I've changed my mind from a few years ago. It's a bridge too far. Why are so many of these people middle-aged and morbidly obese? Image by Marcel van Engelenburg from Pixabay I haven’t written much about trans issues recently. It seems less pressing now that Donald Trump has set the TransTrain on fire with several executive orders rolling back several key pieces of Democratic ‘progressive’ anti-scientific whackjobbery. America. Most of his EOs have met resistance in the courts, and from medical professionals who continue to insist that this gravy trai n these medical treatments are abso-freakin’-lutely necessary and ‘life-saving’. Early evidence indicates that in the short term, Trump is going to lose most of these battles. Judge orders Trump administration to return two transgender inmates to women’s prisons - This just makes me loathe Democrats and ‘progressives’ even more But the key word is ‘battles’. ‘Progressives’ will lose this war. They’re up against 80% of American common-sense normies who don’t support fake female athletes, but do support established science. Trans issues, though, motivate me less than they did two months ago. Ultimately, common sense is prevailing, on this issue if not in much else for the next four years. The horse of different rainbow colors is out of the barn. The world is moving on from ‘trans’, and Trump/Musk have introduced far bigger problems for America than those facing this highly niche elitist, largely sexual fetishist minority . It got me to thinking about my old kiddie drag piece from a few years ago— Are Drag Shows Really All That Bad For Kids? I’d felt weird supporting it in 2023, but belly dancing got in the way. I used to be the flashy, heavily-costumed, bejeweled, loud and outrageous chick embarrassing entertaining forty-year-old men on their birthdays. Kids loved me. They were my favorite audience. But I felt, and still feel, that nagging pedo-ey sensation, not because drag queens or Team Rainbow are particularly disposed to pedophilia, but because the overly-inclusive progressive movement can’t say no to anybody. We need to remember that any activity that draws children is bound to interest the kiddie-far-too-friendly. As the Boy Scouts can tell you. Democrats and progressive activists are still fighting this trans crap with Trump, despite illiberal ‘woke’ ideology being one of the many reasons they lost the election so soundly. Today, they’re polling at 27% approval with only 7% thinking they’re doing ‘a great job’. Trump, after all he’s done, is polling at 48%. Democrats and progressives WILL throw open the doors for the pedos. You can’t trust them with anyone’s safety. The whole drag performance movement is tainted by its association with transactivism and the latter’s success in infiltrating the schools and the therapy profession with gender-bending and indoctrinating children. Drag’s connection to transactivism is why I’m cutting off my tenuous support. You’re known by the company you keep. Transactivists prey on children, to mold them into something they’re not, tone-deaf to the pleas that gay kids have the right to grow up gay and that children aren’t old enough to make rational, informed decisions about sex transition. Detransition lawsuits even have begun to state the lack of real prep talk, specificall y. The trans movement is an extension of transhumanism to remake and reimagine what it means to be human, which is fine for adults, but simply inappropriate for children who need to focus on growing up and learning how to navigate the world in the wonderfully healthy bodies most of them have been granted. There’s a growing sense among the LGB that they made a huge mistake letting the trans and queer in. The Pride movement is losing supporters as normies, including liberals with a sense of decency and the need for boundaries (especially in regard to male sexual desire), quietly withdraw support. Last year in Canada, the Liberal Party and several government groups and corporate sponsors withdrew from various Pride events, mostly over the movement’s anti-Israel stance, which is a weird position for Pride to take considering how much Muslims and Islamic terrorists and the Gazans hate anything LGBTQ. Israel is the ONLY Middle Eastern country that supports gay and transfolk. You’re welcome very fucking much, you garish, overprivileged hate-mongering ingrates! I haven’t been to a Pride parade in a few years. Trans has overwhelmed it. It’s just—icky. How far is too far? What’s the deal with middle-aged and older overweight trans or drag dudes? What’s up with the dude with the beard and hairy chest down below? Women don’t have excessive hirsuteness without a hormonal imbalance. I’d bet