{"id":85332,"date":"2023-06-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85332"},"modified":"2023-06-08T05:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:31:36","slug":"the-racket-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85332","title":{"rendered":"The Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not the world&#8217;s biggest Matt Walsh fan.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not because of what he says.  Mostly because he&#8217;s a podcaster whose podcast gets plopped onto radio with a little editing. It&#8217;s not necessarily great radio.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But radio purism aside, I watched &#8220;What is a Woman?&#8221; last week.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the part that stuck with me, the part I didn&#8217;t already know?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between hormones, surgery and other clinical charges, every single transition yields a total of $1.3 Million.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The return on investment has to be <em>far <\/em>better than Covid was.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that in mind, I caught this the other day.  It&#8217;s a thread &#8211; if you cllck into it, it should yield 5-6 related tweets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An adolescent therapist came to me with borderline unbelievable stories to tell about how \u2248 90% of her caseload is now transgender-identifying kids.<br><br>\u201cWe are being told, \u2018Don\u2019t investigate what\u2019s going on. Don\u2019t find out if they have a comorbid personality disorder or if they\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c4OpEAtvV0\">https:\/\/t.co\/c4OpEAtvV0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Andrea Mew (@andreajmew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andreajmew\/status\/1666550161630437376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a racket&#8221; would certainly explain a lot of the hamfisted way the DFL jammed the issue down this past session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the world&#8217;s biggest Matt Walsh fan. Not because of what he says. Mostly because he&#8217;s a podcaster whose podcast gets plopped onto radio with a little editing. It&#8217;s not necessarily great radio. But radio purism aside, I watched &#8220;What is a Woman?&#8221; last week. And the part that stuck with me, the part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,18,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-pc","category-whats-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85333,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85332\/revisions\/85333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}