Glibertarians.com 2017 Archive

Author: Rev. Blue Moon

  • Transmogrification and Projection

    What was once a humorous but true observation has become a blatant tactic with the Left: everything they do is about projection.

    The 24-minute news cycle is currently obsessed with transsexual and transgender rights because the President rescinded an awful “Dear Colleague” letter that was fraught with more danger than just who uses what bathroom.  Naturally, of course, the Right, being stupid, latched immediately onto talking about who uses what bathroom, but I digress.

    The Left fell in love with the term and promptly used it obsessively, wrongly, and beat its usefulness into the turf.  The Left accuses anyone who dares questions the rationality or wisdom of a “victim’s” feelings of “gaslighting” that person. Gaslighting, however, is not about refuting or mocking the fee-fees of a humorless 19-year-old twat (gender neutral) on Twitter.   Gaslighting is actually a systematic form of abuse which causes the victim to question his own memory, his own recollection of facts, his own judgment and perception.  When I think of a campaign to systematically undermine known facts, rational thought processes, and good judgment, one political and cultural group stands out to me.

    Naturally, the Left is whinging about gaslighting (without using the term correctly) while actually gaslighting the American public about gender and sexuality.  If you are one of those crazy regressives who thinks there are two biological sexes, and those two sexes (male and female) happen to correspond neatly to “socialized” gender roles (men and women) that have evolved over thousands of years and generally hold true across cultures and civilizations, boy are you in for it.  The Left is willing to Madred you until you squeal, “There are 1,000 genders!” We have actually come to the point where it is considered bigoted and awful to repeat biological, historical, psychological, and sociological facts.

    I am sure, to no one’s surprise, my feelings on transgenderism and transsexuality will make me first against the wall when the First Internationale – United States Edition convenes its Comintern. I am a semi-educated layman on psychological disorders, and Gender Identity Disorder — I mean, Gender Dysphoria — fits fairly neatly into the class of problems called psychotic disorders.  I am not the only one to think so, and the evidence is pretty compelling.  For example, a study conducted in the Netherlands, a country notably “progressive” on this issue, found that GID/GD was the primary diagnosis in only 39% of psychologists’ patients.  For the other 61%, it turned out,  “cross-gender identification was comorbid with other psychiatric disorders.”  Another paper in The Journal of Psychiatric Research found that 71% of GID sufferers had or currently have an Axis I psychological disorder, and wrote, “Lifetime psychiatric comorbidity in GID patients is high, and this should be taken into account in the assessment and treatment planning of GID patients.” The paper rightly points out this may be a chicken-egg problem:  are GD sufferers’ additional psychiatric symptoms caused by the high stress of having GD, or does the comorbidity of Mood and Dissoaciative Disorders with GD prove GD is a kind of psychosis that “travels along” with mentally ill patients?  Given the aforementioned Dutch study, where only 39% of GD sufferers had it as a primary diagnosis, I know which side I’m taking.

    Science!

    It’s important to note GD remarkably mirrors Body Integrity Identity Disorder.  If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say it is rather convenient the DSM-V renamed Gender Identity Disorder at around the same time Body Integrity Identity Disorder was named as such, but fortunately for you, I’m off Alex Jones duty this week.

    All kidding aside, the parallels between GID/GD and BIID are obvious.  You suffer from a delusion, despite biological and social evidence, that your body is “wrong” somehow, and the only way to fix it is to radically alter it.

  • Impeach Them All, God Will Know His Own

    Matthew Continetti, EIC of The Washington Free Beacon (which you should be reading regularly), has a fantastic column about the Deep State titled “Who Rules The United States“. I cannot endorse the entire piece, because I find Mr. Continetti’s inclusion of the judiciary to be out of place in an article about the Deep State, and strangely tone-deaf in attacking lifetime judicial appointments. That said, it is remarkable Mr. Continetti took a shot at the judiciary, as I am hoping it heralds conservatives ditching their veneration of the “Nazgul” and recognizing reality: the judiciary is nothing more than a branch of government. Getting conservatives to put down their Holy Judiciary Hymnals is an important first step in embracing a Constitutional remedy to bad judges: impeachment and removal.

