FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2025
Before that, he gave us our monsters: The new column by David Brooks appears beneath a touchy-feely headline.
Brooks has become our new whipping-person at this vaunted site. His column appears in today's print editions, and it begins like this:
The Wrong Definition of Love
The time I used to spend on Twitter I now spend on Substack, and my life is much better for it. There are a lot of interesting, eclectic writers in the world. This week, for example, I stumbled across a post from Antonia Bentel, who asked six strangers and friends about how they fall in love.
One woman responded, “I fall in love when someone sees me in a way I didn’t know I could be seen.” A young man answered, “Falling in love is like seeing yourself reflected in someone else’s mind.” Another woman said, “I fall in love when I don’t feel like I’m performing competence.” She added that love happens “when someone sees you in the absolute mess of it—your pain, your pettiness, your unpaid parking tickets.” Another man replied, “Falling in love is like entering a room you didn’t know existed in your own house.”
Bentel makes it clear that this is far from a scientific survey, but what struck me about these answers is that they all had a common definition of love—that love blooms when somebody else makes you feel understood and good about yourself.
That's how the column starts.
We have a lot of respect for the work Brooks has down in the years since he switched his focus, moving away from standard politics and toward an attempt to clarify values. In the current column, he ends up saying that Antonia Bentel's recent work involves "the wrong definition of love."
"Given the wickedness of the time" (Plato), it seems to us that a column like this may involve the wrong idea of appropriate journalistic inquiry. It seems to us that a ship is sinking, and that people like Brooks are up on the deck as the band plays on.
It seems to us that Brooks is hiding. Consider what happened yesterday on the Fox News Channel "cable news" program known as The Five.
The Five is the most-watched program in American news. Yesterday, a makeshift panel had been assembled as the Labor Day weekend approached:
The Five: Thursday, August 28, 2025
Trey Gowdy: host, Sunday Night in America
Jessica Tarlov: rotating co-host, The Five
Johnny Joey Jones: Fox News contributor
Dana Perino: co-host, The Five
Greg Gutfeld: co-host, The Five
Two or three regulars were on hand, depending on how you were counting. Gowdy sat in the Judge Jeannine chair, which remains unfilled on a permanent basis. Seemingly as a mercy, Jones was sitting in the Jesse Watters chair.
There they sat, arrayed in the standard fair-and-balanced format, in which four pro-MAGA panelists will gang up on the one Democrat. And let the word go forth to the nations:
The correct definition of love would not be on the docket this day! Meanwhile, did we mention a salient fact?
This is the most-watched program in the American "cable news" firmament. Here are the relevant viewership numbers from Monday, August 18:
Total viewers: Monday, August 18, 2025
The Five: 3.85 million
The Rachel Maddow Show: 2.01 million
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell: 1.46 million
Deadline: White House: 1.15 million
The Beat with Ari Melber: 1.04 million
The Arena with Kasie Hunt: 695,000
Rachel Maddow still puts up a fight on a Monday-only basis. Other than that, The Five basically triples the score on the most-watched MSNBC programs. On that particular day, it more than quintupled the score on CNN's most watched program.
Also this: On that same evening, Jesse Watters Primetime and the Gutefld! show each attracted more than three million viewers. The Fox News Channel is basically lapping the field.
For better or worse, The Five is powerful "cable news" medicine! It also represents an assault on the very possibility of maintaining an American discourse or a modern American nation, definitions of love to the side.
We can't begin to cover all of what happened on this degraded program last night. For starters, let's turn to co-host Greg Gutfeld, the first person called upon to discuss, or to pretend to discuss, the program's initial topic.
Cast in her role as the program's den mother, Dana Perino had introduced the topic. She played the standard, extremely brief bits of videotape, allegedly from "the media who think that prayer in this moment is useless."
"This moment" was Wednesday morning's mass shooting in Minneapolis. Perino had also played videotape of Jacob Frey, the Minneapolis mayor, saying this:
"Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity. We should not be operating out of a place of hatred of anyone. We should be operating out of a place of love for our kids."
There would be no discussion this day of why Frey might have said that. But now, Perino threw to the endlessly furious Gutfeld—and when she did, the endlessly furious jack-a-napes angrily traveled a rather dark road.
To watch the videotape, you can just click this:
GUTFELD (8/28/25): This is why none of these A-holes can lecture anyone on compassion.
