Here's what happened when I tried to get a copy of Irreversible Damage from the library in 2020/21. The public library had a long wait list, so I tried my college library. They didn't have a copy, so I requested it through interlibrary loan. I could usually get books from other libraries within a few weeks, but I got an email saying they couldn't find one. After eight months of requesting and checking, I finally got a copy. The girl at the checkout desk said, "This was really hard to get" when I checked it out. From that, I'd say either every single library my library had a relationship with had a long hold list, or the libraries my college library usually got books from weren't stocking it. (This began fall semester 2020 and I got the book in June 2021.)
More to the point, librarians are today young mostly women who are far into the Wokey World. They uphold Woke notions, and defend the access of 6 YOs to the pornographic "literature" of the LGBTQ+ crowd.
…and sick groomers of young children with their featured ‘Drag Queen’ readings. How did THAT happen? Men dressed as women wanted to get close to children, libraries have books, let’s read them books and get them indoctrinated into accepting the men as ‘normal’. I pray I never see a Drag Queen around kids ever again.
If one really stops to think about it, why in the hell would such actions take place? What was the idea behind having an obvious sexual pervert present anything to children? What did it prove?
Thank you Ms Shrier. Your article encapsulates everything I have been ranting about for four years. How anyone could vote for the Party that put male convicted rapists into female prisons is beyond me. Those men who call themselves women are raping again, thanks to government facilitated access to women in female prisons.
20 million Democrats refused to vote for Democrats in 2024. Let's offer elected Dems the opportunity to #ReverseTheReversalofTitleIX and reinstate women's sex-based rights. Those who dig in their heels, those who stubbornly insist that “trans women” are women, those who pretend male identified athletes have magically changed their sex, those who take money from transitioning profiteers and continue the obscene destruction of the mental and physical health our youth will be fired in 2026 and 2028. Let's keep it up!
Sally — The Democratic Party has has fascist tendencies for a long time. FDR and his people famously admired and emulated Mussolini (until he cozied up to Hitler in the late Thirties).
It’s probably appropriate to refer to the party of FDR today as at least proto-fascist.
'Nor was Hitler himself lacking in praise for his American counterpart. He “told American ambassador William Dodd that he was ‘in accord with the President in the view that the virtue of duty, readiness for sacrifice, and discipline should dominate the entire people. These moral demands which the President places before every individual citizen of the United States are also the quintessence of the German state philosophy, which finds its expression in the slogan “The Public Weal Transcends the Interest of the Individual”’” (pp. 19-20). A New Order in both countries had replaced an antiquated emphasis on rights.'
It's worth noting that the UN's view of transnational global citizenship is that it confers no new rights, only 'responsibilities'.
As of 31st December 2024, The Telegraph reported that 62% of trans women in UK prisons had a history of at least one sexual offence.
Thankfully, the paragraph at the bottom shows that the British government has finally bowed to pressure from GC activists and bad press stemming from rapes inside UK prisons.
Ask Steve Donziger if conviction or charges mean guilt. Lawfare is real. After 30 years a charge that cannot be proven is convenient in Lawfare cases when a group wants someone to be guilty. Hard to know truth when so much lies between us and that truth.
I am sure you know that our government could upload child porn to your computer and then come arrest you in front of your neighbors and everyone would be saying, "oh, gosh, that Neil, I would have never suspected he was into kiddie porn." and you could try to say you were innocent but the court of public opinion wins the day. We are all vulnerable to it. Maybe don't be so giddy when our justice system is being used unlawfully to retaliate against someone, anyone. It might be you next.
Jean Carrol set him up, everyone knows it except you and the ‘biased against Trump’ Jury and crooked Prosecutor and Judge. What a travesty of Justice. NYC is a pit.
I have never read a better essay. Thank you, Abigail Shrier, for every word.
Poor Peggy Noonan. Does she have any children to take away the "keys" and put her in a home?
My hope is that on Day 1, January 21st, Trump's administration will put a pause on "gender affirmation medicine" for ANY age. I am confident that such a pause is fully reversible - once we take a long hard look at what is a good and a bad idea and for whom? Minds are taken as children with this cult at school - then the young are set up for Frankenstein sterilization medicalization.
