More random thoughts

August 19, 2023

I hate “journalism” by Twitter. That is where the supposed journalist writes one paragraph and then fills up the article with Tweets.

I still don’t know what an influencer is and who the influencer influences.

I get confused trying to figure out why they call soap “body wash.”

The Fed may actually achieve a “soft” landing. Its policies in conjunction with what is happening in the rest of the world’s economies have meant a slowdown but no crash while inflation is coming down. This while countering the government’s exploding expenditures. It is akin to driving a car with one foot on the gas pedal while the other is on the brake.

I don’t understand what “white supremacy” means with white males being discriminated against by other white males who happen to be “progressives.”

I am suffering from Trump Fatigue Syndrome.

I don’t understand the Fulton County, GA Trump indictment. Isn’t the charge by a local DA rather than at the federal level? If any local run of the mill DA can bring charges, then why are Republican local DAs not indicting Hunter Biden?

There is solid evidence that trade wars caused the Great Depression and Biden is following Trump’s lead and heading us toward a trade war with the latest imposition of tariffs on tin. Putting tariffs on our allies will lead to retaliation and retaliation will lead to recession. You heard it here first.

Nobody is saying the obvious: China’s economic woes are a result of its failed industrial policy. This should be a warning to the US which with its CHIPs act and “Inflation Reduction Act” is headed down the same road. Some so-called experts are amazingly calling for China to add stimulus to get out of their recession. That’s what got them in it! This would actually only make things worse. Again, you heard it here first.

Will a severe Chinese recession spill over to the rest of the world?

Will a severe Chinese recession lead to the end of Xi’s regime?

It is a wonder that it took so long for China to spiral downward with its extreme COVID lockdowns, its imprisonment of successful entrepreneurs, its paranoia regarding security, its failed family planning policies, its shrinking population, its imploding real estate sector, its high youth unemployment, its huge and growing debt burden and its repressive government. Why “progressives” like Paul Krugman love the Chinese is beyond me.

We are in serious trouble as a country when the President does not respect the rule of law.

We no longer trust our most hallowed institutions. Without that trust, anarchy soon follows.

The Founders feared the tyranny of the majority in a democracy so they created a representative republic with checks and balances. However, what we now have is the tyranny of the minority where an absurdly small minority has imposed their will on the rest of us. The LBGTQ communities have found allies amongst the left. They get local school boards to introduce their literature into the classrooms of our youth. Schools are hosting queer drag shows. Governments proclaim queer month and fly gay flags. Corporations cater to them. Retailers prominently display their merchandise and market directly to kids. The Bud Light boycott was a result of the beer maker marketing with a man who is pretending to be a young girl which is simply weird. Universities openly silence and discipline those who do not kowtow to the LBGYQ mantra. The Biden Administration is endorsing open bathrooms and locker rooms, letting males participate in women’s sports and including gender in Title IX. The military leadership is openly woke with total disregard to what this means for fighting effectiveness. They were even using a trans sailor in recruiting videos. No wonder they are having little success in recruiting. I find it difficult to believe that the majority of Americans agree with any of this. They are just silent and  afraid to rock the boat and afraid to be called bigots. However, it is not bigotry to oppose the grooming of children. These matters are best left to the parents in the home. Under no circumstances do these issues belong in school curricula. Lastly, Denmark is the latest country to restrict the use of gender “affirming” care for children. Although the advocates loudly proclaim that such “care” lessens suicide among confused children, there is little evidence to support this claim. The use of hormonal and surgical procedures on children is truly frightening. Yet the American Academy of Pediatrics remains solidly behind the idea of the medicalization of puberty. I don’t deny that there are some children who suffer from gender blending issues but I am not convinced that these issues should be addressed with powerful drugs and surgery. I also think that children claiming gender confusion is more social contagion than real. Again I bet that most of these children reside in cities and states that have adopted the propaganda of the LGBTQ communities and it has become a fashion fad. If these children want to transition as adults, let them. But not as children.

One “expert” whose “research focuses on the development and psychological experiences of transgender, gender-nonbinary, gender-expansive or gender-exploring children” claims that children can be a gender Tesla, a gender Prius or a gender minotaur. Excuse me? This is truly frightening and even more frightening is that this expert is a professor in a school of medicine.