The most compassionate people on the planet are trying to stop the trans delusion. The least compassionate are the people in the media, academia and politicians who enable this hysteria of horror.
What is so glaring about the trans cult—apparently, your identity is the only thing that matters until you do something awful. Then it's the least important variable. Then you look at everything else. You talk about guns. But suddenly, it is like all of a sudden we can't talk about that—what was it? The other trans shooter that hid her identity.
In this manifesto that this creep wrote, he said he was tired of being trans, and that he wished he had never brainwashed himself. What more do you need, straight from the monster's mouth?
Politicians, activists and teachers—you built this! You could have listened to the warnings. We were talking about this on this show for years. You amplify the hysterical—a hysterical, literally hysterical phenomenon that was going no place good.
You created a poisonous program that twisted young minds for destruction, a nihilistic place to be when you deny biology and they have nowhere to go. So all of these media arguments, what you are seeing there among those people, it is to escape their own culpability and the reality they created.
So forget the layer of mental illness and gun control. The origin of the evil, the evil lies in the creation of a mindset that indulged a delusional self, ruining connections with fellow human beings
So that trans, by ascribing extreme aggrieved mentality, then gets directed against society. So this person feels justified in killing children. His killing resulted from that ideology. And if you don't believe that, you're one dumb asshole.
Excuse me.
We did our best to transcribe that angry presentation. Some of it was a bit hard to follow.
At any rate, it was now 5:04 p.m. Eastern, 2:04 out on the coast. Millions of viewers had already been told that "none of these A-holes can lecture us any more."
They had also heard that, if you don't agree with this furious man, that means that "you're one dumb asshole." You're a dumb asshole too!
"Excuse me," he then thoughtfully said. So it went in the first four minutes of this failing nation's most-watched cable "news" program as the holiday weekend approached.
Perino didn't bat an eye. Instead, the den mother simply threw to Gowdy, placidly saying this:
PERINO (continuing directly): Trey Gowdy, great to have you on the show...
These A-holes can't lecture us any more, the furious Gutfeld had said. Also, If you don't agree with my presentation, that makes you one dumb asshole!
Amazingly, the presentation by Johnny Joey Jones during this segment may have been just as striking as Gutfeld's overwrought rant. Below, we'll show you the way Gutfeld ended the second segment of yesterday's show—a segment during which he staged the latest serial interruption of Tarlov as she tried to make a perfectly sensible point.
We don't have the strength today to try to present a full critique of Gutfeld's angry presentation about the poisonous, nihilistic and evil "trans cult." We'll only say that the phenomenon which we now call "transgender" has been visible around the globe, within the world' many cultures, since roughly the dawn of time.
In that sense, he seems to be part of the "biology" that Gutfeld's God created. It wasn't invented by Gutfeld's teachers at Serra High, or by the politicians for whom he doesn't vote.
It wasn't invented by the liberal and Democratic women he constantly compares to horses, cows, pigs and whales on his own demented 10 p.m. "cable news" program. Also, we'd recommend this obvious fact to this overwrought fellow:
The vast majority of mass shootings are committed by people who are what is now sometimes called "cisgender!" Gowdy himself had noted this obvious fact on Wednesday afternoon's Outnumbered program, triggering fury through parts of the Fox News world.
With respect to yesterday's show, we blame Perino more than Gutfeld. Transparently, he seems to be crazy; she isn't. Presumably, she's there for the money—and the money is large.
She has long accepted the den mother role on this astonishing program. She's been assigned the task of creating the debatable impression that the pro-MAGA panelists on the program aren't all out of their minds.
That said, the longing to create an entire class of "monsters" and "creeps"—an entire class to demonize—seems to be deeply bred in the bone.
In the 1950s, Tailgunner Joe sought the Communists out. Today, Gutfeld demonizes those who belong to the "trans cult"—but so does the New York Post, whose front=page headline on Thursday morning pathetically said this:
DEMONIC
Transgender maniac shoots up Catholic school morning Mass, killing two kids
To see that front page, just click here. You'll never seen a headline like this from this Murdoch newspaper in one of the far more numerous cases:
DEMONIC
Yet another straight white male shoots up [insert rest of headline]
You'll never see a headline like that—nor should you, of course. But again and again, the Murdoch empire takes us back to Salem Village, and people like Gutfeld are prepared to cast themselves in the leadership role.
