It’s become a little like the classic movie “Groundhog Day”.
A new scandal comes that will supposedly rend the Trump Administration to its core.
It turns out to be a damp squib.
Lather, rinse, repeat, until 2020.
Why do people still trust the media at all?
Joel Kotkin – who’s moved from being America’s foremost urban planning critic to one of our best social critics – has noticed:
This divide can be seen in public perceptions of the news media. Although somewhat improved from its low point in 2016, only 40 percent of Americans, according to Gallup, trust the media, compared to over 50 percent in 1999. As befits the media’s increasingly partisan stance, the small improvement over 2016 comes almost entirely from Democrats. Only 15% of Republicans and barely a third of independents now trust media compared to nearly 70% of Democrats.
Once the news business had enough sense of propriety and professionalism to at least maintain an appearance of objectivity. There’s ample reason, as Glenn Reynolds suggests, to see many mainstream journalists as little more than “Democrats with bylines,” willing participants in what long-time leftist and fiercely anti-Trump reporter Matt Taibbi describes as the upper bureaucracy’s “permanent coup” against Trump. If this “coup” now actually succeeds, it will be one that will simply accentuate hostility to the media among a large segment of the population.
The whole thing is worth a read, naturally.
And it matters, because democratic society needs institutions – law-enforcement, courts, a news media – that it can trust to hold all parties accountable.
And this past decade has shown that we really have none of them.
And this past decade has shown that we really have none of them [law-enforcement, courts, a news media]
This past decade? This extends back five, six decades for the news media. One could also argue five decades for the courts (Warren Court, Roe v Wade). I don’t have any fact(oid)s for law enforcement, but I’m sure they could be found – although the Hoover ethos probably prevented an infiltration of the FBI until the 70s or 80s – heck, McCarthy who turned out to be both prescient and nuts, said the CIA was infiltrated by C@mmies in the 50s.
Every time a new outlet files for bankruptcy, an angel gets their wings.
There was a ruling by a family court (in Texas, jfc) couple days ago, that awarded custody of a 7 year old boy to his mother (a pediatric MD!, jfc) who dresses the boy as a girl, and plans on starting the lad on chemical castration when he reaches puberty.
Additionally, the judge has instructed the dad to start addressing his son by the new name mom has chosen for him; “Luna”.
According to non-partisan observers, the boy refuses to wear dresses when with his dad, and on at least one occasion, he cut the dresses up.
Right here, we have the medical and judical systems joining Clown World to devastate a child’s life…in Texas. If there’s a legislative way out of this mess, I can’t see it.
Swiftee, I saw that, too, and the thought that comes to mind is that family court is almost (not quite) as cruel as the Mosaic penalty for adultery. My brother-in-law is dealing with a court that is not only giving alimony, but is basing it on wages corresponding to 60 or more hours per week.
One might suggest that one ought not marry, or bed, a woman who is sympathetic to the Duluth Model.
Every time you hear an anecdote about a man getting screwed by the family court system, substitute “gun owner” and “red flag law.”
Now you know how that system will operate.
It was my (mis?)understanding that it was a jury that decided that Texas case.
Exactly, JD. And fucking lunatics like this woman MD will be the arbiters of who is red flag material, and who is not.
We’re close, gentlemen. Real close.
jdm it was a jury trial, but keep in mind they operate under rules set by the judge.
Also the judge determined the terms of custody.
JDM, what Swiftee notes, and suffice it to say that too often, family court is a “common sense free” zone. In addition to the case referenced by Swiftee, and the one I mentioned before, the niece of a good friend started transition surgeries in her teens. If she’s one of the 80% or whatever that decide that was wrong, that double mastectomy is going to be a scar that hurts for life.
Really, the law should provide for civil remedies against doctors who do this kind of malpractice. If it’s not there, be prepared for the case that eventually, someone’s not going to shoot themself, if you catch my drift.
This journalistic description of the Texas custody case sure sounds completely factually different than the outraged denunciations and calls for unspecified (but possibly violent) action from the propagandist segment of the Right.
https://thetexan.news/dallas-custody-battle-over-alleged-transgender-seven-year-old-will-resume-next-week/
This paints an awful picture of the father (Respondent).
http://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=9f93bb60-d38b-4824-b530-fc93933f0d75&coa=coa05&DT=Other&MediaID=7a2cb72a-c155-4343-b923-06f3ab2d1708
Emery;
So what?!
It’s about an ignorant woman and an idiotic libidiot judge, forcing a vulnerable child into gender reassignment. This is outright child abuse by both the so called mother AND the judge.
Agendas are funny like that.
I predict thoughtful, well-educated responses to this article.
D_K prefers to dress the kiddies up to suit himself. Doesn’t appreciate other mental defectives getting involved.
I hope that if this goes though somehow the child can sue this lunatic mother for damages at some point. Putting children on puberty blockers should be illegal and is a form of child abuse. The only comfort I have is I know that there is a special place in hell for this insane SJW mother. The only question I have for the father is what the hell were you thinking even sticking it in a creature like this and then marrying her, for a time at least.
There is no science that suggests anything like a “gender identity” exists. When I say that I am a male it is a recognition of biological reality, it doesn’t mean that I want to go play football or fix the damn plumbing.
If a man dresses up as a woman and claims to be a woman, we are supposed to recognize him as a woman, but if that same man puts on black face he is to be condemned and shunned?
The American left is insane. They are a far greater danger to the republic than any real estate huckster president.
Now it’s all worse under the guise of being better. Our little sleazeball should really like this “solution”.
But the judge is simultaneously slapping a gag order on the father, forbidding him from speaking publicly about the case.
That means that she might have granted the father “equal” voice in whether or not the boy is castrated and further encouraged to “socially transition” into a girl boy who wears lipstick, false eyelashes, and other drag-queen accoutrements, but that she’ll also side with the mother on every point of dispute, and the father now will be forbidden, upon pain of contempt and jail, to say so in public.
At least the father isn’t trying to castrate his boy.
This is almost hilarious — for decades feminists have portrayed the stereotype of the castrating female as being a male chauvinist fantasy.
Three days of massive protests by farmers against new “green” laws in the Netherlands:
https://twitter.com/detgrim/status/1184898297217069056
The government was forced to back down & repeal the laws.
You would think that would make the news here.