Roundup!
(1) This theory (from commenter “mkent”) about about what was happening with the Russian “coup” is as good as any and better than many.
But the jury is still out on what will happen to Prigozhin.
(2) FINA – the international swimming federation – demonstrates some sense about trans athletes:
The governing body of international competitive swimming announced a policy that will only allow athletes who’ve transitioned before the age of 12 [or Tanner Stage 2 of puberty; also see this] to take part in any of the elite international swimming competitions…
“Without eligibility standards based on biological sex or sex-linked traits, we are very unlikely to see biological females in finals, on podiums, or in championship positions,” read the statement in part.
The policy also includes a proposal for a new open competition category, which athletes “would be able to compete without regard to their sex, their legal gender or their gender identity.”
FINA cited coming to the decision after consulting with scientists and policy makers, but the policy still sent shockwaves throughout the world of swimming and beyond. USA Wrestling and the International Rugby League have already followed suit and announced similar policies and other governing bodies are likely to follow suit.
Good. It’s complete common sense, but of course the trans activists and trans women in sports who are actually biological males, such as Lia Thomas, are yelling discrimination.
(3) Kevin McCarthy supports “expunging” Trump’s impeachments.
(4) McCarthy also says now is not the time to impeach Biden:
At Wednesday’s closed door meeting, McCarthy argued that Republicans should let committee investigations play out and warning that jumping to impeachment now could threaten their slim majority, the sources said. The speaker noted that House Republicans have taken back the House five times in the last 100 years, and two of those times lost the majority the next cycle.
“What majority do we want to be,” McCarthy asked his conference, according to a source in the room “Give it right back in two years or hold it for a decade and make real change?”
In addition, the impeachment of Biden would have no chance for conviction in the Senate. That didn’t stop the Democrat with Trump, though. And apparently, with the slim GOP margin in the House, it might not even pass the House because some GOP members are in very purple districts. That’s what McCarthy means about the possibility that this would hurt the GOP in the 2024 election.
I’m not sure what I think about this. I’m somewhat in agreement with McCarthy here, but with one caveat: perhaps impeachment hearings would draw more attention to the charges against Biden than they are currently getting. However, knowing the MSM, maybe not – and whatever press they would get would distort them and turn it into “mean Republicans pounce!”. What’s more, I don’t think most people watch any hearings, and I think the ones who do watch them tend to have their minds made up already.
(5) Fox News has solidified its weekday prime time lineup. I generally don’t watch TV news anyway, nor am I pleased with Fox’s cancellation of Tucker Carlson, so I won’t be watching for the most part.
“Lia” Thomas can always hope for a lucrative gig doing Bud Light commercials.
(1)FINA:
I think recognizing “trans” in any form, at any age, is surrender to the mentally ill. Why has this tsunami swept over us? Have we no self-pride, no standards? Everything goes? Not in my book!So I’m intolerant of deviancy, so?
Perhaps you may have seen videos today of a “PRIDE” parade in Toronto featuring many marching totally nude men? Not exactly ancient Greek models of manhood, either, but rather disgusting flabby, somewhat aged specimens, many of whom are likely homosexual and/or impotent. YUK!
Speaking of Roundup!, almost time to get the field ready for fall wheat.
Also, Re. Item 3, there’s an old Latin saying that comes to mind. Something about carp dying.
With some reluctance I endorse McCarthy’s “long game” approach on the impeachment question. Why?
(1) The reasons you give;
(2) Impeachment is the tail of the dog –Biden is a spent force politically, let’s use our power to hammer the real operators;
(3) Politics is about getting results in the real world over the long haul, not dying on the barricades;
(4) Revenge is a dish best eaten cold and at this point I’m used to slim rations anyway;
(5) Time does not favor Biden and his cabal –IF people work to correct the narratives.
Give impeachment a chance!
Impeach Merrick Garland.
All we are saying…
Glad to see FINA take a stand. There is no compromise with evil and, excuse me, the trans people are little else. Some are merely tortured souls, but all are so self-absorbed in their insane personal crusades of metamorphosis that they cannot register or give proper weight to the concerns of others. Result? Evil.
meanwhile, the dog that doesn’t bark
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1673427914237304833?cxt=HHwWgoCzlcz0mrkuAAAA
there is so much rank insanity, that proliferates like pollen,
Cicero… many thanks for not posting a link there. I ain’t looking even by accident. But there is this…
But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!
2 Timothy 3:1?-?5
Seems about like what you’re describing.
Owen:
You’re talking about trans activists of the leftist variety. The majority of trans people are not of that ilk and don’t support it, and are just living their lives. Some, however, are on YouTube speaking out against the leftist activists. I’ve featured a couple of them on the blog.