my bottom dollar these dudes aren’t ‘gender dysphoric’. My money’s on autogynephilia. And yet, I’ll be frank, I still feel a bit judge-y as a former belly dancer, who has seen many kiddie dancers and never had a problem with it. I understand why little girls want to wear pretty costumes and dance (and, I’m sure, some boys too although I never encountered any). I adored belly dancers when I was their age, and I’ve never found anything icky about it for kids, maybe because I know how empowering belly dancing actually is. Kiddie beauty pageants they ain’t, drawing slavering pedophiles at the sight of grown-up looking toddlers. Drag has changed the game. It comes from a highly sexualized culture and I can’t ignore it anymore. Belly dancers don’t do show ‘n’ tells in school, asking kids, “Are you sure you’re not a belly dancer?” No doubt some of them are! I was, apparently. Drag and belly dancing appeal to boys too, as there is both male-style belly dancing and female-style. Because of trans extremism, genderqueer recruitment , and ‘gender-affirming care’, we’ve stopped supporting and protecting gay children. I don’t want to support trans homophobia. Some kids do need help. I wrote about Aaron Kimberly here on Substack, who unfortunately seems to have taken down all his Bearded Lesbian podcasts and materials. He was taking a lot of flak from others for his views and multiple sex transition back-and-forths. It’s a shame because he struck me as a genuinely, biologically gender dysphoric person, set apart from the old, overweight, suspiciously fetishy autogynephiles. We need to make a place for people like Aaron, and even for those who aren’t particularly dysphoric, but want to experiment with gender fluidity. There’s a place for that , too, and the young’uns today are hardly the first to cross gender lines. Our grandmothers or great-grandmothers strapped down their breasts with binders a hundred years ago. They made their bodies more like boys’. Later, Boomer and Gen-X rock musicians like David Bowie, Boy George, Mick Jagger, Prince, and Annie Lennox caused others to whisper, “Is he or she gay?” “Who cares?” others responded. Indeed. So what? Support for gay marriage and rights has slipped a little with the American public and I wonder if it’s because progressives refused to stop the slippery slope. The all-too-inclusive Pride movement has clearly gone several bridges too far after many great successes. Conservatives who initially resisted gay rights came around once they realized gay people aren’t anymore a threat than straight people. In Canada, it’s not an issue for the Conservative Party and its leader, Pierre Poilievre, who’s made it clear eliminating gay marriage isn’t in the policy platform. He fully accepts his gay father-in-law. Not all conservatives embrace these rights we consider a given, but neither do all ‘progressives’ . Homosexuality is real. Except for a very small percentage of cases, ‘gender dysphoria’ is not. Instead of teaching children it’s okay to be gay and it’s not okay to hate others, Pride breached the respectability dam and opened the floodgates to what looked an awful lot like heteroseuxal male fetishism. I support gay kids, but there’s no such thing as ‘trans’ kids. There just isn’t. Progressives manufactured them. There’s nothing wrong with sexual fetishism. Just keep it away from kids. Children can be happy in their own bodies. If you let them. My problems with drag It would be incorrect to believe that children aren’t sexual at all. They are. Romantic stirrings start young. I remember a very strong inclination for boys when I was a child. I chased little boys around on the playground trying to kiss them. Yeah, I was That Annoying Girl. Ewwwww! Children explore their own bodies at around ages 4-6. Some experiment with masturbation. Kids play doctor. Boys and girls sometimes dare each other to expose ‘wee-wees’. Human sexuality is ever-present. Fetuses have been observed playing with themselves . We explore that wonderful thing between our legs even before birth. But dudes who express comments like the one below are why so many normies distrust drag queens. From Twitter Little girls are NOT ‘kinky’. That’s a male sexual fetishist projection. The queen is right that kids might not be as ‘straight and narrow’ as we think, but it doesn’t give him permission to expose them to inappropriate conduct. It’s pretty creepy on multiple levels. Not only does he suggest little girls are ‘kinky’ but addresses the fear some adults have that pedo men in the ladies’ room might harm children. Instead of refuting it, he subtly suggests they might like what this theoretical pervert does to them. Pedophiles justify themselves that