I read further down in that thread and saw a great solution. One of the commenters recommended making a transgender brigade and sending them to the mid-East to keep order. Sounds like that would solve the problem. Maybe we could even put the judge in charge.
Wonderful! A district judge has ruled she feelz this piece is literally fascism. Came for the headline, stayed for the masterful conclusion: “This culture of witless obduracy lives on no form of reason or wisdom, it makes nothing, it’s a quagmire of empty emotional expression and platitudinous question begging, and it can’t be sustained.”
I read legal opinions and write briefs for a living. Ultimately, "because someone said so, is why," is at the root of all legal analysis (unless you accept natural law and human ability to ascertain and apply it, which almost no one does anymore).
If you defer to tradition (originalism), the "someone" making the root value judgment is someone like the Founding Fathers, who in turn drew on classical wisdom and the English common law system. The originalists/conservatives have a solid foundation for their value judgments, going back to the dawn of Western Civilization.
But if you are a progressive (living constitutionalism), the "someone" making the root value judgment is yours truly. I've collaborated with progressives on projects before and they made me remove reference to the Founding Fathers because they wuz racis... That's how radical progressive attorneys and judges are now.
Contemporary progressive narcissism is kryptonite to our legal system and our society. It is the Hobbesian war of all against all. Anything goes. All of Chesterton's fences must be torn down.
Your last sentence makes me think of the device used in at least a hundred horror films: the terrified young woman is overjoyed to run at last into the arms of the man she is sure will rescue her, only to discover as his mouth opens that he has fangs.
Indeed. Note that I said "must" put a stop to it, not "will." No question that the Supremes have done more than their fair share to perpetuate the progressive degradation of our legal system and society.
Words, untethered from tradition, are infinitely malleable. Ultimately, laws are only as good as the people interpreting and applying them. We cannot legislate or constitutionally amend ourselves out of the cultural wasteland we find ourselves in. The culture, within the legal profession and society at large, needs to reorient itself towards honor, integrity, community, reverence, tradition, and common sense.
This is the task ahead of us once Trump finishes exposing and clearing out the rot. I'm cautiously optimistic that the next generation, particularly young men, are up for the job.
John Roberts is auditioning for the role of Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes. A dictator judge who oversees and installs figurehead presidents. This is what he is trying to bring to the United States of America. He must not succeed. He must be exposed and brought down before he brings down our nation like de Moraes has brought down Brazil. ALL of the judges are trying to become little de Moraes'
Trump's solution? All the orders go into File 13. Unopened. They are trash. He should have them at least arrested for littering his White House. If not for seditious conspiracy, treason. Which they are guilty of.
When did Judges start ignoring their oath of office? (Rhetorical only in the knowledge that they do ignore it. Still curious if they have always done it and gotten away with it, or is this trending...? Research forthcoming...)
The very first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court John Jay wrote in one of his early opinions, "The People Who Own the Country Ought to Govern It."
And this paper, albeit written by someone on the left lamenting failings they perceive, tells a harsh truth, which is that the jurists who interpret the constitution are little more than "high priests in black robes." Doing the bidding of those who really own this country:
The Supreme Court, hegemony, and Its Consequences
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December, 1987
I doubt it. It's almost shocking to read how poorly Americans reacted to FDR's court packing ploy in 1937. They may not have liked the Supreme Court as it was then, but they disliked it less than they disliked Roosevelt's attempt to rig things in his favor.
It spoke well of their grasp of the importance of separation of powers. For some reason, I don't think that has changed. And Trump doesn't need to look foolish.
One of the things I admire about Trump is his audacity. If it comes to it, he'll continue deportations whatever the Supreme Court says, citing his authority as Commander in Chief. The House may impeach, thereby aiding Republican chances in the 2026 elections, but the Senate will never convicted.
My sense is that these federal judges’ slapping stuff down only helps the Republicans in the longer run.
But that was an attack BY the President, not ON the President. Implicitly this judge is saying that there is NO area of Presidential authority that he cannot restrain if he disagrees with its wisdom.
I don’t mean this as hyperbole: What is to restrain this judge from ordering C17s full of troops to NOT take off from the U.S. because doing so “violates their rights to not be forced into a stupid war”? Our laws are based on the “limiting principle”: that every authority must have a limit built into it; that no office or person has unlimited authority. For example, POTUS can deploy troops but
Congress can refuse to pay for them.
