B-Man

Stick to 'Geology' Hank.

UPDATE

Can Democrats escape the corner they painted themselves into on gender ideology? Survey says: "No!" At least not until the paint dries out completely, and this is slow-drying paint. That reality was demonstrated again on Wednesday, when the Supreme Court ruled that states have the power to ban "gender affirming care" (sterilizing and mutilating) procedures on children in the case U.S. v. Skrmetti. Americans are tolerant when it comes to sexual nonconformity, and there is a long history of tolerance for drag shows and transvesticism among adults, within reason. Drag shows are harmless when children are excluded from watching them, and have been a part of burlesque for decades. One of the more popular TV shows features drag queens. Gay marriage is legal, and hostility to homosexuality is relatively low, although hardly nonexistent. But compared to, say, Democrats' hostility to MAGA, it barely registers. Leftists hate Jews far more than anybody hates homosexuals, and you can't find any conservatives bashing gays as harshly as MSNBC hosts regularly bash Republicans. But Democrats can't accept victory on this issue, because for them victory is transing the kids. So when the Supreme Court ruled that transing the kids could be banned by states under their police powers, the left has gone absolutely insane. Alphabet ideology has become a core component of the left's worldview, and the left sets the agenda for the Democratic Party. {snip} Alphabet ideology is non-negotiable. Every deviation from the chanting points is harshly punished. Seth Moulton tried to break out of the ideological box and was swatted down. Gavin Newsom dabbled a bit with moderating on the issue, but he is now changing the subject and moving hard left again. Alphabet ideology is a key part of the larger civil religion of Critical Theory that forms the ideological foundation of the modern left. Critical Theory is a mutation of communism that arose as the "inevitable" proletarian revolution failed to materialize. Politicians in heavily "Blue" states or districts can't deviate from the Critical Theory scripture, even if they intellectually understand that their positions are political poison with normies. Democrats are in a terrible bind on this issue; some actually believe this dangerous nonsense, and others are forced to mouth the mantras lest true believers replace them. There likely would never have been a major political issue if "transgender rights" activists hadn't gone after our kids. The transgender flags in schools, men entering women's sports, "sanctuary states," the vast push to propagandize for and create clinics to "transition" kids, and the tuck bathing suits at Target all raised the issue to national importance. By adopting the transing of kids as the "civil rights issue of our time," Democrats not only divorced themselves from Americans' common sense on the issue, they also made retreat especially difficult. How do you compare an issue to slavery and segregation one day and then drop it the next? It's a conundrum, on the same level as the Democrats' adopting the cause of MS 13 and Tren de Aragua deportations as a moral atrocity? Democrats are so far out on these ideological limbs that it's hard to see how they climb back down the tree. Over time, they could remain silent, I suppose, and try to drop the issue, but they created a band of ideological shock troops who could turn their fire on the Democrats if they do so. Corporate America, after a long time, has finally realized that this issue is toxic. Even Target, as woke a mainstream company as exists, is giving up on Pride and transgenderism. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/06/20/democrats-gender-ideology-bind-n3803970 Democrats face the same problem the Labour Party in Great Britain faced in the late 70s. They are so far outside the mainstream--for similar reasons--that it may take well over a decade to recalibrate and a new generation of politicians to do it.

Gee, I wonder why. Fulton County withholds 2020 ballots despite Georgia law seeking disclosure https://www.ajc.com/politics/fulton-county-refuses-to-provide-all-2020-ballots-despite-new-georgia-law/MGUAISQTAFDPXCUB7XSS33Z47A/

Supreme Court Deals Blow To Deep State Control In Ruling Against EPA by Breccan F. Thies The U.S. Supreme Court took a major step in helping dismantle the federal government’s stranglehold on public policy on Wednesday. In an 8-0 decision, the court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could not defend itself against a lawsuit from Oklahoma and Utah in its rubber-stamp home court, the D.C. Circuit. The case arose from the EPA’s 2023 decision to deny the state implementation plans (snip) submitted by 21 states in order to comply with the 2015 “good neighbor” revision to the Clean Air Act, (snip),the thrust of the Supreme Court appeal has to do with the venue at which the case could be heard. https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/18/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-deep-state-control-in-ruling-against-epa/

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I DON’T KNOW, I CAN IMAGINE QUITE A BIT: Democratic Party Disarray Far Worse Than You Can Imagine. The Democratic Party is struggling. In every way a political party can be dysfunctional, the Democrats are careening toward an implosion. Riven by poisonous factionalism, running out of cash, and devoid of purpose and plan, the oldest political party in the Western World is falling apart right before our eyes. How bad is it? When the New York Times gives space to a 1,800-word, five-alarm article giving excruciating detail about your party's travails, you know it's not time to pop the champagne cork and celebrate. To make matters worse for the Democrats, on the same day the Times aired the party's soiled panties for all to see, the other Democratic Party house organ, Politico, laid 1,600 words of criticism on party chairman Ken Martin. The media couldn't be quiet about it. With 17 months to go before the 2026 midterm elections, the Democrats find themselves in an existential crisis. Half the party wants to abandon the radical left, while the radical left wants to give the heave-ho to anyone to the right of Karl Marx. Let's start with Ken Martin as a point of contention. Barely four months into the job, he's already made plenty of enemies. Worse, those enemies aren't going quietly into that good night. They are sniping at him from the sidelines, drawing blood with criticisms no party chair has ever heard before. More at the link: https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/06/19/democratic-party-disarray-far-worse-than-you-can-imagine-n4940946 .