Might we simply "pause" on all this Testosterone and breast amputation for girls and young women? Maybe it could be studied/investigated? Just a tiny bit? I think that "Gender Affirmation" - which is totally not "medicine" - is part of the Affordable Care Act. Removing all destructive and cosmetic "medicine" from insurance would be an intelligent start. American Universities receive money from the Federal Government. University "Heath" Services do healthy breast amputations and hand out opposite sex hormones. Why? Most of us cannot get basic health coverage.
And, there need to be some consequences for those found knowingly in the wrong - like possibly Dr. Richard Levine of HHS, Dr. Johanna Olsen Kennedy (NIH grant fraudster) and her wife (goes by "Aiden" & is a Gender Therapist), Dr. Jason Rafferty, Dr. Jack Turban, Satanic Panic turned Gender Dr. Diane Ehrensaft (theme here regarding doctors, huh?) WPATH, the AAP ("medical" organizations)...
She's old school and lovely in her own right, but she is from a time when people weren't awake and suspect that their government was corrupt or at least those people weren't listen to. I have heard this many times from the older generation that "if we could only go back to when Presidents were Presidential and there was a mystic about the White House"....Yada Yada....yeah, well they were all crooks back then too. Back then we had only one source of news, the boob tube and the facade the news created was the mystic people long for. It wasnt real. Those days are gone. Never coming back.
So people like Peggy are longing for a time when we kept our nasty corrupt trash hidden behind the facade of a well coordinated propaganda narrative delivered by above average looking nepo-babies willing to lie to the American people in exchange for the "good life".
Some people, like Peggy take the blue pill willingly and then spend their lives being nostalgic for a fantasy. It does have its advantages. 🫣🤫
I think there was less nasty corrupt trash back when. Oh, there were spurts, but we kept anarchists and Marxists at bay, and Islamists were just a sparkle in some ayatollah's eyes.
By the way, you all need to agitate to get the film version of the memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran" into theaters here. It's playing in Europe, and spouse and I saw it at the JCC on Amsterdam Avenue last night, but American theaters don't want it.
It's excellent. The cast is comprised of Iranian exiles, the director is an Israeli, and it was filmed in Italy. The book was harrowing, and so's this splendid film. It should be required viewing for all high schools, where pro-Islamist indoctrination begins. Too few Americans know the true story on which this film is based, or the true nature of Iran.
You’re correct. Obama put that coverage in Obamacare and ever since the number of transitions has taken off full speed. These quack doctors getting rich off of mutilation need their licenses revoked and their gravy train cut off.
“The Billionaire Family Pushing Synthetic Sex Identities (SSI)
The wealthy, powerful, and sometimes very weird Pritzker cousins have set their sights on a new God-like goal: using gender ideology to remake human biology
And, lets not forget all the money made giving Testosterone to girls and young women.
This is not OK: Planned Parenthood makes more money on that than anything else.
"U.S. Sex Reassignment Surgery Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Gender Transition (Male To Female, Female To Male), And Segment Forecasts, 2022 - 2030"
They studied it in Europe and have halted it for all people under 18. RFK can access and distribute those studies through HHS and legislation can be created very quickly to end it and not let them even talk about in schools. It seems like the ‘cutting’ fetish that moved through schools 30 years ago.
Yes, or like anorexia taught as part of a gender fairy cult religion via the Education-plex.
Testosterone is not FDA approved for young women who think life would be better maybe with a beard and are naive regarding damage to the insides.Medical people tell them the warnings are just like the ones on Advil bottles. Young women from age 20-26ish are still at great risk if they have grown up indoctrinated by the current culture.
“Why ‘Gender Dysphoria’ is a lie” by Clinical psychologist Pamala Williams
Perfectly stated. It’s amazing that the Left still doesn’t get what did them in during the last election! The answer is everything you’ve pointed out in this piece.
The definition of cognitive dissonance, as Michael Shellenberger reminded us. Ego's will hold on for dear life until this entire regime finally (hopefully) collapses under the weight of its own absurd contradictions - aka, bullshit.