No judge can have absolute power, and certainly not over an official elected by the People.
I agree, and we need a constitutional crisis over this. If the Supreme Court rules against him, he'll still do it, citing his powers as Commander in Chief. The House may impeach. Ho hum.
I would prefer that Trump use his political capital turning the most important of these EOs into legislation so rationality returns to our governance & spending.
Right. And the Biden administration, sending American troops into Ukraine to fire American missiles onto Russian territory, was a force for peace? How is Trump increasing the chance of war?
Roberts always picks exactly the wrong topic and timing to act out on whatever it is he's trying to accomplish or leave as his legacy. My hunch is that he's more annoyed by the idea of impeachments (which is, tbh, being thrown around way too loosely, as if it were a solution to anything) than delighted by the insanity of escalating nonparty aka national rulings ntm federal restrictions from district judges. That must be reined in to avoid SCOTUS spending all the hours of all their days managing emergency appeals and generalized judicial chaos. Extreme disorder cannot serve any judicial purpose, ultimately. Imagine midterm or 2028 results that allow Trump then Vance to remove and replace a great many district judges. Let's not go one step further down this path. Instead of blathering about what the other branches should or shouldn't do, which is just stupid, SCOTUS needs select a few cases to issue clear and decisive rulings, setting general rules, tests, and boundaries for lower courts. It is past time.
I doubt he has the stomach (or other relevant body parts) for this fight. Re: his whiny press release (to some media outlets) yesterday. At this rate he will go down in history as the reason the Article Two branch completely ghosts the Article Three branch.
If you showed me this judgette’s picture with no other information available, I would conclude that there’s a 99.998% probability that she is a Commie and a massive sharp stick in the eye of every normal American. Beady little angry eyes, thin lips, no makeup, utilitarian haircut.
Check the resume. The usual Ivy League credentials. She worked pro bono for the UN.on migrant issues. She made bank at a white shoes law firm for a couple of decades before deciding to ruin your day as a judge moving forward. She represented foreign governments in litigation. She’s from Uruguay. She’s a legal “immigration allstar”.
She’s here to overthrow the patriarchy and she brings her dog to the courtroom because he’s a “Juris Dogtor.” Dog mom and not afraid to crack a joke before she sends your capitalist ass to the gulag for insulting empanadas.
If the courts are going to do stuff like this then Congress better get off the dime and rein them in. Roberts is going to be a big problem. He will defend permanent Washington against America.
This will get extra-legal if the courts are going to ignore the law.
The Korean conflict was 75 years ago. I guess psychopathology is a matter of what the generals think it is. They weren't letting Klinger out, nor would they let Yossarian out (Catch-22).
When I took a human sexuality course in college in 1977, homosexuality was still in the DSM.
Society has consistently (and wrongly) conflated deviation with being bad.
Homosexuality is unquestionably a deviation. But that doesn’t make it bad. It just “is.” (It also seems to correlate strongly with creativity.)
But where civilians go off the rails is asserting that a value system appropriate for general society should be transplanted “as is” to a closed group with unique, mission specific needs from its members. Civilians are also wrong that individuals have a RIGHT to join the military.
The aspect of transgenderism that is fundamentally different from homosexuality and race is that it’s a “pretend” condition that has as its #1 goal the forcing of the rest of the world to play along. Both race and homosexuality are facts that require nothing from the outside world other than to be ignored. When I was in the Army’72-75, most of us took the view that we were green, not black or white.
The outlook that “my sexual identity depends on your mandatory acknowledgment that my desire IS reality” reflects a fundamentally defective (incomplete) personality that is incompatible with the utter interoperability and trust implicit in military service. How can a soldier put his life in the hands of another soldier not able to be honest about reality? There is no civilian equivalent to this level of MANDATORY trust.
Conversely, how can a transgender soldier trust squadmates who refuse to indulge his assertion that he’s a woman?
In 1948 and 2011, the military commanded its members to put aside any personal dislike of blacks and homosexuals, respectively, as a condition of continued honorable service. The more recent (but not current) effort to force the acceptance of transgenderism is different. It would force 1.3 million rational people to accept as fact in thought, word and deed an assertion they can visually observe is false, and would be destructive to good order & discipline.
We all know that all of these cases, and others suchlike, will be decided by the United States Supreme Court.