This is why, but you knew that. Unless you didn't read. In other words, any child who called the suicide hotline and selected the LGBTQ+ option would be connected to a Trevor Project counselor who would encourage suicidal thoughts unless that child recognized that he or she was 'born in the wrong body.'

It is not. Read past the headline. Time to PANIC! The Left LOSES THEIR MINDS Over False Reporting About a Suicide Hotline 'Shutdown' We regret to inform you, but the left in America seems to be getting hysterical. Again. And so soon after their last hissy fit, when the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states can ban doctors from mutilating and sterilizing children. At this rate, they may want to find a paper bag to breathe into, or they might pass out. The latest apoplectic fit came yesterday afternoon when the media falsely reported -- intentionally -- that the Trump administration is 'shutting down' a suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth. We'll leave aside for a moment the fact that there is no such thing as a 'trans youth' and get right to the gaslighting. Wow, that sounds bad. Trump must truly hate children to want to shut down the suicide hotline. Buried deep in the story is the truth, presented with as much of a slant as possible. SAMHSA [the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration] insisted that affected youths can still receive help, but from the general hotline number. 'Everyone who contacts the 988 Lifeline will continue to receive access to skilled, caring, culturally competent crisis counselors who can help with suicidal, substance misuse, or mental health crises, or any other kind of emotional distress. Anyone who calls the Lifeline will continue to receive compassion and help,' the agency said. Basically, the administration is kicking The Trevor Project out, which had been operating an LGBTQ+-specific option in the suicide hotline. In case anyone is not familiar with The Trevor Project, they should change their name to 'The Groomer Project.' They are some of the worst 'trans activists' in existence, responsible for many of the lies that sucked children into the gender cult, particularly the one they made up to tell parents that 'you can either have a living son or a dead daughter.' https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/06/19/time-to-panic-the-left-loses-their-minds-over-false-reporting-about-a-suicide-hotline-shutdown-n2414456

I'm gonna spell this out just once, so people can link this tweet to the knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, *****-eating simian creatures that whine about BoOtS oN tHe GrOuNd as if America's going to conduct a land invasion of Iran with eleventy gorillion troops and fight in the caves for a generation: Everything that makes Iran a problem comes from a factory, and those factories can be vaporized from the air. Most US casualties in Iraq were caused by sophisticated off-route EFP mines mass-produced by Iran. The rockets fired at Israel in such massive quantities that it threatened to deplete Israeli Iron Dome interceptor stocks and overwhelm their systems? Mass produced by Iran. The drones and missiles the Houthis used to close the Bab-El-Mandab strait, and thus the Suez canal, one of the most economically vital sea lines of communication in existence? Mass-produced by Iran. The SRBMs being fired at Ukraine by Russia? Mass-produced and delivered to them by Iran. The massive heavy MRBM arsenal they've been attempting to mass-murder Israeli civilians with and have used to threaten and coerce everyone else in the region, reaching as far as southern Europe/Italy? Mass-produced by Iran. None of this happens without Iranian mass weapon production, many millions of dollars in fiscal support and Iranian military advisors, leadership and intel support. You don't get the kind of problems in that region from six ***** clowns making home-made grenades out of soda bottles, bathtub explosives and rusty nails. Anti-ship ballistic missiles aren't cobbled together by ***** Jihad Cletus in his garage. Blow up the Iranian military-industrial complex, take out their nuclear program, and these problems go away. Forever. And if they try to build them again? You blow them up again. There isn't a hole deep enough for them to climb in. We built a massive, 30,000 pound bunker-busting bomb to make doubly god-damned sure of it. There is never, at any possible point in time, any ***** reason whatsoever to put a single god-damned ***** "boot" on the "ground" in Iran. Every single "Forever War" in the Middle East is caused and perpetuated by Iran, and the only consequences for us ending it would be a three percent bump in Lockheed Martin stock.

Crushing Iran Because It’s Terrorism’s ATM Is Also a Good Idea. By Stephen Kruiser FTA: Trump was calling for the unconditional surrender of a regime that has been at war with the United States ever since its inception. Those who are wringing their hands over the demise of Iran’s Islamic regime are paying insufficient attention to how it has terrorized its own citizens for 46 years, to the degree that Iranians in increasing numbers these days are openly cheering on the Israelis. Robert goes into great detail about what Iran has been up to during its ayatollah years. Spoiler alert: The Mullahs have been pretty hostile towards the United States. It's not all shadowy background stuff, either. One of the favorite talking points of people who are still complaining about the Iraq War is that most of the 9/11 attackers were Saudi nationals. That's true, but they weren't getting backing from the Saudi government. One Middle Eastern government was involved, however, and you can probably guess where I'm going with this. Robert goes on to note that in 2011, a district court judge "determined that Iran, Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, and other Iranian government departments, as well as the Ayatollah Khamenei himself and former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani were all directly implicated in Iranian efforts to aid al-Qaeda in its 9/11 plot." https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/06/18/crushing-iran-because-its-terrorisms-atm-is-also-a-good-idea-n4940928

Nice headline bias.............."gender affirming care" ?? 🙄 Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors CBS News, by Melissa Quinn https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-tennessee-gender-affirming-care-minors-us-skrmetti/

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