Brilliant polemical blast against the madness of the last ten years!
It's important though to keep in mind that this madness was a long time in the making. 'The craziest outcomes of our post-60s ‘social justice’ sub-utopia in the Western world – the ones that people scratch their heads about in dismay - mostly originated (and quite a long time ago) in the groves of academe. Things like white self-loathing-by-proxy, the fetishisation of sexual dysphoria and pseudo-therapeutic psychobabble began as fictions and fixations hatched in its humanities and social science petri-dishes. A madness of intelligentsias in other words. I have argued that our great folly was failing to foresee the long-term consequences of allowing our universities to become colonised by an intelligentsia intent on ‘cleverly’ unpicking the threads that held Western civilisation together. The massive late 20th c. expansion of tertiary education put this partisanship on steroids.
Spot on…The confirmation hearings begin tomorrow. No doubt the picks will have to endure disdainful questioning by the left. Because they have already been personally attacked over the past years by the party of their interrogators, I believe they will be extremely prepared, stand firm and prevail. They have all been chosen because the President has faith that they can “hold the line.”
What you describe is pure hell. I'm so glad your country gets the chance on 20/01/25 to reset and bring the nation back on course. I hope fervently that the reset will resonate across the pond because we in the UK have lived in the same hell, and that hell shows no sign of abating anytime soon. It looks set to get worse.
I really had (and to some extent still do have) doubts about the bottom line competency of some of the cabinet picks to be able to do their jobs but after reading your article, I feel much more comfortable with letting the scenario play out. Not that this is a strong argument, but they are certainly no more incompetent than some of Biden's cabinet.
As a side note, my son serev proudly in the US Marines for 6 years, incuding a otur in Afghanistan, and left because of all the leftist protcols being force dupon these fine soldiers. He is fine with Hegseth.
I was glad to retire from teaching when afternoon identity workshops took valuable time away from correcting essays, which I had been doing for almost forty years the old-fashioned way.
And when administrators told me I shouldn't be correcting essays anyway because it made the kids feel bad, there was that incentive to quit too.
I ran a rollicking classroom. My students knew when to joke and when not to. When not to was when they got back their papers and understood what they did well and how they could have done better in some places.
Mostly we had a good time, and they learned a lot.
We have to regain some seriousness. That is not to be found in Progressive-run workshops.
Excellent column, Abigail. Expect to told ("reminded") over the next few years that "none of this happened," that it's all paranoia, conspiracy theories, and "far-right" revisionism. That is, expect massive gaslighting, especially in the media. This litany of thought-crime needs to be bookmarked.
You really hit the mark with this essay. I'd summarize it this way: The last bunch of years has been downright scary. As a Canadian there were some highlights: In May 2021 a huge pro-Pali demonstration took over downtown Toronto. There were tens of thousands of them looking for blood. Had you been wearing a star of david or skull cap, you would have gotten the shit beat out of you. Some of my friends did. Keep in mind this was during covid when groups of 8 or more were outlawed by our mayor! This event was went almost unreported and hardly any Torontonian even knows it happened. I blogged about it: https://leonupsidedown.blogspot.com/2021/05/violent-anti-israel-demonstration-comes.html
Then of course there was the Trucker's convoy to protest the insane covid mandates. Thousands of truckers protested peacefully in Ottawa. What did our dictator PM Trudeau do? He arrested many. And closed the bank accounts of those of us who supported them. Of course to me it all culminated on Oct 7 2023 in two ways: The first is that such a horrific event could even happen to our 'advanced' society here on planet earth in modern times. The 2nd was the vile response by millions all over the world and especially in the West. When university presidents refused to condemn such behaviour by Hamas in public, that summed up the decade to me. The Biden administration which was complicit in Hamas's action as they supported Iran (the head of the snake), emulated the SS officers who during the Nuremberg trials simply stated 'they were following orders', because we know for sure that Biden himself was doing the same bloody thing. Worse still was the offering up of a lying, dangerous, fool who slept her way to the top (Kamala) as a replacement to lead the free world. Thank G-d she lost. I pray for Trump's safety and the safety of all good people everywhere. The Trump administration has a lot to undo before it can even move forward.