Judicial independence, ain't it great? Well, it was when we had a formidably educated public, lack of formal instruction notwithstanding. I'm the great grandson of a Confederate soldier who was a kid growing up on a farm in northern Virginia in 1861. His formal education probably amounted to no more than Lincoln's. After the war ( I've always suspected him of having been the guy who unintentionally shot Stonewall Jackson ), he married and had two children, Claudius and Viola. It's my impression that these were uncommon names in the 19th century South, and that almost certainly he got them from his reading of history and of Shakespeare.
Now we are a nation of imbeciles, under the pounding rhetorical assault of obese shrill women with tattoos, men who have had their beards plucked, and lawyers who in St Louis on Tuesday described Moms for Liberty as an all but terrorist organization. Americans came close to electing The Vacuous as President. In the vice - presidential debate, Tim Walz used the risible construction, "so's," something which a hundred years ago was a mark of a semiliterate, and no one was shocked by it.
The military is not the place to discover your “true” sexuality.
A man should be going into the military to learn how to kill to defend the homeland. If he’s learning to be sensitive and to use correct pronouns it’s an insult to reason.
Agree 100% with your thesis, but keep in mind that 80-90% of the military is NOT in the combat arms. When I was in ‘72-75, the ratio was 9:1. My personal take in that “Ask not what [the military] can do for you. Ask what you can do for [the military]” is the best perspective.
transgenders are committing suicide at an alarming rate (late teens and early twenties,fyi) and/or detransitioning because the PAIN from organ removal is life unbearable and life threatening. plus all those synthetic hormones(pissed in the water supply everywhere)that if you asked ONE post menopausal woman, they would tell you, yes, soy HRT works, but at a HIGH cost(cancer). sickening that transitioning perfectly healthy humans to eunuchs is a real thing enabled by white coats and their psych dr friends. we used to call this trans stuff castration and only poor people sold their children to the state, hoping they'd get into a royal choir somewhere in an italian medieval town(castrati) or live life a sex slave in an arabian or chinese harem. castrating children and sending them to slaughter on hormones. that tracks.
Your post is harsh, but unfortunately so very true. The reality is going to be brutal for everyone who bought in to this trans illusion once these people have had 20 years of trying to live this unnatural existence.
they’re not meant to live long. that’s the experimental point. mess with the endocrine system ( synthetic scents in laundry soap deodorant scented tampons scented candles perfume just to name a few suss products). mechanistic minded surgeons have no idea how the human body is designed and care even less about the developmental needs of a young pre hormonal body. interfering with this sacred process IS their only goal. total insanity that any of this has been politicized and insanity that too many people are unwilling to correctly name it so we can collectively stop this brutal and inhumane transhumanistic experiment on our children.
Trump might not be able to fire these judges, but, what not many are saying, is, these district courts CAN be eliminated. Sorry judge, your court house and district are being closed, permanently! Later, your salary will be reduced to $1.00
D.C. is a medium sized city. If it gets its own circuit then why not Pittsburgh? Maybe congress should pass a law that all cases with the federal government as defendant get heard in the Oklahoma City District Court.
I did a little research last night, and there are 94 federal district courts nationwide. However, Congress can eliminate, or add districts, the problem is judges are lifetime appointments, and their salary can't be reduced. They could accept a buy out and retire, but, activist are unlikely to do that. So, impeachment is the best avenue to oust these radicals.
Recent history has taught that every maneuver one side uses, the other side will soon use as well.
Our problem is that long after Democrats started picking judges on philosophy (abortion), Republicans were still approving them based just on technical competence. We eventually stopped, and the Harry Reid dropped the requirement to 51 votes on non-judges and McConnell followed for judges.
Yah, well, the Dems already set the precedent on impeachments. Only, on our side, we have legitimate causes to impeach rogue activist judges. Unlike the fabrications the left used on Trump. Also, I gotta believe these judges are dirty as well. Like, who's behind all these attempts to block the Trump administration. Of course, they could just be brainwashed useful idiots too? But, I'm guessing there's a puppet master behind the curtain. As with all the attacks on Tesla & Musk. Someone's paying for all this! Attention Dan Bongino!
