“I’ve heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers.” – The X-Files
Wow. It’s like some of these might be made up.
The first enemy of the Left isn’t the Right.
The first enemy of the Left is the Truth.
The examples go back through history, starting with the Leftist takeover in France after the French Revolution. In order to completely cut ties with the past, the Left even changed:
- The names of the months: the Revolutionaries changed all of them, though they kept 12 months. The coolest name was Therimidor which was, roughly, July. I’ll give them that one: Thermidor sounds like a place you keep wine. I don’t know much about wine, but I do know you have to keep it hot.
- Weeks went from 7 days to 10 days. Why? Metric weeks! They even had special names for the day, but they were all in French and looked like they might cause inadvertent strangulation if I tried to pronounce them.
- The day went to ten hours. Each metric hour had 100 metric minutes. Take that, Babylonians!
- The units of measure. All standards of mass, energy, temperature, and length had to be changed. Why do I call the metric system communist? Because it started with the commies. Did Stalin know how tall he was in feet and inches? Nope, he was all metric, comrade.
Truth is the enemy of the Left, and the idea was (and is) to destroy history. This is the reason the statues have to come down in city after city – they represent a Truth that the Left can’t control. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves? His statue has to go. He didn’t do enough.
Abe doesn’t go to plays anymore. That last one blew his mind.
This Leftist hatred of the Truth might explain two stories that are recently in the news.
The first one is the reaction of the United States military versus Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson: Is he a legitimate military target, perhaps more dangerous than Russia? More dangerous than China?
Well, no.
Mr. Carlson made a 10-minute segment where he criticized the President * for changing the military for political reasons. The changes? Most were tied to the feminization of the military.
Carlson made the point that the military’s job is winning wars. Having pregnant female pilots probably (in Carlson’s estimation) didn’t make sense after President * made a comment about “maternity flight suits” in his address.
I hear this pilot’s husband complained that she worked too hard. “Well, somebody’s gotta fetus.”
The response, from military personnel, in uniform consisted of a Marine sergeant who said, “. . . those decisions were made by medical professionals, by commanders, and our civilian leadership . . . .” and followed up with, “ . . . let’s remember that those opinions were made by an individual that has never served a day in his life . . . .”
I’m wondering what would have happened to a Marine in uniform attacking someone on the Left on social media? Oh, wait, Marine sergeant Gary Stein was kicked out with an “other than honorable” discharge for criticizing Obama. Sure – Tucker Carlson isn’t the Commander-In-Chief, but this is a political attack while in uniform.
John Kirby, Pentagon Press Secretary: “(The United States Armed Forces) . . . won’t take advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military.”
But would the United States Armed Forces take advice from the Marines?
I hope I don’t give her low elf esteem.
In 2015, the Marines did a $35,000,000 (that’s a lot of crayons) study about integrating women into combat groups. A pretty decent summary is here on the Marine Corps Times (LINK). I’ll publish a few snippets from the article that highlight findings of the study (All bullet points are direct quotes from the Marine Corps Times):
- All-male squads and teams outperformed those that included women on 69 percent of the 134 ground combat tasks evaluated.
- All-male teams were outperformed by mixed-gender teams on two tasks: accuracy in firing the 50-caliber machine gun in traditional rifleman units and the same skill in provisional units. Researchers did not know why gender-mixed teams did better on these skills, but said the advantage did not persist when the teams continued on to movement-under-load exercises.
- All-male squads in every infantry job were faster than mixed-gender squads in each tactical movement evaluated. The differences between the teams were most pronounced in crew-served weapons teams. Those teams had to carry weapons and ammunition in addition to their individual combat loads.
- Male-only rifleman squads were more accurate than gender-integrated counterparts on each individual weapons system, including the M4 carbine, the M27 infantry automatic rifle and the M203 grenade launcher.
- Male Marines with no formal infantry training outperformed infantry-trained women on each weapons system, at levels ranging from 11 to 16 percentage points.
Shockingly, women are different than men, the study found (All bullet points are direct quotes from the Marine Corps Times):
- In anaerobic power and capacity, female Marines averaged 15 percent lower levels than their male counterparts. In anaerobic power performance, the top 25 percent of female performers and the bottom 25 percent of male performers overlapped.
- In aerobic capacity, female Marines demonstrated levels 10 percent lower on average than male Marines.
- Over the course of the assessment, musculoskeletal injury rates totaled 40.5 percent for women, more than double the 18.8 percent rate for men.
The Marines declare war on Tucker Carlson?
To the Left, Tucker Carlson is evil incarnate – Tucker is questioning one of the Sacred Points of Liberalism – Reality Is What We Say It Is. That cannot go unpunished. Personally, I know one former Air Force officer who is female who probably could have done any specialty she wanted to in the Air Force. She is so far off the charts by multiple standard deviations on intellect and physical ability so as to be not comparable to average in any way.