Brava! You hit all the points. I don't recall you speaking about the issues with vaccine mandates before and I AM HERE FOR IT! It is all of a piece of course, for most of us with principles who are paying attention. Thank you...
Here's what happened when I tried to get a copy of Irreversible Damage from the library in 2020/21. The public library had a long wait list, so I tried my college library. They didn't have a copy, so I requested it through interlibrary loan. I could usually get books from other libraries within a few weeks, but I got an email saying they couldn't find one. After eight months of requesting and checking, I finally got a copy. The girl at the checkout desk said, "This was really hard to get" when I checked it out. From that, I'd say either every single library my library had a relationship with had a long hold list, or the libraries my college library usually got books from weren't stocking it. (This began fall semester 2020 and I got the book in June 2021.)
ClairJoan — The hypocrisy of the librarians, who pose as brave defenders of freedom of the press, is staggering.
More to the point, librarians are today young mostly women who are far into the Wokey World. They uphold Woke notions, and defend the access of 6 YOs to the pornographic "literature" of the LGBTQ+ crowd.
…and sick groomers of young children with their featured ‘Drag Queen’ readings. How did THAT happen? Men dressed as women wanted to get close to children, libraries have books, let’s read them books and get them indoctrinated into accepting the men as ‘normal’. I pray I never see a Drag Queen around kids ever again.
Sherry — Exactly why blackface is condemned but “womanface” is celebrated is one of the mysteries of the mystical doctrines of progressivism.
Presumably progressives see it as a way to attack traditional morality and traditional ideas about the differences between the sexes.
If one really stops to think about it, why in the hell would such actions take place? What was the idea behind having an obvious sexual pervert present anything to children? What did it prove?
I'm sure they could have obtained many homosexual/trans/drag queen books for elementary kids fairly quickly though.
Well done for persisting! I bought 2 copies as I thought it might be hard to get hold of later. I lent them to mums of preteens.
That was clever especially since pre teens are usually the most vulnerable to this bullshit.
Yes
Next, try asking the library to provide "Johnny the Walrus"
Did they finally give it to you during Banned Books Week?
The library situation is a corrupt racket. I bet they have LOADS of copies of Obama/Clinton dreck.
Thank you Ms Shrier. Your article encapsulates everything I have been ranting about for four years. How anyone could vote for the Party that put male convicted rapists into female prisons is beyond me. Those men who call themselves women are raping again, thanks to government facilitated access to women in female prisons.
20 million Democrats refused to vote for Democrats in 2024. Let's offer elected Dems the opportunity to #ReverseTheReversalofTitleIX and reinstate women's sex-based rights. Those who dig in their heels, those who stubbornly insist that “trans women” are women, those who pretend male identified athletes have magically changed their sex, those who take money from transitioning profiteers and continue the obscene destruction of the mental and physical health our youth will be fired in 2026 and 2028. Let's keep it up!
Sally — The Democratic Party has has fascist tendencies for a long time. FDR and his people famously admired and emulated Mussolini (until he cozied up to Hitler in the late Thirties).
It’s probably appropriate to refer to the party of FDR today as at least proto-fascist.
'Nor was Hitler himself lacking in praise for his American counterpart. He “told American ambassador William Dodd that he was ‘in accord with the President in the view that the virtue of duty, readiness for sacrifice, and discipline should dominate the entire people. These moral demands which the President places before every individual citizen of the United States are also the quintessence of the German state philosophy, which finds its expression in the slogan “The Public Weal Transcends the Interest of the Individual”’” (pp. 19-20). A New Order in both countries had replaced an antiquated emphasis on rights.'
It's worth noting that the UN's view of transnational global citizenship is that it confers no new rights, only 'responsibilities'.
https://mises.org/mises-daily/three-new-deals-why-nazis-and-fascists-loved-fdr
As of 31st December 2024, The Telegraph reported that 62% of trans women in UK prisons had a history of at least one sexual offence.