"We’re living through an unreal moment of…no. A great shrugging off. Of political, legal, and cultural systems simply announcing, peremptorily, that change will not be permitted. The barrier will be breached. This culture of witless obduracy lives on no form of reason or wisdom, it makes nothing, it’s a quagmire of empty emotional expression and platitudinous question begging, and it can’t be sustained." Yes it is the great delusion - whereby just announcing something makes it appear real but the announcers have to be absorbed and enmeshed into the system for them to be heard by the mindless masses. Solzhenitsyn talked about the importance of truth and the danger of lies, any delusional state is very dangerous whether experienced by an individual or en masse and it cannot be supported without causing great damage, it is soul, mind and body destroying at all levels.
Suannee quote part of the judge's reasoning when it comes to USAID in the bird-flu thread, and from that quote, it looks like Trump could reinstate it, but not fund it, because the judge didn't contest the presidents right to allocate funding.
So reinstate it with a $1 budget.
Incidentally, what's the odds that these are Soros' judges, doing their owners' bidding? 1:1? More?
True story. This takeover of lower courts, district attorneys and state secretaries was planned and implemented in the Obama administration. I first heard of this from Rush, then began to follow some of these elections myself. What a master class in controlling elections and the direction of our government. Republicans were giddy about the midterms but that defeat was temporary. Soros went for the permanent soft targets.
Luckily as Commander in Chief of the Military, Trump can tell the judges to fuck off. Why is it that they'll use mental illness as a weapon to disarm the citizenry but use it as a reason to let someone serve in the military, where they've got bigger guns? Isn't mental illness mental illness?
Instead of trying to get the mentally ill help, why are they giving in to the delusion?
I beg to differ with the conventional opinions expressed in these comments. These activist judges are outing themselves as deep state collaborators. The Supreme Court has a conservative majority, and in the comming appeals from Trump's legal team, they will side with the constitutional separation of powers and reign in these activist judges who think they can legislate from the bench.
Trump expected this and planned for it. The flood of over-reaching and contradictory TRO's and injunctions are making a mess the Supreme Court cannot ignore.
Read my latest substack for a more detailed explanation.
I agree with you that Trump expected this. I think his legal team is masterful in exposing, as you say, the “deep state collaborators” by sending them into hysterical scrambles. The icing on the cake is his DOGE team publishing daily the money sources that enable these actors to fool the public. I think it’s all coming together like a Michelangelo fresco. We just need to wait for the paint to dry.
Good framing: https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1902174170336608674
I read further down in that thread and saw a great solution. One of the commenters recommended making a transgender brigade and sending them to the mid-East to keep order. Sounds like that would solve the problem. Maybe we could even put the judge in charge.
We could even call it Queers for Palestine.
I love this idea! Brilliant!
Perfect
Assemble a transbrigade to enforce an Israel-Hamas cease-fire. They will be used for target practice.
Under that thread: Ana Reyes is the first LGBTQ federal judge in DC. Big soo-prize...
For that reason alone she should be recused from this case.
Absolutely but the idea of "recusing from a case" is total B.S.
Why?
Because recusement is voluntary and up to the discretion of the judge himself/herself/thereself/WTFself.
Without a governing authority wildcat "judges" are able to rule on anything they want.
Sound & fury signifying nothing.
She’s horrible
Nothing to look at either
Wonderful! A district judge has ruled she feelz this piece is literally fascism. Came for the headline, stayed for the masterful conclusion: “This culture of witless obduracy lives on no form of reason or wisdom, it makes nothing, it’s a quagmire of empty emotional expression and platitudinous question begging, and it can’t be sustained.”
I guess they don't love democracy after all.
"Shut up," they explained.
Don’t you know that’s what “be kind “ means?
“ be kind” means shut up when we’re raping your toddler in school!
Just shut up !
The nice people shut up when perverts are doing their thing!!!!👍🏻
That sounds like a Robert Parker/Spenser line. haha.
I’ll just note in passing that it’s very special for her to have specially labeled water. In plastic. And that costs us how much?
you don't even have to tell anyone to shut up if you can control the tech companies.
"Because she says so, is why."
I read legal opinions and write briefs for a living. Ultimately, "because someone said so, is why," is at the root of all legal analysis (unless you accept natural law and human ability to ascertain and apply it, which almost no one does anymore).
If you defer to tradition (originalism), the "someone" making the root value judgment is someone like the Founding Fathers, who in turn drew on classical wisdom and the English common law system. The originalists/conservatives have a solid foundation for their value judgments, going back to the dawn of Western Civilization.
But if you are a progressive (living constitutionalism), the "someone" making the root value judgment is yours truly. I've collaborated with progressives on projects before and they made me remove reference to the Founding Fathers because they wuz racis... That's how radical progressive attorneys and judges are now.
