THERE’S NO GOING BACK: MTV’s trans ‘poster-child’ bitter about transition after being left scarred, hairy, and infertile. “Milo received weekly shots of testosterone on the show, and shortly after the show aired, she went through a double mastectomy procedure. Milo went on to have a hysterectomy last year after dealing with some discomfort from increased doses of testosterone.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 23, 2023
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: 36 Climate Models Overestimated Warming in U.S. Corn Belt.
FALLOUT: Russia Covers Up Key Budget Spending Data as War Swells Deficit. “The federal budget deficit meanwhile reached 3.41 trillion rubles ($41 billion) in the first five months of 2023, narrowing slightly in May but still exceeding the full-year plan by almost a fifth. Energy revenue shrank by over a third last month, hit by lower crude prices amid international sanctions and reduced gas exports to Europe.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Admit It Libs — Even You Wouldn’t Want Hunter Biden Dating Your Daughter. “The Biden crime family got a break this week when its junkie slow kid son was given a sweet deal thanks to godfather Giuseppe Biden’s influence, which made everyone investigating his boy understand that they’d be feeding the fishes if they actually did their jobs. That does not, however, mean that those of us on the side of truth and reality have to let the story go.”
THE CARE STASI: California Moves Toward Giving Therapists Unconditional Power To ‘Emancipate’ 12 Year Olds From Their Parents.
Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo (D.) and state senator Scott Wiener (D.), the co-authors of the bill, reiterated on Tuesday that they simply seek to give all children equal access to mental health services, as privately insured minors from age 12 can already receive outpatient therapy without parental consent. The bill would only apply to kids on Medi-Cal, the state Medicaid program that provides health coverage to eligible low-income residents.
“This bill protects children. It makes children safer. It makes children healthier,” said Wiener. “It’s unfortunate that this bill, like so many, has been caught up in this right-wing outrage machine.”
“We would never move a piece of policy that takes away parental discretion, to allow children to not have access to their parents,” Carrillo assured the assembled parents, drawing audible scoffs from the room. “There’s been a lot of misinformation and lies about this bill to the point that it has national and international attention as to how we treat mental health services for young people in the United States and California.”
But the bill would leap beyond the autonomy granted to children under existing law. There would be no obligation, as there is for minors on private insurance, for therapists or counselors to show that a 12-year-old patient is mature enough or in a dangerous situation before transferal to a “residential shelter.” Whether or not to inform the parents of the move would also be left to the discretion of the mental health professional, who could be an intern or trainee.
Gooder and harder, California.
WELL, YEAH: AI Says Conservative Women Are More Attractive Than Liberal Women.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Totally unrelated.
HMM: China Is A Dying Paper Dragon.
Last year India surpassed China as the world’s most populous nation. That might be a marginal consideration until specifics are examined. The fact is, China’s population fell for the first time in 60 years, and China is now the fastest-aging nation in human history. As most know, the population replacement rate is 2.1 children per woman. China’s 2011-2020 census (as far as CCP numbers can be trusted) shows their replacement rate is 1.3 at best. Peter Zeihan has reported the replacement rate of women in highly populated urban areas like Shanghai is 0.7!
Replacement rates, and these charts, tell us that China’s demographic collapse will occur within one generation – within a human lifetime! China’s worker-age population peaked in the last decade, and by 2050 will be less than half of what it was in 2020.
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Further evidence of the growing economic maelstrom is the Chinese debt to GDP ratio and the level of private credit. The United States debt ratio, after spending trillions in the last two years, was 123.4% of GDP in December 2022. Chinese debt is now 279.9% of GDP. The growth of private credit in China beggars belief, making ludicrous any notion the yuan could ever challenge the dollar as a global reserve currency.
The Soviet Union looked very strong to most outsiders right up until it didn’t.
In Gorbachev, the Soviets had a leader who wasn’t willing to spill (much) blood to maintain the illusion. Whether Xi or one of his successors has such restraint remains to be seen.
SOD OFF, SWAMPY: Vegan Activist Group Goes After Minor League Baseball Team.
June 22, 2023
MARKETING GENIUS: Bud Light Begs, ‘Please Drink Our Beer Again, You Oafish Hicks.’
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Four Children Rescued From Drag, Drugs and Sex Party in Squalid Boston Apartment (Oh, Yeah—There Was a Dead Guy There, Too).