Thankfully, the paragraph at the bottom shows that the British government has finally bowed to pressure from GC activists and bad press stemming from rapes inside UK prisons.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/31/almost-two-thirds-of-trans-women-prisoners-sex-offenders/
How about a government that voted for a male rapist as its president?
Ask Steve Donziger if conviction or charges mean guilt. Lawfare is real. After 30 years a charge that cannot be proven is convenient in Lawfare cases when a group wants someone to be guilty. Hard to know truth when so much lies between us and that truth.
What president is a convicted rapist?
Clinton did, but wasn’t convicted. He is the only one I can come up with.
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-jury-judge-2023-7?op=1
I am sure you know that our government could upload child porn to your computer and then come arrest you in front of your neighbors and everyone would be saying, "oh, gosh, that Neil, I would have never suspected he was into kiddie porn." and you could try to say you were innocent but the court of public opinion wins the day. We are all vulnerable to it. Maybe don't be so giddy when our justice system is being used unlawfully to retaliate against someone, anyone. It might be you next.
👏👏👏 well said. Anyone who recites that false rapist charge just shows their media-fueled brain is incapable of thinking.
The ultimate he-said-she-said, no physical evidence, charges brought 30 years post event. Complete bullshit.
Jean Carrol set him up, everyone knows it except you and the ‘biased against Trump’ Jury and crooked Prosecutor and Judge. What a travesty of Justice. NYC is a pit.
That's political theater. Don't be so gullible. 🤦🏼♀️
You mean like Bill Clinton?
Grabbing women's genitals is close to rape.
I have never read a better essay. Thank you, Abigail Shrier, for every word.
Poor Peggy Noonan. Does she have any children to take away the "keys" and put her in a home?
My hope is that on Day 1, January 21st, Trump's administration will put a pause on "gender affirmation medicine" for ANY age. I am confident that such a pause is fully reversible - once we take a long hard look at what is a good and a bad idea and for whom? Minds are taken as children with this cult at school - then the young are set up for Frankenstein sterilization medicalization.
Might we simply "pause" on all this Testosterone and breast amputation for girls and young women? Maybe it could be studied/investigated? Just a tiny bit? I think that "Gender Affirmation" - which is totally not "medicine" - is part of the Affordable Care Act. Removing all destructive and cosmetic "medicine" from insurance would be an intelligent start. American Universities receive money from the Federal Government. University "Heath" Services do healthy breast amputations and hand out opposite sex hormones. Why? Most of us cannot get basic health coverage.
And, there need to be some consequences for those found knowingly in the wrong - like possibly Dr. Richard Levine of HHS, Dr. Johanna Olsen Kennedy (NIH grant fraudster) and her wife (goes by "Aiden" & is a Gender Therapist), Dr. Jason Rafferty, Dr. Jack Turban, Satanic Panic turned Gender Dr. Diane Ehrensaft (theme here regarding doctors, huh?) WPATH, the AAP ("medical" organizations)...
Bless you - LM
For a very long time, Peggy Noonan has struck me as a light-weight purveyor of cliches and “conventional wisdom”.
She's old school and lovely in her own right, but she is from a time when people weren't awake and suspect that their government was corrupt or at least those people weren't listen to. I have heard this many times from the older generation that "if we could only go back to when Presidents were Presidential and there was a mystic about the White House"....Yada Yada....yeah, well they were all crooks back then too. Back then we had only one source of news, the boob tube and the facade the news created was the mystic people long for. It wasnt real. Those days are gone. Never coming back.
So people like Peggy are longing for a time when we kept our nasty corrupt trash hidden behind the facade of a well coordinated propaganda narrative delivered by above average looking nepo-babies willing to lie to the American people in exchange for the "good life".
Some people, like Peggy take the blue pill willingly and then spend their lives being nostalgic for a fantasy. It does have its advantages. 🫣🤫
I think there was less nasty corrupt trash back when. Oh, there were spurts, but we kept anarchists and Marxists at bay, and Islamists were just a sparkle in some ayatollah's eyes.
By the way, you all need to agitate to get the film version of the memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran" into theaters here. It's playing in Europe, and spouse and I saw it at the JCC on Amsterdam Avenue last night, but American theaters don't want it.
