THE MORNING RANT: Trans-Children Advocates Are Back-Tracking to Salvage Their Reputations as Lawsuits and a Preference Cascade Bring the Butchery to an End

Words cannot describe just how diabolical the trans-children social contagion has been. Hospital groups and pharmaceutical companies prospered, Munchausen mommies were entranced, and thousands of children were sterilized and mutilated. There is no way to ever undo the damage done to those children, but a recent lawsuit awarding a victim $2 million is a start.

In ensuing days, there has been a cascade of former advocates suddenly reversing their support for transing children, as they face the possibility of massive legal judgments, as well as losing what remaining credibility they still have.

Since that judgment, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons quickly put out a statement opposing gender transition surgeries for minors, stating that “ASPS recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.” Almost immediately after the ASPS statement, the American Medical Association also backed off, announcing that “In the absence of clear evidence, the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”

Over the weekend, the Washington Post published an editorial by Megan McArdle titled “The Transgender Orthodoxy is Cracking” which lays out the off-ramp for establishment liberals. She reassures the WaPo’s readers that she is a member of their tribe by stating, “I’m not opposed to pediatric transition. I simply believe we need better evidence before making it standard medical practice.” But she also acknowledges how a minority opinion that seemingly has widespread concurrence can collapse quickly, and that transing children is one of those issues:

Public orthodoxies that diverge from private opinion may be surprisingly stable, but they can also prove remarkably unstable, because they depend on private thoughts to stay private, giving doubters the illusion that they are lone deviants rather than members of a silent majority. Each skeptical voice makes it more likely that further doubts will be raised, triggering a rapid shift to a new equilibrium.
If you’ve wondered how communism collapsed, that’s how. And if you’ve wondered why communist regimes are so oppressive, that’s also your answer. When you are the custodian of a fragile orthodoxy, you cannot afford to allow a hint of dissent.

Perhaps an even greater signal that the establishment left is abandoning the trans-children fad is that David French of all people is trying to publicly walk-back his passion for pushing trans-everything on children. He responded to the detransitioner’s lawsuit victory by tweeting “This is absolutely expected. The facts in many of these cases are truly shocking, and juries were never going to be swayed by extreme and bespoke ideological justifications for drastic and permanently life-altering medical procedures.”

This is absolutely expected. The facts in many of these cases are truly shocking, and juries were never going to be swayed by extreme and bespoke ideological justifications for drastic and permanently life-altering medical procedures. https://t.co/P7bGAHAYeg
— David French (@DavidAFrench) January 31, 2026

Mr. French, of course, worked his way from the National Review to the New York Times by making the “conservative Christian” case for the left’s most pathological agenda items. Most famously, David French called it a “blessing of liberty” for men dressed pruriently in women’s clothing to entertain children in a public library.

As odious as French’s support for “Drag Queen Story Hour” might have been, it still didn’t explicitly support the transing of children. But in a piece David French wrote for The Dispatch in 2021 titled “Hungary is No Model for the American Right,” he made it explicitly clear that he supports the practice of adults pressuring children into adopting a trans-identity. In this piece, French condemned Viktor Orban’s government because ”the regime just passed a law sharply limiting any promotion of homosexuality or gender transition to children.

The fact that David French, who is on the record advocating for the “promotion of…gender transition to children,” is now walking back that support serves as a beacon to the establishment left that the trans-children era is over.

One of David French’s criticisms of Hungary’s Orban is his party’s legislation “sharply limiting any promotion of homosexuality or gender transition to children.” French can’t walk back his open support for the depravity of child gender transition. https://t.co/IY84FpEz69
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) February 1, 2026

Two years ago I wrote a piece titled The Trans-Children Era is About to Be Memory-Holed & the Perpetrators Will Be Disavowing Involvement.” I’m flattered that Ed Driscoll continues to link to it at Instapundit, which he did again a few days ago. Here are a few excerpts, which are still relevant, especially in regard to documenting those who pushed this evil.

The trans-children social contagion is soon to be memory-holed, and a day is coming when it will be hard to find any politician or person of authority who will acknowledge having supported this atrocity. There will need to be accountability.
Obviously, those who operated the gender abattoirs should be imprisoned for their grisly mutilation of healthy children, as should those who diagnosed healthy children as needing to be butchered and sterilized. As for those who simply advocated for child gender transitions, they must not be able to whitewash their records. They have rendered themselves unfit for any role in public policy.
Expect there to be a massive scrubbing of social media and professional records by those needing to distance themselves from their advocacy for or involvement in “gender affirming care” for minors.

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There are some acts of evil that were once widely accepted, but once the tides turned against them, the nature of those practices became so incomprehensible that virtually no one would ever claim to having supported them. When I was a child in Texas in the 1970s, it was barely a decade after legal segregation ended, yet I never met a single person who had an opinion of Jim Crow other than that it was a moral abomination and a disgrace. While I genuinely believe that the adults in my childhood were appalled by segregation, there were plenty of folks around who had to have supported segregation, or else it wouldn’t have persisted for so long. But none would admit it, because it would be admitting complicity in evil.
There are other examples of unthinkable practices that were once widely supported, but which are now recalled with abhorrence, such as eugenics and lobotomies. The trans-child social contagion will be remembered similarly.

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So, what do we do for now? Document. Document. Document. In every state and municipality there are up-and-coming politicians and political aspirants who have been very public about their support for “gender affirming care” for minors. Get screenshots and videos of their advocacy before they scrub their records and pretend it never happened.
I practice what I preach. There are a few people with political aspirations whom I am familiar with through my personal and civic circles. They have hard-left politics and live in deep blue bubbles where extremism is not challenged. During the BLM summer of 2020, they publicly advocated on social media in favor of riots, vandalism, criminal violence, property destruction, and defunding the police. With those positions now toxic even for Democrats, the social media of these passionate folks has been scrubbed. But I have screenshots. I don’t seek to cancel anybody, but I will not tolerate people denying the radical agendas they once advocated for. They can own it and say they were wrong, but they cannot deny it. There are abundant employment opportunities for them in fields where their terrible judgment will do no harm, but they have proven their unfitness for policy making.
I fully expect that within a year or two, our elites will be dismissing all talk of child sex changes as just another right-wing conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, the victims who received 15 minutes of adulation for surrendering their bodies to an evil fad when they were children will be discarded and forgotten. The damage done to their bodies can never be reversed, but at a minimum they can sue and seek to financially harm the ghouls who played mad scientist on their bodies.
But most importantly, anyone who once advocated for gender-transitioning children does not have the judgment to ever again be involved in formulating public policy.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 09, 2026 11:00 AM (PcTIw)

2 Fuck em. Let them burn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:01 AM (bss/y)

3 So close to pride month?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 09, 2026 11:01 AM (Kt19C)

4 Trans kids are mentally unstable

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 11:02 AM (i+wP0)

5 4 Trans kids are mentally unstable
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 11:02 AM (i+wP0)

Which is why the idea that lopping body parts off or chemically castrating them will fix them is fucking evil and retarded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:03 AM (bss/y)

6 Over the weekend, the Washington Post published an editorial by Megan McArdle titled “The Transgender Orthodoxy is Cracking” which lays out the off-ramp for establishment liberals. She reassures the WaPo’s readers that she is a member of their tribe by stating, “I’m not opposed to pediatric transition

What the fuck is wrong with democrats and wanting to sexualize children?

Best thing to do would be for a bullet to meet brainpans.

Sorry.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 09, 2026 11:04 AM (PcTIw)

7 There will need to be accountability.
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There will never be accountability.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:04 AM (RIvkX)

8 The star bellied sneetches.

Posted by: Dr. Suess at February 09, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)

9 Trans kids are mentally unstable
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 11:02 AM (i+wP0)

Which is why the idea that lopping body parts off or chemically castrating them will fix them is fucking evil and retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It's the parents pushing this shit. No three year old girl says she's a boy.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 09, 2026 11:05 AM (PcTIw)

10 This whole sad chapter proves once again the only way to handle bullies is to stand up to them. The way they tried to trash people for calling this the butchery it was is to call them out, stand fast, and ridicule their actions.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (1VKLJ)

11 The fact that David French, who is on the record advocating for the “promotion of…gender transition to children,” is now walking back that support serves as a beacon to the establishment left that the trans-children era is over.

Or that they decided on a strategic retreat until they regain/re-steal power again. Then they will destroy the lawyers who won these cases.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (D0HYP)

12 Our "elites" are almost uniformly cowards.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (zjgNU)

13 The entire transgender movement is a death cult on the brink of suiciding themselves into extinction.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (jtM2q)

14 “I’m not opposed to pediatric transition"

I'll echo rick: WHAT THE FUCK?!

I'm not against mutilating children. Really?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (bss/y)

15 5 Which is why the idea that lopping body parts off or chemically castrating them will fix them is fucking evil and retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:03 AM (bss/y)

As are the parents who want to parade their "trans children" around as political accessories so they get virtue signal points in their political circles.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (uEmCf)

16 Nobody wanted to ban gas stoves. Right?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (Cqx++)

17 Wasn’t Megan McArdle considered a standard conservative for a few minutes maybe 15 years ago? She’s not and never was conservative in any way….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (R3YpS)

18 During the BLM summer of 2020, they publicly advocated on social media in favor of riots, vandalism, criminal violence, property destruction, and defunding the police. With those positions now toxic even for Democrats, the social media of these passionate folks has been scrubbed.
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I see no evidence these positions are toxic. cit. Minneapolis the last month.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:07 AM (RIvkX)

19 The pediatric gender transitioners need their own Nuremberg Trials, lest, like too many of the Nazis, they are allowed to fade into the woodwork.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

20 As are the parents who want to parade their "trans children" around as political accessories so they get virtue signal points in their political circles.
Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (uEmCf)

Social cachet. Like all the hollywood actresses- who some insane % of Hollywood kids are trans.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:08 AM (bss/y)

21 Meh. As long as my Liberal Friends can pretend they like Bad Bunny for a few days... until the next episode of Orange Man Bad comes on...

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 09, 2026 11:08 AM (DgMqy)

22 19 The pediatric gender transitioners need their own Nuremberg Trials, lest, like too many of the Nazis, they are allowed to fade into the woodwork.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

I'd be fine with summary execution.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:08 AM (bss/y)

23 "The trans-children social contagion is soon to be memory-holed, and a day is coming when it will be hard to find any politician or person of authority who will acknowledge having supported this atrocity. There will need to be accountability."

Mini-Tru is going to be very busy correcting the history books.

Posted by: Ripley at February 09, 2026 11:09 AM (GUOwU)

24 The Left always abandons those they raise up. The darlings of the commies now are of course Islamists and they are hostile to trans.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 11:09 AM (QLKBy)

25 Trans-Children Advocates Are Back-Tracking to Salvage Their Reputations as Lawsuits and a Preference Cascade Bring the Butchery to an End

No.
They should still all be lashed a post in public squares and genitals removed with rusty spoons*, then left to bleed out.

*carrot peeler, sand blaster, whatever.

Posted by: Operator Error at February 09, 2026 11:09 AM (r08dW)

26 Does this amount to trans genocide?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 09, 2026 11:10 AM (3sG5t)

27 Heh. Article linked at Insty on Stellantis, Buck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:10 AM (bss/y)

28 20 Social cachet. Like all the hollywood actresses- who some insane % of Hollywood kids are trans.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:08 AM (bss/y)

It's the Left-Wing version of "Holier than Thou".

Trooning or Pooning out your child makes you "More Left than Thou".

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:11 AM (uEmCf)

29 I see no evidence these positions are toxic. cit. Minneapolis the last month.

It's definitely starting, and will move fast.

But she also acknowledges how a minority opinion that seemingly has widespread concurrence can collapse quickly, and that transing children is one of those issues:

Public orthodoxies that diverge from private opinion may be surprisingly stable, but they can also prove remarkably unstable, because they depend on private thoughts to stay private, giving doubters the illusion that they are lone deviants rather than members of a silent majority. Each skeptical voice makes it more likely that further doubts will be raised, triggering a rapid shift to a new equilibrium.

If you’ve wondered how communism collapsed, that’s how. And if you’ve wondered why communist regimes are so oppressive, that’s also your answer. When you are the custodian of a fragile orthodoxy, you cannot afford to allow a hint of dissent.

Shorter version: lefty lunacies du jour are like a supersaturated solution. A small jostle is all it takes to cause a huge change.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

30 >>“I’m not opposed to pediatric transition. I simply believe we need better evidence before making it standard medical practice.

FUNNY, YOU PEOPLE DERIDED US FOR CLAIMING "WITHOUT EVIDENCE" THAT CHILDREN WERE BEING TRANSED.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 09, 2026 11:11 AM (0yjaw)

31 ‘ Trans-Children Advocates Are Back-Tracking to Salvage Their Reputations’

Whatever backtracking they could ever possibly do will be too little, too late. I hope they get all the disgrace and punishment in the world
BUT
The professional advocates aren’t the only culprits.
Leftist culture at large demanded this monstrosity.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 09, 2026 11:12 AM (jbnUc)

32 24 The Left always abandons those they raise up. The darlings of the commies now are of course Islamists and they are hostile to trans.
Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 11:09 AM (QLKBy)

They've always been sneaking Islam in, even as they promoted trans.

That's why they're so "positive" towards Polygamy and Pedophilia.

So every Muslim Brother can have his harem of 9 year olds.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:12 AM (uEmCf)

33 The pediatric gender transitioners need their own Nuremberg Trials, lest, like too many of the Nazis, they are allowed to fade into the woodwork.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

I agree. This was pure inhuman, anti-human mutilation and torture visited upon children and the insane.

There should be trials and the perpetrators if found guilty should be hung by the neck until dead.

It's hard to find someone worse than the death camp Nazis but, welp, the child mutilators did it. Congratulations, assholes.

Sue them to penury, and execute them if they're found guilty.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 09, 2026 11:12 AM (iJfKG)

34 29
Shorter version: lefty lunacies du jour are like a supersaturated solution. A small jostle is all it takes to cause a huge change.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

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They impose their will through the control of institutions.

If People magazine and Big Law agree on something, it becomes conventional wisdom, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Until someone blinks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

35 Our culture has been captured by evil leaders and few have the willingness to say what needs to be done, which is a return to the morals and standards of a previous era. (i.e. Christian morality)

One sector for return: the longstanding cultural prohibition of degenerate sexuality (homosexuality, adultery, promiscuous sex of all kinds, etc...) existed for a reason.

You can believe (as I do) that God prohibited such things because he made our nature and gave us a blueprint for a harmonious society, OR you can believe that humanity developed these traditions from experience and societal evolution, but it's pretty clear WHY these prohibitions existed and that our society has been ignoring the Gods of the Copybook Headings for far too long. Their return is imminent.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 09, 2026 11:13 AM (zjgNU)

36 Somebody needs to go back and get a shitload of woodchippers.

Posted by: Throw David French in there too at February 09, 2026 11:13 AM (TbWk/)

37 Trans kids are mentally unstable.

So are the people who think it's just fine if they want to mutilate themselves. Common sense tells us it's not only horrible it's stupid.

Posted by: Case at February 09, 2026 11:13 AM (E7+ue)

38 Hmmm . . . What will the new purity test be?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 09, 2026 11:14 AM (IwUWI)

39 They used to do WHAT to children!?!?!? That's f***ed up!!!!

Posted by: Every Teenager in Year 2100 at February 09, 2026 11:14 AM (qUkBO)

40 >>But she also acknowledges how a minority opinion that seemingly has widespread concurrence can collapse quickly, and that transing children is one of those issues:

Translation:
I'm going to write a detached "think piece" that describes why the entirety of my profession and party encouraged - demanded - the mutilation of children as if I had no part in it. And really, we need to move on you guyz.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 09, 2026 11:15 AM (0yjaw)

41 Has anyone anywhere, anytime, been influenced by David French?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 09, 2026 11:15 AM (3sG5t)

42 Trans is the ultimate culmination of the anti-child social drift we have seen over the past 80 years or so.

Children are handbags.

Women were taught to hate and fear having kids.

Those who had them treat them like accessories.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:15 AM (bss/y)

43 Wasn’t Megan McArdle considered a standard conservative for a few minutes maybe 15 years ago? She’s not and never was conservative in any way….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (R3YpS)

I'm fairly certain she's always been "libertarian" which has increasingly meant "Once was sane on fiscal issues, but is now universally retarded."

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 09, 2026 11:15 AM (zjgNU)

44 40 Translation:
I'm going to write a detached "think piece" that describes why the entirety of my profession and party encouraged - demanded - the mutilation of children as if I had no part in it. And really, we need to move on you guyz.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 09, 2026 11:15 AM (0yjaw)

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MoveOn.org. For reals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

45 I'd be fine with summary execution.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:08 AM (bss/y)

Dissection by wood chipper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:16 AM (8zz6B)

46 Trans kids are mentally unstable.

And cutting off their sexual parts will make them well? What kind of idiot could believe such a thing?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

47 41 Has anyone anywhere, anytime, been influenced by David French?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 09, 2026 11:15 AM (3sG5t)

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"He's a good doggy."
-his current readership

I suspect most commentators have little actual influence except on the most gullible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

48 Translation:
I'm going to write a detached "think piece" that describes why the entirety of my profession and party encouraged - demanded - the mutilation of children as if I had no part in it. And really, we need to move on you guyz.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 09, 2026 11:15 AM (0yjaw)

Translation, Translation: don't shoot me in the back of the head and bury me in a ditch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:16 AM (bss/y)

49 Compare and contrast, Mooch v. Vance.

https://is.gd/9uAP17

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:16 AM (J+Psw)

50 17 Wasn’t Megan McArdle considered a standard conservative for a few minutes maybe 15 years ago? She’s not and never was conservative in any way….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Liberaltarian deep in the Acela Corridor groupthink. Primarily a corporate apologist but very liberal on social issues.