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Are Actors Finally Seeing the Light on Woke Overreach?
BEEF – IT’S WHAT’S FOR DINNER: Celebrity Chef Bans Vegans, and the Meat-Loving Counter-Backlash Is Phenomenal.
VOTE WITH YOUR WALLETS: Why conservative boycotts should terrify corporations.
“Nobody imagined it would go on this long,” Beer Business Daily editor Harry Schuhmacher said.
The Bud Light victory has demonstrated to conservatives their purchasing power. They have far more sway to change company behavior than they previously realized. It made the idea of a boycott exciting rather than exhausting. PublicSq., an app that gathers non-woke brands into one convenient platform, has exploded in popularity over the past few months. Consumers’ Research launched a text program called “Woke Alerts” that sends messages to subscribers when brands make politically leftwing moves.
Conservatives sought to repeat their success with Target, which just weeks after the Bud Light controversy, set up a Pride section in part marketed toward children. Some product displays included chest binders and “tuck-friendly” bathing suits in sizes down to an adult XXS — and a portion of the Pride collection was coincidentally designed by an avowed Satanist. After a massive online backlash, Target pushed its Pride displays to the back of some stores and removed them entirely from others. However, instead of apologizing for its kid-friendly LGBTQ+ apparel, Target blamed vague “threats” to employees for its decision to walk back the product line. The company lost $9.3 billion in market value in just one week.
Coordinated conservative boycotts should terrify corporations
The Left can harvest ballots but they can’t harvest brand loyalty.
NEVER BEND THE KNEE: America’s Largest Theater Chain Caves in to Pride Mob Bullying.
THE CHINA SYNDROME:
Greg Hayes, chief executive of Raytheon, said the company had “several thousand suppliers in China and decoupling . . . is impossible”.
Insanity. Basically the outcome of a war with China will rest on whether China decides to supply us with ammunition.https://t.co/kk3EFdDeLg
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) June 20, 2023
CHANGE: Finland Elects Euroskeptic Government. “Time and time again we’re told that the EU policies (just like Social Justice policies in the U.S.) are popular, while time and time again EU member states elect government that oppose many of those policies, especially those favoring unlimited Muslim immigration into member countries.”
IT ISN’T LIKE THERE’S A REPUBLICAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE: CNN’s Presidential ‘Fact-Checker’ Has Gone Missing.
CHANGE (IT BACK): Transgender detransition is a taboo topic, but data shows it’s on the rise.
In 2017, Dr. Kinnon MacKinnon, an assistant professor of social work at York University in Toronto, thought that transgender detransitioning wasn’t really a thing. Sure, a few people who undergo gender-affirming therapy halt or undo their medical interventions and re-identify as their birth sex, but they are so few in number that their experiences don’t even merit study. After all, doing so might provide empirical firepower to anti-trans forces, he reasoned.
Six years later, Mackinnon, a transgender man, has significantly shifted his stance on detransition. In the past few years, research, including his own, has shown that rates of discontinuing or reversing gender-affirming medical or surgical interventions are likely higher than thought. Even worse, some academics still refuse to study or acknowledge the matter at all, as he once did.
To do so would bust a very profitable narrative.
More to the point, there hasn’t been an explosion in young people actually suffering from gender dysphoria. What we have instead are untold numbers of adolescents, usually girls, going through the usual difficulties with puberty. Instead of being told their issues are normal and transitory, they’re being encouraged to make permanent changes to their bodies through hormones and surgery.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Riley Gaines Is the Hero Sane America Needs This Pride Month. “The loss that Gaines pointed out happened a long time ago, but it was a fairly famous incident in the sports world back then. Robinson couldn’t have picked a worse example to attempt to advance her lunacy. I like to say that liberals think none of us have the internet. Now I’m beginning to think that none of them do.”
Biden reportedly applied to have the child support expenses reduced last year, citing reduced circumstances.
Lancaster said: “Lunden is a great mom and little Navy is going [to] be fine.”
“The kid has lots of love on the maternal side of the family in Batesville. They are a very, very close family. They adore her and are always going to support her … But I think everybody is disappointed that there’s not more contact [with the Biden family].”
“It’s not lost on anybody that Jill Biden wrote a children’s book and [dedicated it] to her grandchildren. She could have kept it at that, but she named every child except Navy.
“They hung stockings for the dog at Christmas but not for Navy. That is one of the saddest things.”
Indeed.