Contemporary progressive narcissism is kryptonite to our legal system and our society. It is the Hobbesian war of all against all. Anything goes. All of Chesterton's fences must be torn down.
The Supreme Court must put a stop to it.
Your last sentence makes me think of the device used in at least a hundred horror films: the terrified young woman is overjoyed to run at last into the arms of the man she is sure will rescue her, only to discover as his mouth opens that he has fangs.
Indeed. Note that I said "must" put a stop to it, not "will." No question that the Supremes have done more than their fair share to perpetuate the progressive degradation of our legal system and society.
We may need a constitutional amendment:
"The Constitution is the law of the land. We really mean it this time."
Words, untethered from tradition, are infinitely malleable. Ultimately, laws are only as good as the people interpreting and applying them. We cannot legislate or constitutionally amend ourselves out of the cultural wasteland we find ourselves in. The culture, within the legal profession and society at large, needs to reorient itself towards honor, integrity, community, reverence, tradition, and common sense.
This is the task ahead of us once Trump finishes exposing and clearing out the rot. I'm cautiously optimistic that the next generation, particularly young men, are up for the job.
Beautifully said. In a world of amateur Hobbesian judges, the SCOTUS must weigh in or be considered moot
Legal fiction.
How do you work with these people?
I try not to. It took me a while to figure things out.
These people are incompatible with civilization
But only civilisation could produce and sustain such liabilities. In harder times, Darwin would take care of them.
Don’t confuse socialism with civilization.
The slope is always slippery, there are no handholds. Civilization always produces degeneration.
Nothing Good Has Ever Happened.
Roberts better get this shit under control.
It's not looking like he plans to, but we'll see.
John Roberts is auditioning for the role of Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes. A dictator judge who oversees and installs figurehead presidents. This is what he is trying to bring to the United States of America. He must not succeed. He must be exposed and brought down before he brings down our nation like de Moraes has brought down Brazil. ALL of the judges are trying to become little de Moraes'
Trump's solution? All the orders go into File 13. Unopened. They are trash. He should have them at least arrested for littering his White House. If not for seditious conspiracy, treason. Which they are guilty of.
When did Judges start ignoring their oath of office? (Rhetorical only in the knowledge that they do ignore it. Still curious if they have always done it and gotten away with it, or is this trending...? Research forthcoming...)
The very first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court John Jay wrote in one of his early opinions, "The People Who Own the Country Ought to Govern It."
And this paper, albeit written by someone on the left lamenting failings they perceive, tells a harsh truth, which is that the jurists who interpret the constitution are little more than "high priests in black robes." Doing the bidding of those who really own this country:
The Supreme Court, hegemony, and Its Consequences
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December, 1987
https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1371&context=lawineq
Yep, we must never forget that John Roberts was appointed by the Bush cartel.
Next, Trump will challenge him to retire if he can't handle the heat in the Court kitchen.
I doubt it. It's almost shocking to read how poorly Americans reacted to FDR's court packing ploy in 1937. They may not have liked the Supreme Court as it was then, but they disliked it less than they disliked Roosevelt's attempt to rig things in his favor.
It spoke well of their grasp of the importance of separation of powers. For some reason, I don't think that has changed. And Trump doesn't need to look foolish.
So how does the judiciary trump Trump? Sounds to me like the judiciary challenges whatever they like.
One of the things I admire about Trump is his audacity. If it comes to it, he'll continue deportations whatever the Supreme Court says, citing his authority as Commander in Chief. The House may impeach, thereby aiding Republican chances in the 2026 elections, but the Senate will never convicted.
My sense is that these federal judges’ slapping stuff down only helps the Republicans in the longer run.
Yep, that means the Energy Dies. Trump cucked out to Israel again, all you get is war with Iran and Buttfaggot Peter Thiel’s Infinity Pajeets Forever.
You Fell For It Again!
But that was an attack BY the President, not ON the President. Implicitly this judge is saying that there is NO area of Presidential authority that he cannot restrain if he disagrees with its wisdom.
I don’t mean this as hyperbole: What is to restrain this judge from ordering C17s full of troops to NOT take off from the U.S. because doing so “violates their rights to not be forced into a stupid war”? Our laws are based on the “limiting principle”: that every authority must have a limit built into it; that no office or person has unlimited authority. For example, POTUS can deploy troops but
Congress can refuse to pay for them.