It's excellent. The cast is comprised of Iranian exiles, the director is an Israeli, and it was filmed in Italy. The book was harrowing, and so's this splendid film. It should be required viewing for all high schools, where pro-Islamist indoctrination begins. Too few Americans know the true story on which this film is based, or the true nature of Iran.
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Blue pilled. Has lived in NYC far too long.
You’re correct. Obama put that coverage in Obamacare and ever since the number of transitions has taken off full speed. These quack doctors getting rich off of mutilation need their licenses revoked and their gravy train cut off.
Obama with Pritzkers
“The Billionaire Family Pushing Synthetic Sex Identities (SSI)
The wealthy, powerful, and sometimes very weird Pritzker cousins have set their sights on a new God-like goal: using gender ideology to remake human biology
BY JENNIFER BILEK”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
“Billionaires funding Transgender movement for profit”
https://www.thestandardsc.org/jennifer-bilek/billionaires-funding-transgender-movement-for-profit/
Yes!
And, lets not forget all the money made giving Testosterone to girls and young women.
This is not OK: Planned Parenthood makes more money on that than anything else.
"U.S. Sex Reassignment Surgery Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Gender Transition (Male To Female, Female To Male), And Segment Forecasts, 2022 - 2030"
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-sex-reassignment-surgery-market
They studied it in Europe and have halted it for all people under 18. RFK can access and distribute those studies through HHS and legislation can be created very quickly to end it and not let them even talk about in schools. It seems like the ‘cutting’ fetish that moved through schools 30 years ago.
Yes, or like anorexia taught as part of a gender fairy cult religion via the Education-plex.
Testosterone is not FDA approved for young women who think life would be better maybe with a beard and are naive regarding damage to the insides.Medical people tell them the warnings are just like the ones on Advil bottles. Young women from age 20-26ish are still at great risk if they have grown up indoctrinated by the current culture.
“Why ‘Gender Dysphoria’ is a lie” by Clinical psychologist Pamala Williams
https://dionneinlondon.substack.com/p/why-gender-dysphoria-is-a-lie
"But Gender Dysphoria itself is not real."
It makes no sense even that all these vastly different sorts of people would get the same "diagnosis" or rather, self-diagnosis.
So, bottom line, it is not OK to allow doctors and Planned Parenthood to dispense "T" to young women over 18 either.
Great takedown of Ms. Noonan, who I used to admire. I guess Lloyd Austin is in the mold of George Marshall?
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Perfectly stated. It’s amazing that the Left still doesn’t get what did them in during the last election! The answer is everything you’ve pointed out in this piece.
Can you possibly get any party more stupid than the Democrats in America today?
The definition of cognitive dissonance, as Michael Shellenberger reminded us. Ego's will hold on for dear life until this entire regime finally (hopefully) collapses under the weight of its own absurd contradictions - aka, bullshit.
Brilliant polemical blast against the madness of the last ten years!
It's important though to keep in mind that this madness was a long time in the making. 'The craziest outcomes of our post-60s ‘social justice’ sub-utopia in the Western world – the ones that people scratch their heads about in dismay - mostly originated (and quite a long time ago) in the groves of academe. Things like white self-loathing-by-proxy, the fetishisation of sexual dysphoria and pseudo-therapeutic psychobabble began as fictions and fixations hatched in its humanities and social science petri-dishes. A madness of intelligentsias in other words. I have argued that our great folly was failing to foresee the long-term consequences of allowing our universities to become colonised by an intelligentsia intent on ‘cleverly’ unpicking the threads that held Western civilisation together. The massive late 20th c. expansion of tertiary education put this partisanship on steroids.
This progressive intellectual hegemony is the great political-philosophical story of the 20th century and beyond.' https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/the-madness-of-intelligentsias
If the incoming Trump administration is the start of an unravelling of that madness, well - please God - let’s hope so.
Spot on…The confirmation hearings begin tomorrow. No doubt the picks will have to endure disdainful questioning by the left. Because they have already been personally attacked over the past years by the party of their interrogators, I believe they will be extremely prepared, stand firm and prevail. They have all been chosen because the President has faith that they can “hold the line.”