Jones' presentation in that first segment may have been even more startling than Gutfeld's. The second segment of yesterday's program dealt with a different topic—in this case, with a pseudo-topic. One of the chyrons beneath the clowning said this:
NEWSOM GOES ON DERANGED ANTI-TRUMP RANT
In all honesty, Newsom hadn't gone on a deranged anti-Trump rant. But if you click the link and continue to click, you can see a common phenomenon on this program—you can see the practice by which Tarlov is aggressively overtalked and interrupted as she attempts to state her point.
Yesterday, it was Gutfeld performing this corporate service as the permissive den mother looked on. The segment ended with Gutfeld derisively saying this about Tarlov, scoring the segment's last word:
GUTFELD: Typical chick!
For the record, Tarlov is smarter than Gutfeld is. What a disordered man!
Greg Gutfeld is 60 years old! But so it goes on this demonic "cable news" channel. As it does, David Brooks is typing away on a mountaintop, writing about the correct way to try to be loved.
David, listen up! The American nation, such as it ever has been, is now being eaten alive. When are you going to put the Fox News Channel on and tell readers what you've seen?
What we saw yesterday at 5 p.m. was a furious "revolt from below." We've called it "the revolt of the D-minus students," but it's only one part of the current ongoing duel.
It's enabled by "the haplessness of the elites"—by the silence of David Brooks, by the silence of so many others.
They won't search for the truth about President Trump. They won't mention The Five at all.
“The meaning of LOGORRHEA is excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness”
ReplyDeleteFuck you fascist David.
DeleteWhat of it, David?
DeleteTrump is afflicted with this condition.
DeleteTrump has lost his filter because dementia affects the frontal lobes where judgment resides.
DeleteBob’s post
DeleteSomerby & Trump are the same age.
DeleteBob’s post is an example of logorrhea, DiC? How long have you been reading him? Do you agree with him that there is something majorly wrong with Trump? You must be frequently frustrated here.
DeleteI don't know whether there's something majorly wrong with Trump. All I can do is evaluate the successes and failures of his actions. As candidate, he was unbelievably successful. As President, I believe he's been unusually successful, although I can understand why you might disagree.
DeleteMost of us here, including Somerby, think there’s something wrong with Trump. More and more, people are talking about a mental and physical decline as well. You were all about stomping on Biden for his issues, the least you can do is call for some truth telling in this case, DiC.
DeleteDave just isn’t honest. It’s sad.
Delete“the phenomenon which we now call "transgender" has been visible around the globe, within the world's many cultures, since roughly the dawn of time.”
ReplyDeleteSo have other forms of mental illness.
“It wasn't invented by the liberal and Democratic women”
No, but it’s normalized by them and that normalization only helps it spread.
The concept of mental illness is only a couple hundred years old. Before that there was demon possession, imbalance of fluids in the body, being out of sync with nature and world's harmonies, angering one's ancestral spirits, and having the wrong astrological sign. From the headline, some Republicans are stuck in the religious pseudo-explanation of demonic possession. When exorcism failed to help anyone, a lot of people moved on from that.
DeleteTo the extent that mental illness is defined as abnormal, it cannot be normalized.
Delete12:40: definitions can change and have changed.
DeleteRepublicans want to use medicine to legitimize their crusade against trans people but this has nothing to do with mental health and everything to do with politics. When you take a child who is trans and persecute them for who they are, they are legitimately going to feel anger, even rage. If you are stupid enough to put a gun in that child's hands when he or she grows up, then they may act out. But being depressed is not just about neurotransmitter imabalances, it can also be situational, caused by being harrassed by religious figures from early childhood, bullied by other children and having a shitty childhood, much worse than Donald Trump's or Tucker Carlson's boyhoods. There are externalized and internalized hate involved in that shooting and it could likely have been prevented had there not been superstitious nonsense guiding the behavior of the adults around the shooter as a child. The point of helping transgender children is to prevent such extreme results and to help the child grow up with self-esteem, confidence and a reasonable sense of identity in a world that is often rejecting.
DeleteNews Reports have pointed out that the shooter fired at stained-glass windows. That suggests maybe the target was religion and not the children invisible to the shooter behind that glass.
How does it spread?
Delete12:40 -- the definition of mental and physical illness rely on abnormality beyond the limits of human variability. Humans are not all the same. That raises the question of what is normal and what is abnormal (nor just deviant but indicative of dysfunction). Generally two standard deviations above or below the mean is the cutoff for normality, whether you are measuring blood pressure, blood sugar, growth rates in children, or test scores on a psychosis scale. You define what is normal behavior for people based on what most people do.