McArdle . . .writes for The Washington Post, mostly about economics, finance, and government policy.

McArdle began her writing career with a blog, "Live from the WTC", started in November 2001. Other publications she has worked for include The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and Bloomberg View. She published book reviews and opinion pieces in the New York Post, The New York Sun, Reason, The Guardian, and Salon."

It was no less than David Brooks that called her a leading voice on the right.

So typical Economist style 'conservative' and WEF apologist for corporate fascism and social liberalism.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:16 AM (2swu2)

51 I hope this is all true. But I suspect and fear that the trans madness and butchery will just go underground. There's already an illicit underground plastic surgery industry. It wouldn't be hard to add trans butchery to that industry.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

52 >>Does this amount to trans genocide?

Anything short of active celebration = trans erasure.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (0yjaw)

53 I suspect most commentators have little actual influence except on the most gullible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

HEY! That's mean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (bss/y)

54 Trans is the ultimate culmination of the anti-child social drift we have seen over the past 80 years or so.

Children are handbags.

Women were taught to hate and fear having kids.

Those who had them treat them like accessories.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:15 AM (bss/y)

Not ALL women...

Which is why the left fiercely defends their capture of public schooling. Without recruiting the children of sane families, they would die off quickly.

(And too many sane families don't believe that is the goal of public schooling.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (zjgNU)

55
Right on schedule. I.e., the moment the fire reaches their feet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (n7rxJ)

56 Evil never sleeps. Be wary.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (jc0TO)

57 Not ALL women...

Which is why the left fiercely defends their capture of public schooling. Without recruiting the children of sane families, they would die off quickly.

(And too many sane families don't believe that is the goal of public schooling.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (zjgNU)

I am assuming you are being sarcastic. I knew someone would say that while I was writing the comment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:18 AM (bss/y)

58 53 I suspect most commentators have little actual influence except on the most gullible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

HEY! That's mean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (bss/y)

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"I thought this about the political topic, but now that I've read the latest column by David Frum, I've changed my mind."

I think most are used to affirm priors, and little else. "Yes, this is what I thought, and this guy gave more detail than I could. He should be read by everyone."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

59 Related: This Super Bowl ad for women's sports *for women* was great. Amazed it was allowed:

https://tinyurl.com/2vmxdnvb

Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:19 AM (0yjaw)

60 51 I hope this is all true. But I suspect and fear that the trans madness and butchery will just go underground. There's already an illicit underground plastic surgery industry. It wouldn't be hard to add trans butchery to that industry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

Wealthy adults generally go to Brazil or Korea for extreme plastic surgery (whether trans-related or not)

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:19 AM (uEmCf)

61 I think most are used to affirm priors, and little else. "Yes, this is what I thought, and this guy gave more detail than I could. He should be read by everyone."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

I'd say that is true about a lot of consumed media on the internet. Very rarely is it about seeking out info or some new viewpoint, but about reinforcing your own. Movie reviews, political opinion, big tits, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:20 AM (bss/y)

62 Absolutely brutal examples need to be made of these people. It won't solve the problem completely but they will hesitate to do this for a long time.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 11:20 AM (OPGS/)

63 The dickchoppers and illegal aliens are the kinds of issues I like to see people paying attention to.

Most issues are 50/50 on party lines, because the scumbags in the Uniparty have done a very good job of pitting everyone against a wholly-imagined opposition because, as Michael Malice puts it "people tend to view the world through an us/them filter instead of a true/false filter."

But these are the issues that lay bare the real dynamic in this country, because it sure isn't party politics. These are the issues that cut horizontally across party lines, and vertically through their respective coalitions. They're the issues where at least 70% of the broad mass of the American people agree with one another, and are faced with shrieking, heel-digging opposition or languid, supine inaction from their elected officials.

These are the things that might get the LIVs to peek under the hood and actually realize that this fight isn't about Dem vs. GOP but ruling class vs. subject class, and maybe just maybe one day decide to do something about that repulsive injustice.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 11:20 AM (BI5O2)

64 I hope this is all true. But I suspect and fear that the trans madness and butchery will just go underground. There's already an illicit underground plastic surgery industry. It wouldn't be hard to add trans butchery to that industry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

Wealthy adults generally go to Brazil or Korea for extreme plastic surgery (whether trans-related or not)

The key word here is "adults".

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

65 51 I hope this is all true. But I suspect and fear that the trans madness and butchery will just go underground. There's already an illicit underground plastic surgery industry. It wouldn't be hard to add trans butchery to that industry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

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"I don't think the public opinion against murder will stop murder. It'll just send it underground."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

66 Trans kids are mentally unstable.

So are the people who think it's just fine if they want to mutilate themselves. Common sense tells us it's not only horrible it's stupid.
Posted by: Case at February 09, 2026 11:13 AM (E7+ue)

Trannies are also all murderers. Little Johnny gets his junk cut off, and tiddies bolted on, and now goes by "Hissteria". Johnny has been murdered; he no longer exists, his parents no longer have a son.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:21 AM (8zz6B)

67 61 I'd say that is true about a lot of consumed media on the internet. Very rarely is it about seeking out info or some new viewpoint, but about reinforcing your own. Movie reviews, political opinion, big tits, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:20 AM (bss/y)

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Clapter, essentially.

Also...how big is too big?

Must confirm with serious academic source: Weird Science.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

68 Munchausen mommies were entranced ...

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Munchausen's-by-Butchery

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 11:21 AM (V8agI)

69 Shorter version: lefty lunacies du jour are like a supersaturated solution. A small jostle is all it takes to cause a huge change.
Posted by: Archimedes
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True because most people do not live for their political preferences. They have outcome preferences but not specific policy preferences--so the howler monkey of the leftist media can push idiotic notions out the door as in transing your kids saves them from killing themselves and the average people lacked any immunity to the idiotic idea until the consequences started rolling out.

Average folks just want to be left alone to enjoy their lives and leftists whose political views are akin to the worst sort of evangelism and pseudo religion, just cannot leave average people alone.

Eventually a bloodbath ensues when ideologues are killed en masse so that the rest of society can live again. Usually that comes about via a despot--it is easier for folks to satisfy one despot than a multitude of oppressors.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:22 AM (2swu2)

70 I hope this is all true. But I suspect and fear that the trans madness and butchery will just go underground. There's already an illicit underground plastic surgery industry. It wouldn't be hard to add trans butchery to that industry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

Wealthy adults generally go to Brazil or Korea for extreme plastic surgery (whether trans-related or not)
Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:19 AM (uEmCf)
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True, but the rich generally pay for quality PS in Brazil and Korea. I was thinking more of the dirt-cheap, underground cosmetic butchers in Mexico and other south-of-the-border locations. A procedure that costs $15k in TX might cost 10% of that in MX. But you get what you pay for.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

71 70 True, but the rich generally pay for quality PS in Brazil and Korea. I was thinking more of the dirt-cheap, underground cosmetic butchers in Mexico and other south-of-the-border locations. A procedure that costs $15k in TX might cost 10% of that in MX. But you get what you pay for.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

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Emelia Perez is the story of our times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

72 Related: This Super Bowl ad for women's sports *for women* was great. Amazed it was allowed:

https://tinyurl.com/2vmxdnvb

Wow, I am amazed as well. Great ad.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

73 26 Does this amount to trans genocide?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

People that use that phrase need to be lovingly caressed with a piece of rebar.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 11:23 AM (OPGS/)

74 Not all kids that were transed were mentally unstable, one or both of their parents were. Many of these kids were forced by their parents to have these surgeries. Is forced a word I should be using, is it too harsh, no. These are kids like many of us were at that age that were questioning what we felt and their parents pushed them into butchery before the kids were able to sort out their feelings. I'm just happy that Ms. Varians only had top surgery since she can have surgery to restore her breasts. Others who went beyond that are screwed.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 09, 2026 11:23 AM (2NHgQ)

75 >>Has anyone anywhere, anytime, been influenced by David French?

>>I suspect most commentators have little actual influence except on the most gullible.

French doesn't exist to influence conservatives.
He is there to fill the spot for a conservative voice (see: Jen Rubin at WashPost as the "conservative") because he can reliably criticize and blame conservatives for everything, thus confirming progressives their way is the best way. See, they're open-minded and read non-progressive views, they read David French!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:23 AM (0yjaw)

76 It will be very easy for the left to ignore the "transitioned" children because in 5 to 10 years, very few will still be alive. The medical impact of long-term us of puberty blockers is devastating on proper bone and organ development. It will also result in an explosion of cancer. Of course, the suicide rate of these children will be very high when they realize they were betrayed by their parents for likes and physicians for money.
I have noticed that most of the outspoken detransitioners have accepted Christ as their Savior after detransitioning. This is the best hope for t5hese children (as it is for all of us).

Posted by: Kurt Hoffman at February 09, 2026 11:23 AM (lIr+h)

77 66 Trannies are also all murderers. Little Johnny gets his junk cut off, and tiddies bolted on, and now goes by "Hissteria". Johnny has been murdered; he no longer exists, his parents no longer have a son.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:21 AM (8zz6B)

The problem : "Hissteria" is making 6 figures per Month on Only Fans.

Johnny wasn't even making 6 figures per YEAR.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:23 AM (uEmCf)

78 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:16 AM (J+Psw)

I appreciated that. Coming from "An attitude of gratitude" and a faith perspective makes J.D. Vance who he is large part, I expect , as opposed to Michelle Obama who seems to be angry and resentful and unhappy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 09, 2026 11:24 AM (ix8EF)

79 5 >>Has anyone anywhere, anytime, been influenced by David French?

His wife's bull. David makes him laugh.

Posted by: Roy at February 09, 2026 11:24 AM (lHwr/)

80 I came in for a hernia operation. They cut off one of my nuts by mistake.

Posted by: Stir Crazy at February 09, 2026 11:25 AM (TmfuF)

81 Clapter, essentially.

Also...how big is too big?

Must confirm with serious academic source: Weird Science.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

Essentially. I think one thing that often gets overlooked by a lot of this is how it is comforting to the psyche. Reassuring. Even when you have a bunch of retarded, evil anti-ice terror simps shouting about how they are going to murder people and their families, the thing is this is also an expression of community.

It's like how on twitter everyone has a tendency to try to top the other guy in the fervency of their opinion. It's group signaling.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:26 AM (bss/y)

82 "Trans kids are mentally unstable."

And the adults that pushed them into "being trans" are worse.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 09, 2026 11:26 AM (vbXSk)

83 Just another crack in the wall. If you stand back and look objectively at what's happening across the board to the left's agenda it is crumbling.

From voter ID to illegals to trans, etc, the left is losing ground bigly. And fastly.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 11:26 AM (viF8m)

84 61 I'd say that is true about a lot of consumed media on the internet. Very rarely is it about seeking out info or some new viewpoint, but about reinforcing your own. Movie reviews, political opinion, big tits, etc.

I'd just like to point out that I have never been one of the "Abigail Shapiro" luster-afters.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

85 French doesn't exist to influence conservatives.
He is there to fill the spot for a conservative voice (see: Jen Rubin at WashPost as the "conservative") because he can reliably criticize and blame conservatives for everything, thus confirming progressives their way is the best way. See, they're open-minded and read non-progressive views, they read David French!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:23 AM (0yjaw)

David Brooks might be the worst example of Washington General Conservative.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:26 AM (bss/y)

86 "If I had my way, you'd wear that goddamn uniform every day of your pecker-sucking life."
--Lt. Aldo Reine

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 09, 2026 11:27 AM (NYInA)

87 ... David French of all people is trying to publicly walk-back his passion for pushing trans-everything on children.

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"Child Mutilation is a Blessing of Liberty, H8R!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 11:27 AM (/k9od)

88 That WaPo editorial brings back a phrase from my youth, during the Nixon administration: The Silent Majority. It's time to activate it. We, the Silent Majority, who have had enough of:
- transgenderism and perversions like drag queen storyhour
- open borders and sanctuary cities,
- not deporting illegal aliens, particularly criminals,
- establishing roadblocks and "autonomous zones" in cities,
- invading our houses of worship,
- and liberal prosecutors failing to indict and jail criminals.

If we are truly a silent majority it is time for us to deluge our lawmakers with phone messages and written letters, for those who write about politics to encourage a wave of correspondence, to tell our Congressional reps and senators if they host a town hall that this has gone far enough.

Polling, supposedly, says that a majority of Americans do not favor the policies listed above. It is time for us to act like the majority.

Posted by: George V at February 09, 2026 11:27 AM (HUbHH)

89 86 "If I had my way, you'd wear that goddamn uniform every day of your pecker-sucking life."
--Lt. Aldo Reine

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 09, 2026 11:27 AM (NYInA)

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"I think this might be my masterpiece."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

90 I'd just like to point out that I have never been one of the "Abigail Shapiro" luster-afters.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

Sad to see an anti-semite self identify.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:28 AM (bss/y)

91 88 Polling, supposedly, says that a majority of Americans do not favor the policies listed above. It is time for us to act like the majority.

Posted by: George V at February 09, 2026 11:27 AM (HUbHH)

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GA has 300,000 ballots in the 2020 election with no paper trace at all.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

92 Suck it, Pritzker.

Posted by: Rex B at February 09, 2026 11:28 AM (FTnqJ)

93 Its funny, if you asked if a 5 year old can sign a contract or hell choose to take aspirin or not the answer is "hell no they don't have that mental capability yet."

But having themselves sexually mutilated because of a gender dysphoria diagnosis? Sure why not!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 11:28 AM (sKqQm)

94 92 Suck it, Pritzker.

Posted by: Rex B at February 09, 2026 11:28 AM (FTnqJ)

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He got on Ozempic for nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

95 David French of all people is trying to publicly walk-back his passion for pushing trans-everything on children.

In fairness to David as far as we know he is only turned on by adult trannies

Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 11:29 AM (sKqQm)

96 And the adults that pushed them into "being trans" are worse.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 09, 2026 11:26 AM (vbXSk)

And it's not always the parents. There are teachers and other "caregivers" out there pushing transmania onto children. And sometimes the parents believe their bullshit, and allow the transing. Never fall for the "dead son/live daughter" scam.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:29 AM (8zz6B)

97 I'd just like to point out that I have never been one of the "Abigail Shapiro" luster-afters.

I'm not sure why I put her name in quotes.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

98 I also think that a ton of the parents are fucking stupid and do not think it is permanent (with regards to the blockers.) Or believe that their kid can really go from a functional male to a functional, happy, well adjusted female.

They are fucking stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:30 AM (bss/y)

99 I'd say that is true about a lot of consumed media on the internet. Very rarely is it about seeking out info or some new viewpoint, but about reinforcing your own. Movie reviews, political opinion, big tits, etc.

I'd just like to point out that I have never been one of the "Abigail Shapiro" luster-afters.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
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I have no idea who she is other than what I've heard on this site. Don't think I ever saw a picture of her. Never been interested enough to find out.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

100 97 I'd just like to point out that I have never been one of the "Abigail Shapiro" luster-afters.

I'm not sure why I put her name in quotes.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

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Because her real name is Jenna Jameson?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

101 93 But having themselves sexually mutilated because of a gender dysphoria diagnosis? Sure why not!
Posted by: 18-1 at February 09, 2026 11:28 AM (sKqQm)

"He'll look so cute in a dress and with long pink hair!"

--Psychotic Parent with Munchausen-By-Proxy

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:30 AM (uEmCf)

102 97 I'd just like to point out that I have never been one of the "Abigail Shapiro" luster-afters.

I'm not sure why I put her name in quotes.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

You could have called her 'Abby Milk-Wagons' and we would have known who you meant.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:31 AM (bss/y)

103 I'd say that is true about a lot of consumed media on the internet. Very rarely is it about seeking out info or some new viewpoint, but about reinforcing your own. Movie reviews, political opinion, big tits, etc.
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Seeking bias confirmation.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

104 Triple parantheses.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 09, 2026 11:31 AM (P7usy)

105 103 I'd say that is true about a lot of consumed media on the internet. Very rarely is it about seeking out info or some new viewpoint, but about reinforcing your own. Movie reviews, political opinion, big tits, etc.
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Seeking bias confirmation.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

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"I subscribed to The Atlantic to really challenge my views."
-far leftist, wanting to dip a toe in not quite as far leftism

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

106 Don't have time to find it, but there's a clip going around on X of a 'man on the street' interview where an older woman is asked if she would support her 6 or 8 year old granddaughters if they wanted to transition. Of course she would blah blah blah all smiles. Then she's asked if she would be OK if her grandchildren got tattoos, and she immediately goes into normal grandma mode and says "No!" explaining that she always told her sons they should think seriously about getting tattoos because **they are permanent**.

Yes, the follow-up question is about how transing is permanent and she short-circuits. Cognitive dissonance FT!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:32 AM (0yjaw)

107 96 And it's not always the parents. There are teachers and other "caregivers" out there pushing transmania onto children. And sometimes the parents believe their bullshit, and allow the transing. Never fall for the "dead son/live daughter" scam.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:29 AM (8zz6B)

And if they're on the internet, then there's a whole sea of sharks (no, that isn't a Blahaj reference) out there pushing it onto them.

