I hope you all had a good Easter weekend, or Paraphilia Day, or whatever. I certainly hope that you had a better weekend than Joey Gaffes did, since his was marked by two major unforced errors.
The first one – going to a glitzy fund raiser at the same time as the memorial service for murdered NY cop Jonathan Diller – wasn’t initially his fault. The fundraiser had been previously scheduled, and it was bad timing.
On the other hand, one might note that maybe if Biden’s party hadn’t been pushing the kind of soft-on-crime policies that enabled Diller’s murderers to be out on the street instead of doing life in prison in the first place, Diller would still be alive, and Joey’s cash grab could have taken place without such ugly visuals.
Regardless, once Biden realized that his fundraiser was going to coincide with Diller’s service, and that Trump was going to attend (and be welcomed at) that service, a reasonably competent politician would have at least tried to avoid the disastrous optics. Maybe he could meet with Diller’s family privately to express condolences, or bump his fundraiser back a day?
If nothing else, he could have put out a press release saying that under these tragic circumstances, he wouldn’t be attending the fundraiser. It still would have brought in the big bucks, for two reasons: 1. Anybody contributing to the late Joe Biden at this point is ineducable, and would donate anyway. 2. Nobody was there to see Biden.
I mean, other than people who had laid bets in Vegas in the ongoing “when is Biden going to die” prop bet, and had their money on “during a creepy fundraiser on March 29th.” (For the record, I’ve already lost my $100, because my over/under on that one was “halfway through the SOTU.”)
(And by then, he’d already been dead for several years, so I don’t know what I was thinking.)
Biden’s second unforced error was deciding to declare Easter Sunday as the “Day of Trans Visibility.” Man, that decision is all kinds of wrong!
As a Protestant, I used to tease my Catholic friends about how many saint’s days they had in their calendar. (“You weren’t in school yesterday. Don’t tell me: it was St. Horace’s Day, right? Wasn’t he the patron saint of cobblers? Or was it shoelace makers?”)
But in general, Christians only have two big holidays, plus a few associated minor ones (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, a handful of church services during Lent). Altogether there are barely enough Christian holidays to fill up a week, and non-Christians are not expected to even notice – let alone approve of – more than the big two.
But LGBTQ zealots are going nuts, with something like 145 recognized “holidays,” not to mention three entire months devoted to pride, LGBT history and trans awareness.
And if the weirdest oddball in your office interrupts a staff meeting to ask what kind of events the company is planning to hold to commemorate “Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week” (February 19-25th, so mark your calendars for next year), you can’t even do a spit-take with your coffee without being shunned as a bigot.
An anonymous commenter summed it up best: “40% of the year to recognize 1% of the population?”
Which points out the political idiocy of Biden’s Easter debacle. Yes, church attendance and the number of people who claim to be Christians has been on the decline. (At the same time, society seems to be mysteriously decaying on just about every moral and ethical issue in sight. UNEXPECTEDLY!) But people who are at least nominally Christian still make up a majority of the country.
On the other side, a very tiny number of deranged activists have been revealing themselves as raving Christophobes in ways that repulse normal people, whether Christians or not. Morons disrupt Easter services at St. Patrick’s in NYC, unfurling a banner and shouting nonsense. A Cadbury chocolate store in England advertises “gesture eggs.” (I’m not making that up.)
How does that political calculus work? “Let’s go out of our way to intentionally offend tens of millions of Christians, and in a rude, obnoxious way that will offend tens of millions more who don’t like offensive jackasses, just as a general rule. And by doing so, we’ll lock up the sought-after ‘blue-haired narcissistic malcontents’ vote!”
It really must be tough to be in a political party whose most zealous members are rabidly hostile to Judaism and Christianity. The smart tack would be to just acknowledge Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Christmas and Easter with a half-hearted, banal public statement (like the Biden WH did on Sunday), and then move on.
But the hard left can’t abide that. They’ve got to go out of their way to highlight their contempt. Like when the White House has an E***er egg roll, but feels compelled to warn kids that there better not be any “religious symbols” or “overtly religious themes” on their East** eggs.
Got it? We can’t “ban” gay porn from our middle school libraries, but you should expect an assault team from the DOJ to fast-rope down to your front lawn and arrest your parents if they try to sneak some “religious overtones” into a holiday that exists to celebrate the resurrection of Christ!
Bah!
Bah, I say!
By the way, no one has asked me my thoughts about transgenderism, and I have no special expertise on that topic. But the same could be said of every MSM talking head, national Democrat politician, and cast member on the View, and they’re always yammering on about it. So why shouldn’t I?
Especially since I’ve got what many have called a crystal brain (hat tip to Adam Carolla), and an uncanny ability to be right about stuff. So here goes:
I think that people who say they are trans fall into one of 4 groups:
1.People who truly have the mental illness of gender dysmorphia, which is similar to other conditions such as anorexia, in that in both cases, the sufferer believes the reality of his/her body to be different than it actually is.
2.Those – mostly adolescent females – caught up in a social contagion.
3.Men who have the sexual fetish of autogynophilia, which is being aroused by the thought of oneself as a female.
4.Creepy grifters who do so for personal gain: in the form of winning sporting events against women, getting prurient access to female bathrooms or showers, or getting into female prisons when they should be in male prisons, getting “misgendered” the old-fashioned way.
I really do feel empathy for those in the first two categories, and think our society should give them all the therapeutic and social support they need to get well, and successfully deal with their hardships. (But we obviously shouldn’t humor them, any more than you’d agree with some poor soul dying of anorexia, and tell her that she’s horribly fat!)
Those in category 3 should probably also get therapy – if they recognize their sickness and want to get well – or else swift opposition by police, and anyone else who learns of their predilection.
Those in category 4 need to be opposed, thwarted, shamed and punished.
Okay, this column is getting long, so I’ll make this another three-column week, and post a shorter one on Wednesday.
But I can’t leave without pointing out the evil criminal story that precipitated Biden’s first gaffe of the weekend. Because the two scumbags who murdered Jonathan Diller are veritable poster boys for the national Dems’ horrific pro-criminal legal stance.
The shooter was career criminal Guy Rivera (with 21 prior arrests), and his sociopath driver was Lindy Jones (14 prior arrests), who was illegally carrying two guns in the car with him. Diller’s partner managed to shoot Rivera, but he survived. Tragically.
The Dems vigorously opposed “three strikes” laws for repeat offenders, but you’d think that by this late date, even they could tolerate a “10 strikes” law, which would have prevented at least this horrendous crime.
For me, the creepiest detail in this whole, tragic story was that Rivera was found to have a shiv in his rectum when he was arrested. Which could only mean two things: 1. He’s more sexually twisted than Hunter Biden. Or 2. He knows how evil he is, and was thus planning to be sent back to prison at any minute, and wanted to go in armed.
That really gross fact has made me question my own – usually brilliant – plans to improve our country. Because coming in at #12 on my personal List of Executive Orders which I would sign immediately after becoming president is, “The first part of the punishment for any cop killer – before ‘execution after a 30-day appeals process’ – is to have a shiv stuck up his rectum.”
Now that I know that some of those freaks are already doing that to themselves – and (shudder) possibly enjoying it – I’ve got to amend my Executive Order List.
Thanks, Brandon!
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 