad enough. But on top of that, she’s demonstrated repeatedly that she’s utterly incompetent. So much so that, in addition to facing a September trial on quo warranto proceedings brought by Attorney General Andrew Bailey to remove her from office, Gardner faced not one but two hearings this week requiring her to show cause as to why she should not be held in contempt of court.”


“Both self-starvation and transgenderism guarantee elevation to a perceived social elite. At least in the minds of some anorexics, being immune to the temptations of crisps and biscuits that seduce mere mortals induces an emotionally nutritious sensation of superiority…Coming out as trans likewise greatly increases attention from schoolmates, teachers and a whole industry of therapists, endocrinologists and surgeons. In a single syllable, “trans” likewise seems to offer a readymade answer to who you are. Freeman tells us that “when an anorexic says, ‘I don’t want to be fat, I want to be thin,’ they are saying, ‘I want to be other than I am, and what I am is unhappy. I want to be someone else.” Clearly, transition to the opposite sex makes the same statement: I want to be someone else. But is becoming someone else really an option?”



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