MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Anti-Xi protests should end American left’s China envy.

LICENSED BARBARISM: The Most Passionate Science Deniers Are Pro-Trans ‘Experts’ Who Profit From Carving Up Kids.

Of course, the elephant in the room is that studies on transition, and especially transitioning children, are overwhelmingly conducted by those whose careers depend upon proving the benefits of transition. The doctors who are chemically castrating teenage boys, or amputating the healthy breasts of adolescent girls, are all-in. To admit that these procedures are a mistake would be a confession of horrific, possibly even criminal, medical malpractice that would end their careers.

Likewise, many of the formerly respectable gatekeepers of medicine and scientific research have been deeply compromised by transgender ideology. From medical associations to hospitals, there is a multitude of people who are in too deep to admit error, even as transgender ideology collapses.

The fact-free nature of transgender ideology is apparent in the latest standards of care issued by WPATH (World Professional Association of Transgender Health), a pro-trans group that is treated as the leading authority on transgender medicine. The organization eliminated many of its recommended age restrictions for medical transition in order to protect from malpractice claims physicians who were transitioning children younger than the previous standards — after all, doctors can’t violate a standard of care that doesn’t exist. And bizarrely, WPATH declared “eunuch” to be a valid gender identity, a decision reached, in part, by relying on online forums filled with violent fantasies of child sexual abuse.

These cranks and creeps have captured the establishment, from medicine to academia to the Democratic Party. And they intend to use their power to intimidate and silence critics. They do not care that their attempts are dishonest and incoherent. For instance, the NEJM writers admit that the scientific “consensus is ever evolving,” yet they posit this as a reason to shut down debate and deregulate transitioning children.

Future generations will look back on ours as butchers of children, because that’s exactly what’s happening.

YEP: Are Biden Inc scandals warping US policy toward China’s protesters?

Kirby is a very smart and able guy. Unlike many administration lightweights who convey that they are in over their heads, he knows exactly what he is saying. He is well aware that his appeasing message is crushing to people who are risking their lives. Those people know that Xi’s regime despises America, yet sees that America is too cowed to speak up for them. They are not expecting a U.S. military invasion. They just crave the kind of encouragement that, in 1981, President Reagan gave to Poles who defiantly revolted against the Soviets and their puppet regime in Warsaw. The Chinese protesters just expect a self-proclaimed beacon of freedom to act like a beacon, not a power failure.

At the risk of belaboring what I’ve been saying for a couple of years, the Biden family scandal — the millions of dollars that agents of the Chinese government (among other agents of corrupt and hostile regimes) poured into the family coffers during the Obama and Trump years — cannot be disaggregated from Biden administration policy positions on China.

Nope.

THE GRAY LADY ON THE BALENCIAGA DEBACLE: REPUBLICANS POUNCE! When High Fashion and QAnon Collide. Two new Balenciaga campaigns ignited a firestorm that traveled from the internet to Fox News, fueled by allegations that the brand condoned child exploitation.

The internet is full of trolls. Why did this controversy take off?

As online criticism of the campaigns spread, the story was picked up across right-leaning media outlets, including The New York Post and the prime time Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” The show has helped to publicize and mainstream QAnon, the internet conspiracy theory that “a group of Satan-worshiping elites who run a child sex ring are trying to control our politics and media.”

“Here you have a major international retail brand promoting kiddie porn and sex with children,” Mr. Carlson told viewers on Nov. 22, “and not promoting it subtly but right out in the open.”

He’s not wrong, but as Jim Treacher likes to say:

WOW, WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING? China Used Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal to Score Propaganda Points, Pentagon Finds.

The Chinese Communist Party used the botched American military withdrawal from Afghanistan to portray the U.S. as an unreliable international partner and a nation in decline, the Department of Defense found.

In a Tuesday report to Congress on national security developments involving China, the DOD noted that the CCP exploited the Afghanistan embarrassment to undermine the U.S. and its reputation.

“In 2021, the PRC employed multiple diplomatic tools in an attempt to erode U.S. and partner influence, such as highlighting the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and criticizing U.S.-backed security partnerships,” the department concluded.

The CCP used the foreign policy failure as “evidence that the U.S. is an unreliable partner and declining power,” the report said. . . .

In August 2021, the Biden administration presided over a messy military departure from Afghanistan, allowing the Taliban to seize control of Kabul before U.S. forces and diplomats had vacated the country.

The withdrawal ended in chaos, with 13 American service men killed in a suicide bombing and desperate U.S. citizens and Afghan refugees scrambling to evacuate the war-torn country. As the U.S. military pulled out of Afghanistan, as many as 9,000 Americans were left in the country, according to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report released in February 2022.

How many are still there?

