Oh, I know. For me it’s, among other things, a scheduling conflict. Fingers crossed there will be another in good ol’ NYC. It is great that you are doing this, and I hope and expect it will be well-attended.🙏❤️🙏
Anyone remember Derrick Jensen, the professor to responded to TRA's attempts to shout him down by starting a game of Queer Theory-Pedophilia Jeopardy, and the video went viral?
Here's a link to one of the clips out there from the event, if you're unfamiliar:
Queer Theory Jeopardy!!! with Professor Derrick Jensen
Also, here's a Derrick Jensen quote from an interview of him by Moms for Liberty (about a year ago) about old-school lefties like him who feel politically homeless:
Derrick Jensen: At this point, queer theory has colonized almost all of the left, and more broadly, postmodernism has colonized so much of the left that I think it’s—I know this is getting a bit off-topic, but I know so many people like myself who are old school lefties who don’t even recognize what the left has become and are horrified and appalled and really consider ourselves politically homeless because there are—I mean, I don’t think I’m alone in saying that both the left and the right are—those terms are getting almost obsolete. In some ways, obsolete might be too strong, but -- [smiles] Oh! They’re getting "queered!"
Wish I could be "in the room where it happens" too.
But maybe I can at least offer my meandering thoughts on what the hell happened to lead to DIAG and all these orphaned Democrats? I was just listening to Michael Moynihan interview Daniel Calhoon Turrentine, a political operative who formerly worked for the Democratic Party. (see this episode of The Moynihan Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFGYLCh9exA)
Included below is a link bookmarked to his observations on this "Personnel is Policy" aspect of the Biden administration. I suspect we're only just beginning to see how deeply the lunacy of trans, and the totalitarianism that undergirds it, is embedded within our federal institutions.
Why did the Biden administration turn out to be an "enabler of fringe" hidden within a "reasonable" wrapper? Those of us who voted Biden in 2020 as a "sane" alternative to Trump were fooled by "Uncle Joe's" comforting propaganda, and consequently we witnessed an executive enforcing a whole host of patently insane beliefs that his staff institutionalized as "facts" within the fine print of countless federal regulations and procedures.
The ideologues to whom Biden handed the reins were just the culminating extremes of Democrat "fringe," and just the latest in a long tradition of Imperial Presidents taking shortcuts to "progress" that has steadily eroded away so many of the most important fail-safes of the democratic republic our founders designed. (It is arguable that the biggest "shortcut taker" in American Presidential history, Richard Nixon, pushed domestic policies that were more progressive than conservative, often pragmatically adopting expansive government initiatives that aligned with liberal priorities of the era -- e.g., environmental protection, welfare reform, civil rights enforcement, and health care proposals) (yikes -- again too long . . . must cut it in 2 because I'm too lazy to go back and cut out all those unnecessary adverbs. sorreee)
In the U.K., years of undue influence by trans activists put in charge of the banal and boring technical details of bureaucratic governance, reveals an overwhelming mess that Helen Joyce has repeatedly said will probably take decades "to unpick." I suspect the U.S. faces as big a problem. The job of flushing transgender-privileging measures out of our own economy-crippling, metastasizing blob of horrendously complicated federal bureaucracies will be near impossible. Think of all the millions of pages of eye-wateringly boring and confusing pages of regulations that have accumulated over decades of bad law and horsetrading (which has been going on FOR GENERATIONS), and then tell me how could ANY policy reform capable of making a dent in all that avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
So how did the wave of crazy that took over the Democratic party and radicalized so many (including many of us touched by this hideous phenomenon of "the Trans Child"), push a majority of voters to decide letting a berserker like Trump bust back into the White House AGAIN was the least bad option?
Remember how we were treated to a befuddled Biden on camera saying "God love ya'" to Dylan Mulvaney, a weirdo so maddenly annoying to even those unfamiliar with the logical outcome of allowing men to claim they're women, that his face being printed on a promotional six pack of Bud Light permanently alienated an entire generation of rednecks from their most loved brand of beer?
As of February 2025, Bud Light sales were approximately 40% below pre-boycott levels, with former AB InBev executives stating the brand "hasn't recovered." (source: Fox Business. "Bud Light hasn't recovered from the Mulvaney controversy, ex-Anheuser-Busch exec says." Published February 7, 2025. Analysts note that broader industry challenges—like a 25-year low in U.S. beer shipments in 2023—affected all brands, though Bud Light's drop was disproportionately severe. Business Insider. "It's not just Bud Light: This is the worst year for beer in the past 25 years." Published December 27, 2023)
Evie is a real firecracker! I’ve been to 3 of her events: a cocktail hour, a pizza party and a pie social. I keep telling her the next one needs to be a fondue party. I really wish I could be there, but I know you’ll have a great time. We are certainly starting to come out of the woodwork. Hopefully one day we will be as ubiquitous as the cockroaches that also come out of the woodwork ❤️
Wish I cold be there but, alas, I am geographically challenged!
Alas, too far! If you ever hold one of those in the DC area, I'll be there for sure.
I’m looking forward to it
Thanks so much to you and Evie for putting this together. I am so sorry I won’t be able to attend, but please know I will be there in spirit!
Accessible by Amtrak, for NY-ers!