DeleteThere are deviations from normal behavior that occur with rarity but as a matter of physiology and nature. The variations in chromosome combinations such as XXY, XYY, are like rare blood types, or having eyes with two different colored irises, occurring less frequently but observable enough to classify them as anomalies. The gender variations are like that, as are variations in sexual orientation. If there were not variations in human anatomy and physiology there could not have been evolution from our earliest ancestors.
Religious nuts don't believe in evolution either. They barely believe in science and medicine (witness Bobby Jr.). Being ignorant, whether out of brain injury (as in Bobby's case), psychiatry (Bobby was traumatized as a child), or religion, does not excuse wrongs done to persecute those who are different through no fault of their own. In the bad old days, different people were burned at the stake or made religious leaders or killed at birth (if they had birthmarks or vestigial tails). It is too stupid to talk about trans children as if stigmatizing them and forcing them to be "normal" is going to help anything.
The Republican model is that Democratic ideology is "making" children trans -- that they learn it at school or via parental over-indulgence. When you talk to adults who are trans and thus not as confused as young children, you hear that they always felt trans and didn't "learn" it but were born that way. They talk about being depressed when forced to be something different, are told that who they are is bad or wrong, and especially when isolated and shunned, and bullied by adults and children for something they cannot help.
It isn't only trans kids who feel this way. Autistic girls and boys often feel depressed, bewildered and have high anxiety over differences they were born with and cannot help. The same with gifted children and children with both visible and hidden disabilities (asthma, seizure disorders, low vision or hearing, chronic illnesses, dyslexia and other learning disorders), to the extent that they are unsupported by adults.
I get it that right wingers do not understand the issues, but it is wrong when the people made to suffer for their ignorance are innocent children and vulnerable minorities in our society. So, if this were just about politics, it would be less important than the persecution of the innocent being perpetrated by the right in the name of politics.
The right wing doesn't get to set up its own definitions and use them in place of experts who actually know what they are talking about and how to help people.
DeleteIlya, what are you referring to? If you are talking about transgender, it may be a hormone imbalance during pregnancy caused by medications taken by the mother (or the mother's own hormonal balances interacting with the fetus), or it may be due to genetic abnormalities inherited from the parents or spontaneously arising during development of the sperm and egg after conception. Sometimes a translocation of a piece of one chromosome is transferred to another, which is heritable after that. More often the abnormality is random and spontaneous.
DeleteHow does what spread?
Delete"News Reports have pointed out that the shooter fired at stained-glass windows. That suggests maybe the target was religion and not the children invisible to the shooter behind that glass" Come on man, you win for most asinine comment of the week. Congratulations, you had a ton of competition.
Delete"When you take a child who is trans"
DeleteIs 'trans' something you're born with or is it something you choose to say about yourself? Is there a transgender gene?
No, but it’s normalized by them and that normalization only helps it spread.
DeleteI love evolution. I’m proud that, to a chimpanzee, I’m a closer cousin than a gorilla is.
Delete@1:40 & 1:44, did you not understand what the other comments said?
DeleteMaybe this is better: Transgender children are born that way. You can treat them like human beings or you can be an asshole. Either way, it doesn’t “spread” anything.
If you are left-handed but you don’t tell anyone does it change your handedness?
If you develop a better test for autism, you will identify more autistic kids. That doesn’t mean it is spreading.
This is a version of Trump’s idea that if you don’t test for covid there will be fewer sick people.
If you're male and you tell everyone you're a female does it change your maleness?
DeleteIf you are female but society demands you be male, does it change your femaleness?
DeleteIf you are male but you tell others you are female and they treat you that way, you will still feel male inside and may feel like a fraud because you must let others think you are female.
The problem is that right wingers insist that genitalia define being male or female when there are a small number of people for whom that is not true. Instead of allowing those people to define themselves, the right wants to tell people what they must be, even when it feels wrong to the person concerned and is really no one else’s business.
Treating people as whatever gender they claim to be is just a matter of respect and courtesy. This is simple and causes no confusion for anyone.
“ does it change your maleness?”
DeleteWhat besides genitalia defines “maleness”, do you think? Boys used to be called gay if they liked Broadway show tunes. Many transgender people do hormone replacement, and if MTF, then they block testosterone and add estrogen. They do this forever, basically. Others go farther and have surgeries. This is a bit more than “telling people you’re female.”
