TDS-ремиссия
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chasovschikХочу сохранить тут текст Салливана, про который вчера упоминал. Салливан принадлежит к тем TDSовцам, которые до сих пор называют себя консерваторами, давно ими не являясь; сам Салливан, несмотря на некоторые претензии к демократам (из-за которых я его регулярно цитирую), много лет стабильно голосует именно за них, хотя последний консерватизм у демократов кончился еще при Картере, если не при Джонсоне. Энтузиазм Салливана ограничивается гендерной и иммиграционной тематикой. По остальным темам Салливан придерживается нормальных демократических взглядов (см. первый и последний абзацы), но это не помешало ему спеть хвалебную песнь о возвращении к здравому смыслу, о чувстве свободы и о свежем кислороде в затхлой атмосфере.
Вот сам текст. Пардон за отсутствие ката, я пробовал, но ничего хорошего из этого не вышло, как-то он коряво в DW работает.
All Trump had to do was wait. But Biden’s EOs on “equity” were even more extreme, effectively ending any pretense of color-blindness in American law and society. Biden, I wrote four years ago, was:
It was a direct and proud embrace of systemic race and sex discrimination by the federal government. It was accompanied by a massive shift in the private sector toward illegal race and sex discrimination in hiring, firing, and promotion. This was buttressed by actual mandatory workplace indoctrination in critical race, gender, and queer theory. This was authoritarian brainwashing, accompanied by blatant race discrimination.
Biden also decreed by executive order that the postmodern notion of “gender” would henceforth replace biological sex in determining who is a man or a woman. He mandated that any school or university getting federal funds should remove distinctions between boys and girls — even in sports and intimate spaces. His administration fully backed the medically irreversible transing of children with gender dysphoria, lied about the science, and secretly urged removing all age restrictions on transition — subjecting countless gay and autistic children to the permanent destruction of their future ability to have kids or even an orgasm.
Biden was, in these respects, an unremitting extremist; and almost all Trump is doing this week is unraveling this insanity. The one actually radical act from Trump is rescinding LBJ’s “affirmative action” directive of 1965. Reagan wanted to do this, but he faced bipartisan opposition. One justification of the feds moving from anti-discrimination to being pro-discrimination was because, in LBJ’s words, African-Americans “don’t have their 12 percent” in federal employment, i.e. their proportion in the country at large. Today, African-Americans are almost 19 percent of federal employees — much higher than their population share. The MSM won’t frame it this way. But that’s the truth. And Trump’s EO language suggests he now has a staff shrewd and determined enough to push back. This week was more regime change than shit-show.
It is, however, far too soon to declare the war on left authoritarianism over. It is far from dead; it has replaced Christianity entirely for many, as we saw with Bishop Budde at the National Cathedral this week, or the Oscars giving an unpopular film 13 nominations just so they can give a Best Actress award to a biological man. The Ivy League will do everything it can to keep discriminating against members of “oppressor classes.” The MSM is too far gone to reform itself. If you want proof of that, notice that the NYT has two emphatically “queer” columnists pushing gender woo-woo, and it just fired the only writer in that publication, Pamela Paul, who helped expose the medically baseless transing of children.
Not only will the Trump EOs end the systemic racism in the federal government and its contractors, his people are also aware of attempts to foil color-blindness by their own woke bureaucrats, and will be vigilant. More importantly, the new administration will deploy the DOJ to restore equality of opportunity in the private sector. After so many major corporations have been openly bragging about their race and sex discrimination these past few years, they sure have been asking for it.
The Trump peeps have even said they intend to focus on nine major corporations who have run afoul of civil rights law, which might prompt a few of the worst offenders to clean up their racist acts (or, more likely, start deleting all their old emails). Among my nominees for robust civil rights investigation: Google, Apple, the New York Times, Yale University, and the Ford Foundation. Within higher education, federal funds should also be conditional on the total abolition of DEI administration. Imagine how much money the colleges would save. The University of Michigan, for example, spends $18 million a year on salaries and benefits for DEI busy-bodies, enough for a thousand new in-state students a year.