way, too. I do, actually, understand why kids like drag, for the same reason they like belly dancers. I can imagine some kids just eat it up, but others, I wonder, might be quietly creeped out. Old fat guys dancing around like clowns appropriating womanhood; what’s all that about? Funny how few drag shows ever feature crossing the other way. I’m leaving up my original drag article but I’m adding a proviso about how I’ve changed my mind. Somewhere, two years ago, deep down in my liberal soul, I knew it. What it comes down to is this: Recruitment and indoctrination. ‘Drag story hour’ and shows reek of both; belly dancing doesn’t. Probably because it’s a mostly female activity and profession. The trans movement supports a mostly manufactured pseudo-marginalized group of men. It’s about rolling back women’s rights and, I’m sorry, I have to say it, sexualizing children. It is, as always, biological males at the bottom of this. When men push for something as violently and aggressively as transactivists have for access to women’s private spaces, sports teams, and children, the real motivation is pretty certainly to be found between their legs. Even if they’re not pedos themselves. Even if they have no desire to expose children to them. But will they stop the pedos who are quietly awaiting their moment with the Ado Annie left? I believe they won’t. I’m calling BS on drag queens for children. Call me a conservative, a MAGA, a Christian nationalist, a Trumper, or as my progressive Koolaid-drinking college friend accuses me of, a Fox News Koolaid-drinker. I’m none of the above. I’m just a liberal normie trying to be as true and level-headed as I can be about the values and beliefs I’ve held all my adult life. I was wrong to make the half-assed defense of kiddie drag shows that I did. Sincere, but wrong. I have ‘flip-flopped’ as George W. Bush would have put it. Or maybe I just evolved. The Hideous Authenticityphobia Of The Left’s Body-Modders What Would A ‘Christian’ Pride Month Look Like, After June’s? ‘Saving Normal’ Describes How Transmania Evolved, Before It Started What If The Trans Movement Evolved More Honestly? Did you like this post? Do you want to see more? I lean left of center, but not so far my brains fall out. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter  Grow Some Labia  so you never miss a damn thing! There are also Substack  and Spotify podcasts of more recent articles!

Have we still not learned how to get along with the boys? I don’t think I could find anything more ridiculously archaic than this. Public domain photo “Hey, you want to join this?” my boss emailed me a few weeks ago. It was a women’s online networking group for IT services professionals. I checked my calendar. No, it was not 1972. “Is there a professional networking opportunity?” I asked. “We want to sell more managed services. Do you think I could find leads?” No, he just thought I might be interested. I wasn’t. Sex-segregated spaces put my brain to sleep. What’s the point? What are these gals afraid of? Mansplaining? Inappropriate comments? Andrew Tate aggressively flexing his tattooed muscles? Some dude Zooming off on-camera? I believe in only a limited need for sex-segregated groups, for trauma or emotional support. Trauma victims sometimes need a man-free safe space. Others need to just bitch. So do men (more on that shortly). Otherwise, I prefer my gatherings and groups sex-integrated. It’s 2025, girls! In a progressive world mad for ‘inclusivity’, there’s grand irony in excluding half the human race. Public domain photo from Pxhere Woman up, ladies! Radical Radha and I have written before about how diversifying the workplace is one thing, but then everyone has to get along. Especially women and men, who constitute the world’s first division of Us vs Them. Better DEI Will Teach Women How To Handle Conflict With Male Colleagues I don’t see how we can do that when we refuse to network with each other. Our polarized world has taught us to stick to our own and not even bother trying to understand someone else’s perspective. Judging males via one’s own experiences as a female, or vice versa, is ignorantly sexist. We are different, with psychological sex differences. A quick look at the headlines on gender difference articles at Science Daily indicate the many differences between men and women: How they respond to stress , that women talk more than men ( but only during certain life phases ), that the ability to better negotiate for more resources starts early with boys , and that women deal with significantly more body issues and feeling judged at the gym ( did we really need a study for this? ). Is it real or is it all in her head? Zen koan: If