56 Comments
Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Ah yes, they are masters at manipulating the language to control the shape of discourse.

Illegal aliens became “undocumented guest workers.”

Pedophiles became “Minor Attracted Persons.” (Further obscured by the initials MAP)

And now genital mutilation of minors has become “gender affirming care.”

Who could possibly deny a poor young child access to gender affirming care?

They are without shame!

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

A thoroughly Orwellian world we find our miserable selves in. The main function of language is increasingly to obfuscate instead of communicate 🤦

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Have you noticed that "they" successfully control the narrative by controlling the language we are forced to use to discuss almost everything? If you can't say it, you can't think it. Our wannabe lords and masters have brilliantly executed the instructions in Orwell's famous manual. And we let them do it!

Expand full comment

Once Marxism failed miserably everywhere and fled into the American academy to lick its wounds and plan a new strategy, it became almost entirely about language and symbol manipulation.

The foundation of their beliefs (and strategic reboot) became: if you can change how someone speaks you can change how they think, and then you can change how they act (and/or vote).

This is also why they seem so dishonest and unreasonable (or anti-reasonable): most of us use words and language to communicate, the New Left uses language to manipulate and to achieve whatever is the political goal du jour (even if words need to be redefined, and even if they contradict on Tuesday what they said on Monday).

You have to give them credit: jettisoning honesty and consistency and turning all discourse into a language labyrinth that always ends with "Fascist! Racist!" has been an impressively successful strategy.

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Precisely as laid out in Orwell's famous manual!

Expand full comment

Orwell saw deeply into the heart and brain of the leftist totalitarian...there are no scruples or limits when it comes to social control if you're convinced all you do is "for the sake of humanity". Making sure people are too afraid and initimidated to question your lies is always a necessary first step.

Expand full comment

Sadly - true. Part of the process.

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

The goal has been, for over six decades, to replace the family with the omnipotent, omnipresent state. The successful perversion of our "education" system, through the decades, has replaced schools with indoctrination centers. By almost every measure, we are less free, MUCH less free, than were our parents.

This latest obscenity is but one of the final nails in the coffin of what was recently the freest, richest societies the world has ever known.

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

You are dead on the money. This wouldn’t have been possible without The Great Dumbing Down.

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023·edited Mar 31, 2023

It goes furthur back than that to Friedrich Engels, Marx's collaborator, who wrote on the alleged oppressive nature of the family and how it had to be eliminated to create that liberated socialist paradise. Wilhelm Reich picked up and elaborated on this although later in life he changed his tune.

Expand full comment

That’s why the Frankfurt School crowd and their ugly legacy carried the water to poison the well of education. These communists were at the forefront of the formation and support for the first teachers unions in New York.

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Get out of California.

The abducted child will be trained to project its feelings for its parents onto the state instead, becoming fiecely loyal and willing to do violence to anyone perceived as a threat to its "family".

This will happen without any plan needed due to how our minds work during puberty.

Your children will become loyal Bund Deutscher Mädel and Hitlerjugend, Pioneers and future Red Guards, but under different - politically correct - labels of course.

Your grandchildren will gleefully report you for thoughtcrimes.

Get out, now. You the normal humans of California are the equivalent of being a jew or a gypsy in Germany 1935.

Expand full comment

Why don't they stop beating around the bush and just pass a law lowering the age of consent. Let's face reality, that's what this is all about.

California is staking claim to the title of Anus Mundi.

Expand full comment

I thought that was Washington.

Expand full comment

Good point. I stand corrected.

Expand full comment

parents should be petrified by this.

Expand full comment

I used to think that opinionated childless people were just a little funny, a little annoying, a little uninformed, a little entitled to an opinion, but a little out of touch with reality. But now it seems that a growing number of the same childless people with the same opinions are actually bearing levers of power over children. And I wonder how much that plays in here. Maybe not much, but it’s a thought.

Expand full comment

Honestly it is much scarier than this.

When those poor children are kidnapped and placed in mental health facilities it is likely some will be then be led to believe they were ' born in the wrong body' and need to 'transition.' CA SB107 (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107) makes CA a sanctuary state for 'gender-affirming care' meaning that children from any state can access the mutilation of their own bodies without parental consent because an idea was placed in their vulnerable minds. I believe Minnesota either has a bill in progress (or maybe it has also passed) for such evil.

And if any one believes that cannot be happening, it is. You can read countless stories of parents trying to save their children from this madness here: https://pitt.substack.com/. This is happening all while the Biden Admin along with his male assistant secretary of health Rachel Levine (in a dress...) pushes the mutilation of children. Plenty of 'healthcare leaders' (i.e. 'gender affirming' hospitals) have been set up across the country. You can read this 3-part series on the Human Rights Campaign mission to create such 'leaders' here:

https://www.the11thhourblog.com/post/all-aboard-the-human-rights-campaign-and-the-making-of-transgender-industry-leaders-part-i

Benioff Children's /UCSF and UCLA/ USC are at the forefront of this along with Boston Children's and Lurie Children's in Chicago. There are lots of great articles on the 11th Hour Blog exposing the money and masters behind all this.

