There used to be social taboos.
The American Spectator’s Melissa Mackenzie made this truly excellent point on this week’s Spectacle podcast — which is really fantastic, I’ll have you know. She noted that one of the carry-on items riding along with our new Alphabet People–led cultural revolution is the elimination of “adult” things.
Sure, everyone had vices, but they were kept away from the kids. Your dad might have had a box of Playboys and Penthouses sitting on the top shelf of the closet where you couldn’t get at them without a ladder, or they’d be hidden under the bed. They weren’t on the coffee table. And while it was understood that people headed to Vegas to drink too much, gamble, maybe pick up a little strange in a club … what happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas.
That went both ways, right? It meant there was no judgment for what you did in Sin City, but also that you didn’t bring those things home with you.
Those taboos were built in no small part around something we could all agree on until about five minutes ago: We don’t sexualize kids. We don’t contribute to the delinquency of our juveniles. We give them space to be kids without taking on the burden of the sex and sin and filth that we as adults fall into. (READ MORE: Don’t Just Blame the Dodgers: Blame the Collapse of Catholic Fidelity)
But increasingly, the more this becomes a post-Christian society where the only social taboos come from standing against the new cultural revolution, the more that social compact requiring a tribute from vice to virtue has disintegrated.
Now the revolution requires that virtue pay tribute to vice. And this isn’t going to work, y’all.
To wit:
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh came up with something absolutely amazing this week. Amazingly horrific, that is. Walsh and his producers found a “gender-affirming health care” clinic called Plume and ran a bit of a scam on the group to find out how eager it was to push patients into “sex-change” surgeries.
And boy howdy, were these guys rarin’ to sharpen the knives.
🧵1/ BREAKING: The largest “trans healthcare” providers in the U.S. are rubber-stamping letters approving gruesome, life-altering surgeries. It’s such a racket that my producer was approved for testicle removal in #22minutes. The tape is disturbing.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
Gregg Re, a former Tucker Carlson producer now working with Walsh, told the Plume gang that he kinda-sorta had gender dysphoria, but his answers were calibrated to clearly violate the supposed standards of the transgender/quack health care industry:
“He didn’t even attempt to pass,” Walsh said. “He badly mispronounced the name of the surgery he wanted. He made it clear he didn’t know what effect the surgery would have. Nevertheless, Plume’s nurse practitioner said she wanted to write the most ‘solid’ letter possible to justify surgery. Gregg tells her that he once wrote an essay in school about being a woman, which everyone thought was ridiculous.”
“Gregg also tells Plume’s nurse practitioner that his father has been prescribing him hormones for years,” Walsh continued. “The nurse doesn’t question this in any way. Instead, she says that arrangement is ‘perfect.’”
The clinic sent off the letter of support for an orchiectomy — which is the operation to castrate a man — that insurance companies require based on that flimsy justification.
Re’s entire vetting process with Plume, which included a Zoom call, took 22 minutes. He wasn’t even really trying, and they moved him along that quickly.
There is good news here, which is that relatively soon we’ll see the trial bar step in and absolutely lay waste to these quacks for sawing body parts off the confused and the disturbed. But the damage they’ll do in advance will be — already is — horrific. No sane society would allow this kind of unregulated butchery to happen.
Of course, we stopped being a sane society some time ago.
The Wall Street Journal has a highly disturbing piece up about the social media platform Instagram — which is owned by the Big Tech oligopolistic behemoth Meta (that’s the company that also owns the heavily censorious Facebook) — and how not only is it wide open for use by pedophile networks, but its algorithms actually facilitate their disgusting endeavors:
Pedophiles have long used the internet, but unlike the forums and file-transfer services that cater to people who have interest in illicit content, Instagram doesn’t merely host these activities. Its algorithms promote them. Instagram connects pedophiles and guides them to content sellers via recommendation systems that excel at linking those who share niche interests, the Journal and the academic researchers found.
Though out of sight for most on the platform, the sexualized accounts on Instagram are brazen about their interest. The researchers found that Instagram enabled people to search explicit hashtags such as #pedowhore and #preteensex and connected them to accounts that used the terms to advertise child-sex material for sale. Such accounts often claim to be run by the children themselves and use overtly sexual handles incorporating words such as “little slut for you.”
Instagram accounts offering to sell illicit sex material generally don’t publish it openly, instead posting “menus” of content. Certain accounts invite buyers to commission specific acts. Some menus include prices for videos of children harming themselves and “imagery of the minor performing sexual acts with animals,” researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory found. At the right price, children are available for in-person “meet ups.”
Oh, but it gets worse.
Test accounts set up by researchers that viewed a single account in the network were immediately hit with “suggested for you” recommendations of purported child-sex-content sellers and buyers, as well as accounts linking to off-platform content trading sites. Following just a handful of these recommendations was enough to flood a test account with content that sexualizes children.
The Stanford Internet Observatory used hashtags associated with underage sex to find 405 sellers of what researchers labeled “self-generated” child-sex material—or accounts purportedly run by children themselves, some saying they were as young as 12. According to data gathered via Maltego, a network mapping software, 112 of those seller accounts collectively had 22,000 unique followers.