you’re trying to lose weight or get in shape, why aren’t you focusing on your workout rather than Barbie McPerfect and Ramboner? Several years ago I joined a women’s-only group for aspiring entrepreneurs and solopreneurs. We met at various restaurants, and the camaraderie was friendly, warm, and female. It wasn’t especially business-oriented. Frankly, few of us knew what we were doing. It was the blind leading the blind. Radha had a similar experience. Her group tended to turn into emotional support sessions. These aren’t business-related. What many self-starters need to talk about is understanding the best practices and processes for starting a business, whether they’re selling coffee online, as twin sisters in my group were doing, or starting up her own employment agency, as the leader was attempting to do. Self-starters often tend to bumble along, learning as they go, which is easier if you have a business or financial administration degree. You already know you need to develop a business idea; study the market to make sure you’re fulfilling a genuine need; create a business plan and choose a business structure; research the product or service you want to provide, and develop a business strategy. Everyone else doesn’t know this. I don’t remember what we talked about, but we didn’t talk about those things. If we had I would have stayed. It would have been relevant. I stopped going. I wondered how much more productive we’d be if men were part of the group. In the corporate world, women who want to succeed, whether to start their own business, become self-employed, or just move ahead, simply must engage with still-powerful men. They possess much of the knowledge. Many are willing to share it. Men have created the world we live in, for better as well as for worse. We often forget the first part. Radha pointed out that men in men-only groups may exclude women not because they’re trying to cling to power but because they’re afraid female joiners might be ‘woke nazis’, a not-unreasonable concern. As a result, men consolidate their power, intentionally or not, with unintentional collaboration with women. No one wants the Language or Microaggressions Police present any more than women want private Zoom messages informing them how pretty they are while they’re trying to focus on new business best practices with the IRS. Confronting conflict A couple of years ago someone asked on Reddit: The querent notes that she ‘feels more comfortable’ in a group of all women, ‘freer in her expression, more emotionally open’, and with an ability to connect better. Other responders complained about couples tending to socialize with each other in mixed groups, or having to deal with “harassment, belittlement, and mansplaning [sic]’. Or misinterpretations of friendly behavior as an invitation for a come-on. Or men not understanding that women’s experiences with work and family obligations are just different. Third-wave feminism (it should be called third-rate feminism) has taught women not to take responsibility for themselves, their feelings, or how they handle others. Men are the way they are; communicate as they do; don’t take feelings as seriously as we; don’t understand the subtle signs that a woman isn’t interested just because she smiled vaguely at him. Handling it rather than running off to your ‘safe space’ hidey-hole with your girlfriends teaches both sexes how to modify their behavior or their responses to take into account how others understand communication and respond. It opens the door for men to do the same: To politely handle misunderstandings with women, including those not caused by themselves. Women must be open to learning and modifying their behavior, too, to interact with men more effectively. It’s not all about our comfort, either. The women-only hiking group could encourage everyone to engage with everyone else on the hike, not just the folks who are like them (single, married, gay, etc.). In their community guidelines, they and business professionals could state how to comport oneself with the opposite sex to reduce the likelihood of romantic misunderstandings. To remember that this was a business group, not a dating service, so tread very, very carefully. And women need to speak up. I speak as a mouthy old broad. I’ve written about how even I, an old lady over sixty, who’s supposed to be invisible because I’m not the wank fantasy I once was, who should STFU because no one cares what an old lady thinks, is still heard whether people want to hear me or not. I make people hear me, and others can too. They can talk over and shut down mansplaining. They can learn to hold their own debating a man. They can be firm and clear about their lack