"What besides genitalia defines “maleness”, do you think?"
DeleteNothing. No inner fantasies or longing or identity. It's just your balls or the lack thereof.
5:29: so transgender women who have them removed are women.
DeleteHa! Good comeback. But no, it's 'born with'. But thanks for playing.
DeleteIlya, what are you referring to?
DeleteI was referring to the original post, which was suggesting that "transgender[ism]" somehow "spreads". It's right there in the post. I was curious how it spreads, i.e. is it spread by casual contact; or intimate contact.
The only way to know for sure is for you to present your birth certificate every time you have to go to the bathroom, 6:58. Perhaps you can volunteer to be bathroom police. What a patriotic duty huh?
DeleteI wonder how many people know that an infant's eye color and skin color may change after birth, as a child gets older. Handedness doesn't emerge until a child is old enough to hold objects and reach for things but it results from brain organization not parental decisions.
Delete"I was curious how it spreads, i.e. is it spread by casual contact; or intimate contact."
DeleteIt spreads via its acceptance. As if it's normal and okay and should be celebrated that a person is born into one sex and then decides they're a different sex and they should start mutilating their body in a vain attempt to appear to be that other sex even though it's obvious to everyone they're not.
Squeal louder, snowflake.
DeleteMany people’s hair color changes.
DeleteSomerby seems to be disturbed by disagreement among talkers, but he seems incapable of explaining what upsets him about it. We get a sense (from his use of adjectives) of who he approves and who he disapproves of, but not why.
ReplyDeleteBrooks is a bad guy because he is an elite, but in what sense is he elite? He is not a blue or Democratic opinion writer, so he is apparently part of a red elite. I haven't heard that defined here before. But we are also never told why Somerby thinks Bentel has the wrong definition of love according to Brooks. There was enough space to explain that, before Somerby veered onto his rant about Gutfeld's rant. Then we hear about the seating chart on The Five and finally about Tarlov being smarter than Gutfeld who is disordered. Does being disordered make someone dumb? Not according to psychiatry, but the promised lectures about grandiosity may be postponed until later (how knows when) and Somerby still has nothing to say about Epstein. Today's essay is an incoherent mess. But what else is new?
"Today's essay is an incoherent mess. But what else is new?"
DeleteAnd yet -- you read him every day!
I read the news everyday even though Trump is always an incoherent mess. So?
DeleteI am an incoherent mess.
DeleteMass shooters who are transgender 0.11%. Mass shooter cisgender male, 98%. The MAGATs, get the evil transgenders. Fucking weirdos and idiots the whole lot of you.
ReplyDeleteBetter media criticism, from Dan Froomkin:
ReplyDeletehttps://presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-have-become-an-authoritarian-state-and-our-top-newsrooms-are-in-denial/
In Trump’s D.C., the Swamp Runneth Over
ReplyDeletehttps://prospect.org/power/2025-08-29-in-trumps-dc-swamp-runneth-over-corruption-lobbying/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The%20swamp%20runneth%20over&utm_campaign=Daily%20Prospect%2008-29-2025
Greasy dicks, the whole lot of them, just like Daddy.
DeleteGutfeld's viewers represent a portion Trump's cult -- six degrees of separation and all. In fact, around 17mil voters chose Trump in the primaries. These are people on the inner orbit of the decaying orange nucleus. This is his hard base.
ReplyDeleteAs we know, from many examples in history, cult members are very reluctant to give up on their cult. It becomes part of their identity. They lose ability to relate to non-cult members. Any number of other reasons that experts in cult behavior would be able to identify.
The next orbit is populated by cult-adjacent people, e.g. DavidInCal is a good example of a denizen of the second orbit. These people eschew some of the more bizarre and outrageous claims or rhetoric; but for all practical purposes they are indistinguishable from the denizens of the first orbit. They are characterized by both an iron-clad belief that liberals/progressives/left-wingers are "bad". They also ostensibly lack the intellectual tools to delve deeper into any policy discussions. They a protective layer that repels all serious policy discussions. They may dismiss Trump's over-the-top rhetoric, but they still blindly cling to his policies.
Then there are some outer layers of Trump nucleus. They are much more unstable and are not nearly as bound to Trump as the first two layers. It's worthwhile examining how these voters can be peeled off.
The gist of this post: musing about people like Gutfeld and his audience is pointless. They are tightly bound to the nucleus.
