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  1. The White House has also provided plenty of publicity for online Alphabet People communities, including Brandon’s latest gaffe, in which he referred to “transjester” people serving in the military. Twitter users had a field day depicting JoJo with a jester’s cap:

    https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-embarrassing-mistake-people-editing-literal-jester/

    Danny Kaye must be spinning in his grave.

    BTW, tomorrow is the 248th birthday of the U.S. Army– as well as Flag Day, which celebrates the Second Continental Congress’s adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the nation’s official flag on June 14, 1777.

    https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-06-13/us-army-248th-birthday-celebration-10425581.html

    Anyone care to take bets on the placement of Pride flags on veterans’ graves tomorrow?

  2. The senile buffoon’s event at 1600 was utterly disgraceful, as was the CIA’s recent post celebrating “Pride” (why have the other six of the seven deadly sins been neglected?). Future generations will gaze back in sheer disbelief at the hysteria and the insanity generated, throughout our decadent and decaying culture, by the “Alphabet Mafia.”

  3. I’m surprised, actually, that we haven’t seen a version of the American flag using the same overall geometric patterns, but done up with rainbow – colored stripes and stars.

    Seeing the pride flag taking front & center priority over the American flag at the White House was painful, and this picture should make for an excellent image in 2024 – if Republicans are smart about it.

  4. Ten years or so again I was curious about anorexia. I heard about pro-anorexia sites (“pro-ana”) and looked a few up. It was rather weird, disturbing, to see selfies of these proud skeletal women and their encouraging comments to each other.

    From what I gather, most blatant pro-ana sites have been shut down. Some have migrated to the masking monikers, “thinspiration” or “thinspo.”

    There are just so damn many ways to go wrong as a human being.

  5. Aggie (5:02 pm) caveats, “if Republicans are smart about it.”

    Ahhhh, therrre’s the rrrub!

  6. I think the spread of rapid-onset gender dysphoria, especially among young girls, is heavily a social contagion.

  7. Note how differently anorexia was treated by the medical and political and corporate establishment than transgenderism has been. The pro-anorexia websites were always described in the media as an alarming threat to the well-being of young women, even using the word “grooming”.

  8. Frederick:

    Correct. The key to the different treatment was the labeling of trans people as members of a persecuted identity group in need of protection.

  9. Next thing you know, the online community-promulgated hysteria will induce the kids to refuse to recite the Pledge of Allegiance — like we did, in the 1950s, at the start of every school day.

    What’s that you say . . . ?

  10. My daughter and son-in-law are going to keep our granddaughter from having a smart phone until she’s about to graduate from high school, they say. The problem will be all the other parents who won’t be so wise.

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  12. I remember when Glenn Reynolds founder of the Instapundit on-line community went full transgender by wearing an “I Had An Abortion” T-shirt.

  13. M J R (5:48 pm) complained that someone else isn’t ready to do all the work that M J R is shunning.

    RIDDLE: What’s a word beginning with a ‘t’ that means hypocrite?
    Answer: Trump voter

  14. neo on June 13, 2023 at 6:19 pm
    The key to the different treatment was the labeling of trans people as members of a persecuted identity group in need of protection.

    I also wonder if the physical changes in anorexic girls/women also played a part. These changes would more clearly indicate they were experiencing or undergoing an abnormal response, such that an element of mental illness can also easily be assigned to it [at least by laymen = “they’re crazy!”].

    Unless they pursue clothing and cosmetics changes, etc. (short of the drug or surgery changes), a transgender person might not appear physically “abnormal” so any assignment of mental illness to their situation could be reduced?? Therefore, moves for wider acceptance would gain more traction?

  15. “Detransitioners”, meaning people who have made attempts to change gender but then reverted to living as their original biological sex, are sometimes thoughtful and reflective. They often describe the effects of social media on troubled adolescents, as in the this essay which describes the effect of Tumblr communities on transgender teenagers:

    https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name

    A bit lengthy, but very insightful.

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  17. Video 3, BOTTOM — @49m what you learned at gender dysphoria conferences? “It’s a belief system that survives a remarkable amount of contact with reality.”

    What follows after this line oughta be joke punchlines. Instead, there is pathos.

  18. Yes, that’s precisely the point, of course.

    REALITY IS THE ENEMY.

    Ergo, destroy it…and everyone and anyone who believes in it.

  19. I’m actually good with doing away with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. If we’re going to ask people to pledge allegiance to something, it should be the Constitution (which government personnel vow to “support and defend…against all enemies, foreign and domestic”), not a piece of cloth.

    Having said that, displaying the stupid pride flag front and center at the White House is an abomination (or is that Obama-nation?).

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