My sense of liberation also comes from the EO that defends women’s rights against the assault by the genderqueer left. Every human being in the entire history of our species produces either sperm or eggs — that is the core truth of our species’ reproductive strategy, and it applies to intersex people too. No sane society should replace this truth with ideology about purely subjective “genders” of which there are now over a hundred (and counting). My heart jumped for joy at this:
Does this mean a war on transgender Americans? Of course not. They are protected from discrimination by the Civil Rights Act — according to Trump’s own SCOTUS pick, Neil Gorsuch. Adults should continue to have full access to transition medication and be treated with decency and respect. If they are not, I’ll complain as loudly as I have about the transing of children. But there should be no biological men competing with women in sports; no violation of women’s privacy by having biological men waving their dicks and balls around in intimate spaces; and an end to the grotesque practice of allowing biological men with sex offenses into women’s jails. Seriously, what madness was all this?
The MSM will portray all of this as some radical, bigoted, racist, homophobic, and transphobic return to the Dark Ages. It’s all they know — even after Trump’s multi-racial victory in November. But look at where public opinion is: big majorities in favor of not using race or sex or gender or orientation as a reason to hire or promote; and big majorities in favor of trans rights — but also, including most Democrats, against unfairness in sports, biological men in women’s intimate spaces, and the transing of children. On immigration, 66 percent of Americans now favor mass deportations, after the Biden open-borders catastrophe. Trump is in the center on immigration and gender. Biden was on the extreme left.
But I feel particularly liberated in this moment as a man who has been openly gay before many of these transqueers were born, who lived through the AIDS epidemic, and was front and center in the fight for marriage equality and military service (and thereby loathed by the transqueers). My gay and lesbian world has been captured by gender and “LGBTQIA+” zealots ever since we won marriage equality. They control every aspect of our community with a grip that tolerates no debate or dissent. Their ideology has abolished sex and thereby same-sex love, replacing it with a nebulous concept of gender that insists that heterosexual sex is now part of gayness; and that biological women are fully gay men and biological men fully lesbian. Lesbian bars are being shut down by governments just like the old days. But this time, it’s because these lesbians don’t want biological men in their spaces. The left is now doing to gays and lesbians what the far right used to do: police our bars.
The transqueers and their MSM stenographers have renamed us — without any actual debate — as “LGBTQIA+”, deliberately stripping us of our identities as gay men and lesbians, and conflating us with trans people with whom we have almost nothing in common. They unilaterally decided to call all of us “queer” despite it being deeply triggering for older generations. They replaced the rainbow flag with their own ugly, intersectional bullshit. They have brazenly falsified history to sustain their “LGBTQIA+” invention. They have indoctrinated the very young with lies that have led directly to the transing of many, many gay kids, destroying their lives and bodies irreversibly — and shown no remorse or reflection when confronted with these appalling acts of abuse. They have lied about the science and concealed it from view.
They control all of what passes for gay media. This week, for example, Scott Bessent was nominated to be the highest-ranking openly gay official in US history: Treasury Secretary. He was there with his husband and kids in the Congressional hearing: a staggering leap for gay visibility and cred. Now go to Out.com or The Advocate and look at their news round-ups. Not a word about him. You don’t know what epistemic closure is until you’ve lived for a while in the totalitarian, tribalist world of queerdom. But let me tell you: feeling its power and control ebb a little is a revelation. There is hope for sanity yet. What an incredible, paradoxical, bewildering thing that it took Donald Trump to give us this respite.
One final note: the Democrats need to realize that Trump is actually doing them a favor in all this. If immigration is returned to Obama-era sanity, and if wokeness is defeated, he has taken the two most damning weaknesses of the Dems off the table. Since they cannot reform themselves, they should accept this gift quietly and work to rebuild along classic class lines. It could be the best thing to happen to them in years. The person who understands that has a golden political future.
Такие дела.
Мне в трамповском блицкриге тоже не все нравится. К примеру, Трамп заморозил всю иностранную помощь, кроме Израиля и Египта; в списке исключений должна была быть и Украина, но ее там нет. Это было ожидаемо, к большому сожалению. Или указ про гражданство по рождению, который, конечно, не на том уровне, что байденовское введение двадцать восьмой поправки через твиттер, но довольно близко. В этом случае, впрочем, понятно, что администрация таким образом инициирует рассмотрение этой проблемы в судах, рассчитывая, возможно, на Верховный Суд. Но вообще впечатление, конечно, сокрушительное. На CNN ноют, что первые трамповские два дня чувствуются как полный срок. Хочется верить, что этот напор и дальше не ослабнет.
Вот сам текст. Пардон за отсутствие ката, я пробовал, но ничего хорошего из этого не вышло, как-то он коряво в DW работает.
Undoing Biden's Left-Extremism
Trump is doing nothing more than return us to sanity on immigration and identity.
