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And so, here I am.
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I haven't watched a moment of the Olympics, because sports generally and the kind they do at the Olympics specifically bore the crap out of me.
But the story no one could avoid was that of the "transgender" boxer (a man on hormones) who made a real woman leave her match out of, basically, fear for her life. And who can blame her?
If you are so woke that you think it's more important to validate a man's fantasies than to protect women, there's the door. You are not pro-woman in any way, stop pretending you are.
I pulled up some interesting research from Pub Med Central, which shows a dramatic increase in the number of male-to-female pretenders than the other way. Gosh, I wonder why?
First, have you noticed there is NEVER a story about a woman "becoming" a man where it involves any kind of disruption to the male pysche? Know why? Because there aren't any.
Therefore, this isn't at all about "transgender" rights--it's about men putting women "in their place" the only way they can now: through intimidation, physical assault, and claiming said women are "transphobic" because they don't want to have their lives and safety ruined by men on hormones.
I'm honestly surprised no one ever points out that this is 100% a story about the impact on women. Why? BECAUSE THERE IS NO IMPACT ON MEN.
If a woman wants to be in a male locker room with a vagina, the only person she'd endangering is herself. She has zero chance of beating a real man at sports (have you heard of a single instance? Right).
Like the abortion controversy, this one ONLY AFFECTS WOMEN. If a man gets a woman pregnant, he doesn't have to worry about going to jail if he doesn't want the baby. He knows he's almost certainly off the hook in any way.
All these laws are just ways to subjugate women, because we have apparently gotten too fucking uppity for guys.
Meanwhile, just as the Covid scandals vis-a-vis false claims about vaccines being a) safe and b) effective have long been proven to be abject LIES, this bullshit will also go down as another way for Congress and random billionaires to make a fortune the old-fashioned way: via Big Pharma.
Getting people hooked on hormones for life and then creating an entire political movement about it where the state actually has more rights than parents (GOSH THAT SOUNDS LIKE COMMUNISM!) is a great way to keep those billions pouring in, while also keeping one political party in power.
It's time to hit back. And if you can't handle the pushback, boys, get the fuck out of the ring. We know who we are, and we know who you're not.
Bye.
We live in the strangest of times.
If I say someone who clearly hates Jews and wishes us all dead is "antisemitic," I could be accused of "playing the victim."
If I say a man with a dick is a man with a dick---no matter how many hormones he takes--I am called "transphobic."
Apparently, Jews and women have no "free speech," only people who love terrorists, know zip squat about Jews or Israel, and men who fetishize women and like to imagine they are one.
At what point do people have the right to say "shut the fuck up and go away"?
I'm very lucky that I live in a very ethnically mixed, quiet hood. No one bothers anyone else and we're all good with that. When I first moved here, I was horrified to see someone had spray-painted the N word on an electrical box, and I went out and bought a can of spray paint and covered that shit up.
That's not acceptable, period.
Neither are encampments of people screaming for the demise of all Jews. I don't really give a motherfucking flying fuck about your "rights"--I have the right to live without having to listen to your ignorant thoughts.
There are all kinds of people I'd rather not be around, but I don't block traffic, bridges and public buildings to say so. Because honestly, who gives a fuck? And why are people entitled to say the same stupid shit day after day?
Do you really think it's free speech to do that? Cause I would label it "propaganda" myself.
I am going to ___ the next person who starts a sentence with "everyone has the right to free speech." No, they don't. They have the right to free THOUGHTS. No one can clamp down on your opinions.
But you don't have the right to walk into any government building and threaten people there---isn't that technically "free speech"?
So why do I, as a Jewess, not have the same right to be free from threats and harassment?
It's not like anyone in Congress--or Washington, for that matter--is worth a sack of potatoes.
So I am challenging everyone to revisit the whole topic of "free speech," because it's complete bullshit.
Y'all take care now, y'hear? Good talk.
I'm slightly amused at the desperate cries of the Dems, trying to tell those of us who just paid $7 for a loaf of bread or $4.50 for a gallon of gas that we are in danger of "losing" democracy if Crazy Ol' Joe doesn't get reelected.
This from a president who used Executive Privilege to change the entire point of Title IX, and allow men to ogle and rape and harass and intimidate women LEGALLY in their own spaces and sports and bathrooms. I dunno, that seems like a pretty maj loss of freedom to me, as a real, actual woman.
Then Joe talks out of both sides of his mouth about his not-so-ironclad commitment to helping Israel. His Gaza pier disaster---which cost American taxpayers upwards of $320 mil (that's officially, so it's probably five times that much)--and came apart and never got one thing to a Pal is pretty fucking funny. Way to prove Israel was right, Joey baby.
Then we have the border, which is now open season for murderers and rapists. We have the mayor of Boston (a Dem woman) declaring that thieves should no longer be prosecuted. I'm not talking about shoplifting a loaf of bread, she wants to decriminalize BREAKING AND ENTERING your home. I hope, I really, truly do, that someone breaks and enters HER home and robs her of everything she has, including her dignity.
What I find so stunning--and it's clear that many Dems feel the same way now--is how UTTERLY tone-deaf the people who run things are to the realities the rest of us Americans face every damned day. And that's regardless of what color or religion we are: we ALL are paying $7 for a loaf of fucking (not even gourmet) BREAD. It's cray cray.
So yeah, listening to Jill or any one of the insane broads on MSNBCommies et al tell us we really don't know how great the economy is, is downright hilarious.
Joe is gonna lose this election. And his people have not one damned being to blame but their ridiculous, un-American policies that reward the worst shit of society and punish honest and hardworking people.
Ya get what ya get, Joe Bob. Enjoy your retirement, boo.
I don't consider myself to have mental health issues, whatever that even means. I do consider myself to be a normal human being who is buffeted by the winds coming my way.
And right now, every day is a sandstorm for Jews. The hate. The denial of the hate. The unapologetic calling for our annihilation.
The insane comparisons to the very people who murdered six million of us not even a century ago. The people who say that "hating Zionists isn't antisemitic."
And finally, the pure "why?" of it all. Why do we have to go through this century after century, when, per capita, we are not only a tiny percentage of any population outside of Israel, but also, by and large, educated, philanthropic, and proud citizens of our country?
For me, it's that last question that affects me the most.
There is a prayer in the Reform prayer book that states:
"We are a people in whom the past endures,
in whom the present is inconceivable without moments gone by. The Exodus lasted a moment, a moment enduring forever. What happened once upon a time happens all the time."
The depth of this sentiment really hit me in the kishkes this past Shabbat at shul. Our collective pain from millennia lives in our very cells.
There is a dark joke among Jews, that all our holidays begin at sundown so that we can say, "They tried to kill us. They didn't succeed. Let's eat."
Somewhere in these jumbled thoughts, I find myself crying every day now. For the hopeless stupidity of humans. For the endless designation of my great people as the "other" who should be destroyed. For not having a clue how to navigate this and why I am forced to.
I would ideally like some kind of forum to help all Jews cope these days. But I know it would be polluted with haters and sycophants of the terrorists who wave Palestinian flags, so I shrug and move on.
One thing is for sure: no Jew can ever again say "Never again."
As another great prayer in the Reform prayer book says, "We oughtn't pray for what we've never known, and humanity has never known."
So I will pray to never encounter a Pal flag holder, so I won't be tempted to shove it up their ass and out their nose.
Amen.
Miranda Armstadt
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