Diassociating America's children from their bodies to usher in the NWO is the name of the game.

Expand full comment

I listen to a podcaster (Todd Herman) who talks about this issue in Washington State. I think the age may be a little older (14), but it's the same concept. For example, a 14 year old feels he is transgender and his parents aren't supporting him so can live in a group home without his parents' consent. As a parent, it's very scary and when you hear people interviewed over this, they never thought this would happen to them with their child.

Expand full comment

Thank you. This is Erin Friday. It’s nice to know someone gets what they did. Not one comment on residential facilities and the committee is mainly attorneys. The California legislative staff purposefully misleads the public and the law makers either don’t read the bill or more likely do, and want to take our kids.

Expand full comment
author

I appreciate your work, Erin.

Expand full comment

Same

Expand full comment

I suspect that very few lawmakers, in any jurisdiction, read the legislation they enact. Given that we don't reside in California, my family is not directly affected by this latest atrocity. But for the nearly three quarters of a century that I have followed the news I have noticed that, "As goes California, so goes the nation." Coming soon, to your state - legislation that permits unidentified, unaccountable bureaucrats to apprehend your 12 year old children, totally warp their minds, physically mutilate them, render them permanently unable to bear children, and turn them into permanent wards of the state.

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

So in Ca on the one hand a child 12 or older is mature enough to be placed in a home away from their parents and get gender therapy but that same child isn’t mature enough to see a fire arms advertisement. Weird.

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Also, maybe we can try to fight the weird backdoor exploitation of children planned at the federal level: https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/research-involving-children-subjects-and-not-otherwise-approvable-institutional-review-board-process

If an IRB won't approve your experiment on kids, maybe FDA shouldn't greenlight it, either.

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023·edited Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Honest question: what can I, someone who is not a resident of California, do to help stop this bill?

Expand full comment
author

It will be difficult for Californians to stop it. I don't know the answer to your question, I'm sorry to say.

Expand full comment
Mar 31, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

I know this bill is a done deal, but I still asked my state senator and assembly member to consider amending the language around residential treatment. No 12-year-old should be able to agree to residential treatment without some notification to parents and without meeting special circumstances that need the serious level of care required in a residential facility. I doubt my representatives will change anything or vote against AB665 (666 minus 1?), because they’re already sponsored and approved many unreasonable and potentially dangerous laws.

Expand full comment

Disheartening but understood

Expand full comment

This is the end of our society as we once knew it. The D's are just following the voice of their father, the devil, and they cannot help themselves to do otherwise. God help us.

Expand full comment
Apr 1, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Since most of these legislators can't be bothered to read the bills, I suppose it's fitting that they come to meetings and argue for what they don't understand that it says or does. And shame on any citizen for daring to come in and question the logic. 'Away - peasant!". Another travesty of government overreach.

Expand full comment

I read the first paragraph out loud to my daughter who immediately replied “sounds like us (Canada) and our Residential Schools”. It was all done for the “good of the children”. It’s another disgrace and everyone pays the price eventually, God willing.

Expand full comment

They aren’t going to stop unless you/we stop them. Democrats are like a giant boil on the butt of the United States. Has to be popped. There’s no peaceful coexistence or compromise to be reached, because they are extremists. Once they hit a goal, they make a new goal. Some people are live and let live. These are not those people. Since they face no consequences for their crimes and disrespect of the citizenry, they will continue to push their toxic garbage. There will be a reckoning of one type or another. It’s inevitable unfortunately. The whole idea of our form of representative government is checks and balances. We have lost that. The Founders may have underestimated the degeneracy and corruptibility of human nature or more likely they could not foresee a society where people had so little incentive or enthusiasm for protecting their rights. We’ve been in a torpor induced by prosperity and comfort ( mostly gained with borrowed money we can’t pay back) and now as we wake up we find that we no longer recognize the country and we don’t like what we see. But all the institutions of power are filled with enemy combatants.

Expand full comment
author

"Once they hit a goal, they make a new goal."

This is the interesting part. After they score legalized state kidnapping in 2023, what does 2024 look like? There is no final progressive victory. There is always a next step.

Expand full comment

And like NATO expanding relentlessly toward the Russian border until there’s a big war, I’m afraid that as normal Americans are pushed into the corner, the inevitable backlash will happen, and of course we will get painted as the reactionary deplorable bad guys. No, I don’t work for Putin.

Expand full comment