UH-HUH: Senate Report on Domestic Terrorism Names White Supremacy As the Chief Problem.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: China to have 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035: Pentagon.

IF YOU NEED SOMETHING NON OFFENSIVE* TO GIVE SOMEONE THIS CHRISTMAS, CONSIDER:  Notebook: Henry Stare (So Sez Henry).

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Yes, Mr. Henry Hayden, Esq is a very photogenic cat. And his image on a notebook is bound to make you wish to write more.

*Okay, so it will offend your aunt who thinks we should spend the money we spend on pets on one legged martians with broken UFOs. But you know what? She deserves to be offended. Buy her three So Sez Henry notebooks.

SOME OF US KNOW THIS. WE ALSO KNOW WE ONLY HAVE A CHOICE OF EVILS:  Apple emerges as a villain in China, shutting down iPhone apps that help protestors.

THIS IS JUST NEAT AND FODDER FOR WRITER RESEARCH:  Deepest underground structures.

THEY SHOULD HAVE READY ALLIES ANYWHERE THAT HUMANS WANT TO SURVIVE:  Climate Change Skeptics Have Ready Allies in Africa.

THEY ALL DO:  “Vector” For Misinformation- Journo Fears Twitter Free Speech.

IT’S ALL RIGHT. THEY’LL LIVE ON UNICORN FARTS:  Netherlands To Seize 3,000 Farms In Name Of Climate Change.

THAT THING ABOUT MEDSCHOOLS AND MEDICINE?  Today’s blacklisted American: Massachusetts hospital network to deny healthcare to those who say things it doesn’t like.

It’s more than time.

IT’S TIME:  Anti-lockdown protests sweeping China, morphed into protests against the CCP regime and Xi.

ONCE IS HAPPENSTANCE, TWICE IS COINCIDENCE, 2432 TIMES?  Was the Nick Fuentes meeting a setup? Does 45 have a mole in his personal staff, or are they just that incompetent?

A cigar to the gentleman who just said “enemy action.”  I knew you could.

AND HOW:   “The incoming House of Representatives should hold hearings on the destructive racialization of medical schools and medicine”.

NOW THEY’RE JUST GETTING SILLY:  ABC’s Martha Raddatz Scolds Americans for Not Getting Covid Booster.

AS THEY TRY TO STAMPEDE US INTO COMMITTING SUICIDE BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER:  Scientists Revive ‘Zombie Virus’ Frozen for 48,500 Years in Russian Permafrost.

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THAT EARTH WORSHIP ALWAYS COMES WITH HUMAN SACRIFICE:  Netherlands to Shut Down Thousands of Farms to Comply With EU Climate Demands.

UNIPOLARLY:  When Atlas Takes A Coffee Break.

IT’S GOING TO GET BAD. REALLY BAD: U.S. Consumer Confidence Hits Four Month Low in November.

SO, I FINALLY GOT AROUND TO REPUBLISHING THIS (IT’S STILL DEDICATED TO THE BOSS, YES):  A Few Good Men.

If I were doing it today and all, I’d have named it something else, like Uprising, maybe. But… At the time the pun appealed to me. Ah well, mistakes made. And we all have decades of derpitude to cross to get to our present derpy selves.  Anyway#COMMISSION EARNED.

The blurb for this might be the suckiest thing I’ve ever written, as I did it last night, after becoming exhausted fighting Amazon’s new “hard cover uploading thing” (I wish they’d stop with the improvements.)   So, I’m not going to copy it here. I’ll probably rewrite it tomorrow if the great coughening brought on by bp meds has receded enough to allow me to sleep (I can hope.)

But…  So, almost 10 years ago, I was sitting in my office while Dan fretted about us being late to the local convention in town, (I was metaphorically SOCMOB (standing on a corner, minding my own business)) when these two bad dudes got into my head and started telling their story. I made my poor husband very nervous as I had to capture the voice before I left. And I came in halfway through a panel. I’m a great trial to my poor husband.

I’d been doing a deep dive into the history of the American Revolution, and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is more or less a perennial re-read. And then–  Well, I was having really bad feelings. 2012, you know?  So we go to a future where America is only a vague memory. Only tatters and ravelings in the wind. But there are these proscribed, persecuted people — USAians, from the term that, back then, foreigners called us on blogs, trying to rile us up — who carry scraps of flag that flew over the USA while it was still a sovereign republic. And they memorize our founding documents.

And in this book, in the strangest possible way, at the worst possible time, and at the hands of the most unlikely of agents…  None of them ready, none of them perfect, none of them clean, the time has come.

“Your life, your fortune, your sacred honor. Did you think those were just words. Did you think it was just a game?”

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YEAH, THANKS TOM, WE’D ALREADY FIGURED THAT OUT: Tom Nichols: Never Trump really meant never Republican.