of romantic interest without dragging #MeToo and the U.S. Supreme Court into it. No means no. Every single Canadian man knows what that means when he hears it. We can pass the stick or stitch ‘n’ bitch in our own groups, and after we’ve spoken with our own frankly about our fraught relationship with our father, or whether our spouse is supportive enough or not, then we can perhaps one day integrate and listen to each other with open hearts, without all the sex-based defensiveness. Richard Reeves argues in in his article The case for male spaces that feminist fear of the ‘Old Boys Club’ harms males. Women are afraid of men-only groups, he says, fearing they’re inherently sexist, when males do in fact need them for reasons other than as mini-Davos summits for Da Patriarchy. He says men-only groups function to help men develop better friendships, to support each other, and to combat loneliness. He notes that can benefit women by relieving them of relational emotional support which is still primarily female-borne. Although benefiting women is not the point, he says. This isn’t about women’s needs. For a change. Sex segregation does make sense for emotional support groups. But I still ask both parties: What about later? How about non-segregated groups so the enlightened can now hear much different stories and experiences from the other side? Just a thought for the future. Tear down the social and professional binary Radha has written extensively about the workplace problems she’s encountered that came from other women, not men. On Radically Pragmatic she’s written about accusations of being a ‘pick-me’ girl; of women undercutting her ; of how DEI ignores the many ways work colleagues can harm, discriminate against, abuse, and malign their co-workers even when they’re not white, male, or both. Pandemic isolation degraded everyone’s social skills and many of us were isolating long before COVID made it cool; the rise of sophisticated pocket phones and algo-addicting social media apps had already turned us into a nation of cell zombies. The pandemic made it much, much worse. The recent federal election illustrates just how far we’ve grown apart: Young white women continue to vote Democrat while young men of all colors moved toward the GOP, many of them citing how fed up they were with male-demonizing feminism. Random Stuff Men Say That Make Me Go, ‘WTF, Feminists?’ It doesn’t matter anymore that women were never given a fair shake to contribute, develop, produce, or co-create for thousands of years. History, oh that’s interesting. But that was then, this is now. We can’t change the past but we can change the present and future. Success coaches tell you to hobnob with the already successful. (This was what was wrong with the lady entrepreneurs group). Seek out all the accomplished , not just the ones who look like you. The professional world is highly competitive, but as Radha has written, women are no less competitive–mostly with each other–and nothing would change if men disappeared tomorrow. Let’s tear down the social and professional binary. Several years ago I was in a women-only Pagan Facebook group where I had stopped engaging because it had gone so uber-lefty. I wanted to stay, but not at the expense of shutting up to keep the peace. I tested them with an article I’d written questioning the value of women’s-only groups and whether this one should desegregate. I knew it wouldn’t go over well but I was surprised that no one liked it. Not even my privately heretical long-time Pagan friend. “I need my safe space to fight the Patriarchy,” a Pagan lady snarled. I envisioned an older woman hiding in the gutter under the sidewalk, slapping at men’s ankles as they walked by. When I finally returned to leave the Facebook group, they were planning a witchy weekend and a transwoman was complaining she didn’t feel ‘included’ in a planned ritual honoring female fertility and menstruation, since she was incapable of neither. How so like a narcissistic man to make it all about him, I thought, considering that there would be prepubertal girls and post-menopausal women taking part. But still, there he was! A man! Apparently not violating any ‘safe spaces’ or regarded as a member of Da Patriarchy! Well done, Monsieur, well done. These ladies need some male energy, and this might be a good, gently challenging start. Undercover disruption of the binary paradigm. I like it! Did you like this post? Do you want to see more? I lean left of center, but not so far my brains fall out. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter  Grow Some Labia  so you never miss a damn thing! There are also Substack  and Spotify podcasts of more recent articles!