Re: Trans activism
Glenn Greenwald’s theory for how trans became the New Improved Sexual Liberation Movement over Old School Gay Liberation is that Gay Lib essentially achieved its goals of equality in American society, including gay marriage.
So did the Gay Lib organizations have a big party, pop some beers and demobilize?
No. They have bills to pay and ego needs to satisfy. They move on to the Next Big Sexual Thing to pay those bills and stroke those egos.
That’s the problem with progressive movements. They are never done.
Peter Zeihan on Russian coup:
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As the saying goes, Russia is a mystery wrapped in an enigma inside a tuna salad sandwich that’s gone off.
Apparently the guy who launched the coup, Yevgeny Prigozin, the leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, was only kidding. Whether his effort was a political stunt or negotiation tactic, it’s all over. It was fun while it lasted.
More at:
–Peter Zeihan, “The Russia Coup Part 4: Psych!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNYnzWPUZ04
Jack Smith and DOJ just leaked the Trump audio tape to CNN. https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1673498704681250816 ///// to distract from //////
BIDEN (last week): “I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things…” https://twitter.com/rncresearch/status/1673436267634388992
Red State posted a couple of relevant articles.
I think Duke is right about the impeachment, and the use of media by the GOP, which desperately needs to up its game in that department.
https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/06/26/lets-slow-the-roll-on-impeachment-of-anyone-before-the-gop-does-this-first-n767378
More on the CNN “exclusive” — IMO, no provenance, no credibility.
And if it was leaked by Smith, then it’s time to close down the DOJ from top to bottom.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/06/26/breaking-cnn-obtains-trump-audio-critical-to-classified-documents-case-n767782
Certainly looks like that’s what Biden said.
Whether that is what he meant, or if he even knew what he was talking about, is debatable.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/06/26/joe-biden-proclaims-that-he-sold-a-lot-of-state-secrets-during-white-house-meeting-n767645
Neo: Thanks for the kind words.
Another quote from ‘Joe Bribing’?
“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Biden said. (2020)
Of course most Republicans won’t impeach Biden for his family business deals:
a) He’s a long-time Washington insider,
b) Kevin McCarthy is only interested in the theater of opposition,
c) Too many Congressmen and Senators also have done what Biden has done.
The talk of expunging the Trump impeachments is just to toss the Republican base a bone. Even if it were done it changes nothing and inconveniences no one, and it’s as convincing as the new Bud Light campaigns.
I’m against impeaching Biden now as well. Three words: President Kamela Harris.
Start lower. Garland and Majorkas are ripe. They’ve both committed more than one impeachable offences. The real problem is getting rid of Harris first. There’s no obvious criminal behavior (now) and it’s hard to argue incompetence when there’s no actual vice-presidential duties to be competent at. (And, fie on the dangling participle rule.)
“…Biden is a spent force politically…”
Except that Biden is NOT “Biden” (as you imply when you say “the real operators”).
…The REAL problem being that if Biden is on the ballot—as he most likely will be, chortling and grinning his SH**-FACED grin while slandering and sliming half the country and babbling about UNITY—AND IF the election laws and the SUPERVISION of those elections will NOT be fundamentally changed by November 2024, then Biden—i.e., “BIDEN”—“wins” “again”.
File under: “OUR DEMOCRACY”!
As much as I would like to see Biden impeached, and convicted, I know it is impossible. I believe the best course at the moment is to do every thing possible to limit how much damage he can do; but otherwise stay out of his way and let him implode. That is one thing he is doing well.
If the Democrats want to run him in 24, then so much better. I have a low opinion of the American electorate but I do not yet, emphasis on yet, believe that a majority are blithering idiots. (I know that is in poor taste, but I am retro and in my day that was not an uncommon epithet.)
On another subject, I just don’t know what McCarthy can do to become acceptable to some people. I cannot imagine another political base that derides every leader in the same the way as Republicans (or is RINO a more description?); exempting Reagan of course.
@Oldflyer: I just don’t know what McCarthy can do to become acceptable to some people.
In my case, he could have chosen not to shank his own party on the debt ceiling “deal”. That “deal” had more House Dems vote yes than Republicans, and more Republicans voted no than Democrats did.
All he had to do was nothing for total victory. Ergo, he did not want the victory. He wanted to see the cronies get paid. Mission accomplished.
I cannot imagine another political base that derides every leader in the same the way as Republicans
Some of us are tired of being played for chumps, and some of us are apparently content to continue to be played. Some of us think it is high time that real effective opposition uses the power it has to effect real change instead of always making excuses for why they shouldn’t even try.
The Dems knew they couldn’t get impeachment through the Senate, didn’t stop them… the Dems know they have to deliver for their base, and the Republicans know they don’t have to.