So, what is my point? Well, just that all this DEI stuff is just another reason why Trump won. People HATE it. Identity politics will be the death of the democratic party. Maybe not the entire reason, but definitely plays a part.

is that identity politics has been made into an excuse for incompetence, both in entertainment and in politics. In this diary I review what the options are when the Dems offer a last-minute identity-politics candidate who blows through $1 billion of donor money without any real concern for what they're getting in return.

advisor and his designated incoming counterpart. From Consortium News website:

“We remain deeply concerned by the prosecutor’s rush to seek arrest warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this decision. The United States has been clear that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over this matter. In co-ordination with partners, including Israel, we are discussing next steps.”

U.S. Representative Mike Waltz, who has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be his national security advisor wrote on

“The ICC has no credibility and these allegations have been refuted by the U.S. government. Israel has lawfully defended its people & borders from genocidal terrorists. You can expect a strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January.”

No credibility, huh? Well, I do believe a number of governments have already declared their intention to arrest either of the two men, should either arrive on that country's soil. Would someone like to explain to me again about how Trump is a peace President, going to stop the wars???

I realized earlier this year why it occasionally gets to me, even though I'm not regularly exposed to it. I have been trying to go for gender-neutral language in my writing since the eighties, and the profusion of pronouns that wokeness has invented flies completely in my face, for that reason. A few years ago, I realized that our Southern cousins have the pronoun thing figured out already. Just use "y'all"; covers second- and third-person, all genders, etc., and would even serve for talking to space aliens. Second-person possessive: "y'all's". How would we address a post-op trans- vegan furry who honestly believes that they have an estrus cycle? -"Hey, y'all!"

I don't HATE wokeness, so much as just find it tedious. It's like forcing someone to look down your pants, and agree with you about what they SHOULD see there, before you'll talk to them. Non-stop obsession about gender should be confined to pornography. -And I include the MAGA hyperventilating strict-binary M/F people in that critique, too.

-And as for the election... I wrote about that late last night; it posted here, this morning. Looks like fraud to me...

Oh, and almost forgot- RFK jr. If he restrained himself to just getting additives and synthetic crap out of our food supply, I'd say HAVE AT, but when it comes to medicine, he has said too many wacked-out things for me. Saw him claiming that if people were healthy, they didn't have to worry about communicable diseases, including POLIO, ffs. Apparently, he's ignorant of the fact that a young, healthy, FDR was in the habit of swimming every day, for miles, in the ocean. His first polio attack came during one of those, and he barely made it to shore. He only ever "recovered" enough to be able to stand for short periods, and walk a few steps. I just want to see RFKjr's medical degrees. -Or Don-Don's, for that matter... -although with enough anti-Science, anti-Medical actions, it WOULD keep our population down, leading to further hits on the economy; so that's nice. Who knows? Maybe we could have some disease that we thought had been eradicated, make a come-back, and we could have another pandemic, fit to make Covid look like a cartoon. Wouldn't that be EXCITING? Sorry. No RFKjr. for me, please.