"Hey, you want to look like a cute anime girl, right?"

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:32 AM (uEmCf)

108 >>Related: This Super Bowl ad for women's sports *for women* was great. Amazed it was allowed:

Didn't see that one. I watched the entire game including the commercials. Was it a pregame ad? Because I didn't watch the pregame crap. Or maybe a halftime ad? Because I turned the TV for halftime.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 09, 2026 11:32 AM (Y1sOo)

109 I have no idea who she is other than what I've heard on this site. Don't think I ever saw a picture of her. Never been interested enough to find out.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

Ben Shapiro's sister. She has quite large breasts.

I think a lot of it grew out of just being annoyed by Little Ben and wanting to needle him.

There was also a webcam thot who looked similar to her and was pushed as being her for a bit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:32 AM (bss/y)

110 53 I suspect most commentators have little actual influence except on the most gullible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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It is because most of them only mirror opinions acceptable to their own insulated ruling class. The bolder of them does the limited modified hangout like we are seeing here so that the rest of the opinionated ruling class can determine whether transing kids is a liability to its continued existence or not. Not whether it is right or wrong but a political mistake in going too far too fast.

Only the iconoclasts who don't particularly give one damn about what other people think oppose almost reflexively what the hive mind wants dare to oppose as they have already excommunicated themselves mentally from the hive mind in the first place.

Then there are those who force themselves into becoming a prophet and martyrdom (Codevilla, Sam Huntington, Bernard Lewis, etc. ) paying the price by being excommunicated from their former status in the ruling class.

H. Beam Piper's short story, Naudsonce, is a biting commentary on politics from a sci fi perspective. It turns out the only alien that the Terrans can reach mentally is someone who is a castoff of that society

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:33 AM (2swu2)

111 Since that judgment, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons quickly put out a statement opposing gender transition surgeries for minors, stating that “ASPS recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.” Almost immediately after the ASPS statement, the American Medical Association also backed off, announcing that “In the absence of clear evidence, the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”
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If there was an "absence of clear evidence" - which, if we're being charitable, there *was* (in reality, there was an abundance of evidence in the other direction) - then why did you take the opposite position for so long? As the primary non-governmental regulatory bodies - not to mention powerful lobbying groups - for these industries, why was the "absence of clear evidence" not an obstacle when you made your prior decisions? Why should you be trusted now? Why should your membership not dissolve you, right now?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:33 AM (ojr4c)

112 Seeking bias confirmation.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

Exactly. It's comforting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:33 AM (bss/y)

113 ... David French of all people is trying to publicly walk-back his passion for pushing trans-everything on children.

So it the mutilations of minors was the True Christian (non-MAGA) way, until it wasn't?

Every non-Trumper and Trump-H@ter has very flexible beliefs. Most of Trump's horrid, heinous actions become the Pure Christian Way when Trump or any other Republican is not President.

Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 11:33 AM (5rh/l)

114 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 09, 2026 11:23 AM (2NHgQ)

Like most small children, my daughter trusts me implicitly. If I started telling her "you know, I was talking with Karen & Caryn over some fair-trade coffee at the LGBTQIA+ Poetry Slam for Justice in Gaza about how you love that toy truck I got you at the Kroger. They both agreed that you're actually a boy and that I would seem very progressive and party-loyal if you would just accept that fact," she'd go along with it.

Because all she knows is that daddy loves her and wants the best for her, and anyone who abuses that trust should be tortured to death for his troubles.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 11:33 AM (BI5O2)

115 41 Has anyone anywhere, anytime, been influenced by David French?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 09, 2026 11:15 AM (3sG5t)

Unfortunately, yes. Maybe not that all that many, but he had an audience among Christian cruise-ship Republicans who want a pseudomoralistic framework for their TDS and reflexive opposition to anything PDT does or how he does it if it's something they would otherwise support.

Posted by: Because he's so declasse, you know at February 09, 2026 11:33 AM (TbWk/)

116
Level of concern over anything David French. ❌

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 11:33 AM (6W1vz)

117 >>>Almost immediately after the ASPS statement, the American Medical Association also backed off, announcing that “In the absence of clear evidence, the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”

That's one small step.

Next license revocations from any and all who participated, including the mental health industry and pharmaceutical companies.

After that, reclassification of gender dysphoria as a mental illness.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 11:34 AM (dK+Kv)

118 There are other examples of unthinkable practices that were once widely supported, but which are now recalled with abhorrence, such as eugenics and lobotomies.

At least they acknowledged this evil before they gave somebody the Nobel Prize in medicine for it, unlike the lobotomy case. Maybe our society is improving slowly.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 11:34 AM (gmL3U)

119 And if they're on the internet, then there's a whole sea of sharks (no, that isn't a Blahaj reference) out there pushing it onto them.

"Hey, you want to look like a cute anime girl, right?"
Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:32 AM (uEmCf)

The porn is also odd. Now there has always been odd porn out there that I did not get, but FUTA?

Ok, you want to like dudes, fine. You do your thing.

But a mix of both? Pick a lane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:34 AM (bss/y)

120 I'd say that is true about a lot of consumed media on the internet. Very rarely is it about seeking out info or some new viewpoint, but about reinforcing your own. Movie reviews, political opinion, big tits, etc.
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Seeking bias confirmation.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

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"I subscribed to The Atlantic to really challenge my views."
-far leftist, wanting to dip a toe in not quite as far leftism
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:32 AM (GBKbO)
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Or the opposite of bias confirmation. The audience not only wants to confirm its views align with the right people, but also that the views don't align with the wrong people. A foundational motivation for TDS.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

121 Unfortunately, yes. Maybe not that all that many, but he had an audience among Christian cruise-ship Republicans who want a pseudomoralistic framework for their TDS and reflexive opposition to anything PDT does or how he does it if it's something they would otherwise support.

Posted by: Because he's so declasse, you know at February 09, 2026 11:33 AM (TbWk/)

Like it or don't, but we have plenty of emotionally manipulated LIVs in our ranks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 11:35 AM (dK+Kv)

122 Public orthodoxies that diverge from private opinion may be surprisingly stable, but they can also prove remarkably unstable, because they depend on private thoughts to stay private, giving doubters the illusion that they are lone deviants rather than members of a silent majority. Each skeptical voice makes it more likely that further doubts will be raised, triggering a rapid shift to a new equilibrium
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Odd framing.

Public orthodoxies only deviate significantly from average private opinion when enabled to do so by an unresponsive/unaccountable public institution. When a public institution must be responsive to the public they deign to govern or advise, its orthodoxies will not vary wildly from the baseline public average.

And there's a word for unresponsive/unaccountable public institutions that ignore the typical member of the public and impose their own wills upon them: tyranny.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:35 AM (ojr4c)

123 see: Jen Rubin at WashPost
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Please, no. I will turn to stone if I see that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:35 AM (RIvkX)

124 Ok, you want to like dudes, fine. You do your thing.

But a mix of both? Pick a lane.

And please, nothing with hooves.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

125 84
‘ I'd just like to point out that I have never been one of the "Abigail Shapiro" luster-afters.’

Fag.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (jbnUc)

126 Lizzy it doesn't sound like that was a SB commercial. Plus the tweet said 40 million views and zero media dollars spent and there were a lot more eyes than that on SB.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (QLKBy)

127 118 There are other examples of unthinkable practices that were once widely supported, but which are now recalled with abhorrence, such as eugenics and lobotomies.

At least they acknowledged this evil before they gave somebody the Nobel Prize in medicine for it, unlike the lobotomy case. Maybe our society is improving slowly.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 11:34 AM (gmL3U)

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Apparently, South Korea still uses electro-shock therapy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

128 Or the opposite of bias confirmation. The audience not only wants to confirm its views align with the right people, but also that the views don't align with the wrong people. A foundational motivation for TDS.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

Yes. Which I think is part of the reason for the 80/20 divide on so many issues. People have lined up with their 'side' and are not thinking anything through on it's own merits- because they do not want to get left with no side whatsoever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (bss/y)

129 What is the single reason we should listen to anything French states? The sine qua non that gives him, or anybody else currency?

It’s a question very few people ask themselves before they jump headlong into debate.

The answer is fairly obvious.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (/IZKJ)

130 120 Or the opposite of bias confirmation. The audience not only wants to confirm its views align with the right people, but also that the views don't align with the wrong people. A foundational motivation for TDS.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

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Woody Allen reading National Review (Annie Hall had a copy in her apartment after they broke up in the movie).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

131 CBS under new boss, Bari Weiss:

Same ol', same ol'!

https://tinyurl.com/5n969y8j

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 09, 2026 11:37 AM (cUGtl)

132 Perhaps an even greater signal that the establishment left is abandoning the trans-children fad is that David French of all people is trying to publicly walk-back his passion for pushing trans-everything on children.
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David French needs to shut up and quietly go live his best life being the Lucky Pierre in the fluid-stained sleazy motel room rented by the month by NT, Inc.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:37 AM (ojr4c)

133 It's not true smug unless it comes from the Smug region of France. Otherwise it's just Euroweenie whining.

Apps to Help Shoppers Boycott U.S. Goods Gaining Popularity in Europe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:37 AM (J+Psw)

134 >>Didn't see that one. I watched the entire game including the commercials. Was it a pregame ad? Because I didn't watch the pregame crap. Or maybe a halftime ad? Because I turned the TV for halftime.

Maybe it wasn't on the Super Bowl and I misunderstood the tweet? My mistake! Still a good ad, hope it does make it beyond the internet.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:37 AM (0yjaw)

135 >>> Polling, supposedly, says that a majority of Americans do not favor the policies listed above. It is time for us to act like the majority.

Early estimates are that over 30M people watched the alternate superbowl halftime show last night. Pretty good!

Between that and Melania breaking records for a doc, will Hollywood realize conservatives want entertainment too? Just without a lecture?

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 11:37 AM (gWBY1)

136 Anyone following the failed hit piece on Tulsi that followed the same pattern of the hits on Trump 1.0? Started at the end of last week and has already blown up in the hoaxers faces.

I think she found some damning evidence of election rigging.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 11:37 AM (viF8m)

137 Researchers from King’s College London say the trial will involve around 220 children under the age of 16 who are going through puberty, and will examine the impact of the drugs on their physical, social and emotional wellbeing.

Brazil not home of all Nazi Child Experiments.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (gbOdA)

138 People have lined up with their 'side' and are not thinking anything through on it's own merits- because they do not want to get left with no side whatsoever.

Thinking is hard. Most people would rather not.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

139 128 Yes. Which I think is part of the reason for the 80/20 divide on so many issues. People have lined up with their 'side' and are not thinking anything through on it's own merits- because they do not want to get left with no side whatsoever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (bss/y)

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If the issues were divorced from party politics, there might be more movement on things. Like, nationwide referendum on voter ID instead of going through the parties in Congress.

Once this stuff hits party politics, though, tribalism and culture just take over everything else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (GBKbO)

140 As odious as French’s support for “Drag Queen Story Hour” might have been, it still didn’t explicitly support the transing of children. But in a piece David French wrote for The Dispatch in 2021 titled “Hungary is No Model for the American Right,” he made it explicitly clear that he supports the practice of adults pressuring children into adopting a trans-identity.
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Exactly. He wasn't more explicit only because he, in that moment, didn't need to be. It was understood.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (ojr4c)

141 Apparently, South Korea still uses electro-shock therapy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

It completely and permanently cured the Rosenbergs of Communism.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (8zz6B)

142 Because all she knows is that daddy loves her and wants the best for her, and anyone who abuses that trust should be tortured to death for his troubles.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Dungeons

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (6W1vz)

143 Everyone is manipulated emotionally, some less than others. If you don't think you are, then trust me, you are, bigtime.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (QLKBy)

144 133 It's not true smug unless it comes from the Smug region of France. Otherwise it's just Euroweenie whining.

Apps to Help Shoppers Boycott U.S. Goods Gaining Popularity in Europe
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:37 AM (J+Psw)

Can't imagine china would want to be encouraging this trend.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (bss/y)

145 119 But a mix of both? Pick a lane.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:34 AM (bss/y)

"But picking a lane doesn't own the chuds!"

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (uEmCf)

146 143 Everyone is manipulated emotionally, some less than others. If you don't think you are, then trust me, you are, bigtime.
Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (QLKBy)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (bss/y)

147 David French needs to shut up and quietly go live his best life being the Lucky Pierre in the fluid-stained sleazy motel room rented by the month by NT, Inc.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:37 AM (ojr4c)

Unlucky Pierre is Pierre Omidyar, who pays the tab for French's Craigslist bulls.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 11:39 AM (BI5O2)

148 Children are handbags.

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Well the average american woman has 10 or 20xs more handbags than kids. Sadly, the culture doesnt validate moms. I cant think of any main line entertainment that celebrates regular moms. Suburban houzesluts of the NBA. Sure doesnt. Nothing culture. Self absorption, and consumption. Its shite all the way down.

Posted by: Happy Monday at February 09, 2026 11:39 AM (6rdCx)

149 If there was an "absence of clear evidence" - which, if we're being charitable, there *was* (in reality, there was an abundance of evidence in the other direction) - then why did you take the opposite position for so long? As the primary non-governmental regulatory bodies - not to mention powerful lobbying groups - for these industries, why was the "absence of clear evidence" not an obstacle when you made your prior decisions? Why should you be trusted now? Why should your membership not dissolve you, right now?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:33 AM (ojr4c)

In virtually any political/cultural circumstance, the best question to ask is qui bono? When you discover that, you discover the reason for any thought or action and how much it's going to hurt you.

Posted by: moki at February 09, 2026 11:39 AM (wLjpr)

150 There will need to be accountability.

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Make Nuremberg Trials Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 11:39 AM (Fc1qt)

151 Apparently, South Korea still uses electro-shock therapy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook

Speaking of Korea . . .

Schoolchildren in North Korea Executed for Watching “Squid Game”

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Tough but fair.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:40 AM (J+Psw)

152 I think she found some damning evidence of election rigging.

I really hope the hints that it was abetted by Mark Warner turn out to be true. I'd welcome a respite from his ugly mug.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

153 The trans-children social contagion is soon to be memory-holed, and a day is coming when it will be hard to find any politician or person of authority who will acknowledge having supported this atrocity. There will need to be accountability.
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The consequences will be harder to memory-hole. Mutilated people killing themselves will be ignored, but anyone who knows the person who did it will not forget.

And when a non-trivial number of these guys go out by murder-suicide instead because before they go, they want to take those who did it with them, that will still make the papers. "Unknown motive" and everyone will know what it means.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:40 AM (ojr4c)

154 128 Yes. Which I think is part of the reason for the 80/20 divide on so many issues. People have lined up with their 'side' and are not thinking anything through on it's own merits- because they do not want to get left with no side whatsoever.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (bss/y)

You don't want to be all alone when the shooting starts, because both sides will be shooting at you first.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:40 AM (uEmCf)

155 150 There will need to be accountability.

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Make Nuremberg Trials Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 11:39 AM (Fc1qt)

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"For ICE and everyone in the Trump administration, right? Right?!"
-like 75% of the Democrat Party

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

156 sins of omission sins of commission
sins of implicit sins of explicit
fellow travelers

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 11:40 AM (6W1vz)

157 Other than reading about him here, I’ve never heard of Dave French.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:40 AM (y6810)

158 The standard of care in malpractice cases is generally (it varies a bit from state to state) "what a reasonably prudent physician would do under the same or similar circumstances."

All of these cases will go to a jury because the experts retained for the defendant doc will be able to point to the AMA and other guidance in effect at the time advocating transing. The kid's will easily be able to retain their own experts saying it's a violation of the standard of care, regardless of AMA guidance, and it ends up a battle of experts for the jury to sort out.

Some malpractice attorneys think the experts don't matter much (being hired guns), and it comes down to how the defendant doc presents, and whether the average juror would feel comfortable being treated by the doc.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 09, 2026 11:40 AM (XvL8K)

159 If there was an "absence of clear evidence" - which, if we're being charitable, there *was* (in reality, there was an abundance of evidence in the other direction) - then why did you take the opposite position for so long? As the primary non-governmental regulatory bodies - not to mention powerful lobbying groups - for these industries, why was the "absence of clear evidence" not an obstacle when you made your prior decisions? Why should you be trusted now? Why should your membership not dissolve you, right now?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:33 AM (ojr4c)

Their collective mental state was, "We really don't know if these mutilations will help or hurt the mental state and self-esteem of the patients, but we damn-sure know we can make money doing the mutilations while hugely increasing my social credit score!"

Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 11:41 AM (5rh/l)

160 Suburban houzesluts of the NBA. Sure doesnt. Nothing culture. Self absorption, and consumption. Its shite all the way down.
Posted by: Happy Monday at February 09, 2026 11:39 AM (6rdCx)

Is that on the Christian Broadcast Network?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:41 AM (bss/y)

161
Yo David, those things you call "bespoke ideological justifications" are what we call "luxury beliefs." We also call them other things.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 09, 2026 11:41 AM (n7rxJ)

162 151 Speaking of Korea . . .