Underage-sex-content creators and buyers are just a corner of a larger ecosystem devoted to sexualized child content. Other accounts in the pedophile community on Instagram aggregate pro-pedophilia memes, or discuss their access to children. Current and former Meta employees who have worked on Instagram child-safety initiatives estimate the number of accounts that exist primarily to follow such content is in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
For its part, Meta says it’s “taken down 27 pedophile networks” and has banned almost half a million Instagram accounts for pedo behavior just in January alone. Of course, banning an account is meaningless; the account holder just dummies up an alter and comes right back on the platform.
Are they encouraging this stuff? Maybe it’s a bit like the Alejandro Mayorkas testimony that has so infuriated the Republican senators and congressmen grilling him in those hearings about the border — everybody knows he’s letting the border collapse, but he brags about the number of apprehensions and deportations as evidence that he’s Really Doing My Job You Guys. (READ MORE from Scott McKay: The Long-Awaited Impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas)
Your kids probably should not be on social media. The “friend” they make on Instagram and those other apps could very easily be some cretinous Uncle Ernie getting his rocks off in the hope of dragging them into his white Econoline van.
But at least…
Now that Antifa and Black Lives Matter have trained us to see riots as good things, we’re jubilant about this:
Antifa in Glendale, CA is learning the hard way that you don’t mess with the Armenians and especially not their kids
Parents do not want their kids sexually groomed at school
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) June 7, 2023
Those parents were mostly Armenians; Glendale is the part of LA where the Armenian community has congregated. And the Armenians have very little use for the cultural revolution — they’ve had centuries of experience in resisting oppressive forces trying to destroy their culture, and so they’re the wrong folks.
So when the school district heaps on abuses like this…
https://twitter.com/CourageHabit/status/1666296411506221057
…sooner or later you’re going to have parents who’ve had enough.
The real solution here is to pull your kids out and start voting down funding again and again until the local school system dedicating itself to grooming children for queer lifestyles is bankrupted.
But until that can be done, by all means there ought to be warfare in the streets until none of the Antifa mob feels safe in attempting to break up an anti-woke protest.
But they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop. They’re not. This is a movement. I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop, and everyone, beware. Because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they are not going to stop after Election Day. And everyone should take note of that on both levels. That they’re not going to let up. And they should not, and we should not.
Speaking of a cultural revolution…
By now you’ve certainly seen the first episode of Tucker Carlson’s new Twitter podcast. By mid-afternoon on Thursday, it had generated an insane 106 million views, a number that makes Carlson’s former employer Fox News look puny and ridiculous by comparison. And while first episodes of a highly anticipated show like this will naturally outperform the mean, it’s very, very clear that Carlson will have a far larger impact as a podcaster than he ever did as a cable news host.
Everybody recognizes this. Which is probably why Carlson’s podcast episode wasn’t even live on Twitter for a whole day before Fox News started warbling through its lawyers about suing him for a breach of his contract.
The one Fox had already breached by leaking emails, text messages, and video of him to Media Matters and others, you know.
Look, this is simple, and it’s even fun. You can play, too. It’s easy.
Stop watching Fox News until it drops the lawsuit.
If it dumps ratings badly enough, it’ll get the message that this is a bad idea, and it’ll drop the suit. Either that or, if Fox’s management to too stubborn and stupid to see clear market signs, then Fox will collapse and take the whole cable news industry with it.
Which, honestly, would be a great thing. Cable news has done more to dumb down the American populace than anything outside of the newspapers. If that whole industry got wiped out and replaced by streaming media dominated by independent podcasters, you’d see a night-and-day difference in the quality of our electorate.
I just started watching the first season of this one, though the second season just dropped this week so I’m not an authority on it yet.
But if you’re looking for a show, this isn’t bad.
I don’t really have any spoilers to offer yet, but what I have is this: In the show, which is based on the 23 novels by C.J. Box (who’s an executive producer of the TV series), Michael Dorman plays the title character — a newbie Wyoming game warden who has a near-fatal run-in with a poacher only to have him turn up dead behind his house. This sets Pickett off on a quest to find out why, and the quest is a lot more dangerous and complicated than he could have ever imagined.
The cast for this thing is great. You’ll recognize Dorman if you ever watched Patriot, the quirky Amazon Prime series starring him as a spy suffering from PTSD and clearly unsuited to his mission as he and the agency he works for bumbles from one disaster to the next. Even though Dorman is a New Zealander, he’s nonetheless great as Pickett, who’s portrayed as a likable but highly flawed character in way over his head but too stubborn to give up. And Julianna Guill, who plays Pickett’s out-of-work-and-pregnant lawyer wife, is a real show-stealer.
Throw in old favorite David Alan Grier as the corrupt former warden who Pickett has replaced, and you’ve got a great cast. Not only that, but the real star of the show is the gorgeous Wyoming scenery providing the setting.
I haven’t watched enough of this to know for sure that it’s a great show. But I can say that the first four episodes ought to hold your interest. And so far, I can’t detect any woke atrocities — though I’ll allow that you usually get those after they’ve reeled you in. Maybe we’ll revisit this next week for a full verdict.