What you describe is pure hell. I'm so glad your country gets the chance on 20/01/25 to reset and bring the nation back on course. I hope fervently that the reset will resonate across the pond because we in the UK have lived in the same hell, and that hell shows no sign of abating anytime soon. It looks set to get worse.
I dunno. I think we are fast travelling into the hell that the USA may be escaping from
I really had (and to some extent still do have) doubts about the bottom line competency of some of the cabinet picks to be able to do their jobs but after reading your article, I feel much more comfortable with letting the scenario play out. Not that this is a strong argument, but they are certainly no more incompetent than some of Biden's cabinet.
As a side note, my son serev proudly in the US Marines for 6 years, incuding a otur in Afghanistan, and left because of all the leftist protcols being force dupon these fine soldiers. He is fine with Hegseth.
I was glad to retire from teaching when afternoon identity workshops took valuable time away from correcting essays, which I had been doing for almost forty years the old-fashioned way.
And when administrators told me I shouldn't be correcting essays anyway because it made the kids feel bad, there was that incentive to quit too.
I ran a rollicking classroom. My students knew when to joke and when not to. When not to was when they got back their papers and understood what they did well and how they could have done better in some places.
Mostly we had a good time, and they learned a lot.
We have to regain some seriousness. That is not to be found in Progressive-run workshops.
My waife was a teacher until she retired in 2018. She was in the private sector (UK) and I am not aware she had issues re marking.
As regards 'progressive' even the word has issues.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/progressive-and-politics-what-does?utm_source=publication-search
Very true. Today's leftist Progressives are not Theodore Roosevelt progressives.
Excellent column, Abigail. Expect to told ("reminded") over the next few years that "none of this happened," that it's all paranoia, conspiracy theories, and "far-right" revisionism. That is, expect massive gaslighting, especially in the media. This litany of thought-crime needs to be bookmarked.
You really hit the mark with this essay. I'd summarize it this way: The last bunch of years has been downright scary. As a Canadian there were some highlights: In May 2021 a huge pro-Pali demonstration took over downtown Toronto. There were tens of thousands of them looking for blood. Had you been wearing a star of david or skull cap, you would have gotten the shit beat out of you. Some of my friends did. Keep in mind this was during covid when groups of 8 or more were outlawed by our mayor! This event was went almost unreported and hardly any Torontonian even knows it happened. I blogged about it: https://leonupsidedown.blogspot.com/2021/05/violent-anti-israel-demonstration-comes.html
Then of course there was the Trucker's convoy to protest the insane covid mandates. Thousands of truckers protested peacefully in Ottawa. What did our dictator PM Trudeau do? He arrested many. And closed the bank accounts of those of us who supported them. Of course to me it all culminated on Oct 7 2023 in two ways: The first is that such a horrific event could even happen to our 'advanced' society here on planet earth in modern times. The 2nd was the vile response by millions all over the world and especially in the West. When university presidents refused to condemn such behaviour by Hamas in public, that summed up the decade to me. The Biden administration which was complicit in Hamas's action as they supported Iran (the head of the snake), emulated the SS officers who during the Nuremberg trials simply stated 'they were following orders', because we know for sure that Biden himself was doing the same bloody thing. Worse still was the offering up of a lying, dangerous, fool who slept her way to the top (Kamala) as a replacement to lead the free world. Thank G-d she lost. I pray for Trump's safety and the safety of all good people everywhere. The Trump administration has a lot to undo before it can even move forward.
As a non-vaccinated religious conservative, I am thrilled with the Cabinet of the Canceled! Let’s get them confirmed!
Trump and his Cabinet are taking a Scorched Earth policy.
THANK GOD.
Trump’s Cabinet nominees individually and as a group are a refreshing and very necessary rejection of the woke ideology and cancel culture
Brava! You hit all the points. I don't recall you speaking about the issues with vaccine mandates before and I AM HERE FOR IT! It is all of a piece of course, for most of us with principles who are paying attention. Thank you...
Brilliant piece
You must be a relative of The Good Idea Fairy :D