Schoolchildren in North Korea Executed for Watching “Squid Game”

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Tough but fair.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:40 AM (J+Psw)

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In Joint Security Area, a North Korean soldier is ordered to give his dog to the butchers for the men to eat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

163 Apparently, South Korea still uses electro-shock therapy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (GBKbO)
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ECT still used in the U.S.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:41 AM (RIvkX)

164 We have a fair number of viral stories - maybe 20% - on our side that leave out important facts and people generally don't want to know about it. The other side lies constantly so it's hard to filter for when reality happens to break their way, it is not merely our fault for being manipulable. But do your due diligence. And by all means amplify bs but at least know it's bs when you're doing it.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 11:41 AM (QLKBy)

165 Two interesting observations from halftime messages last night:

Bad bunny apparently told them love is stronger than hate. (Then stop telling your clapping seal fans to hate conservatives!)

And one of the singers at the alt halftime show said something like, just because you hate me doesn't mean I hate you back.

We are on the same page as far as hating hate. But until the media and culture actually eradicate using hate as a grifting tool for power and clicks, we'll never get past this nonsense.

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 11:41 AM (gWBY1)

166 What happened to Megan McArdle? These days, she's preaching that we just need to accept a certain level of fraud from the State, and that no shame should adhere to her and the rest of the asylum for the trans lunacy.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 09, 2026 11:42 AM (GPa4z)

167 163 Apparently, South Korea still uses electro-shock therapy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:36 AM (GBKbO)
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ECT still used in the U.S.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:41 AM (RIvkX)

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I thought it had been banned, if not at least massively opposed and barely used.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

168 In virtually any political/cultural circumstance, the best question to ask is qui bono? When you discover that, you discover the reason for any thought or action and how much it's going to hurt you.
Posted by: moki at February 09, 2026 11:39 AM (wLjpr)
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Yes, but that isn't exactly my point. I was unclear.

My point isn't that these questions have no answers, or even that it is difficult to make a good guess/inference about the answers. Why are these questions *NOT* being asked by any member of the press, or of the government, or by the membership of these bodies?

Because they've learned nothing, and have paid no price.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:42 AM (ojr4c)

169 Wake me up when they start backing away from puberty blockers

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 09, 2026 11:42 AM (1Au9i)

170 And the adults that pushed them into "being trans" are worse.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 09, 2026 11:26 AM (vbXSk)

And it's not always the parents. There are teachers and other "caregivers" out there pushing transmania onto children. And sometimes the parents believe their bullshit, and allow the transing. Never fall for the "dead son/live daughter" scam.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:29 AM

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Listened to an interview with a detransitioner awhile back who said the first person to recommend gender reassignment to her was her goddamn middle school guidance counselor. She said she had never thought of it before, and afterward the guidance counselor took a special interest in her, prodding her repeatedly with coaching and literature, recommending doctors who would do the deed. And, of course, she insisted that she not tell her parents or let them see the literature. The girl, now as much a woman as she can possibly be under the circumstances, said her gateway was very similar to other detransitioners she has come to know. "Guidance" counselors. There should be a tenth ring of hell.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 09, 2026 11:42 AM (NYInA)

171 Expect there to be a massive scrubbing of social media and professional records by those needing to distance themselves from their advocacy for or involvement in “gender affirming care” for minors.

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Gender-Denying Abuse

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 11:42 AM (jNfIV)

172 117 >>>Almost immediately after the ASPS statement, the American Medical Association also backed off, announcing that “In the absence of clear evidence, the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”

That's one small step.

Next license revocations from any and all who participated, including the mental health industry and pharmaceutical companies.

After that, reclassification of gender dysphoria as a mental illness.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 11:34 AM (dK+Kv)
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Absolutely. The special treatment of "adulthood" doesn't make sense here. Thinking one is of the other sex is, in itself, proof of insanity. And insane people are no more able to make rational, responsible decisions than children are. End this charade.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 09, 2026 11:43 AM (AlhUl)

173 >>>And when a non-trivial number of these guys go out by murder-suicide instead because before they go, they want to take those who did it with them, that will still make the papers. "Unknown motive" and everyone will know what it means.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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It's already happening.
All of these recent shooters have troubled sexual identity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 11:43 AM (6W1vz)

174 Good post.

It's a small victory but doesn't stop much of what the progressives will leave in place, i.e., Planned Parenthood provides gender-affirming hormone replacement therapy (HRT) using an informed consent model, with services available both in-person and via telehealth for individuals 18 and older.
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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 09, 2026 11:43 AM (NFX2v)

175 166 What happened to Megan McArdle? These days, she's preaching that we just need to accept a certain level of fraud from the State, and that no shame should adhere to her and the rest of the asylum for the trans lunacy.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 09, 2026 11:42 AM (GPa4z)

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Posit:

Nothing's changed.

She's always been a partisan Democrat who used some pedantic and simplistic economics cover to call herself an independent/libertarian.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

176 157 Other than reading about him here, I’ve never heard of Dave French.
Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:40 AM (y6810)

I had 'heard' of him back in the days of NRO. But he started to come up I think after I realized Jonah and Co. was just a hip talking gimmick (around 2005-6ish.)

Then he popped out of obscurity as someone I 'knew of' into wanting to be a candidate in the 2016 election?! With Evan McMuffin. Obviously playing as a spoiler candidate for Hillary (just like Ross Perot.) Thank fuck he failed miserably there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:43 AM (bss/y)

177 I think one of the words I hate most of all these days is “bespoke”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 09, 2026 11:43 AM (JbyEi)

178 As always follow the money.

Trans became big business and hospitals/doctors jumped on the gravy train.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:43 AM (y6810)

179 Bad bunny apparently told them love is stronger than hate.

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Why does he hate English ?

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (g47mK)

180 If I ever become King, one of the things I will do is compile a list of all transgender patients under the age of 18 going back to the beginning.

And every surviving parent and doctor involved will entertain the masses by fighting ravenous jungle cats in my Coliseum of Justice.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (BI5O2)

181 Apparently, South Korea still uses electro-shock therapy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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It probably works about as well as the US current pharmacy kink for treating things like depression. And electroshock does not mess with body chemistry near as much going forward.

Most if not all of the anti depressants, anti anxiety drugs can have a big impact on the body chemistry apart from its affect on the mind.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (2swu2)

182 Secretary Bessent Says Fed Will Take Its Time Reducing Its Balance Sheet

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Back in olden days, I was a CPA and I have absolutely no idea what "reducing its balance sheet" means.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (J+Psw)

183
That's one small step.

Next license revocations from any and all who participated, including the mental health industry and pharmaceutical companies.
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NO.
They go to jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (6W1vz)

184 OT:

@TheRealOneEles
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2h
Replying to @PpollingNumbers
If we don’t win this senate seat, black people have to answer for their tribalism

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White progressives are about to make war on the black voter base when Jasmine Crockett loses by 10 points in November.

And then Kamala will announce her candidacy a few months later.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

185 Wait until the "you know akshually the Nazis had some good ideas" stuff starts flowing from the Left. You will see it in your lifetime. Probably a lot sooner than you think. And if they ever get a truly charismatic leader, the embers are all there right now, having been stoked for a good 15 years.

And if you don't think so, recall the term "Zionism" was practically the sole refuge of the underground "far right" only a decade or two back. Now it's mainstream left.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (QLKBy)

186 >>Children are handbags.

I recall back when I started a family, based on the parenting mags and conversations with colleagues, that a lot of moms treated children as "projects" and they were "project managers" using specially designed parenting spreadsheets to track daily activities, milestones, making sure the nanny was keeping up with the right meals/snacks, getting to all the scheduled social and sports activities, etc.. It was a little unnerving.

Working full-time and parenting is a lot of work, and one does have to track a lot of things, it was just wild to see people seamless move between project meetings at work to discussing milestones w/their kids, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:45 AM (0yjaw)

187 179 Bad bunny apparently told them love is stronger than hate.

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Why does he hate English ?

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (g47mK)

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He speaks the language of Cortez in order to oppose imperialism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

188 Surgeons who performed the mutilations have the option of losing their hands or hanging.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 11:45 AM (6W1vz)

189 177 I think one of the words I hate most of all these days is “bespoke”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 09, 2026 11:43 AM (JbyEi)

I think the first time I ever saw the word was in a car magazine in the 90s. And I was like 'what does that mean?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:45 AM (bss/y)

190 17 Wasn’t Megan McArdle considered a standard conservative for a few minutes maybe 15 years ago? She’s not and never was conservative in any way….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (R3YpS)
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She was once kinda sorta libertarian, but like most of that sort, she dropped the icky economic side as if it were burning her fingers. Stuck with the sex-with-animals and anti-Christianist part.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 09, 2026 11:45 AM (AlhUl)

191 Secretary Bessent Says Fed Will Take Its Time Reducing Its Balance Sheet

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Back in olden days, I was a CPA and I have absolutely no idea what "reducing its balance sheet" means.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (J+Psw)

They just write it off.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:45 AM (y6810)

192 138 People have lined up with their 'side' and are not thinking anything through on it's own merits- because they do not want to get left with no side whatsoever.

Thinking is hard. Most people would rather not.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

Well...yes. Even here I've witnessed people openly reject Enlightment empiricism, critical thinking and rational inquiry because the facts didn't fit their preconceived notions or wrongly-reached conclusions, and didn't like their ox getting gored. That's when you see the lashing out, ad hominem attacks, and flouncing. It's something to be guarded against.

Posted by: Solipsism is a hell of a drug at February 09, 2026 11:45 AM (TbWk/)

193 177 I think one of the words I hate most of all these days is “bespoke”.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Replaced artisan I think in the popular vernacular as too many products got called artisan that were not.

Thus, bespoke was the new cool kids monicker to set them apart from the hoi polloi.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:46 AM (2swu2)

194 We are on the same page as far as hating hate.

Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 11:41 AM (gWBY1)
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"Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate Thee? And do not I strive with those that rise up against Thee? I hate them with utmost hatred; I count them mine enemies." - King David, Psalms 139:21-22

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 09, 2026 11:46 AM (cUGtl)

195 Yo David, those things you call "bespoke ideological justifications" are what we call "luxury beliefs." We also call them other things.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Gross rationalizations to justify their perspectives/actions?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 11:46 AM (XeU6L)

196 I have a boat, a bunch of millstones and some 550 cord. For rent.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 09, 2026 11:46 AM (/IZKJ)

197 And it's not always the parents. There are teachers and other "caregivers" out there pushing transmania onto children. And sometimes the parents believe their bullshit, and allow the transing. Never fall for the "dead son/live daughter" scam.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:29 AM (8zz6B)
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This is why I expect a significant uptick in murder/suicide crimes over the next 5-10 years.

It is not difficult to understand - or predict - that a mutilated person who decides to off himself might decide to take those he deems responsible for the mutilation with him. In many cases, it will be his parents, but not universally. I expect teachers and doctors to get hit with it, too. And nobody in the press will notice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:46 AM (ojr4c)

198 Thx Buck, great post.
As someone pointed out the whole trans industry will collapse when reinsurance companies put an end to reinsurance for medical malpractice insurance companies who insure doctors and hospitals that perform trans surgeries especially on children. One or two more successful lawsuits and it's over

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 09, 2026 11:46 AM (Hhsnh)

199 The doctors should’ve known better.. but even more so the PARENTS should’ve known better sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 09, 2026 11:46 AM (ZCxQ+)

200 162
‘ a North Korean soldier is ordered to give his dog to the butchers for the men to eat.’

Well, doggone.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 09, 2026 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

201 I recall back when I started a family, based on the parenting mags and conversations with colleagues, that a lot of moms treated children as "projects" and they were "project managers" using specially designed parenting spreadsheets to track daily activities, milestones, making sure the nanny was keeping up with the right meals/snacks, getting to all the scheduled social and sports activities, etc.. It was a little unnerving.

Working full-time and parenting is a lot of work, and one does have to track a lot of things, it was just wild to see people seamless move between project meetings at work to discussing milestones w/their kids, lol.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:45 AM (0yjaw)

Huh. That's interesting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:47 AM (bss/y)

202 Never fall for the "dead son/live daughter" scam.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Agreed. The only possible problem is that there is nothing to stop a medical professional from fighting back by calling the police on the parents with a claim they are committing LITERAL GENOCIDE! on their child.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 11:47 AM (OPGS/)

203 White progressives are about to make war on the black voter base when Jasmine Crockett loses by 10 points in November.

Her website was as amateurish as you'd expect from her, but I'm sure it's rayciss to point that out.

Jasmine Crockett Finally Added Some Policy to Her Website and It Was a Disaster

https://is.gd/fPihmH

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

204 There are other examples of unthinkable practices that were once widely supported, but which are now recalled with abhorrence, such as eugenics and lobotomies. The trans-child social contagion will be remembered similarly.

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Would be nice if systemic election fraud was considered one of these practices.

#SOON?

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 11:47 AM (dTakD)

205 Politico’s TDS Take on Olympics: Defeating USA a “Moral Imperative”

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TDS on acid with a meth chaser.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:47 AM (J+Psw)

206 203 Her website was as amateurish as you'd expect from her, but I'm sure it's rayciss to point that out.

Jasmine Crockett Finally Added Some Policy to Her Website and It Was a Disaster

https://is.gd/fPihmH

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

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Her campaign is no more than Black Girl Magic grift. It should surprise no one that her campaign is run by morons. They don't have to be smart to succeed with her name recognition and online presence in the modern Democrat Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

207 Posted by: LizLem at February 09, 2026 11:41 AM (gWBY1)

They somehow stole morality out from Christianity's nose and they are in the middle of attempting the same thing with "love". In both cases they use the gays to get there. It's fascinating to watch.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 11:48 AM (QLKBy)

208 We are on the same page as far as hating hate.

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Speak for yourself.

I hate the Left with everything I've got, and I'll never moderate or apologize for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 11:48 AM (BI5O2)

209 And every surviving parent and doctor involved will entertain the masses by fighting ravenous jungle cats in my Coliseum of Justice.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

In my domain, those people are also in a Coliseum that has one knife in the middle of it and I tell them to fight to the end.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 11:48 AM (OPGS/)

210 Bespoke is a milenial thing. Like craft beer and those retarded ZZ Top beards.

Luckily their influence in pop culture is dying off. One thing GenZ and da Boomers agree on is milienals are retarded.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:48 AM (y6810)

211 Secretary Bessent Says Fed Will Take Its Time Reducing Its Balance Sheet

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Back in olden days, I was a CPA and I have absolutely no idea what "reducing its balance sheet" means.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (J+Psw)

They just write it off.
Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:45 AM (y6810)
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Bessent is probably referring to the opposite of "qualitative easing." QE involves the fed buying assets, such as bonds and other securities, to (artificially) stimulate the economy. Reducing the balance sheet means selling off assets.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

212 Surgeons who performed the mutilations have the option of losing their hands or hanging.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 11:45 AM (6W1vz)
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They'll find better work terms in the UK:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9spre4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 09, 2026 11:49 AM (cUGtl)

213 I've always viewed "bespoke" and "custom" as synonyms, but it turns out there's a difference, at least in clothing.

Custom refers to products altered from a base template to fit a customer's specifications, while bespoke implies a completely unique item designed and crafted from scratch, often by hand. Custom offers personalization within set options, whereas bespoke offers unlimited customization, superior craftsmanship, and a higher level of detail, typically at a higher cost.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

214 Thus, bespoke was the new cool kids monicker to set them apart from the hoi polloi.
Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:46 AM (2swu2)

The bewheels of the bebicycle have bespokes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:49 AM (8zz6B)

215 211 Bessent is probably referring to the opposite of "qualitative easing." QE involves the fed buying assets, such as bonds and other securities, to (artificially) stimulate the economy. Reducing the balance sheet means selling off assets.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

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Quantitative tightening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

216 >>Bad bunny apparently told them love is stronger than hate. (Then stop telling your clapping seal fans to hate conservatives!)

And one of the singers at the alt halftime show said something like, just because you hate me doesn't mean I hate you back.
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The problem is that their definition of "hate" is disagreeing with them.

For example, "I don't want an open border" = "I hate all foreigners" to them

Not liking BB's music = "I hate you, I hate Spanish, and I hate Puerto Rico" to them

Tired of slogans and word games. You don't get to smear half the country as bigots and then pretend to be 'above all this hate.'

Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:49 AM (0yjaw)

217 What is really important is that we have fair representation of trans pilots.

"In an article for the New York Post, Huff wrote that President Donald Trump was right to rescind diversity efforts at the Federal Aviation Administration.

That’s because female and minority pilots -- many of whom entered the industry amid a drive toward diversity among pilots -- were responsible for half of pilot-error crashes.

Despite making up 10 percent of pilots, they were responsible for four out of eight such crashes since 2000."

I guess that might include the military helicopter pilot (co-pilot?) that steered right into a commercial jet on landing approach.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (vbXSk)

218 Luckily their influence in pop culture is dying off. One thing GenZ and da Boomers agree on is milienals are retarded.

Gen X concurs!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (emBoF)

219
My point isn't that these questions have no answers, or even that it is difficult to make a good guess/inference about the answers. Why are these questions *NOT* being asked by any member of the press, or of the government, or by the membership of these bodies?

Because they've learned nothing, and have paid no price.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:42 AM (ojr4c)

I understand and agree with you, but add that yeah, they did know what they were doing and they did it because they made boatloads of money from the perpetrators for their silence or complicity. They deceived and hurt people for their own benefit. And they have done this for centuries, and have not paid a big enough price, as you said. They got away with it and will until we, the people, say "Enough." And mean it.

Posted by: moki at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (wLjpr)

220 Planned Parenthood: Under Pressure from Constituents"

Much like the EV crap, this was chasing taxpayer coin...

