I’ve avoided politics for many posts, but these days being what they are, I can’t make it any further. This week I’m finding the extrajudicial abduction of American permanent resident and father-to-be Mahmoud Kahlil to be a very bad sign of where things are going.
It’s also the week when California’s governor, the Democrat Gavin Newsom, decided to soft-launch his 2024 presidential campaign by starting a new podcast and using the first episode to identify the true threat to American freedom: underage trans girls competing in sports. I just want to register how sick this makes me feel. As you’re reading this, roughly 50% of trans and nonbinary teens have “seriously considered attempting suicide” in the last year. Meanwhile here’s one of the most powerful people in the country, a cis-man, and he’s going to use his platform to amplify some invented panic about a high school triple jumper. What a creep. What an evil cretin.
Beyond indignation, I do have one insight to offer here: remember November when there was a minor obsession among liberals with finding “the liberal Joe Rogan”? The timing is too obvious for this not to be true—Newsom thinks that that’s him. He’ll be the one to do it. By selling out trans people. What a loser.