There's progress in the chaos. You can see it, if you don't drink ideological/party Kool-Aid. Trump Deux is all part of The Purge. There’s much danger in the next four years, but also a lot of potential too. Photo by Mike Ribeiro at Pexels The emergence of TrumpinSloMo began days after the election. Since I didn’t vote for either party, I was disappointed in accordance with the plan. My inbox immediately filled with Substack newsletters commenting, observing, and speculating on the national mindshift. It was Morning in America again, which usually only dawned on new Democratic administrations. Even us ex-pats felt it. Though we knew the Republicans had taken both houses, that Project 2025 was devised by Christian crazies, that the malignant psychopath with no concern about re-election would be a thousand times more dangerous… January 20th seemed a very long time away. Once you move past the OMFG in the unconstitutional maelstrom Trump has wrought, you find a glimmer of hope—for down the road. Way down. TrumpinSloMo Woke had finally broke, like a high fever. The sharks circled, sensing weakness. Even before Trump began conveyor-belting executive dis/orders to restore ‘free speech’, women’s rights, plastic straws, English, et al, we normies reclaimed our power from the woke. People spoke out and praised Trump and the Republicans, even those who hadn’t voted for them. “I’ll restore women’s rights to all-female sports teams,” he promised, and we cheered. That was the 70%’s hope for Trump II: That he would at least dial back the horrific excesses of ‘progressive’ authoritarianism. Fascist, indeed. It takes several million to know one. He vomited Executive Orders. He unleashed a rabid Muskrat on the federal government chasing waste in the blindest, most unstrategic manner possible. The Medicaid system failed , briefly. Thousands of federal employees hurriedly updated their resumes. Trump started speaking first sort of jokingly, then more seriously, about taking over other countries. Image by Rebekah Wilce at Sourcewatch . Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike It’s been mass chaos, and abjectly terrifying for those already suffering from hardcore TDS, especially the low-information kind . For the nuanced who look for multiple views, who want to know if Trump is really that bad, if he’s really serious about this or that, or if he can really do what he says he’s going to do, we look for the good that comes from any of this. Often, the discoveries are slow-moving. Trump expresses or does something batshit crazy, and we’re horrified. OMG he can’t be serious about that, can he??? Then later you find the shitbar that makes you smile. That’s the TrumpinSloMo. “Wait for it!” The TrumpinSloMo of Gaza One night I checked CNN just before going to bed—always a bad idea. My eyes nearly popped out of my head. “He’s gonna do WHAT with Gaza? Is he trying to start World War III???” The next morning I woke up, knew that dumbass Mar-A-Gaza plan was never going to happen, and then thought, “Hmmmm. Trump’s right about the real estate. It’s beautiful, or it would be if Hamas wasn’t there to schedule regular death and destruction with or without IDF help. Why don’t the Gazans do that themselves? Maybe not turn it into the French Riviera but as part of the Holy Land they could build a huge tourism industry. With yeah, great hotels and swimming pools. They get to make the rules, decide whether to allow bikinis or serve alcohol. If only—” —If only they weren’t batshit crazy themselves, with too many unwilling to share the land with Israel and handle their own state and affairs, but if they did it right they could become self-sustaining. The Gazan shitbar was Trump’s perfect point that the Gazans are sitting on a gold mine. He doesn’t want them to run it, of course. He wants the riches for himself. But point taken. He revealed the question we all needed to voice: Why don’t the Gazans do this? Apparently, Trump got the Egyptians a-thinkin’ the same thing . They’ve proposed their own very rough draft for Gazan self-sustainability that doesn’t include Hamas or Trump. The Arab League likes it. We’ll see if it goes anywhere. But it’s a good start, and it started with Trump. The Trumpenfreude When Trump realized who he was dealing with— the Gazans, ffs!