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (XuXeR)

221 The fact that David French, who is on the record advocating for the “promotion of…gender transition to children,” is now walking back that support serves as a beacon to the establishment left that the trans-children era is over.

Next step is to end the "transgender" era completely.

Considering "transgender" does not exist. Gender refers to words. Words have gender. Masculine, feminine and neuter. People have sexes based on their biology, chromosomes. Male and female.

That's it. There are no genders when referring to people. People have two sexes and anyone who wants to refer to themselves, or "identify", as the opposite sex should be referred to as transsexuals.

And transsexual shall be correctly defined as "someone with a mental illness who thinks they are the opposite sex". Not someone who *is* the opposite sex, since that is not possible, but someone who thinks they are the opposite sex.

We need to get things back to reality and stop talking in the made-up bullshit of the Marxist left.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (P5BPp)

222 ECT is not nearly as common as it was, but is still prescribed often for major depressive disorder, after other treatments including inpatient and Rx have failed. It is proven effective even though One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest did for ECT what The China Syndrome did for nuclear power.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (RIvkX)

223 129 What is the single reason we should listen to anything French states? The sine qua non that gives him, or anybody else currency?

tangent qua non > sine qua non > cosine qua non

Posted by: anachronda at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (sGtp+)

224 You know, I'm old enough to remember when the Left was demanding "no recriminations" after Viet Nam. And we let them get away with it.

Let's learn from the past. We're supposed to the side that does that.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (AlhUl)

225 I actually tried to watch that halftime show just to be "fair"

it was painful

couldn't do it

didn't make it through the game either

awful

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (emBoF)

226 "Bespoke" used to mean "custom" or something that was a "one off" design of something more pedestrian. I'm familiar with it's meaning when it comes to cars, high end or sports typically.

But, yea, it's overused for a lot of things these days.

What terminology isn't?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (jtM2q)

227 During the BLM summer of 2020, they publicly advocated on social media in favor of riots, vandalism, criminal violence, property destruction, and defunding the police. With those positions now toxic even for Democrats ...

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Heh, that observation did not age very well, Buck!

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 11:51 AM (dTakD)

228 recall back when I started a family, based on the parenting mags and conversations with colleagues, that a lot of moms treated children as "projects" and they were "project managers" using specially designed parenting spreadsheets to track daily activities, milestones, making sure the nanny was keeping up with the right meals/snacks, getting to all the scheduled social and sports activities, etc.. It was a little unnerving.

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Remove the nanny from the equation and that was my wife. She had Google sheets color co-ordinated with school schedules, test dates, extra curricular activities, birthday parties, etc.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:51 AM (y6810)

229 Back in olden days, I was a CPA and I have absolutely no idea what "reducing its balance sheet" means.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:44 AM (J+Psw)
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It means "unwinding quantitative easing." The Fed can't actually print money. It can produce whatever "dollars" it wants, but it has no way to distribute them. The means of distribution is the purchase of assets.

1. "Print money"
2. Buy stuff with it, transferring the new money to the former owner and bid up the price in the process

When you do that, the balance sheet grows. Those assets go on the books. So to "reduce the balance sheet" and unwind it, the Fed has two choices:
1. Sell off its holdings, extracting money out of the economy and returning it to the Fed - and bid down the price in the process
2. Wait for its holding to mature, then decline to use the money paid back to buy new assets.

Either will reduce money supply. Letting it happen naturally makes the effect gradual. Selling off assets is very fast, but is much less efficient (since you're bidding down that which you once bid up, and so can't undo the prior action perfectly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM (ojr4c)

230 All those who abused and mutilated children for their own greed, they deserve the afterlife of Dr. John Money who was the first ghoul in the US to treat a child as a gender experiment and lie about how successful it all was.

The child, as an adult, committed suicide.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM (2GVsD)

231 Obviously, Jasmine Crockofshit just needs mail in votes from South Carolina.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM (uEmCf)

232 70 I hope this is all true. But I suspect and fear that the trans madness and butchery will just go underground. There's already an illicit underground plastic surgery industry. It wouldn't be hard to add trans butchery to that industry.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

Wealthy adults generally go to Brazil or Korea for extreme plastic surgery (whether trans-related or not)
Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:19 AM (uEmCf)
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True, but the rich generally pay for quality PS in Brazil and Korea. I was thinking more of the dirt-cheap, underground cosmetic butchers in Mexico and other south-of-the-border locations. A procedure that costs $15k in TX might cost 10% of that in MX. But you get what you pay for.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:22 AM (iFTx/)
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So you end up with one breast and one testicle? Why that's the average person!

Posted by: Eeyore at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM (AlhUl)

233 At one point, Megan McArdle was kinda cute; maybe a “Peggy Noonan 6.”

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM (6NLLD)

234 Jonathan Turley: Grandstanding Newsom Will Stop at Nothing to Ride the Rails to Glory in 2028

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So you're saying he's ethically flexible?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM (J+Psw)

235 Make Nuremberg Trials Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 11:39 AM (Fc1qt)

Add Hangings and Firing Squads

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM (gbOdA)

236 >>I actually tried to watch that halftime show just to be "fair"
it was painful
couldn't do it
>>didn't make it through the game either

Football is not only Gay, it is also extremely boring.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (gH8T+)

237 The bewheels of the bebicycle have bespokes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:49 AM

Shut it, Mush Mouth.

Posted by: Fat Albert at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (bFu5X)

238 233 At one point, Megan McArdle was kinda cute; maybe a “Peggy Noonan 6.”
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM (6NLLD)

More like a Kat Timpf 4.

What was the attraction of Kat Timpf? Was it just the cleavage and glasses?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (bss/y)

239 the next opioid crisis will be transgender medicine. They’ll stop providing transgender care because physicians won’t be able to get malpractice insurance due to all the lawsuits. If that happens, doctors won’t be able to provide transgender care at all.

this isn't the first time detransitioners lied and blamed others for their decisions. There is something very toxic about detransition community and it should be discussed more, because it's harmful not only for us but even for them.

I literally saw multiple detransitionners on their sub say that trans people doesn’t exist. It’s deceitful and hurts those with legitimate gender dysphoria.

it’s seen as bad because the average person is a binary thinker, if it’s not x it must be y. truth and competence usually lies in the middle of extremes, you need to be open enough for people to be able to transition without jumping through a million hoops taking years but also be strict enough that stops abuse of the service for people who don’t need it

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (JCZqz)

240 A number of years back, maybe pre-covid, there was a story in the news of a mother who wanted court permission to medically transition (castrate) a 6 or 7 year old boy. The divorced father was fighting it saying the reason the boy said he wanted it was it was the only way the mother would show him any love/approval.

Last I remember the father was losing in court - but I never heard anything more.

I wonder what the outcome was....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (QGaXH)

241 >>Huh. That's interesting.

Had one guy telling me about the upcoming summer's plans for his son that included baseball camp as well as intensive one-on-one training on his pitch to relearn his throw (or whatever). The kid was 7.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (0yjaw)

242 230 All those who abused and mutilated children for their own greed, they deserve the afterlife of Dr. John Money who was the first ghoul in the US to treat a child as a gender experiment and lie about how successful it all was.

The child, as an adult, committed suicide.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM (2GVsD)

James Younger's wife wanted to perform the same experiment (and probably _is_ performing it), since James' sons were also twins, like David and Brian Reimer.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (uEmCf)

243 "Children are handbags."

There are a fuckton of narcissistic parents out there, both women and men (but the women get more praise and affirmation for theirs) who view their children not as individual human beings but extensions of themselves, and as objects to be used to fulfill their own desires or dreams, or to get the praise of others. Women trans their kids for "you're such a brave ally" pats on the head. Men force their sons into sports they hate to keep their own dreams of being an all-star on life support. "Your kids are so well-behaved" when in reality they're so terrorized they dare not speak a single word out of turn. There are plenty of other examples, but you get the drift.

Posted by: Parents who want adulation, kids' well-being be damned at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (TbWk/)

244 At one point, Megan McArdle was kinda cute; maybe a “Peggy Noonan 6.”

At one point, long before electricity, Noonan was quite babealicious.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (Riz8t)

245 Speaking of altered sport-suited body shape to gain a performance increase in Olympic winter sports -

I'm watching Women's single luge and speed skating. USA channel. All women I've seen in both sports are either naturally very flat-chested or are artificially flattening their bazoomers. Must be the latter. I guess increased competitor body circumference in specific locations does not reduce total body drag. Science!

However, the lowest-drag luge position is reclined, feet first. The luger must raise his/her head just enough to see ahead. So, huge-bazoomed female lugers must to raise their heads to see ahead more than flat-chested ones, no doubt increasing drag for the former. More science, I suppose.

Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (5rh/l)

246 Quantitative tightening (QT) is
a contractionary monetary policy used by central banks to reduce liquidity in the financial system by shrinking their balance sheets. It works by allowing maturing securities (Treasury bonds, mortgage-backed securities) to "roll off" without reinvestment, or by actively selling them, which raises long-term interest rates.

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So, Bessent wants to shrink the money supply which could affect interest rates on the market by driving them up while the Fed won't lower interest rates on government bonds which are generally too high compared to the market.

Almost like QT is necessary to balance with lowered Fed interest rates to prevent some kind of interest rate shock.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

247 The bewheels of the bebicycle have bespokes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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And the wheels go round and round just like language. Old becomes antique becomes vintage.

I think most of what we see in public discourse is a constant signalling of social and tribal status--the truly wealthy and the poor are more immune to that sort of signalling for the most part because both of those social classes can afford to do so.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (2swu2)

248 I guess that might include the military helicopter pilot (co-pilot?) that steered right into a commercial jet on landing approach.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (vbXSk)

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That crash isn't a clear example of DEI failure judging by the ongoing NHTSA investigation. Many other factors and systems failures were in play

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (1Au9i)

249 235 Make Nuremberg Trials Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 11:39 AM (Fc1qt)

Add Hangings and Firing Squads
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM (gbOdA)

Just want to point out that both sides are using Nuremburg Trials the same way these days: when we get in power we are going to try and execute our enemies.

Not saying that is not what it is going to come down to, but it is interesting to note the common usage of the euphemism.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:55 AM (bss/y)

250 Football is not only Gay, it is also extremely boring.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (gH8T+)

Out of a 3+ hour game there’s something like 10 minutes of actual football played.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:55 AM (y6810)

251 Where's the bad Bad Bunny ad hominem flame war rant?

Posted by: sTevo at February 09, 2026 11:55 AM (CWGlO)

252 Those South Korean plastic surgery clinics are not as safe as you think. To keep the money flowing, a known reliable surgeon will start the surgery and then let an understudy finish the job. So the doctor of record can perform four surgeries at the same time.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:55 AM (2GVsD)

253 I've always viewed "bespoke" and "custom" as synonyms, but it turns out there's a difference, at least in clothing.

Custom refers to products altered from a base template to fit a customer's specifications, while bespoke implies a completely unique item designed and crafted from scratch, often by hand. Custom offers personalization within set options, whereas bespoke offers unlimited customization, superior craftsmanship, and a higher level of detail, typically at a higher cost.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)
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They are the same thing. "Bespoke" is an old elitist Brit term that's used to make "custom" sound too plebian. Sorta like when a "used car" is called a "pre-owned" car.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

254 239 the next opioid crisis will be transgender medicine. They’ll stop providing transgender care because physicians won’t be able to get malpractice insurance due to all the lawsuits. If that happens, doctors won’t be able to provide transgender care at all.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (JCZqz)

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I seriously doubt that if the cut has already been done, that doctors won't be able to prescribe things like pain relievers.

Also, why do post-op trannies need pain reliever regularly? Is that something that most normal people have to do just to get through the day?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

255 The bewheels of the bebicycle have bespokes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:49 AM (8zz6B)
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Only a ding-a-ling says that.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 09, 2026 11:55 AM (cUGtl)

256 The child, as an adult, committed suicide.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:52 AM

Obviously this was the fault of conservatives in society failing to fully embrace and celebrate zim, h8r!!!!!

Posted by: Leftists Everywhere at February 09, 2026 11:55 AM (bFu5X)

257 Had one guy telling me about the upcoming summer's plans for his son that included baseball camp as well as intensive one-on-one training on his pitch to relearn his throw (or whatever). The kid was 7.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (0yjaw)

That's so weird. Like a car you are modifying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:56 AM (bss/y)

258 191. They just write it off.
Posted by: Really??

👍

The iconic "write-off" scene between Jerry and Kramer occurs in the Seinfeld episode “The Package” which is Season 8, Episode 5. Kramer tries to convince Jerry to scam the post office for a broken stereo, famously claiming that big companies just "write it off."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 09, 2026 11:56 AM (NFX2v)

259 >>However, the lowest-drag luge position is reclined, feet first. The luger must raise his/her head just enough to see ahead. So, huge-bazoomed female lugers must to raise their heads to see ahead more than flat-chested ones, no doubt increasing drag for the former. More science, I suppose.

They need a bra that doesn't lift but still separates.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 11:56 AM (gH8T+)

260 However, the lowest-drag luge position is reclined, feet first. The luger must raise his/her head just enough to see ahead. So, huge-bazoomed female lugers must to raise their heads to see ahead more than flat-chested ones, no doubt increasing drag for the former. More science, I suppose.

You'll never see Abigail Shapiro in the Olympic Women's Luge event, I can tell you that.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

261
That crash isn't a clear example of DEI failure judging by the ongoing NHTSA investigation. Many other factors and systems failures were in play
Posted by: Bigsmith at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (1Au9i)

Other factors like gravity?

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:56 AM (y6810)

262 240 A number of years back, maybe pre-covid, there was a story in the news of a mother who wanted court permission to medically transition (castrate) a 6 or 7 year old boy. The divorced father was fighting it saying the reason the boy said he wanted it was it was the only way the mother would show him any love/approval.

Last I remember the father was losing in court - but I never heard anything more.

I wonder what the outcome was....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Texas case and Family Courts are notorious for injustice. They should really be replaced with six person juries for key fact finding in contested cases.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:56 AM (2swu2)

263 96 There are teachers and other "caregivers" out there pushing transmania onto children.

and transwomania.

Posted by: anachronda at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (sGtp+)

264 hate the Left with everything I've got, and I'll never moderate or apologize for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 11:48 AM (BI5O2)

I don't hate it but I do despise it. Hate is corrosive though so it's best to find an answer within that doesn't waste good energy on something so non productive.

Also hate the sin not the sinner.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (QLKBy)

265 ... They’ll stop providing transgender care because physicians won’t be able to get malpractice insurance due to all the lawsuits. If that happens, doctors won’t be able to provide transgender care at all. ...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (JCZqz)
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He says this like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (ojr4c)

266 251 Where's the bad Bad Bunny ad hominem flame war rant?
Posted by: sTevo at February 09, 2026 11:55 AM (CWGlO)

I don't think he's that important.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (bss/y)

267 What was the attraction of Kat Timpf? Was it just the cleavage and glasses?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

As Meatloaf said, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

Posted by: Horny Moron at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (JCZqz)

268 Headline (Wall Street Journal):

"Stocks’ sharp rebound is only making investors more nervous"

Posted by: mrp at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (rj6Yv)

269 The child, as an adult, committed suicide.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Both children died by suicide. And Doctor Money complained how right wingers were making his life miserable towards the end.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (OPGS/)

270 "And transsexual shall be correctly defined as "someone with a mental illness who thinks they are the opposite sex". Not someone who *is* the opposite sex, since that is not possible, but someone who thinks they are the opposite sex."

A lot of them are just cross dressers. It has become "hip" for them to claim they actually believe they are "the other sex", but every time they pee they are reminded that fantasy is a lie.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (vbXSk)

271 268 Headline (Wall Street Journal):

"Stocks’ sharp rebound is only making investors more nervous"

Posted by: mrp at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (rj6Yv)

======

"Is the stock market even real?"
-stock traders, apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

272 Maybe this madness is abating, but bank it that Another madness will ensue. The Age of Hysteria has dawned.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (pDt9x)

273 Hate is corrosive though so it's best to find an answer within that doesn't waste good energy on something so non productive.

How about contempt?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (OPGS/)

274 Texas case and Family Courts are notorious for injustice. They should really be replaced with six person juries for key fact finding in contested cases.
Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:56 AM (2swu2)
++++
There is no state in the union where family courts aren't notorious for injustice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (ojr4c)

275 Righteous rant, per usual, Buck.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (dTakD)

276 At one point, Megan McArdle was kinda cute; maybe a “Peggy Noonan 6.”

At one point, long before electricity, Noonan was quite babealicious.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (Riz8t)

This I cannot believe… no

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (ZCxQ+)

277 262 Texas case and Family Courts are notorious for injustice. They should really be replaced with six person juries for key fact finding in contested cases.
Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:56 AM (2swu2)

The mother (who was not the biological mother, if that matters to anyone. I know to some people, it doesn't.) fled to California with both sons.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (uEmCf)

278 Nazism!

Breaking911
@Breaking911
Mexican restaurant in Arizona offers free meals to all ICE agents.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (J+Psw)

279 17 Wasn’t Megan McArdle considered a standard conservative for a few minutes maybe 15 years ago? She’s not and never was conservative in any way….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 09, 2026 11:06 AM (R3YpS)

She was a heterodox essayist with a frustrating tendency to get close to an interesting truth and then whoosh, miss it. She would take a 40,000' view of an issue, illuminating connections that escaped more conventional commentators, and that was enough to make her a deep thinker to the kind of people who think The Economist is objective.