Oh, I know. For me it’s, among other things, a scheduling conflict. Fingers crossed there will be another in good ol’ NYC. It is great that you are doing this, and I hope and expect it will be well-attended.🙏❤️🙏
I would actually love to join this. I'll be at the Battle of Ideas in London (which I am sooooo excited for).
Wow, I wish you were joining us, but that sounds like an amazing event.
Anyone remember Derrick Jensen, the professor to responded to TRA's attempts to shout him down by starting a game of Queer Theory-Pedophilia Jeopardy, and the video went viral?
Here's a link to one of the clips out there from the event, if you're unfamiliar:
Queer Theory Jeopardy!!! with Professor Derrick Jensen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-NseFg2kno
Also, here's a Derrick Jensen quote from an interview of him by Moms for Liberty (about a year ago) about old-school lefties like him who feel politically homeless:
https://youtu.be/GWeNG6Kogh8?si=fzQBPz4guB4aez92&t=921 (15:21)
Derrick Jensen: At this point, queer theory has colonized almost all of the left, and more broadly, postmodernism has colonized so much of the left that I think it’s—I know this is getting a bit off-topic, but I know so many people like myself who are old school lefties who don’t even recognize what the left has become and are horrified and appalled and really consider ourselves politically homeless because there are—I mean, I don’t think I’m alone in saying that both the left and the right are—those terms are getting almost obsolete. In some ways, obsolete might be too strong, but -- [smiles] Oh! They’re getting "queered!"
I can’t wait!
Wish I could be "in the room where it happens" too.
But maybe I can at least offer my meandering thoughts on what the hell happened to lead to DIAG and all these orphaned Democrats? I was just listening to Michael Moynihan interview Daniel Calhoon Turrentine, a political operative who formerly worked for the Democratic Party. (see this episode of The Moynihan Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFGYLCh9exA)
Included below is a link bookmarked to his observations on this "Personnel is Policy" aspect of the Biden administration. I suspect we're only just beginning to see how deeply the lunacy of trans, and the totalitarianism that undergirds it, is embedded within our federal institutions.
Why did the Biden administration turn out to be an "enabler of fringe" hidden within a "reasonable" wrapper? Those of us who voted Biden in 2020 as a "sane" alternative to Trump were fooled by "Uncle Joe's" comforting propaganda, and consequently we witnessed an executive enforcing a whole host of patently insane beliefs that his staff institutionalized as "facts" within the fine print of countless federal regulations and procedures.
The ideologues to whom Biden handed the reins were just the culminating extremes of Democrat "fringe," and just the latest in a long tradition of Imperial Presidents taking shortcuts to "progress" that has steadily eroded away so many of the most important fail-safes of the democratic republic our founders designed. (It is arguable that the biggest "shortcut taker" in American Presidential history, Richard Nixon, pushed domestic policies that were more progressive than conservative, often pragmatically adopting expansive government initiatives that aligned with liberal priorities of the era -- e.g., environmental protection, welfare reform, civil rights enforcement, and health care proposals) (yikes -- again too long . . . must cut it in 2 because I'm too lazy to go back and cut out all those unnecessary adverbs. sorreee)
In the U.K., years of undue influence by trans activists put in charge of the banal and boring technical details of bureaucratic governance, reveals an overwhelming mess that Helen Joyce has repeatedly said will probably take decades "to unpick." I suspect the U.S. faces as big a problem. The job of flushing transgender-privileging measures out of our own economy-crippling, metastasizing blob of horrendously complicated federal bureaucracies will be near impossible. Think of all the millions of pages of eye-wateringly boring and confusing pages of regulations that have accumulated over decades of bad law and horsetrading (which has been going on FOR GENERATIONS), and then tell me how could ANY policy reform capable of making a dent in all that avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
So how did the wave of crazy that took over the Democratic party and radicalized so many (including many of us touched by this hideous phenomenon of "the Trans Child"), push a majority of voters to decide letting a berserker like Trump bust back into the White House AGAIN was the least bad option?
Biden's Deal -- "Personnel is Policy"
https://www.youtube.com/live/dFGYLCh9exA?si=iWPXdJiIPABoCIN4&t=1642 (27:22)
Remember how we were treated to a befuddled Biden on camera saying "God love ya'" to Dylan Mulvaney, a weirdo so maddenly annoying to even those unfamiliar with the logical outcome of allowing men to claim they're women, that his face being printed on a promotional six pack of Bud Light permanently alienated an entire generation of rednecks from their most loved brand of beer?
As of February 2025, Bud Light sales were approximately 40% below pre-boycott levels, with former AB InBev executives stating the brand "hasn't recovered." (source: Fox Business. "Bud Light hasn't recovered from the Mulvaney controversy, ex-Anheuser-Busch exec says." Published February 7, 2025. Analysts note that broader industry challenges—like a 25-year low in U.S. beer shipments in 2023—affected all brands, though Bud Light's drop was disproportionately severe. Business Insider. "It's not just Bud Light: This is the worst year for beer in the past 25 years." Published December 27, 2023)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=507006754648074
Evie is a real firecracker! I’ve been to 3 of her events: a cocktail hour, a pizza party and a pie social. I keep telling her the next one needs to be a fondue party. I really wish I could be there, but I know you’ll have a great time. We are certainly starting to come out of the woodwork. Hopefully one day we will be as ubiquitous as the cockroaches that also come out of the woodwork ❤️