No judge can have absolute power, and certainly not over an official elected by the People.
I agree, and we need a constitutional crisis over this. If the Supreme Court rules against him, he'll still do it, citing his powers as Commander in Chief. The House may impeach. Ho hum.
I would prefer that Trump use his political capital turning the most important of these EOs into legislation so rationality returns to our governance & spending.
Trump looks foolish every day. He’s instigating WWIII.
No wars during Trump 1st term, and negotiating furiously to end the biggest European war since WWII. Yup, sounds like he’s headed straight to WWIII…
Unlike Pedo Pete?
If you had only said the opposite, you'd be right.
Ah, what's a good discussion without TDS?
Right. And the Biden administration, sending American troops into Ukraine to fire American missiles onto Russian territory, was a force for peace? How is Trump increasing the chance of war?
Roberts always picks exactly the wrong topic and timing to act out on whatever it is he's trying to accomplish or leave as his legacy. My hunch is that he's more annoyed by the idea of impeachments (which is, tbh, being thrown around way too loosely, as if it were a solution to anything) than delighted by the insanity of escalating nonparty aka national rulings ntm federal restrictions from district judges. That must be reined in to avoid SCOTUS spending all the hours of all their days managing emergency appeals and generalized judicial chaos. Extreme disorder cannot serve any judicial purpose, ultimately. Imagine midterm or 2028 results that allow Trump then Vance to remove and replace a great many district judges. Let's not go one step further down this path. Instead of blathering about what the other branches should or shouldn't do, which is just stupid, SCOTUS needs select a few cases to issue clear and decisive rulings, setting general rules, tests, and boundaries for lower courts. It is past time.
I doubt he has the stomach (or other relevant body parts) for this fight. Re: his whiny press release (to some media outlets) yesterday. At this rate he will go down in history as the reason the Article Two branch completely ghosts the Article Three branch.
Roberts seems under duress. He always looks like a hunted animal when he appears. Who is hunting him? He does not have the open face of a free person.
roberts flew the friendly skies of epstein. he's the one who's under control
Roberts doesn’t want to
Like!
The Roberts thing, whatever it is, is coming to a head.
There is still the question of where he got those kids.
Yup!
LMAO. Roberts is a total deep stater. If the other 8 are split 4-4 then Roberts will choose the deep state side. If its 5-3 he will join the majority.
Maybe we need to expose what he's being blackmailed with. I would support that for congresscritters, too.
If you showed me this judgette’s picture with no other information available, I would conclude that there’s a 99.998% probability that she is a Commie and a massive sharp stick in the eye of every normal American. Beady little angry eyes, thin lips, no makeup, utilitarian haircut.
Check the resume. The usual Ivy League credentials. She worked pro bono for the UN.on migrant issues. She made bank at a white shoes law firm for a couple of decades before deciding to ruin your day as a judge moving forward. She represented foreign governments in litigation. She’s from Uruguay. She’s a legal “immigration allstar”.
She’s here to overthrow the patriarchy and she brings her dog to the courtroom because he’s a “Juris Dogtor.” Dog mom and not afraid to crack a joke before she sends your capitalist ass to the gulag for insulting empanadas.
If the courts are going to do stuff like this then Congress better get off the dime and rein them in. Roberts is going to be a big problem. He will defend permanent Washington against America.
This will get extra-legal if the courts are going to ignore the law.
https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/district-judge-ana-c-reyes
Where is Corporal Klinger when we need him...or rather, her?
Remember when this mode of deviancy was used as an attempt to get OUT of military service?
Yeah, 75 years ago.
No, it wasn’t long ago that this was considered psychopathy
It still is by rational people.
Correct
The Korean conflict was 75 years ago. I guess psychopathology is a matter of what the generals think it is. They weren't letting Klinger out, nor would they let Yossarian out (Catch-22).
When I took a human sexuality course in college in 1977, homosexuality was still in the DSM.
Society has consistently (and wrongly) conflated deviation with being bad.
Homosexuality is unquestionably a deviation. But that doesn’t make it bad. It just “is.” (It also seems to correlate strongly with creativity.)
But where civilians go off the rails is asserting that a value system appropriate for general society should be transplanted “as is” to a closed group with unique, mission specific needs from its members. Civilians are also wrong that individuals have a RIGHT to join the military.