But over time, with one essay after another leaving me annoyed, I finally put my finger on what was bugging me: her view was static. She had no sense of dynamic complexity, as if the surface features a system displayed could be taken as representative, instead of merely the current result of competing feedback loops in constant tension. So, I stopped reading.

Posted by: SciVo at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (Sy6m/)

280 Abby Shapiro is also an opera singer.

Posted by: Bulg at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

281 272 Maybe this madness is abating, but bank it that Another madness will ensue. The Age of Hysteria has dawned.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (pDt9x)

======

"All children are marrying sex robots!"
-story about one adult marrying a sex robot with no data about it as a general trend

"We must freak out!"
-people who read the headline

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

282 >>Remove the nanny from the equation and that was my wife. She had Google sheets color co-ordinated with school schedules, test dates, extra curricular activities, birthday parties, etc.

Understandable. It is tough to track everything when both parents are working - my intention was not to slam being organized. After growing up in the free-range kid 70's it was just a little weird, particularly in a work environment ruled by project managers, speradsheets, etc.. to see the similarities between work/and kid management.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (0yjaw)

283 244
‘ At one point, Megan McArdle was kinda cute; maybe a “Peggy Noonan 6.”

At one point, long before electricity, Noonan was quite babealicious.’
Yeah but now you would have to blow the dust off.
Less so with Megan.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (jbnUc)

284 The DC mid-air had many holes in many slices of cheese to happen.

But the capper was the CWO not acting like the Instructor Pilot he was supposed to be, the Captain in the transcripts was not performing well and he should have stepped in and stopped the training flight.

He didn't.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (2GVsD)

285 271 268 Headline (Wall Street Journal):

"Stocks’ sharp rebound is only making investors more nervous"

Posted by: mrp at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (rj6Yv)

======

"Is the stock market even real?"
-stock traders, apparently
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (GBKbO

The could have merely said “ what goes up must come down”.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (pDt9x)

286 >>It probably works about as well as the US current pharmacy kink for treating things like depression.

Long ago, a neuropsychology professor told our class that ECT was the only truly effective treatment for depression. Problem was people were led to believe that the doctors just plugged the patients into a wall socket, when it was less than 1 amp of current.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (NcvvS)

287 226 "Bespoke" used to mean "custom" or something that was a "one off" design of something more pedestrian. I'm familiar with it's meaning when it comes to cars, high end or sports typically.

But, yea, it's overused for a lot of things these days.

What terminology isn't?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2026 11:50 AM (jtM2q)

6-7
*up and down hand gesture*

Posted by: No cap FRFR on God at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (TbWk/)

288 Oddly, the left is still clinging to this like their life depends on it. Every hollywood leftist and boutique hard left academic adores tranny stuff still. All the progressive faux Christian types are all in on it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (PYyV9)

289 "Bespoke" used to mean "custom" or something that was a "one off" design of something more pedestrian. I'm familiar with it's meaning when it comes to cars, high end or sports typically.
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Men's wear, specifically, custom tailored suits. Usage turns up in British literature, indicating that the wearer is a person of affluence.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (XeU6L)

290 Had one guy telling me about the upcoming summer's plans for his son that included baseball camp as well as intensive one-on-one training on his pitch to relearn his throw (or whatever). The kid was 7.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (0yjaw)

My kids spent many a summer day doing things like that. Never one on one but team workouts and shit. Seemed like the “season” never ends. It’s all year long either playing, practicing , workouts, camps etc.

Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (y6810)

291 I wonder what the outcome was....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (QGaXH)
-

Grok:

https://tinyurl.com/yzuku8j8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (cUGtl)

292 267 What was the attraction of Kat Timpf? Was it just the cleavage and glasses?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
======
Looks better on TV I guess than her rather pedestrian writings.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (2swu2)

293 Maybe this madness is abating, but bank it that Another madness will ensue. The Age of Hysteria has dawned.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (pDt9x)

---------------

Next they'll be advocating for decriminalizing pedophilia.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (dTakD)

294 he should have stepped in and stopped the training flight"

Yeah. Career risk, there. Ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (XuXeR)

295 285 The could have merely said “ what goes up must come down”.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (pDt9x)

=====

DOW only go up now.

Algorithm outside shoulda told you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

296 From the morning news, the most interesting thing (trending) from the Bad Bunny show was large fake green bushes, part of his set down on the field, also marched off.

I can only imagine it was.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 09, 2026 12:01 PM (NFX2v)

297 "All children are marrying sex robots!"
-story about one adult marrying a sex robot with no data about it as a general trend

"We must freak out!"
-people who read the headline

90% of news these days

I think AI writing news stories is at least partly to blame

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:01 PM (PYyV9)

298 We are on the same page as far as hating hate.

------

Speak for yourself.

I hate the Left with everything I've got, and I'll never moderate or apologize for it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Hate not only lives here, it pays the mortgage.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 09, 2026 12:01 PM (PcTIw)

299
They need a bra that doesn't lift but still separates.
Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 11:56 AM (gH8T+)
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I never hear that without picturing Jane Russell wrap her breasts in measuring tape to illustrate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 12:01 PM (RIvkX)

300 193 177 I think one of the words I hate most of all these days is “bespoke”.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Replaced artisan I think in the popular vernacular as too many products got called artisan that were not.

Thus, bespoke was the new cool kids monicker to set them apart from the hoi polloi.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 11:46 AM (2swu2)

The common terms used before the 'bespoke' craze were tailored, custom-made, custom-built, and so on. When I first read the term bespoke in an article several years ago, I had never before seen it or heard it used. And I'm a few years older than 29. From context I guessed it meant custom-made for one person, but to be sure I had look-up the definition.

Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 12:01 PM (5rh/l)

301 293 Next they'll be advocating for decriminalizing pedophilia.

Oh, wait ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (dTakD)

California already did, to cater to that Scott Weiner guy.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 12:02 PM (uEmCf)

302 Both children died by suicide. And Doctor Money complained how right wingers were making his life miserable towards the end.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (OPGS/)

Both kids should have tracked down Dr. Money, and murdered him instead. Wimps.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 12:02 PM (8zz6B)

303 Sorry, I meant to add that since that time, Megan McCardle became fully captured by her class interests, and no longer has anything even remotely interesting to say. It is very sad.

Posted by: SciVo at February 09, 2026 12:02 PM (Sy6m/)

304 296 From the morning news, the most interesting thing (trending) from the Bad Bunny show was large fake green bushes, part of his set down on the field, also marched off.

I can only imagine it was.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 09, 2026 12:01 PM (NFX2v)

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Were they going to Dunsinane Hill?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

305 The Reimers were Canadian.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 12:02 PM (2GVsD)

306 Bespoke suddenly showed up out of nowhere one day, like a lot of terms everyone uses to feel cool. Like "that happened a minute ago" etc, just suddenly everyone was using it.

Its not that nobody used bespoke before, it was just limited to very few people in a very specific kind of setting now its all over the place. This is my bespoke pencil!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:03 PM (PYyV9)

307 Cue up REM, their most famous song. Evergreen.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:03 PM (pDt9x)

308 >>I never hear that without picturing Jane Russell wrap her breasts in measuring tape to illustrate.

Right?

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:03 PM (gH8T+)

309 So, Bessent wants to shrink the money supply which could affect interest rates on the market by driving them up while the Fed won't lower interest rates on government bonds which are generally too high compared to the market.

Almost like QT is necessary to balance with lowered Fed interest rates to prevent some kind of interest rate shock.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

Why not just stop expanding M2 and let growth and productivity catch up?

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 09, 2026 12:03 PM (gbOdA)

310 Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (2swu2)

--------------

I was lamenting to The Wifey afterwards about missing an opportunity during our conversation the other night about your "canine therapy," when I could have said "The Lord works in mysterious strays."

She retorted: "Or, The Lord works in mysterious wags."

[The smiley faces don't work on my phone for some reason]

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 12:04 PM (dTakD)

311 Maybe this madness is abating, but bank it that Another madness will ensue. The Age of Hysteria has dawned.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 11:58 AM (pDt9x)

======

"All children are marrying sex robots!"
-story about one adult marrying a sex robot with no data about it as a general trend

"We must freak out!"
-people who read the headline
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (GBKbO)
_____

"Two people doing something in the entire world is a trend. Three is a movement. Four is a revolution!"

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

312 Which is more execrable, bespoke, or stochastic? Tough call.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:04 PM (pDt9x)

313 Yeah. Career risk, there. Ain't gonna happen.
Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (XuXeR)

His career went to shit, anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 12:04 PM (8zz6B)

314 FOR THE SINGER OF REM

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=dA21dyNY3V4

Posted by: fIREHOSE at February 09, 2026 12:04 PM (gH8T+)

315 309 Why not just stop expanding M2 and let growth and productivity catch up?

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 09, 2026 12:03 PM (gbOdA)

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It's my understanding that the Fed is continuing to increase M2, but at a must slower rate than over the last few years, which is part of the reason inflation is down as much as it is.

But, it seems like Bessent is trying his hand at managed deflationary actions without going full deflation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

316
Long ago, a neuropsychology professor told our class that ECT was the only truly effective treatment for depression. Problem was people were led to believe that the doctors just plugged the patients into a wall socket, when it was less than 1 amp of current.
Posted by: Nazdar at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM (NcvvS)

It's still used for medication-resistant intractable depression. Basically everything else has to have failed first, and it's not at all like what they were doing back when various quacks decided that high voltage and radium exposure would cure everything. It's low levels of electricity, it's performed under sedation, and you don't turn into a drooling vegetable with a thousand-yard stare as depicted in movies and TV.

Posted by: It's not OFOTCN at February 09, 2026 12:05 PM (TbWk/)

317 When I first read the term bespoke in an article several years ago, I had never before seen it or heard it used.
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Pretty sure my first encounter was in a P.G. Wodehouse book.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2026 12:05 PM (XeU6L)

318 apropos...every time I would see people people praising mosaub hassan yousef aka "the green prince" , I would be like, are you blind ? you can't trust this guy! just look at him ! he is fake, fake, fake! of course I am a professional amateur physiognomist and can see far beyond average persons...and now I've proven right ! He's been on a rant against the iranians since the new Revolution. his bosses must be pretty desperate to have him go all the way like that.

Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 12:05 PM (g47mK)

319 wait until you witness bespoked stochastic terrorism.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 12:05 PM (2GVsD)

320 that a lot of moms treated children as "projects" and they were "project managers" using specially designed parenting spreadsheets to track daily activities, milestones, making sure the nanny was keeping up with the right meals/snacks, getting to all the scheduled social and sports activities, etc."

Apgar scores and Dr. Spock laugh...

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 12:05 PM (XuXeR)

321 Long ago, a neuropsychology professor told our class that ECT was the only truly effective treatment for depression. Problem was people were led to believe that the doctors just plugged the patients into a wall socket, when it was less than 1 amp of current.
Posted by: Nazdar
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From what I've seen, your neuropsych professor was probably accurate. There are some new pharma treatments too though so we shall see their aftereffects on bodies in about 20 years or so.

I do think that the overprescribing of anti depressants and anti anxiety medications probably have led to obesity issues as they literally rewire parts of the bod's chemistry to the point that it affects metabolism and eating desires.

Blue haired, pierced, obnoxious land whales, may have, in part, become that way via modern pharmacology.

And we don't know yet about the effect of all these chemicals pissed out into our drinking water as to how it will affect humanity in general.

We tend to create these circumstances then react when the downsides come back to bite us in the ass later on.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:05 PM (2swu2)

322 There will be no memory holing this shit. Communities know who these people are, locally, and some organizations are forever associated with it. Fewer and fewer are willing to cover for friends and family that they know pushed this crap and will rat them out.

And, lastly - as I recall some commentator famously and correctly noted right after the election - most of the people who foisted this on their kids can never backpedal. To do so is to admit their monstrous actions.

If things pop off a lot of people are going to just vanish.

Posted by: heya at February 09, 2026 12:05 PM (neSLO)

323 I don't think he's that important.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 11:57 AM (bss/y)

Neither do I. We streamed a slow Carrie Coon flick instead. I was just an inquiring mind!

Posted by: sTevo at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM (CWGlO)

324 Abby Shapiro is also an opera singer.
Posted by: Bulg at February 09, 2026 11:59 AM

She's got some lungs on her.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM (jc0TO)

325 Kat Timpf… strange looking and about 4 feet tall. I’m sorry just adding glasses doesn’t improve the package… plus her stupidity is a turnoff

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM (ZCxQ+)

326 316 It's low levels of electricity, it's performed under sedation, and you don't turn into a drooling vegetable with a thousand-yard stare as depicted in movies and TV.
Posted by: It's not OFOTCN at February 09, 2026 12:05 PM (TbWk/)

What's the fun if it doesn't hurt anyone?

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM (uEmCf)

327 My mom and dad worked full time jobs and raised three kids.
Thing is we had discipline. We knew to do as we were told or there would be hell to pay. When we were old enough we had chores to do around the house and we had to keep up our grades at school. I guess times were different back then but we expected to do our part.

Posted by: Case at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM (E7+ue)

328 Both kids should have tracked down Dr. Money, and murdered him instead. Wimps.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Honestly surprised we haven't seen than in a CSI episode at this point.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM (OPGS/)

329 I continued my decades-long stretch of never watching the Superbowl, so I didn't see Bad Bunny or the half time show. I didn't see TurningPoint's show either, don't care for Kid Rock that much. I guess he did some kind of gospel presentation which is... odd, given his lifestyle and song lyrics.

I was busy leveling up a character on TurtleWoW.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM (PYyV9)

330 291 I wonder what the outcome was....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 11:53 AM (QGaXH)
-

Grok:

https://tinyurl.com/yzuku8j8
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 09, 2026 12:00 PM (cUGtl)

Biden's Dog

Thank you! I'm glad even though the step-mother fled to the supposedly supportive state of California, not actin has been taken. Maybe now, the kid will have a chance. Especially since he's approaching an age where a court will listen to him directly.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM (QGaXH)

331 That crash isn't a clear example of DEI failure judging by the ongoing NHTSA investigation. Many other factors and systems failures were in play
Posted by: Bigsmith at February 09, 2026 11:54 AM (1Au9i)

Other factors like gravity?
Posted by: Really?? at February 09, 2026 11:56 AM (y6810)

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I should have said NTSB, not NHTSA.

Other factors like:
2 other experienced pilots in the copter also misunderstood the ATC instructions and also didn't see the plane they hit until it was too late.
They were all wearing night vision goggles that obscured visibility.
The altimeter they were relying on indicated they were within the approved ceiling for the route, confirmed by the instructor pilot on the voice recorder. But the altimeter was off by 100 feet.

...etc. etc ...It's a miracle something similar didn't happen before, and the helicopter route involved no longer exists.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM (1Au9i)

332 I wonder if David French finds his uselessness depressing.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 09, 2026 12:07 PM (3sG5t)

333 266 251 Where's the bad Bad Bunny ad hominem flame war rant?
Posted by: sTevo

About what? Seems like on here nobody watched him or if they did they didn't speak Spanish so didn't know what he was singing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 09, 2026 12:07 PM (Nx5jP)

334 I was lamenting to The Wifey afterwards about missing an opportunity during our conversation the other night about your "canine therapy," when I could have said "The Lord works in mysterious strays."

She retorted: "Or, The Lord works in mysterious wags."

[The smiley faces don't work on my phone for some reason]
Posted by: ShainS
========
Some angels come with wagging tails. Like your and your wife's comment. Very droll.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:07 PM (2swu2)

335 Why not just stop expanding M2 and let growth and productivity catch up?
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 09, 2026 12:03 PM (gbOdA)
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Because it probably won't. The QE era was so huge that it would take generations. The Fed does need to disgorge some assets if there is to be any hope of rebalancing things. But that doesn't mean it needs to have a fire sale. A fire sale would be counterproductive. It would crash prices in the asset classes where the Fed plays (MBS and Treasuries, mostly) and they couldn't remove anything like the number of dollars they shoveled in. Letting it roll off is probably more sensible.

A billion dollars worth of Fed-held MBS matures. That billion dollars exits the economy. The Fed buys another 750 million in MBS to replace it. Gradual draw-down of excess liquidity they dumped into the system over the course of a decade. My guess is that it what they're talking about.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 12:07 PM (ojr4c)

336 Bespoke suddenly showed up out of nowhere one day, like a lot of terms everyone uses to feel cool. Like "that happened a minute ago" etc, just suddenly everyone was using it.

Its not that nobody used bespoke before, it was just limited to very few people in a very specific kind of setting now its all over the place. This is my bespoke pencil!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:03 PM (PYyV9)
_____

It's long been used by Brits in their custom-suit industry and by very exclusive companies like Rolls Royce to describe their custom-car program.

There's obviously been a very recent coordinated marketing and branding movement to use the term more broadly. People are dumb; they hear something shiny and new and they think it's shiny and new.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

337 333 266 251 Where's the bad Bad Bunny ad hominem flame war rant?
Posted by: sTevo

About what? Seems like on here nobody watched him or if they did they didn't speak Spanish so didn't know what he was singing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Bad Bunny is no Rickey Martin living the vida loca.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:08 PM (2swu2)

338 There will be no memory holing this shit. Communities know who these people are, locally, and some organizations are forever associated with it. Fewer and fewer are willing to cover for friends and family that they know pushed this crap and will rat them out.