Andrew Sullivan
Jan 24
To say I have conflicted feelings after a week or so of Trump’s return to power would be an understatement. Some of his early decisions remind me why I couldn’t vote for him. His decision to pardon even those among the J6 mob who assaulted cops jibes with his own instinctual love of vigilante justice against anyone in his way. That’s why his egregious withdrawal of security detail from John Bolton and Mike Pompeo is so instructive. Trump is no longer fond of these men, so he has all but invited a foreign hostile government to murder them. His embrace of anti-police vigilanteism at home is matched by his removal of sanctions on the violent settlers in the West Bank this week. He’s a thug who loves thugs.
But for all this, a large part of me is exhilarated by this first week. Yes, exhilarated. Liberated even. I wasn’t quite expecting this, but I can’t deny it. I suddenly feel more oxygen in the air as the woke authoritarianism of the last four years begins finally to lift. And let me put the core reason for this exhilaration as simply as I can. On the central questions of immigration and identity politics, what Trump is proposing is simply a return to common sense — a reflection of the sane views of the vast majority of Americans, who support secure borders and oppose unfairness in sports and medical experiments on children. My conservative soul is glad.
Joe Biden brazenly lied when he promised moderation in 2020. Check out my column on his initial flurry of executive orders four years ago this week:
Trump is doing nothing more than return us to sanity on immigration and identity.
Andrew Sullivan
Jan 24
To say I have conflicted feelings after a week or so of Trump’s return to power would be an understatement. Some of his early decisions remind me why I couldn’t vote for him. His decision to pardon even those among the J6 mob who assaulted cops jibes with his own instinctual love of vigilante justice against anyone in his way. That’s why his egregious withdrawal of security detail from John Bolton and Mike Pompeo is so instructive. Trump is no longer fond of these men, so he has all but invited a foreign hostile government to murder them. His embrace of anti-police vigilanteism at home is matched by his removal of sanctions on the violent settlers in the West Bank this week. He’s a thug who loves thugs.
But for all this, a large part of me is exhilarated by this first week. Yes, exhilarated. Liberated even. I wasn’t quite expecting this, but I can’t deny it. I suddenly feel more oxygen in the air as the woke authoritarianism of the last four years begins finally to lift. And let me put the core reason for this exhilaration as simply as I can. On the central questions of immigration and identity politics, what Trump is proposing is simply a return to common sense — a reflection of the sane views of the vast majority of Americans, who support secure borders and oppose unfairness in sports and medical experiments on children. My conservative soul is glad.
Joe Biden brazenly lied when he promised moderation in 2020. Check out my column on his initial flurry of executive orders four years ago this week:
[Biden] is doubling down on the very policies that made a Trump presidency possible. In every major democracy, mass immigration has empowered the far right. Instead of easing white panic about changing demographics, Biden just intensified it.
All Trump had to do was wait. But Biden’s EOs on “equity” were even more extreme, effectively ending any pretense of color-blindness in American law and society. Biden, I wrote four years ago, was:
enforcing the Ibram X. Kendi view that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.” And he’s enforcing it across the entire federal government and any institution the federal government funds.
It was a direct and proud embrace of systemic race and sex discrimination by the federal government. It was accompanied by a massive shift in the private sector toward illegal race and sex discrimination in hiring, firing, and promotion. This was buttressed by actual mandatory workplace indoctrination in critical race, gender, and queer theory. This was authoritarian brainwashing, accompanied by blatant race discrimination.
Biden also decreed by executive order that the postmodern notion of “gender” would henceforth replace biological sex in determining who is a man or a woman. He mandated that any school or university getting federal funds should remove distinctions between boys and girls — even in sports and intimate spaces. His administration fully backed the medically irreversible transing of children with gender dysphoria, lied about the science, and secretly urged removing all age restrictions on transition — subjecting countless gay and autistic children to the permanent destruction of their future ability to have kids or even an orgasm.
Biden was, in these respects, an unremitting extremist; and almost all Trump is doing this week is unraveling this insanity. The one actually radical act from Trump is rescinding LBJ’s “affirmative action” directive of 1965. Reagan wanted to do this, but he faced bipartisan opposition. One justification of the feds moving from anti-discrimination to being pro-discrimination was because, in LBJ’s words, African-Americans “don’t have their 12 percent” in federal employment, i.e. their proportion in the country at large. Today, African-Americans are almost 19 percent of federal employees — much higher than their population share. The MSM won’t frame it this way. But that’s the truth. And Trump’s EO language suggests he now has a staff shrewd and determined enough to push back. This week was more regime change than shit-show.
