It didn’t take long for two public reactions to erupt on the announcement this month that Avery Jackson, a 9-year-old girl from Kansas City, would be the first known transgender individual to be pictured on the cover of National Geographic.
There were, of course, overwhelming expressions of support from the transgender community and our allies.
My response to Bob in Portland's essay "Need someone to help me figure this out," his critique of Martin Longman's Booman Tribune post: [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h_S_QuMyYI]
Brief synopsis:
Relevant Links to my discussion in this video:
I draw your attention to this piece not to criticize Hillary Clinton or her campaign, or because it's utterly impossible that Russia or Russian actors, with or without the personal direction of Vladimir Putin, were behind the public release of the Democratic National Committee's and John Podesta's emails (I will point out that the emails themselves have been authenticated as genuine so that any negative effect is the direct result of telling the truth). There is an equal amount of evidence (if you can call it that) the Republican National Committee was also compromised, though that information did not receive the attention the DNC/Podesta story did either by oversight or design.
Nope, the point is that the "Liberal" Wing of the Neo Liberal Establishment is quite as willing to traffic in conspiracy theories and "Fake News" from dubious single sources provided they confirm their own biases as the Batshit Insane Radical Right that is the Republican Party.
I am no different except I do try to use reputable sources, at least 2 of them, and never, ever believe anything posted on Twitter by obscure nobody wannabes. I also don't have the amplifier of the Corrupt Corporate Media pushing my propaganda.
And I'm not a reporter. I'm a critic.
LaFeminista's essay about the hopeless Dems made me think of a recent Jimmy Dore clip. It is 8 minutes long and it's dynamite. They have descended into irrelevance.
Over the last eight years the Democratic Party has lost:
The House in 2010
The Senate in 2014
** 13 Senate seats
** 69 House seats
** 11 governorships
** 913 state legislature seats
**The Presidency in 2016 and with that SCOTUS for 2017 and onwards [possibly the most disastrous loss of them all].
Relative to the title, there's no other way to put it in my opinion. Others can beat around the bush, like most do these days, but screw that. Insane is what this is.
"In his Twitter post, Trump said, "The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," but gave no further details.
The Democrats hysterical warnings about Russians under our beds, and Donald Trump's weird connection with poor, working class whites, are equally bizarre as long as you are using the archaic and obsolete left-right paradigm of democracy that we've been taught.
Booman Tribune has a curious post up here: http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2016/12/22/111034/92
I think he's still trying to blame progressives because they aren't onboard with the "Russians did it to Hillary" scenario.