The lawsuits and likely child goes nuts and kills parents scenarios are going to continue for decades.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:08 PM (PYyV9)

339 328 Both kids should have tracked down Dr. Money, and murdered him instead. Wimps.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Honestly surprised we haven't seen than in a CSI episode at this point.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM (OPGS/)

In the highly unlikely event I'm ever on a jury for such a crime my vote would be not guilty.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:08 PM (QGaXH)

340 Am I chopped liver?

Posted by: curate at February 09, 2026 12:09 PM (rJ48h)

341 In the highly unlikely event I'm ever on a jury for such a crime my vote would be not guilty.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:08 PM (QGaXH)

Justified.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 12:09 PM (bss/y)

342 Seems like on here nobody watched him or if they did they didn't speak Spanish so didn't know what he was singing."

I did ask a couple of Mrs' relatives... they didn't watch...

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 12:09 PM (XuXeR)

343 332 I wonder if David French finds his uselessness depressing.
Posted by: Northernlurker

They probably moved away and left no forwarding address.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 12:09 PM (OPGS/)

344 and likely child goes nuts and kills parents scenarios are going to continue for decades.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:08 PM

The motive may never be known, they vowed.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 09, 2026 12:09 PM (jc0TO)

345 340 Am I chopped liver?
Posted by: curate at February 09, 2026 12:09 PM (rJ48h)

Oh damn. 'Curated experience' was a pretty good one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 12:09 PM (bss/y)

346 About...
The Nest is a 2020 psychological drama film written, directed, and produced by Sean Durkin. The film stars Jude Law, Carrie Coon,

Posted by: sTevo at February 09, 2026 12:09 PM (CWGlO)

347 There's obviously been a very recent coordinated marketing and branding movement to use the term more broadly. People are dumb; they hear something shiny and new and they think it's shiny and new.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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That sort of thing is more common among the upper SES classes and Upton Sinclair's "Babbitt" made fun of that. Veblen's critique of conspicuous consumption also addresses the issues.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:10 PM (2swu2)

348 This whole tranny thing makes me sick as it is so obviously evil in its origin. My family has been hit hard by this madness. I have a niece who now thinks she is my nephew (her beard is better than mine0, and a cousin who thinks he is now my cousinette. Family gatherings are a weird affair. I am even more scarce now than I ordinarily am because I find it hard to keep my mouth shut as I observe the shit show.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 09, 2026 12:10 PM (affD0)

349 "Why not just stop expanding M2 and let growth and productivity catch up?
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 09, 2026 12:03 PM (gbOdA)"

Oh come on, that'll never happen. We'd be shoved into ww3 or civil war, first.

Last realistic chance was when Reagan took office and knowing what we know now, I doubt it could have been pulled off.

We are riding this flaming dumpster all the way down, one way or another.

Posted by: heya at February 09, 2026 12:10 PM (neSLO)

350
I suspect and fear that the trans madness and butchery will just go underground.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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It'll increase overseas. It's supposedly big in Thailand.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 09, 2026 12:10 PM (n7rxJ)

351 Both kids should have tracked down Dr. Money, and murdered him instead. Wimps.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Honestly surprised we haven't seen than in a CSI episode at this point.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 12:06 PM

Sorry. Best we can do is a jury acquitting the troon who killed the evil right-wing parent who fought against its life-saving transition

Posted by: Hollywood at February 09, 2026 12:10 PM (bFu5X)

352 Trump needs to sign an Executive Order making Weird Al the Official Superbowl Halftime Entertainer of the United States of America.

No other acts should be allowed to play the Halftime Show.

Only Al.

Posted by: fIREHOSE at February 09, 2026 12:10 PM (gH8T+)

353 344 and likely child goes nuts and kills parents scenarios are going to continue for decades.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:08 PM

The motive may never be known, they vowed.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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On the bright side, there will soon be a way to make those AI horror movies that will appall Hollyweird. Trans Chuckie does in Mommy Dearest for example.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:11 PM (2swu2)

354 WattSockOFF

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:11 PM (gH8T+)

355 Rickey Martin living the vida loca."

Funny bout that - some years ago he did that tune with Kylie Minogue... and sorta mumbled the "skin the color mocha" bits.

I laughed...

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 12:11 PM (XuXeR)

356 But, it seems like Bessent is trying his hand at managed deflationary actions without going full deflation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 09, 2026 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

As I understand it, Inflation/Deflation is not just about the money supply itself, however you measure it, but the supply with respect to the actual economy. If you're increasing the money supply in absolute terms, but the economy is growing even faster, you can be "deflationary" without actually being in deflation. Or whatever the fancy pants lingo for that sort of thing is.

There's probably better vocabulary for that, which the people in bowties who would say "no your a retard" at me for even daring to broach such a monstrous idea would use.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 09, 2026 12:12 PM (JwNbV)

357 It'll increase overseas. It's supposedly big in Thailand.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 09, 2026 12:10 PM (n7rxJ)
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And Brazil.

And if an adult wants to fly away and go have himself mutilated on his own dime, that's his business. I think his friends and family should discourage him, but he's a free agent.

It would be much harder for a teenager to do that. Probably not impossible, but so difficult that it would probably fall to zero or nearly zero.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 12:12 PM (ojr4c)

358 There was a crew of three in the UH-60. CWO and Captain as pilots and a crew chief. Pilots had NVGs on but I do not recall anyone stating the crew chief had NVGs on.

ADS-B from the Blackhawk showed them busting the altitude ceiling.

That is one of the problems that should have aborted the mission, neither the Captain or CWO were seeing the same altitude at one point.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 12:12 PM (2GVsD)

359 Both kids should have tracked down Dr. Money, and murdered him instead. Wimps.

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The one who actually had his penis burned off (David Reimer) did go to the surgeon's office one day (not Dr. Money). The one who actually performed the procedure. And he had the full intent of harming him. He went in and screamed at the doctor that he made his life a living hell. Before Reimer ran out not harming him, he recalls leaving the doctor crying.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 09, 2026 12:12 PM (qBdHI)

360 354 WattSockOFF
Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:11 PM (gH8T+)

Sounds vaguely naughty.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:12 PM (pDt9x)

361 I had no idea there was so much opprobrium for Kat Timpf. I love her on the show.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 12:13 PM (RIvkX)

362 One of the defendants named in the lawsuit is named Einhorn LOL

Almost too on the nose to be real

Posted by: ballistic at February 09, 2026 12:13 PM (5aZAZ)

363 I think the number of children brutalized by these narcissistic monsters, who have serious regrets, is greater than we think. I also think, in regards to the Munchhausen mommies, that a portion of them will now see this as an opportunity for continuing relevance and grift. I'm all for it. Give them significant cash awards. It will only serve to perpetuate their misery in life. Bankrupt the crap out of everyone who had their fingers in this evil experiment.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at February 09, 2026 12:13 PM (OR60z)

364 What's the fun if it doesn't hurt anyone?
Posted by: XTC
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DIYers can simply go to the nearest electric fence for animals to get a shock.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:13 PM (2swu2)

365 As I understand it, Inflation/Deflation is not just about the money supply itself, however you measure it, but the supply with respect to the actual economy. If you're increasing the money supply in absolute terms, but the economy is growing even faster, you can be "deflationary" without actually being in deflation. Or whatever the fancy pants lingo for that sort of thing is.

There's probably better vocabulary for that, which the people in bowties who would say "no your a retard" at me for even daring to broach such a monstrous idea would use.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 09, 2026 12:12 PM (JwNbV)
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They use "disinflation" for that, but it's nonsense. Inflation is an increasing in money and money equivalents. Deflation is a decrease. That may or may not show up in prices, with or without a delay, in some or all asset classes and goods. Inflation and deflation are purely monetary phenomena.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 12:13 PM (ojr4c)

366 362 One of the defendants named in the lawsuit is named Einhorn LOL

Almost too on the nose to be real
Posted by: ballistic at February 09, 2026 12:13 PM (5aZAZ)

Einhorn is a MAN!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 12:13 PM (bss/y)

367 Before Reimer ran out not harming him, he recalls leaving the doctor crying."

Too bad said Dr wasn't bleeding....out

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 12:14 PM (XuXeR)

368 Einhorn?

I thought the Unicorn killer was dead.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 12:14 PM (2GVsD)

369 348 This whole tranny thing makes me sick as it is so obviously evil in its origin. My family has been hit hard by this madness. I have a niece who now thinks she is my nephew (her beard is better than mine0, and a cousin who thinks he is now my cousinette. Family gatherings are a weird affair. I am even more scarce now than I ordinarily am because I find it hard to keep my mouth shut as I observe the shit show.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 09, 2026 12:10 PM (affD0)

I suspect that one of my cousins has been trying to "become" a man, as her voice is deeper than it used to be, and she has the beginnings of some facial hair.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 12:14 PM (uEmCf)

370 So much of this is just childish attention seeking, on the part of the parents.
Anyhow, where is Angelina Jolie in all this? She has deep pockets if that weird kid of hers decides that he/she wants to sue mommie in the future.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 09, 2026 12:14 PM (0Htd1)

371 Before Reimer ran out not harming him, he recalls leaving the doctor crying.
Posted by: Lady in Black

That would have been an easy case if I'd been on the jury.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 12:14 PM (OPGS/)

372 I have never known a mother who considered transgender therapy for her child (let's face it, it's only moms who push this, though dickless fathers who don't assert their natural supreme authority in the family are also just as culpable).

If I did I would tell her "your child is suffering from a media-driven social contagion, and you are affirming the delusion because you've allowed social pressure from your peer group to undermine your highest loyalty - the one to your child. I am urging you to pull your head from your ass before you do something that can't be forgiven, and if you go through with it, then lose my phone number and suffer with your guilt alone."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 12:15 PM (BI5O2)

373 362 One of the defendants named in the lawsuit is named Einhorn LOL

Almost too on the nose to be real
Posted by: ballistic at February 09, 2026 12:13 PM (5aZAZ)

I have watched the show a few times. It’s pretty funny. Watched at my sister and brother in laws. They are glued to it every night.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:15 PM (pDt9x)

374 I wonder if David French finds his uselessness depressing.
Posted by: Northernlurker
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No, but Nancy does.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 09, 2026 12:15 PM (XvL8K)

375 361 I had no idea there was so much opprobrium for Kat Timpf. I love her on the show.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Like most of infotainment TV, including those awful panels, these are actors first, commentators second. They play a part and that has been true for a very long time. Reality shows for audiences using politics as the shtick.

If they were uglier, then they would be in print writing columns that few read. Like McArdle.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:16 PM (2swu2)

376 Dr. Money as part of his 'therapy' would force both Reimer children act out appropriate gender roles.

John Money was a really sick and twisted evil fvck.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2026 12:16 PM (2GVsD)

377 Kat Timpf always struck me as a sorta-maybe right-ish libertarian chick who doesn't have any really strong thoughts but you'd definitely nail her if you got the chance so she works on TV. No hate, just strikes me as more eye candy than anything.

Posted by: ballistic at February 09, 2026 12:16 PM (5aZAZ)

378 Heat Italian Style.

This gang hit an armored van in southern Italy this morning on a highway full of commuters 😨

Video at the link.

https://is.gd/DR3YFg

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 12:16 PM (J+Psw)

379 “I’m not opposed to pediatric transition..."
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That's really a hell of a thing to say.

Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 12:16 PM (TN0g+)

380 336 Bespoke suddenly showed up out of nowhere one day, like a lot of terms everyone uses to feel cool. Like "that happened a minute ago" etc, just suddenly everyone was using it.

Its not that nobody used bespoke before, it was just limited to very few people in a very specific kind of setting now its all over the place. This is my bespoke pencil!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:03 PM (PYyV9)
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It's long been used by Brits in their custom-suit industry and by very exclusive companies like Rolls Royce to describe their custom-car program.

There's obviously been a very recent coordinated marketing and branding movement to use the term more broadly. People are dumb; they hear something shiny and new and they think it's shiny and new.
Posted bkey: Judge Elric The Blade at February 09, 2026 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

'bespoke' is nothing new. Both the wheels on my Schwinn with the banana seat back in the '60's were bespoked......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:17 PM (QGaXH)

381 369

I suspect that one of my cousins has been trying to "become" a man, as her voice is deeper than it used to be, and she has the beginnings of some facial hair.
Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 12:14 PM (uEmCf)

Yep, could be a clue. If she buys a Big Ass Truck I would say it is a sure thing.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:17 PM (pDt9x)

382 >>>Over the weekend, the Washington Post published an editorial by Megan McArdle titled

And anyone who links a McArdle article unironically or not as an example deserving scorn or derision gets a night in the box.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 12:17 PM (dK+Kv)

383 "348 This whole tranny thing makes me sick as it is so obviously evil in its origin. My family has been hit hard by this madness. I have a niece who now thinks she is my nephew (her beard is better than mine0, and a cousin who thinks he is now my cousinette. Family gatherings are a weird affair. I am even more scarce now than I ordinarily am because I find it hard to keep my mouth shut as I observe the shit show.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 09, 2026 12:10 PM (affD0)"

This is common. We've lost half a dozen, and in one case it was after they had a kid, then they did it to the kid in turn.

It is hard looking at someone you grew up with, who you were very close to like a sibling and realizing if push came to shove you probably wouldn't even let them hide in the attic. We've never had words about it and I spent years being supportive when they were just an apolitical, harmless weirdo with (honestly unfounded) confidence issues. But enough is enough.

That's part of this great evil, preying on those that feel they don't fit in.

Posted by: heya at February 09, 2026 12:17 PM (neSLO)

384 These medical associations repudiating the transitioning of children have so far only come out against the surgical aspect of it.

The real money, though, is in the chemical castration, through puberty blockers and years-long drug therapies. That's where the real bucks are.

And those have NOT been repudiated.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at February 09, 2026 12:17 PM (bufu1)

385 I hate the Left with everything I've got, and I'll never moderate or apologize for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

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Those who would love God must hate evil.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 12:17 PM (dTakD)

386 Too bad said Dr wasn't bleeding....out
Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 12:14 PM (XuXeR)

This. You know, it wouldn't take too many instances of that for surgeons to start thinking, "I'm going to stop doing this shit, It could get me killed, and then I wouldn't be able to enjoy that nice yacht I bought."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (8zz6B)

387 I have never known a mother who considered transgender therapy for her child (let's face it, it's only moms who push this, though dickless fathers who don't assert their natural supreme authority in the family are also just as culpable).

Trouble is the fathers have nobody on their side. The dad in Texas fought like hell over his wife transing his kids. Courts told him to fuck himself and let the e-wife kidnap the kids to California to get their parts mutilated. So what do you do when in the eyes of the family law system you're a child abuser for opposing the mutilation of your own kid?

Posted by: It's pretty fucked up, all of it at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (TbWk/)

388 Trannies are also all murderers. Little Johnny gets his junk cut off, and tiddies bolted on, and now goes by "Hissteria". Johnny has been murdered; he no longer exists, his parents no longer have a son.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 11:21 AM (8zz6B)

It's enough to lend credence to the wild talk of social elites having bizarre rituals with human sacrifice to get ahead in The Big Club (that you ain't in). In that light, their outsized affinity for transing their kids doesn't just look creepy and weird; it looks like possibly a murder substitute.

And then their absolute freakouts over 'deadnaming' (too on the nose?) take on a more sinister tenor, as it could be status anxiety, from threatening the validity of the sacrifice that secured their position. Not to mention, the blasphemous parallel to Jesus rising from the dead would only increase the hypothetical appeal to these hypothetical Luciferians.

Without hard evidence, it's all very speculative. But they aren't doing themselves any favors by acting creepy and weird.

Posted by: SciVo at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (Sy6m/)

389 335 'MBS' Mr Mannix?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (QGaXH)

390 Some angels come with wagging tails. Like your and your wife's comment. Very droll.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:07 PM (2swu2)

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Love you -- No Homo!

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (dTakD)

391 I suspect that one of my cousins has been trying to "become" a man, as her voice is deeper than it used to be, and she has the beginnings of some facial hair.

Great! When I uh, buy my wife, at the start she was uh, cook good, her vazhïn work well, and she strong on plow. But after three years when she was fifteen, then she become weak, her voice become deep: BORAT BORAT, eh, she receive hair on chest, and vazhïn hang like sleeve of wizard.

Posted by: Borat at February 09, 2026 12:19 PM (TmfuF)

392 390 Some angels come with wagging tails. Like your and your wife's comment. Very droll.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:07 PM (2swu2)

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Love you -- No Homo!
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (dTakD)

Ha! GAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Posted by: Korean guy on Community at February 09, 2026 12:19 PM (TbWk/)

393 'MBS' Mr Mannix?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (QGaXH)
++++
Mortgage-Backed Securities.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 12:19 PM (ojr4c)

394 Kat Timpf always struck me as a sorta-maybe right-ish libertarian chick who doesn't have any really strong thoughts but you'd definitely nail her if you got the chance so she works on TV. No hate, just strikes me as more eye candy than anything.
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I think she gets tremendous benefit out of her eyeglasses. No, seriously! She's got that "sexy librarian" look going. I don't think she's be nearly as noticeable without the glasses.

Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 12:19 PM (TN0g+)

395 387 Trouble is the fathers have nobody on their side. The dad in Texas fought like hell over his wife transing his kids. Courts told him to fuck himself and let the e-wife kidnap the kids to California to get their parts mutilated. So what do you do when in the eyes of the family law system you're a child abuser for opposing the mutilation of your own kid?
Posted by: It's pretty fucked up, all of it at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (TbWk/)

She's not trooning out both of them. She's doing John Money 2.0, trooning out one twin but not the other.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 12:20 PM (uEmCf)

396 Trouble is the fathers have nobody on their side. The dad in Texas fought like hell over his wife transing his kids. Courts told him to fuck himself and let the e-wife kidnap the kids to California to get their parts mutilated. So what do you do when in the eyes of the family law system you're a child abuser for opposing the mutilation of your own kid?

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Oh, I know. No shade on them. They tried. I would murder my wife and abscond with our child, but I keep shit real real, and I can't expect anyone to go that far.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 12:20 PM (BI5O2)

397 389 335 'MBS' Mr Mannix?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (QGaXH)

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I assumed Mortgage-Backed Securities?

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 12:20 PM (dTakD)

398 And those have NOT been repudiated.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz!
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Yet. But in the course of things, those makers will also be sued as the effects of taking these drugs becomes apparent. Slow burn rather than fast one.

Most of big pharma modus operandi seems to be develop a market, get windfall profits, extract much of those profits, before the inevitable crash due to medicine side effects. Sacklers are an example. Pfizer and Moderna are others.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:20 PM (2swu2)

399 379 “I’m not opposed to pediatric transition..."
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That's really a hell of a thing to say.
Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 12:16 PM (TN0g+)

Heh.

Technically speaking, i'm not "opposed" to it, either. You wanna mutilate your kid, you go right on ahead. Rotten thing ain't mine, and was gonna grow up to be a piece of shit anyway with a parent like that. Neither my monkey nor my circus.

But, then, you stay far, far away from everybody else's kid, you sick mutants. I don't care about your kid or what you do to it. Don't force me to have to care.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 09, 2026 12:20 PM (JwNbV)

400 Ha! GAAAAAAAAAAAY!
Posted by: Korean guy on Community at February 09, 2026 12:19 PM (TbWk/)

https://tinyurl.com/2s433pe7

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

401 I just think the trans doctors are the latest iterations of the Nazi “ doctors” in the Camps. They LIKE doing what they do.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (pDt9x)

402 My family has been hit hard by this madness

Same, my cousin's cute little daughter decided she was an it and mangled herself, now she's a "they" and its incredibly awkward every time "they" are around.

I just try to love her and treat her with respect until maybe some day she can grow up and realize the horror of what she did to herself. But she wasn't alone in this.

She's been in therapy most of her life and her school counsellors no doubt helped shove her into this life.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (PYyV9)

403 Love you -- No Homo!
Posted by: ShainS
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Thanks, brought a smile to my face as you always do. Appreciate the love freely given and reciprocate.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (2swu2)

404 >>Sounds vaguely naughty.
Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:12 PM (pDt9x)

"Pain is the toughest riddle
He's chalk, he's a dartboard
His sex is disease, he's a stop sign"

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (gH8T+)

405 396 Oh, I know. No shade on them. They tried. I would murder my wife and abscond with our child, but I keep shit real real, and I can't expect anyone to go that far.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 12:20 PM (BI5O2)

From what I remember, she's not the Genetic mother. She had someone else's embryos implanted into her.

Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (uEmCf)

406 I just think the trans doctors are the latest iterations of the Nazi “ doctors” in the Camps. They LIKE doing what they do.

They surely like the money they make from forever patients. Hospital administrators love this stuff, its a huge cash influx for the life of the patient.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:23 PM (PYyV9)

407 >>Kat Timpf always struck me as a sorta-maybe right-ish libertarian chick who doesn't have any really strong thoughts but you'd definitely nail her if you got the chance so she works on TV. No hate, just strikes me as more eye candy than anything

The Carbuncles, tho...oof.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:23 PM (gH8T+)

408 From what I remember, she's not the Genetic mother. She had someone else's embryos implanted into her.
Posted by: XTC at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (uEmCf)

So to her, they are already designer.

I have seen women who have desperately wanted kids of their own. This whole thing is just so fucked up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2026 12:23 PM (bss/y)

409 This whole tranny thing makes me sick as it is so obviously evil in its origin. My family has been hit hard by this madness. I have a niece who now thinks she is my nephew (her beard is better than mine0, and a cousin who thinks he is now my cousinette. Family gatherings are a weird affair. I am even more scarce now than I ordinarily am because I find it hard to keep my mouth shut as I observe the shit show.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 09, 2026 12:10 PM (affD0)

This ideology and these people are not welcome in my home, blood or no.

It is a social contagion, and it deserves to be strangled in its infancy and squashed wherever found. It will NEVER be OK to support this type of child abuse.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 12:24 PM (dK+Kv)

410 404 >>Sounds vaguely naughty.
Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:12 PM (pDt9x)

"Pain is the toughest riddle
He's chalk, he's a dartboard
His sex is disease, he's a stop sign"
Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (gH8T+)

Well Damn, now I will spend the rest of the day trying to figure that out!!!

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:24 PM (pDt9x)

411 407 >>Kat Timpf always struck me as a sorta-maybe right-ish libertarian chick who doesn't have any really strong thoughts but you'd definitely nail her if you got the chance so she works on TV. No hate, just strikes me as more eye candy than anything

The Carbuncles, tho...oof.
Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:23 PM (gH8T+)

KAT TIMPF HAS SYPHILLIS?!

Posted by: Al Sharpton at February 09, 2026 12:24 PM (bss/y)

412 Love you -- No Homo!

I have noticed that Zoomers and Gen Alpha do this weird thing where they will yell "I LOVE YOU" over the slightest thing. You open the door for them, "I love you!" Love has been corrupted down to the most meaningless level of nothing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:24 PM (PYyV9)

413 So what do you do when in the eyes of the family law system you're a child abuser for opposing the mutilation of your own kid?

On advice of counsel, I will refrain from answering that question beyond saying she would not have custody and I would have an alibi.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 09, 2026 12:25 PM (OPGS/)

414 "Pain is the toughest riddle
He's chalk, he's a dartboard
His sex is disease, he's a stop sign"
Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (gH8T+)

I liked the original Dolley Parton version better.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 09, 2026 12:25 PM (JwNbV)

415 "Pain is the toughest riddle
He's chalk, he's a dartboard
His sex is disease, he's a stop sign"
Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (gH8T+)

Well Damn, now I will spend the rest of the day trying to figure that out!!!
Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:24 PM (pDt9x)

Or you could, you know, just do a two-second Google search.

Posted by: How you spend your time is up to you at February 09, 2026 12:26 PM (TbWk/)

416 Same, my cousin's cute little daughter decided she was an it and mangled herself, now she's a "they" and its incredibly awkward every time "they" are around.

I just try to love her and treat her with respect until maybe some day she can grow up and realize the horror of what she did to herself. But she wasn't alone in this.

She's been in therapy most of her life and her school counsellors no doubt helped shove her into this life.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM

Yeah...my BIL's niece has just decided she's a he. Family of crazy Seattle area lefties. My BIL is apparently the only normal one.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 09, 2026 12:27 PM (bFu5X)

417 Little Johnny gets his junk cut off, and tiddies bolted on, and now goes by "Hissteria".

Wait. Isn't she Alec Baldwin's wife?

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 09, 2026 12:27 PM (0Htd1)

418 >>I will spend the rest of the day trying to figure that out!!!

Minutemen: One Reporter's Opinion

Mike Watt was the Bassist...who later went on to play in fIREHOSE when D. Boone (Guitarist) was killed in a car wreck.

Pro Tip. NEVER LET YOUR GIRL DRIVE

RIP D. Boone

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:27 PM (gH8T+)

419 Nayib Bukele could do American fathers a solid by announcing that El Salvador will not honor extradition requests from the USA for fathers who shoot the mothers transing kids, and abscond with the rescued kid to El Salvador.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 12:27 PM (8zz6B)

420 I have noticed that Zoomers and Gen Alpha do this weird thing where they will yell "I LOVE YOU" over the slightest thing. You open the door for them, "I love you!" Love has been corrupted down to the most meaningless level of nothing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:24 PM (PYyV9)

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Ugh, have never witnessed that.

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 12:27 PM (dTakD)

421 >>Most of big pharma modus operandi seems to be develop a market, get windfall profits, extract much of those profits, before the inevitable crash due to medicine side effects. Sacklers are an example. Pfizer and Moderna are others.

When I was checking out of the hospital they gave me a heaping helping of oxycodone. And narcan.

Maybe they should stop prescribing drugs that require another life saving drug just in case.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 12:28 PM (viF8m)

422 415 "Pain is the toughest riddle
He's chalk, he's a dartboard
His sex is disease, he's a stop sign"
Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:22 PM (gH8T+)

Well Damn, now I will spend the rest of the day trying to figure that out!!!
Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:24 PM (pDt9x)

Or you could, you know, just do a two-second Google search.
Posted by: How you spend your time is up to you at February 09, 2026 12:26 PM (TbWk/)

Okay fine. Now I gotta figure out who the hel “ Mike Watt” is. Sheesh.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:28 PM (pDt9x)

423 Nayib Bukele could do American fathers a solid by announcing that El Salvador will not honor extradition requests from the USA for fathers who shoot the mothers transing kids, and abscond with the rescued kid to El Salvador.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 12:27 PM (8zz6B)

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AOP for AG!

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 12:28 PM (dTakD)

424 I have noticed that Zoomers and Gen Alpha do this weird thing where they will yell "I LOVE YOU" over the slightest thing. You open the door for them, "I love you!" Love has been corrupted down to the most meaningless level of nothing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Yet it is far better than yelling I hate you.

Like faking it until you make it, being one in Christ means not being afraid to express love with those in the community, friends, and family.

People can be corrupt but love is the same as it ever was. The language may try to obscure and corrupt but the mere words themselves are simply a pale shadow of the heart and its expression.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:29 PM (2swu2)

425 It will be interesting to watch what happens to all of this in the new english caliphate...

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 12:29 PM (XuXeR)

426 I noticed that "preeshiatchoo" (I appreciate you) was starting to be A Thing for a while there, but now it isn't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 09, 2026 12:29 PM (JwNbV)

427 But garrett told me upthread. Thanks garrett!

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:30 PM (pDt9x)

428 Kat Timpf always struck me as a sorta-maybe right-ish libertarian chick who doesn't have any really strong thoughts but you'd definitely nail her if you got the chance so she works on TV. No hate, just strikes me as more eye candy than anything.
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I think she gets tremendous benefit out of her eyeglasses. No, seriously! She's got that "sexy librarian" look going. I don't think she's be nearly as noticeable without the glasses.
Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 12:19 PM (TN0g+)
******
She even said that she looks blah without her glasses and said she wears them to look hotter.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 09, 2026 12:30 PM (NpAcC)

429 I have noticed that Zoomers and Gen Alpha do this weird thing where they will yell "I LOVE YOU" over the slightest thing. You open the door for them, "I love you!" Love has been corrupted down to the most meaningless level of nothing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 09, 2026 12:24 PM

The excessive use of "I love that for you!" grinds my gears.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 09, 2026 12:30 PM (bFu5X)

430 They'll just have to kill more people to prove they/them is right.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 09, 2026 12:30 PM (C0BNZ)

431 382 And anyone who links a McArdle article unironically or not as an example deserving scorn or derision gets a night in the box.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 09, 2026 12:17 PM (dK+Kv)

That was recently on one of the movie channels - either TCM or Movies - I DVRd it and watched over this past weekend. I enjoyed watching Carr's 'night in the box' speech to the new 'meat' and reflecting on how often we use it here....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:30 PM (QGaXH)

432 When I was checking out of the hospital they gave me a heaping helping of oxycodone. And narcan.

Maybe they should stop prescribing drugs that require another life saving drug just in case.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Interesting that narcan is being included now with opiod prescriptions.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:30 PM (2swu2)

433 You open the door for them, "I love you!" Love has been corrupted down to the most meaningless level of nothing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I don't mind. That ship sailed long ago. Look at people casually shacking up etc. A grateful heart is a good thing. And gratitude is the opposite of the Left's stock and trade of resentment. You cannot feel resentment and gratitude at the same time.

Posted by: ... at February 09, 2026 12:31 PM (QLKBy)

434 People can be corrupt but love is the same as it ever was.

Where is that large automobile?

Posted by: Under water, carry the water at February 09, 2026 12:31 PM (TbWk/)

435 Of course, I love my wife because she's a great mom who'd never, ever go for this stuff.

But even if she wanted to, it would still never come up. I think she knows deep down that the day she said we should transition one of the kids would be her last.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 12:31 PM (BI5O2)

436 >>Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:30 PM (pDt9x)

Watt and Hurley were one of the best rhythm sections in Punk.

Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:32 PM (gH8T+)

437 will yell "I LOVE YOU" over the slightest thing"

Goes well with my line: "Go F**k yourself"

Gets their attention, it does.

Posted by: man at February 09, 2026 12:32 PM (XuXeR)

438 Well, that explains it.

NBC Suffers Bizarre Technical Glitch As Entire Halftime Show Broadcast In Spanish

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 12:32 PM (J+Psw)

439 my ewetub suggested is full of large breasted women doing various everyday activities.

...

1) Awesome.

2) I think the algorithm has figured me out.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at February 09, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)

440 Where is that large automobile?
Posted by: Under water, carry the water at February 09, 2026 12:31 PM

Lake. Big lake.

Posted by: Long Duc Dong at February 09, 2026 12:32 PM (bFu5X)

441 Interesting that narcan is being included now with opiod prescriptions.
Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:30 PM (2swu2)

Sue the hospital for offending you with their little "training wheels".

As if I don't know how to party.

Pssshhhhh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 09, 2026 12:32 PM (JwNbV)

442 Dr. Money as part of his 'therapy' would force both Reimer children act out appropriate gender roles.

John Money was a really sick and twisted evil fvck.

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Extremely sick, evil and twisted. He made them act out their gender roles on each other, simulating sex with one another.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 09, 2026 12:32 PM (qBdHI)

443 Nood.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at February 09, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)

444 David French needs to be ridiculed till the day he dies.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 09, 2026 12:32 PM (NpAcC)

445 Most of big pharma modus operandi seems to be develop a market, get windfall profits, extract much of those profits, before the inevitable crash due to medicine side effects. Sacklers are an example. Pfizer and Moderna are others.

Posted by: whig at February 09, 2026 12:20 PM (2swu2)

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Next you'll be telling me that members of the FDA and other regulatory agencies -- like that treasonous asshat Faucistein are on the take.

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 12:33 PM (dTakD)

446 New one:

Queer Starmer's "Right-Hand Man," the Man Who Promoted Epstein Bestie Peter Mandelson for Abassador to the US, Resigns

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

447 436 >>Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:30 PM (pDt9x)

Watt and Hurley were one of the best rhythm sections in Punk.
Posted by: garrett at February 09, 2026 12:32 PM (gH8T+)

You just KNOW I’m gonna go look them up at some point today, dontcha??? It’s like a laser pointer.

Posted by: tubal at February 09, 2026 12:33 PM (pDt9x)

448 " Kat Timpf ... just strikes me as more eye candy than anything."

She's tiny but makes Greg look bigger ... so he loves her for that.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 09, 2026 12:33 PM (vbXSk)

449 Pithing the guilty might seem rather gentle considering the evil they promoted, but it would make them still decent specimens for organ donation which would be the closest to Karma one might approach, and save on anesthetics.

Posted by: epador at February 09, 2026 12:34 PM (TRnzq)

450 >>Nood.
Posted by: Al Sharpton

Nood Al Sharpton is the last thing we need.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 09, 2026 12:34 PM (NcvvS)

451 387 I have never known a mother who considered transgender therapy for her child (let's face it, it's only moms who push this, though dickless fathers who don't assert their natural supreme authority in the family are also just as culpable).

Trouble is the fathers have nobody on their side. The dad in Texas fought like hell over his wife transing his kids. Courts told him to fuck himself and let the e-wife kidnap the kids to California to get their parts mutilated. So what do you do when in the eyes of the family law system you're a child abuser for opposing the mutilation of your own kid?
Posted by: It's pretty fucked up, all of it at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (TbWk/)

I remember thinking at the time that poor dad's only choice was to kidnap the kid and flee to a non-extradition country. Not an easy thing to do - but it's either destroy your own life or allow your son's life to be destroyed.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:35 PM (QGaXH)

452 It's obvious (to anyone who isn't an insane creep or ideologue) that the recent sharp rise in trans-identifying teens was absolutely *not* because people were "more free to be who they really are" or that it's a movement whose "time has come."

And it happened for so long largely in part because aggressive, insane men-pretending-to-be women harrassed, intimidated, threatened, &c anyone who said anything against it, especially influential people in medicine (like medical journals, or those who maintain the DSM) And this evil was supported by half the political spectrum because it was "progressive," revolutionary, upset the squares, signalled their commitment to The Message, whatever. There is a huge problem with tolerating severe mental illness.

Posted by: fb at February 09, 2026 12:35 PM (JVEmw)

453 393 'MBS' Mr Mannix?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:18 PM (QGaXH)
++++
Mortgage-Backed Securities.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 09, 2026 12:19 PM (ojr4c)

Thank you sir. I just couldn't cipher it on my own even though I consider myself a fairly sophisticated investor.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 09, 2026 12:37 PM (QGaXH)

454 I’m flattered that Ed Driscoll continues to link to it at Instapundit, which he did again a few days ago.

Tell the truth, you found a way to leave a few prominent Beatles quotes in the post.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 09, 2026 12:41 PM (y9nCu)

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