It is, however, far too soon to declare the war on left authoritarianism over. It is far from dead; it has replaced Christianity entirely for many, as we saw with Bishop Budde at the National Cathedral this week, or the Oscars giving an unpopular film 13 nominations just so they can give a Best Actress award to a biological man. The Ivy League will do everything it can to keep discriminating against members of “oppressor classes.” The MSM is too far gone to reform itself. If you want proof of that, notice that the NYT has two emphatically “queer” columnists pushing gender woo-woo, and it just fired the only writer in that publication, Pamela Paul, who helped expose the medically baseless transing of children.
Not only will the Trump EOs end the systemic racism in the federal government and its contractors, his people are also aware of attempts to foil color-blindness by their own woke bureaucrats, and will be vigilant. More importantly, the new administration will deploy the DOJ to restore equality of opportunity in the private sector. After so many major corporations have been openly bragging about their race and sex discrimination these past few years, they sure have been asking for it.
The Trump peeps have even said they intend to focus on nine major corporations who have run afoul of civil rights law, which might prompt a few of the worst offenders to clean up their racist acts (or, more likely, start deleting all their old emails). Among my nominees for robust civil rights investigation: Google, Apple, the New York Times, Yale University, and the Ford Foundation. Within higher education, federal funds should also be conditional on the total abolition of DEI administration. Imagine how much money the colleges would save. The University of Michigan, for example, spends $18 million a year on salaries and benefits for DEI busy-bodies, enough for a thousand new in-state students a year.
My sense of liberation also comes from the EO that defends women’s rights against the assault by the genderqueer left. Every human being in the entire history of our species produces either sperm or eggs — that is the core truth of our species’ reproductive strategy, and it applies to intersex people too. No sane society should replace this truth with ideology about purely subjective “genders” of which there are now over a hundred (and counting). My heart jumped for joy at this:
When administering or enforcing sex-based distinctions, every agency and all Federal employees acting in an official capacity on behalf of their agency shall use the term “sex” and not “gender” in all applicable Federal policies and documents.
Does this mean a war on transgender Americans? Of course not. They are protected from discrimination by the Civil Rights Act — according to Trump’s own SCOTUS pick, Neil Gorsuch. Adults should continue to have full access to transition medication and be treated with decency and respect. If they are not, I’ll complain as loudly as I have about the transing of children. But there should be no biological men competing with women in sports; no violation of women’s privacy by having biological men waving their dicks and balls around in intimate spaces; and an end to the grotesque practice of allowing biological men with sex offenses into women’s jails. Seriously, what madness was all this?
The MSM will portray all of this as some radical, bigoted, racist, homophobic, and transphobic return to the Dark Ages. It’s all they know — even after Trump’s multi-racial victory in November. But look at where public opinion is: big majorities in favor of not using race or sex or gender or orientation as a reason to hire or promote; and big majorities in favor of trans rights — but also, including most Democrats, against unfairness in sports, biological men in women’s intimate spaces, and the transing of children. On immigration, 66 percent of Americans now favor mass deportations, after the Biden open-borders catastrophe. Trump is in the center on immigration and gender. Biden was on the extreme left.
But I feel particularly liberated in this moment as a man who has been openly gay before many of these transqueers were born, who lived through the AIDS epidemic, and was front and center in the fight for marriage equality and military service (and thereby loathed by the transqueers). My gay and lesbian world has been captured by gender and “LGBTQIA+” zealots ever since we won marriage equality. They control every aspect of our community with a grip that tolerates no debate or dissent. Their ideology has abolished sex and thereby same-sex love, replacing it with a nebulous concept of gender that insists that heterosexual sex is now part of gayness; and that biological women are fully gay men and biological men fully lesbian. Lesbian bars are being shut down by governments just like the old days. But this time, it’s because these lesbians don’t want biological men in their spaces. The left is now doing to gays and lesbians what the far right used to do: police our bars.
The transqueers and their MSM stenographers have renamed us — without any actual debate — as “LGBTQIA+”, deliberately stripping us of our identities as gay men and lesbians, and conflating us with trans people with whom we have almost nothing in common. They unilaterally decided to call all of us “queer” despite it being deeply triggering for older generations. They replaced the rainbow flag with their own ugly, intersectional bullshit. They have brazenly falsified history to sustain their “LGBTQIA+” invention. They have indoctrinated the very young with lies that have led directly to the transing of many, many gay kids, destroying their lives and bodies irreversibly — and shown no remorse or reflection when confronted with these appalling acts of abuse. They have lied about the science and concealed it from view.