— he spoke vaguely of moving them somewhere, location unspecified, where they’d build a beautiful new place for them, it was gonna be the best, like no place anyone had ever seen before, and they’d be very very happy there. This was his Plan B since Egypt and Jordan were like, when he suggested they take them in, Are you out of your fucking mind? Those people are big-T Trouble wherever they go!!! The Gazans, he planned, would be rounded up like cattle in cars (yes, deliberate Holocaust imagery) and taken off to—someplace else. “Ethnic cleansing,” his vehement critics called it. “Not genocide,” he insisted. The smile returned to my face. How does it feel to be on the other end of the ethnic cleansing wank dream, habibis? “From the river to the sea…Ahhhhh—” Trumpenfreude. There are two kinds. One is when ‘progressives’ find themselves—or their highly questionable friends—treated the way they’ve treated others. Like when their free speech is suppressed. Like when they get cancelled for saying something fascist. Mar-A-Gaza Trumpenfreude is when antisemitic progressives and their single-mindedly violent Islamofascist friends are made to feel the fear they’ve caused so many others. The other kind is when Trump supporters get what they voted for. Breaking down the DOGE shitbar Trump designated Deputy DOGE to run his Muskdozer through the federal government. It’s been horrifying, except for the part where they eliminated DEI. That was no shitbar, that was a nice yummy go-fuck-yourselves-you-blacksplaining-racist-grifters chocolate-and-vanilla ice cream dessert that said, “You’ve already got lots of equality and diversity. Now go update your LinkedIn profile, Sparky!” My fellow ex-Dem rebels and I smiled to think of DEI ‘experts’ on the unemployment line, finding there are no longer any positions available for professional bigots. After the shock wore off, I saw the glimmer of the objective underneath: Increasing government efficiency. Bear with me here, because I don’t justify how they’re doing it. I asked myself, What would the Democrats have done if they’d won? You know the answer. Fuck all. Cleaning up government waste has never been a priority for them, and had the voters named it as their top priority for the next President, the Dems would have done a one-twentieth-assed job at best. They’d have politely approached, trimmed the rainbow-frosted doughnuts budget for privilege acknowledgement diversity sessions with their manicure scissors, and called it a day. “Nothing more to see here! Behold our sleek and svelte operationally-efficient federal government!” The Democratic bloat reduction project before and after. "Fixed it for ya!" Public domain imag e from Pxhere In many of Trump’s craziest acts, and his looniest suggestions, and his most deranged plans dreamed up in that suspiciously overcooked brain, there is almost always something that makes us normies smile, even as we feel horror and anxiety at the way he’s destroying what’s left of America and democracy. So what has Trump’s Fearless Weeder found so far? We don’t know much. Musk doesn’t document well, and many of his fraud claims have already been debunked , or put into context, by fact-checking organizations. We don’t know. The ‘savings’ we allegedly have come directly from the White House and DOGE, and without documentation, they could be fiction. They found waste and fraud, for sure. But they’re breaking everything in the process. Chainsaws aren’t any better than manicure scissors. Elon Musk Archives - Factcheck.org Elon Musk Articles - Snopes.com We’ll only find out later, probably much later, exactly what they got right and wrong when and if adult supervision ever returns to the U.S. government. DOGE doesn’t even know when to stay put and handle a big fat enchilada when it sees it. The Muskrat’s Bratzkrieg mucked around in the U.S. Treasury Department for about fifteen minutes and got expelled from the databases, quite rightly. They moved on to less combative quesadillas. But Treasury is the hugest enchilada, whose fraud and waste the GAO (Government Accountability Office) estimated costs taxpayers an eye-watering $233B to $521B in taxpayer money every single year. Instead of doing some real good, Musk prefers to Trump-et the nonsensical Pride and DEI expenditures he found. Many good agencies and departments in the government exist for very good reasons but have become bloated and definitely need some Jenny Craig. Musk doesn’t know how to conduct proper cost-cutting efforts; look at the mess he made of Twitter. He and Trump are men of action; not rational strategy. Trump needs results now, to show his base he’s not some stinking Democrat who can’t get anything done—a not-unrealistic perception based on a lot of historical Democratic inaction, incompetence and inability to make hard decisions because someone, somewhere, raises a fuss . But there’s the TrumpinSloMo. As poorly implemented as it is, the TrumpRat is exposing a lot of fault lines in the federal government. It may take years to fix but it’ll probably work much better. The Trumpenfreude will arrive shortly when Americans