    Judges deserve impeachment and removal (and threatened with impeachment and removal) far more than it happens, which is effectively never. Judge Robart, who “wrote” the TRO against President Trump’s EO on immigration, needs removing. The three-judge panel that affirmed Robart’s ghastly TRO is asking for an Impeachment Party. To be clear, I am not supportive* of Trump’s EO, but regardless of politics, people of good faith across the political spectrum recognize these bums took advantage of the spotlight and decided to make names for themselves. In doing so, and mirroring my previous post about the Intelligence Community, they abused the trust and fairly unwavering adulation the Public has given them to self-aggrandize. It’s unfortunate it is impossible to get 2/3rds of the Senate to do something as minor as confirm the Secretary of {Whatever Useless Agency}, let alone impeach a judge, but so it goes. We should make these judges their sinecures are by no means a sure thing.

    Speaking of dormant Constitutional powers that never get used, I sincerely hope the House of Representatives gets an infusion of sack from the White House this go around and rediscovers the power of the purse. I have a few co-workers I would like to see become the recipient of the Holman Rule. At a minimum, Congress should find those civil “servants” who think they are more important than duly-elected officials and tell them their paycheck is $1, take it or leave it. Even if my impeachment of the judiciary does not work out, maybe Congress can cut the judiciary’s allotment for some of the cushier judicial perks like staff, clerks, heating, water, whatever!

    * because it does not go far enough. hee hee.

  • Trump’s Charming, Surprising, Patriotic Naïveté

    The Trump press conference from Thursday, February, 16, 2017, revealed a surprising truth:  Trump, for all of his instincts and obvious intelligence, is charmingly and patriotically naïve about the nature of the United States Government and the Media.  Trump’s revelation about the Media and its willingness to report anything, even if it is counter to the interests of the country , illuminated that Trump was initially ingenuous regarding the nature of the Political Press.  In that same thought, Trump realizes there are parties within the United States Government itself willing to leak information, even if it sets off diplomatic skirmishes, heightens tensions or even sparks wars, for their own personal gain or to further their own petty ends.

    I was shocked because all this equipment, all this incredible phone equipment — when I was called out on Mexico, I was — honestly, I was really, really surprised.

    But I said “you know, it doesn’t make sense. That won’t happen” but that wasn’t that important a call, it was fine, I could show it to the world and he could show it to the world, the president who’s a very fine man, by the way. Same thing with Australia. I said “that’s terrible that it was leaked” but it wasn’t that important. But then I said to myself “what happens when I’m dealing with the problem of North Korea?”

    What happens when I’m dealing with the problems in the Middle East? Are you folks going to be reporting all of that very, very confidential information, very important, very — you know, I mean at the highest level? Are you going to be reporting about that too?

    Even though it would be patently against the interests of the country for the Media to publish Trump’s detailed plans (by way of example) on handling potential North Korean belligerence, in this age of Media as shit-flinging Opposition Monkeys, is there any doubt it would be published anyway?  For Trump, however, he assumed even the Media would not be so debased.  He expected what we used to be able to expect of most Citizens:  despite our political differences, we are all still Americans who want what is best for the country and you are an American first and a journalist second.  Trump optimistically assumes even journalists have a sense of civic responsibility.  At least, he did.  I doubt he feels that way any longer.

    The second revelation is found in Trump’s open wonderment of, “you know, it doesn’t make sense.  That won’t happen.”  What the President is saying is he’s “honestly…really, really surprised” that members of the Deep State would leak private and classified phone calls to the press. Or, to put it more bluntly, the members of the Deep State would commit felonies in open insubordination of their new Executive.  I believe it genuinely shocked Trump to learn that not every member of the Deep State would blanch at acting against the interests of their (nominal) boss, the President of the United States.   Even for the most cynical among us, it is at least surprising that the Intelligence Community, bequeathed with special privileges under the guise of “national security”, used surreptitiously obtained information to put out a political hit on someone they simply did not care for.  That is why Trump is right, and the Media and the Left (but I repeat myself) are wrong:  the big story here is the leaker or leakers, who are abusing their power and taking advantage of a trusting polity to actively subvert a peaceful, lawful election.

    Trump was akin to the squishy centrist Soccer Parent one encounters on Facebook who says things like, “the government is just there to help us” and “they would never use your information to do THAT!”  I sincerely hope he has been disabused of that notion and ruthlessly removes the leakers from any levers of power and, if appropriate, sends them to prison.

    I now humbly submit myself to the Commentariat for evisceration.