The aspect of transgenderism that is fundamentally different from homosexuality and race is that it’s a “pretend” condition that has as its #1 goal the forcing of the rest of the world to play along. Both race and homosexuality are facts that require nothing from the outside world other than to be ignored. When I was in the Army’72-75, most of us took the view that we were green, not black or white.
The outlook that “my sexual identity depends on your mandatory acknowledgment that my desire IS reality” reflects a fundamentally defective (incomplete) personality that is incompatible with the utter interoperability and trust implicit in military service. How can a soldier put his life in the hands of another soldier not able to be honest about reality? There is no civilian equivalent to this level of MANDATORY trust.
Conversely, how can a transgender soldier trust squadmates who refuse to indulge his assertion that he’s a woman?
In 1948 and 2011, the military commanded its members to put aside any personal dislike of blacks and homosexuals, respectively, as a condition of continued honorable service. The more recent (but not current) effort to force the acceptance of transgenderism is different. It would force 1.3 million rational people to accept as fact in thought, word and deed an assertion they can visually observe is false, and would be destructive to good order & discipline.
We all know that all of these cases, and others suchlike, will be decided by the United States Supreme Court.
Judicial independence, ain't it great? Well, it was when we had a formidably educated public, lack of formal instruction notwithstanding. I'm the great grandson of a Confederate soldier who was a kid growing up on a farm in northern Virginia in 1861. His formal education probably amounted to no more than Lincoln's. After the war ( I've always suspected him of having been the guy who unintentionally shot Stonewall Jackson ), he married and had two children, Claudius and Viola. It's my impression that these were uncommon names in the 19th century South, and that almost certainly he got them from his reading of history and of Shakespeare.
Now we are a nation of imbeciles, under the pounding rhetorical assault of obese shrill women with tattoos, men who have had their beards plucked, and lawyers who in St Louis on Tuesday described Moms for Liberty as an all but terrorist organization. Americans came close to electing The Vacuous as President. In the vice - presidential debate, Tim Walz used the risible construction, "so's," something which a hundred years ago was a mark of a semiliterate, and no one was shocked by it.
I am not optimistic.
In the 1800s Viola probably wasn't an odd name for a woman. I'll give you Claudius.
The military is not the place to discover your “true” sexuality.
A man should be going into the military to learn how to kill to defend the homeland. If he’s learning to be sensitive and to use correct pronouns it’s an insult to reason.
Agree 100% with your thesis, but keep in mind that 80-90% of the military is NOT in the combat arms. When I was in ‘72-75, the ratio was 9:1. My personal take in that “Ask not what [the military] can do for you. Ask what you can do for [the military]” is the best perspective.
transgenders are committing suicide at an alarming rate (late teens and early twenties,fyi) and/or detransitioning because the PAIN from organ removal is life unbearable and life threatening. plus all those synthetic hormones(pissed in the water supply everywhere)that if you asked ONE post menopausal woman, they would tell you, yes, soy HRT works, but at a HIGH cost(cancer). sickening that transitioning perfectly healthy humans to eunuchs is a real thing enabled by white coats and their psych dr friends. we used to call this trans stuff castration and only poor people sold their children to the state, hoping they'd get into a royal choir somewhere in an italian medieval town(castrati) or live life a sex slave in an arabian or chinese harem. castrating children and sending them to slaughter on hormones. that tracks.
Human sacrifice.
absolutely correct
Your post is harsh, but unfortunately so very true. The reality is going to be brutal for everyone who bought in to this trans illusion once these people have had 20 years of trying to live this unnatural existence.
If they survive 20 years. The list of comorbidities is long and life shortening.
they’re not meant to live long. that’s the experimental point. mess with the endocrine system ( synthetic scents in laundry soap deodorant scented tampons scented candles perfume just to name a few suss products). mechanistic minded surgeons have no idea how the human body is designed and care even less about the developmental needs of a young pre hormonal body. interfering with this sacred process IS their only goal. total insanity that any of this has been politicized and insanity that too many people are unwilling to correctly name it so we can collectively stop this brutal and inhumane transhumanistic experiment on our children.
10 yrs ago, we retired from city life on municipal water systems to Appalachia on a 400’ well. Suddenly we feel a helluva lot safer.
a life available to so many more of us over one hundred years ago
Chris, admit it, that pic is what chat gpt spit out when you asked it to give you steven colbert in a wig
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Trump might not be able to fire these judges, but, what not many are saying, is, these district courts CAN be eliminated. Sorry judge, your court house and district are being closed, permanently! Later, your salary will be reduced to $1.00
How do you like me now???