begin to see and feel the pain of the ridiculously irresponsible way these two are destroying highly complex service systems that many Americans don’t realize how much they critically depend on. If the MuskRat MAGAs succeed in cutting Medicaid, millions of Americans, already budget-strapped and suffering from tariff-induced Trumpflation will have to scramble to keep their parents and other aging relatives off the street. Many of them will have voted for this. The plan could be to privatize everything, the ultimate historical Republican wank dream. Democrats have been warning for years that government-provided services are much cheaper. Republicans have denied that, saying privatization is cheaper. Who’s telling the truth, the bureaucrat-pushing Democrats or the pro-capitalist Republicans salivating at raising service prices on a whim? Hope you can afford fire department and police services. The Trumpenfreuders won’t let the chumps who voted for it claim they didn’t know he’d lie to them during a campaign which will be his last. They all knew exactly who they were voting for. They boasted about ‘voting for the convicted felon’. They rubbed it in libs’ faces. MAGA voters are Trump’s bitches. Trumpenfreude. If you’re a Dem who’s sitting there with your arms crossed with an unpleasant smirk on your face experiencing Harrisfreude, just remember: You campaigned hard for this, too, with the worst candidate and campaign platform in several epochs. To sum up We’re in a Crisis, and it’s actually—natural. The TrumpTrain and similarly wider anti-immigrant election victories in Europe and elsewhere signal a global change—a purging, if you will, of the old guards. It’s beginning to make sense, as I work my way through Neil Howe’s The Fourth Turning: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End. This is the most recent edition of the book, in which Howe describes a time period called a saeculum, which is roughly a human lifetime, 80-100 years. It’s divided into four orderly eras or ‘seasons’. Each season takes 20-25 years, the length of a human generation. Howe traces this evolution through the last 500 years of history. He claims we’ve completed High, Awakening, and Unraveling, and have already entered the Fourth ‘Crisis’ Turning, a highly dangerous time of civic upheaval, traumatic and transformative. I’m about two-thirds through. According to the inside blurb, the book states that the “polarization, the growing threats of civil conflict and global war—will culminate by the early 2030s in a climax that poses great danger and yet also holds great promise, perhaps even ushering in America’s next golden age.” The last great Crisis was the world war in 1945. Then we entered a period of growth and stability (High). Then Awakening and unrest (the Sixties and Seventies). Then the Unraveling, when individualism triumphs over institutions (!), and now—the purging of the old ways. Do the math. I suspect it’s a mass purge of the failures of both liberalism and conservatism, capitalism and socialism, a bitch-slap to everyone who thought the problems were brought by others, not themselves. Some or none may re-emerge in ten years. Whatever does won’t look the same. What we’re seeing now is the worsening, and it will get much worse before it gets better. And it may be global. I’d like to think if we just sit tight for 7-10 more years this will all pass away like the world’s worst collective food poisoning, which would be comforting except that few lived comfortably through the horrors of World War II, when they hadn’t even processed the collective mass trauma from World War I, and now we have the potential for nuclear war. Maybe Trump is the purge we need. Or the poorly chosen road. It helps to understand it’s all kind of cyclically reincarnative—‘This shit has happened before and it will happen again’. Trump, Putin, and JinPing may be our historical Ex-Lax, or they may be writing humanity’s concluding chapter. We’ll have to wait and see. Keep watching for the TrumpinSloMo, which may be the harbingers of better times. Here’s a final TrumpinSloMo. Trump just offered us normies a new yummy dessert not unwrapped in shit: He’s threatening to cut off $5B in aid to the antisemitism factory Columbia University if they don’t knock it off with all the Jew hate. He’s fighting antisemitism, which the Democrats would NEVER have done. I can’t find a goddamn thing wrong with that. Hamaslove is why we hate the progressives. Purging. Trumpenfreude. TrumpinSloMo. It’s good for you, but it also may kill you. Did you like this post? Do you want to see more? I lean left of center, but not so far my brains fall out. 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