If they could be peeled off, they would have bbeen already.
DeleteTarlov does not need Somerby to defend her from being called a “Typical Chick.”. Men need to stop that shit.
ReplyDeleteSomerby is not defending Tarlov here, he's attacking Gutfeld by pointing out Gutfeld's sexist behaviour.
DeleteAre Gutfeld’s millions of audience members also sexist?
DeleteWomen don’t need sexist men like Somerby to use feminism as a stick to beat their enemies (Gutfeld) when Somerby and others like him neither understand nor care about sexism.
DeleteThis is baiting women because most of us don’t like being called Chicks and his parting statement was an obvious putdown, which does not win an argument even if it ends it. Gutfeld’s audience loves that because Tarlov is a two-fer, a putdown of a woman and a swipe at liberals. Gutfeld’s audience is mostly male because the Democrats have a +10% female advantage.
Women let this crap slide. Somerby doesn’t seem to recognize how petty and foolish it makes women to rise to such an obvious taunt. So Somerby is not helping. He’s grinding his own axe.
Somerby’s credo seems to be “you’re not calling out Gutfeld’s sexism, therefore you don’t really care about it” but, when liberals do call out sexism, he chides them “liberals just want to call the others names”. No win.
DeleteCecelia is a typical chick.
DeleteI see. By pointing it Gutfeld’s sexist behavior, Somerby proves his own sexism. Got it.
DeleteSomerby has demonstrated his own sexism in many ways over the years, not by this one statement about Gutfeld. @4:38 was clear and DG is being an asshole.
DeleteTo what degree are society, institutions and people obligated to make special arrangements for people with some special needs, and to what extent should such people deal with these needs themselves? E.g., a mother complained that her supermarket didn't make sufficient accommodations for her son with peanut allergy. Is the market obliged to restrict itself, or should the mother take care of her own problem by finding a way to shop without her son. E.g., she could order food on line and have it delivered.
ReplyDeleteAre all institutions obliged to give blacks special treatment? If they treat blacks the same as others, are they racist?
And, what if there isn't even a need, but just a preference. Trans people don't need to use a particular restroom. Are institutions be obliged to give them some kind of special restroom privileges? And, if they don't change the bathrooms, is that anti-trans bigotry?
In most of Europe, where the preponderance of nosey weirdos like you, who can't be bothered to mind their own business, is a lot less - THEY HAVE UNISEX BATHROOMS!!! And their whole society collapsed!!! Go sniff your own panties and fuck off Dickwad.
DeleteTo what degree are you a fucking idiot Dic? It's to the Nth degree. That is a big number I'm afraid.
DeleteThere are accommodations for (physically) handicapped people everywhere.
DeleteGiven that “blacks” were systematically barred from citizenship and exercising any kind of choice for two centuries, (meaning that “institutions” gave them special treatment, ie by rejecting them), it seems that removing that nefarious treatment doesn’t undo the years of exclusion. The playing field was deliberately not level.
Accommodating people’s needs seems like something a civil society should do, rather than excluding them, and yes, rejecting people for being “different” (gay, transgender, black, what have you) does seem like bigotry.
I will note the hypocrisy of you republicans on this. When an “institution”, Target, for example, decides they want to cater to the gay community, the right wing freaks out and demands they stop. So your concern only goes one way.
The above comment is an almost perfect crystallization of what a total schmuck David in California is about all things. And the best part of it is he thinks he is being clever. I feel sorry for him, but I would like to punch him at the same time. A conundrum.
DeleteAbove is David's way of saying DEI now gives all the advantages to the negro man at the expense of the white man. It has been part of the right ring talking points since Rush came on the scene. Of course back then the boogeyman destroying the livelihood of good Christian white men and elevating the negro above them unfairly was affirmative action and hiring quotas. These folks are consistent, consistently bad, but consistent.
DeleteIt’s not always fair to expect every institution to bend over backwards for every single preference.
Delete5:48: being black, or gay, or transgender, or handicapped are not “preferences.”
DeleteI don't see how they could be.
DeleteI didn't mean to say the condition might be a preference. I meant the remedy might be a preference, rather than an essential need. That is, the person might be able to handle their differences themselves without help from other parties. E.g., blacks don't need to be accepted at colleges with lower qualification. The can find ways to be better students in high school.