D.C. is a medium sized city. If it gets its own circuit then why not Pittsburgh? Maybe congress should pass a law that all cases with the federal government as defendant get heard in the Oklahoma City District Court.
I did a little research last night, and there are 94 federal district courts nationwide. However, Congress can eliminate, or add districts, the problem is judges are lifetime appointments, and their salary can't be reduced. They could accept a buy out and retire, but, activist are unlikely to do that. So, impeachment is the best avenue to oust these radicals.
Recent history has taught that every maneuver one side uses, the other side will soon use as well.
Our problem is that long after Democrats started picking judges on philosophy (abortion), Republicans were still approving them based just on technical competence. We eventually stopped, and the Harry Reid dropped the requirement to 51 votes on non-judges and McConnell followed for judges.
Yah, well, the Dems already set the precedent on impeachments. Only, on our side, we have legitimate causes to impeach rogue activist judges. Unlike the fabrications the left used on Trump. Also, I gotta believe these judges are dirty as well. Like, who's behind all these attempts to block the Trump administration. Of course, they could just be brainwashed useful idiots too? But, I'm guessing there's a puppet master behind the curtain. As with all the attacks on Tesla & Musk. Someone's paying for all this! Attention Dan Bongino!
Impeachment over political/philosophical differences is a fever dream – it takes 67 votes in the Senate, and that will NEVER happen.
Also, an investigation may turn up some criminality, and then the judge may opt for early retirement?
Typically in Washington, the process is the punishment. The Leftist have proven this many times over!
The Districts and judicial salaries are set by statute. POTUS can’t unilaterally change them.
"We’re living through an unreal moment of…no. A great shrugging off. Of political, legal, and cultural systems simply announcing, peremptorily, that change will not be permitted. The barrier will be breached. This culture of witless obduracy lives on no form of reason or wisdom, it makes nothing, it’s a quagmire of empty emotional expression and platitudinous question begging, and it can’t be sustained." Yes it is the great delusion - whereby just announcing something makes it appear real but the announcers have to be absorbed and enmeshed into the system for them to be heard by the mindless masses. Solzhenitsyn talked about the importance of truth and the danger of lies, any delusional state is very dangerous whether experienced by an individual or en masse and it cannot be supported without causing great damage, it is soul, mind and body destroying at all levels.
Suannee quote part of the judge's reasoning when it comes to USAID in the bird-flu thread, and from that quote, it looks like Trump could reinstate it, but not fund it, because the judge didn't contest the presidents right to allocate funding.
So reinstate it with a $1 budget.
Incidentally, what's the odds that these are Soros' judges, doing their owners' bidding? 1:1? More?
True story. This takeover of lower courts, district attorneys and state secretaries was planned and implemented in the Obama administration. I first heard of this from Rush, then began to follow some of these elections myself. What a master class in controlling elections and the direction of our government. Republicans were giddy about the midterms but that defeat was temporary. Soros went for the permanent soft targets.
I wouldn't take that bet. Soros needs to be kept out of our business.
“More.” If not literally, them emotionally.
Luckily as Commander in Chief of the Military, Trump can tell the judges to fuck off. Why is it that they'll use mental illness as a weapon to disarm the citizenry but use it as a reason to let someone serve in the military, where they've got bigger guns? Isn't mental illness mental illness?
Instead of trying to get the mentally ill help, why are they giving in to the delusion?
I beg to differ with the conventional opinions expressed in these comments. These activist judges are outing themselves as deep state collaborators. The Supreme Court has a conservative majority, and in the comming appeals from Trump's legal team, they will side with the constitutional separation of powers and reign in these activist judges who think they can legislate from the bench.
Trump expected this and planned for it. The flood of over-reaching and contradictory TRO's and injunctions are making a mess the Supreme Court cannot ignore.
Read my latest substack for a more detailed explanation.
Dick Minnis
removingthecataract.substack.com
I agree with you that Trump expected this. I think his legal team is masterful in exposing, as you say, the “deep state collaborators” by sending them into hysterical scrambles. The icing on the cake is his DOGE team publishing daily the money sources that enable these actors to fool the public. I think it’s all coming together like a Michelangelo fresco. We just need to wait for the paint to dry.
I sure hope so