They control all of what passes for gay media. This week, for example, Scott Bessent was nominated to be the highest-ranking openly gay official in US history: Treasury Secretary. He was there with his husband and kids in the Congressional hearing: a staggering leap for gay visibility and cred. Now go to Out.com or The Advocate and look at their news round-ups. Not a word about him. You don’t know what epistemic closure is until you’ve lived for a while in the totalitarian, tribalist world of queerdom. But let me tell you: feeling its power and control ebb a little is a revelation. There is hope for sanity yet. What an incredible, paradoxical, bewildering thing that it took Donald Trump to give us this respite.
One final note: the Democrats need to realize that Trump is actually doing them a favor in all this. If immigration is returned to Obama-era sanity, and if wokeness is defeated, he has taken the two most damning weaknesses of the Dems off the table. Since they cannot reform themselves, they should accept this gift quietly and work to rebuild along classic class lines. It could be the best thing to happen to them in years. The person who understands that has a golden political future.
Такие дела.
Мне в трамповском блицкриге тоже не все нравится. К примеру, Трамп заморозил всю иностранную помощь, кроме Израиля и Египта; в списке исключений должна была быть и Украина, но ее там нет. Это было ожидаемо, к большому сожалению. Или указ про гражданство по рождению, который, конечно, не на том уровне, что байденовское введение двадцать восьмой поправки через твиттер, но довольно близко. В этом случае, впрочем, понятно, что администрация таким образом инициирует рассмотрение этой проблемы в судах, рассчитывая, возможно, на Верховный Суд. Но вообще впечатление, конечно, сокрушительное. На CNN ноют, что первые трамповские два дня чувствуются как полный срок. Хочется верить, что этот напор и дальше не ослабнет.
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Date: 2025-01-25 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-25 08:55 pm (UTC)Но вот не соврать он не моожет:
His embrace of anti-police vigilanteism at home is matched by his removal of sanctions on the violent settlers in the West Bank this week. He’s a thug who loves thugs.
На жителей Иудеи и Самарии постоянно нападают арабы-соседи: жгут их оливковые деревья, нападают на дорогах, кидая камни и бутылки с зажигательной смесью.
Естественно, те огрызаются.
Но Салливан рассказывает, какие еврейские поселенцы бандиты.
Более того.
Наш сверхлевый суд и без санкций Байдена судит их по малейшей жалобе.
Наложение их Байденом на этих людей - просто пакость, которую он решил продемонстрировать.
no subject
Date: 2025-01-25 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-27 01:47 pm (UTC)His embrace of anti-police vigilanteism at home=
Эту позицию у нас много народу занимают. Вот и Liza Murkovski, республиканский сенатор, осудила Трампа за помилование посаженных за 6 января, мол, они над полицейскими Капитолия совершали насилие, как можно, эти полицейские составляют хребет Капитолия, на котором всё держится. Врёт? Тогда она враг переодевшийся в республиканца. Полезная идиотка? Тогда это ещё хуже в наше время, хуже сознательного вранья. Уж ей-то, сенатору, должно быть виднее, чем кому-либо, что на самом деле происходило 6 января.
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Date: 2025-01-26 07:51 am (UTC)Вот например:
https://tsn.ua/ru/ukrayina/ostanovlena-li-voennaya-pomosch-ukraine-ot-ssha-zelenskiy-dal-otvet-2752179.html
"Знаю, что было ограничение гуманитарных программ, программ для институций во всем мире. Я сфокусирован на военной помощи. Она не остановлена", — сказал Зеленский.
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Date: 2025-01-26 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-28 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-26 07:19 pm (UTC)В основном приостановили все, что даётся по линии USAID. По этой линии демократы резвились не одно десятилетие.
https://www.usaid.gov/ukraine/democracy-human-rights-and-governance
Оплачивали всю свою местную тусовку.
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Date: 2025-01-26 09:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-26 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-27 07:23 am (UTC)Это же банальная евгеника. Я удивляюсь, почему никто не рассматривает чуть ли не принудительное лишение части населения способности продолжать род именно в этом аспекте.
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Date: 2025-01-27 12:09 pm (UTC)--
Коган-варвар
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Date: 2025-01-27 12:07 pm (UTC)Как его там звали? Дон Тамэо?
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Коган-варвар