DeleteAlso, trans is a special case, because there's no objective definition. It's based on one person's feelings. A person can simply declare s/he feels trans, and we're supposed to give him/her special treatment.
I’m not so sure David is a schmuck. I think he’s more of a putz.
DeleteDavid's point about tolerating people with mental health issues (i.e.people who believe in an all-powerful benevolent God) is ruining this country, is his first use of his brain at all.
DeleteDavid wants to deprive strapping young high school quarterbacks of publicly funded sanitary kerchiefs to situate over their bloody and bubbling terra damnata.
Delete7:34: does it upset you, the thought of a gender free bathroom providing female sanitary products? Does it make you feel all icky?
DeleteWell, menstruation is icky. You can’t honestly deny this.
DeleteSure, female bodily functions are icky. How old are you, 11:12?
DeleteAs we all know, the fragrant rivulets of uterine blood and sloughed, sluggish lining of the uterus represent the profound ability to bring forth life from one’s own fertile insides, a phenomena erupting in the bodies of young teenage boys attending public schools all over America.
DeleteWomen don't think about their periods this way. Why do you?
DeleteIt's finally time.someone stood up for the fertile wounds of young American men.
DeleteWombs
DeleteWe can't expect women to understand what it's really goes on in men's vaginas.
DeleteHigh school boys are sick of liberal women trying to tell them how to feel about their menstruating vaginas.
DeleteIf a woman had a hysterectomy no one should cruelly mock her the way you are doing with transmen. The main issue with all forms of right wing cruelty is lack of empathy.
DeleteYoung men's vaginas deserve protection from attacking and invalidating hysterical liberal women.
DeleteLike I said, you have no empathy, like most trolls.
DeleteI think it's you who is not being empathetic towards young men and how they menstruate. You expect all young men to menstruate out of their vaginas in the exact way you feel appropriate, without taking into consideration how they feel about it.
DeleteWhy do you believe a person taking estrogen blocking drugs and testosterone would menstruate? It is children in schools who will transition when older who may have periods (if not on puberty blockers) and then only transboys not transgirls. A very small number. You are being a jerk.
DeleteYou're denying that teenage boys wander through the halls of their high schools with no way to address their reaking and bleeding uteri?
DeleteYoung men with vaginas should be called vagina-persons.
DeleteWe call Republicans "child rapists", because of their long history of raping small children.
Delete@6:03 - “ If a woman had a hysterectomy no one should cruelly mock her the way you are doing with transmen.”
DeleteSuppose she has not had a hesterectomy, but she feels like like she had one, and she wants you to treat her as if she had had one?
"FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson warned Gmail, the world’s largest email service, that it may face an investigation over allegations the company suppresses messages sent by Republicans.
ReplyDelete“My understanding from recent reporting is that Gmail’s spam filters routinely block messages from reaching consumers when those messages come from Republican senders..."
Does anyone know how I can get one of these filters?
Oh, no! Another trans murder.
ReplyDeleteanother trans-identifying individual has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the U.S. Snehal Ansh Srivastava, a 26-year-old male who goes by the name “Sasha Shakur” and identifies with “she/her” pronouns, was taken into custody in Shrewsbury, Mass. on Aug. 28, after allegedly shooting and killing a father near Jordan Park. The victim confronted Srivastava over vandalism of public property and had just dropped off his child at a nearby.
https://www.ngocomment.com/p/another-trans-person-arrested-for
Those darned Indians.
DeleteSqueal louder, 5:36.
DeleteIt's hilarious.
Please don’t post such stories when murders and Maas shootings are committed by a straight white male, DiC. The blog can only hold so many comments.
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DeleteHow many times do you think DiC got punched in the dick in High School?
DeleteWell past time to be building ovens to "process" the murderous tranny's. Right DiC the self hating Jew?
DeleteSo-called sexual deviants were targets of the holocaust.
DeleteWhen David was in high school the gentiles laughed at his circumcised penis.
DeleteWhen Somerby says that The Five interferes with the possibility of American discourse, is that his fancy way of saying that no Democrats/liberals will watch The Five? Is there any reason why anyone engaged in American discourse should have to watch any cable show in order to participate in discourse? These are not the only media, nor are they the best media for anyone interested in politics to be following.
ReplyDeleteThat makes this construct that Somerby keeps advancing highly artificial, constructed, not real. And yet he keeps writing about this day after day without any impact on anything going on in our country. The futility of that behavior is astonishing!
A constructed construct.
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