She has contributed more to the national defense than I ever will – and she’s still doing it. But the outliers don’t prove the average.
Women can serve, and can serve meaningfully, but they have physical limitations so significant that the Marines in 2015 said that combat infantry wasn’t an option if your goal was killing people and blowing up things. An average college varsity swimmer can beat every woman’s swimming record – world record. The woman’s record for deadlifting is 683 pounds – that’s quite a lot. The men’s record? 1,104.5 pounds, nearly double.
Who says guns aren’t sexy?
No, we’re not deadlifting our opponents to beat them in combat, but strength, speed, and quickness mean something to the Marines or else P.T. would consist of couch time and nachos for lunch. I’d think physical fitness mattered for people engaged in combat.
The Marine study agreed: the top 25% of women overlapped with the bottom 25% of men in physical ability. Also, in sheer competence, the all-male Marines clearly won 70% of all combat exercises. Though I can’t find the quote, I do recall reading that several female participants in the study were quoted as being of the opinion that females shouldn’t be in combat after seeing the results.
What’s most frightening to me is that the military has come together to attack Carlson. For the military to attack a civilian in the news media over an opinion that is political in nature is unsupportable. It’s the next step to the United States Military becoming involved in domestic politics. Oh, wait, there are troops in the Capitol and permanent fencing going up to keep citizens out? Nevermind.
Ooops. Looks like someone reads Twitter®?
The second news item might not originally seem related, but I assure you it is. The last week has seen the growth of a new orientation: Super Straight.
Super Straight has its origin in transgender ideology. You see, if you are a male that doesn’t want to date a “trans woman” the trans community would call you a “transphobe” because, in their world, “trans women are women.”
Well, Super Straight was an amazing troll of this philosophy. It was actually the brainchild of a 16-year-old on TikToc®. He was lamenting that he would be called a “transphobe” for not liking “trans girls” so he came out . . . as Super Straight. That meant that he was only attracted to women who were born as women.
The group noted they felt being called “cis-male” or “cis-female” was hate speech. Orange and black are the SuperStraight colors.
In 2021 the idea that a biological male might want to only date biological females is being sold to kids as odd. But even kids can see this is nonsense. That’s why they’re revolting. They were using the same language that the Left uses back at them, “Why can’t you stop attacking me for this? I was born this way.”
And the Left must stop that – the idea that “normal” can defend itself is not acceptable.
The Left has to portray themselves as the undisputed victim class. They are the ones that are horribly abused. They are the ones that are deserving of pity because society oppresses them. The idea that another group might take this from them?
Worse than death. The Left agrees.
Remember, trains is hard job.
So, the plug was pulled on the Reddit® forum r/SuperStraight after just over a week – despite the fact that over 25,000 people had joined it that quickly. Or was it because that many people joined it that quickly?
Ironically, it wasn’t long before SuperLesbians started showing up. They were creeped out by transwomen wanting to date them and calling them transphobes if they said no. Also? SuperGays showed up. They didn’t want to date transmen. It was a strange, weird, and amazingly polite group of people who didn’t want to be forced to date people who are (let’s be clear) more than a little creepy.
Is it a crime to notice?
I don’t dislike trans people – I don’t know any of them. There just aren’t that many in the world. There might be 0.1% to 0.3% based on a 2014 study. Many of them have other underlying psychological issues: their suicide rate is 20 times their peer group after surgery. Based on everything I’ve read, they are a group that deserves sympathy and psychological help.
The trans movement is probably the biggest finger in the eye of Truth that the Left has pushed so far. The idea that a 10-year-old kid can make decisions that would lead to them being put on very potent hormones with far-reaching implications to block puberty is frightening.
But the Left will support that with everything they have: when Rand Paul questioned Dr. Levine about giving kids powerful hormones and conducting surgery on them during confirmation hearings, all Dr. Levine would say is, “Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care . . . .”
See, even the sign language interpreter isn’t buying it.
So, yes. Levine supports it. The Left agrees. And mainstream news was, unsurprisingly ready to complain that Rand Paul didn’t understand medicine. Dr. Rand Paul, M.D.
It erases our past. It erases our norms. It erases the current structure of society. This is the same exact playbook as the military. The military ceases to be about protecting the country, it becomes an arm of the political Left, erasing hundreds of years of tradition and purpose.
You realize this is next, right?
That’s why the SuperStraight movement made me smile. It was founded by kids who see the lie. They know they are being lied to. They know the people who are lying, know they are telling lies. This is the best element of hope: Truth matters.
The Truth will win.
