Good morning, kids. Happy and healthy new year to you all! Over the years, as I've become politically conscious, I've learned to dread election years. Whether it was the Democrat-Leftist propaganda machine sliming our candidates, and then later on discovering the awful truth that "our candidates" were just kabuki-bukkake eunuch frauds, Simon & Garfunkel's lyric about "every way you look at it you lose" went from hippie generation pop tune to emmes truth. That is, until Donald Trump descended the Trump Tower escalator over eight years ago. Or more accurately, when what I cynically thought at that moment to be a farcical publicity stunt proved over the course of three incredible years to be a pivotal moment of actual hope for revival and reversal of the trajectory that Trump's predecessor – who no doubt still runs the show behind the scenes – had put the nation on. In point of fact, we had always been on that road that took us over a cliff, as my realization about the nature of the GOP I think shows. What Obama did was switch vehicles from a Corvair to a Lamborghini. And then he floored the accelerator.
On the other hand Trump, if not succeed in throwing it in reverse, was to be the first Republican president to slam on the brakes and put a halt to the insanity. At least temporarily. Of course, Obama and his acolytes and comrades were not going to allow that. He's part and parcel of the counter-American Revolution that took almost a century to rot us out from within and put absolute power in his and his fellow travelers' hands. That was the other eye-opening moment; the in-your-face shredding of even the tiniest modicum of ethics and featly to the rule of law that exposed corruption not only in Congress but in our legal and judicial systems and vast swathes of the soon-to-be-extinct private sector. All because these degenerates crave absolute power.
It's out in the open. Despite the fact that the Left is wearing the rapidly decomposing skin-suit of liberty's defenders, they have no compunction. There is no nakedly criminal, banana republic act, nor red line which they will not cross to destroy our nation, or whatever's left of it, to transform it and wipe out anyone who stands in their way. That means us. Whether or not regular order and elections mean anything anymore, and readers of this column for any length of time over the past several years know that I believe they don't, at the very least, you'd think or you'd hope that there'd be an opposition party that is every bit as committed to going to the mattresses, as it were, to fight even a losing battle with the same kind of fury and anger that the Left does when in those increasingly rare occasions they have the shit end of the stick.
Here's just the latest example of having even a tiny bit of hope in that regard is a sucker's bet:
Detransitioner Chloe Cole had some tough words to offer Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine days after he shot down a bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors in his state, lambasting his decision for allegedly being “complicit” in the “sterilization and mutilation” of children.
“Parents don’t have a right to abuse their children. This is no different from any form of abuse,” Cole said Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” “This is the sterilization and mutilation of thousands of children happening within a state that is being entirely complicit in the choice to continue this.”
DeWine, a Republican, vetoed the GOP-backed Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act on Friday, sparking outrage from conservatives who blasted him as a “coward” for his decision. The bill would have banned gender-affirming procedures for minors in the Buckeye State and would have additionally barred transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
“Were I to sign Substitute House Bill 68 or were Substitute House Bill 68 to become law, Ohio would be saying that the State, that the government, knows what is best medically for a child rather than the two people who love that child the most, the parents,” DeWine said in his veto message. He additionally cited the “profound” consequences the bill could have on children struggling with gender dysphoria as well as their families and said his decision boiled down to input from parents who believed their children’s lives depended on the treatment they received.
Cole, who formerly took steps to complete a female-to-male transition and has since been among the most outspoken critics against gender-affirming care for minors, claimed DeWine’s veto came just days after she shared her story with him during a Zoom call. . . “He knows just how horrific this is to do to children. His decision to continue this… it’s not just a matter of pure incompetence or ignorance.”
She's right. It's a matter of pure, fucking graft:
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio received thousands of dollars in donations from donors who provided transgender medical services or opposed efforts to ban the procedures for minors.
DeWine vetoed House Bill 68 on Friday, which would have prohibited doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors and banned boys from competing in girls’ sports, just hours before the deadline. A review of donations from 2018 to 2023 found that the governor received $40,300 from the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association (OCHA), Cincinnati Children’s, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and ProMedica Children’s Hospital, all of whom support transgender medical care.
OCHA donated $10,000 to the Mike DeWine and Jon Husted Transition Fund on Dec. 28, 2018, and another $10,000 on Dec. 7, 2022, according to the report. A transition fund allows candidates to spend donations for “transition activities and inaugural celebrations,” according to Ohio’s campaign finance handbook.
Cincinnati Children’s, an affiliate of OCHA, donated $300 on Dec. 15, 2022, to the fund and ProMedica, another affiliate of OCHA, also donated $10,000 in December 2018, according to the reports. Nationwide Children’s, a third affiliate with OCHA, donated $5,000 in December 2018 and another $5,000 in January 2023 to the transition fund.
It's one thing if this Swifty Lazar-looking stooge truly believed the crap that some flunky wrote for him. That would be bad enough insofar as we're supposed to be the party of sanity and normalcy, opposed to this insanity of equating child mutilation with that of being Rosa Parks, or keeping men who tuck their junk the hell out of girls locker rooms, where their junk magically springs to life.
But Mike DeWine has no principles. He takes payoffs and pretends to be concerned "for the children." Bad enough our election system is at best compromised and at worst rigged in advance for Democrats. But to be saddled with unmitigated scumbags like this guy is just the bitter end.
With that, I welcome you to 2024. If 2020 didn't finish us off completely, this year certainly will which is why I have dreaded it almost since the day Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants was installed almost three years ago. But, as we discussed on the 2023 Year in Review podcast, we can never know the future. Our enemies hold the high ground and then some, but they are not infallible. I sense a change in the mood of the nation in its entirety, even across political lines among reasonable people who have had enough of the past three years and want no more of it.
Elections, rigged elections or no elections, change is coming. Buckle up, kids.
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