Happy Halloween! (2019)

Posted on October 31, 2019 by The Political Hat

     Here is the silent classic, “Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages”

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Our Monster Culture Is Not Your Costume

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Guest Poster

     This guest post was delivered by a real estate agent screaming about rats, rats, rats, thousands—millions of them… all red blood.

     

I bid you… welcome.

An increasing number of mortals have been asserting that their culture is not someone else’s costume. Mere human mortals are almost always pathetic little creatures, and though they will too bow down and serve us as Mr. Renfield does, in this case they are indeed correct.

We monsters insist that people stop dressing up as us. No more vampires, witches, mummies, &c. This is our culture; not your costume.

And yes, we have embraced the work “monster” much as your human Blacks and LGBTQ have embraced the “N-word” and “Queer”, respectively.

While we are on the subject, you human mortals need to check your privileges!

They are not “zombies” or the “undead” but simply identify as living, and thus or trans-living… and trans-living are living.

Frankenstein’s monster, who you human mortal oppressors won’t even call by xyr’s real name, Abby, has had monster-affirming surgery and should not be mocked for having surgery to change parts to be true to who xyr is.

Further, we call on all the so-called “monster movies” to be banned as HATE SPEECH; Also for all “assault stakes” made from white oak and white ash, all silver, and pitchforks to be made illegal.

We await your apology.

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Elephants Are People Too

Posted on October 29, 2019 by The Political Hat

     The impetus of some to grant legal rights to “nature” and even to specific non-human species, while clearly insane, it to actually use these “rights” to achieve dominion over others by suing on behalf of some critter.

     The thing is, while animal welfare laws could apply, the people pushing this still insist on (pseudo-)human rights for non-humans, even though such critters have no duties or obligations that the rest of us have.

“Lawyers representing an elephant have argued in a New York City court that their trunked client be considered a person, in a fresh attempt to upend human dominance over this designation.

“Happy the elephant is, contrary to her sunny name, being detained by the Bronx Zoo ‘illegally’, due to her personhood, and must be released, according to the pachyderm’s self-appointed legal team.

“The case’s instigator, an animal rights group, hopes it will cause a legal breakthrough that will elevate the status of elephants, which the group calls ‘extraordinarily complex creatures’ similar to humans that should have the fundamental right to liberty.”

     This does not elevate animals, but diminishes human beings.

“The distinction between animal rights and animal welfare is crucial. Animal rights is an ideology that humans and animals are equal. Thus PETA once argued that owning a leather couch is the moral equivalent of purchasing a lamp made from human skin from Auschwitz. Animal-rights believers believe that there should be no human ownership of animals for any reason.

“In contrast, animal welfare sees the proper care of animals as a human duty in keeping with our exceptionalism. This approach accepts the propriety of making instrumental use of animals, but requires us to do so for proper reasons and in a humane manner, based on the particular characteristics of the animals in question.”

     Your humble author, nonetheless, will extend human rights to elephants when they can demonstrate that they are capable of the same level of civilization that many humans have achieved.

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Trans Horror

Posted on October 28, 2019 by The Political Hat

     Transgenderism, which posits concomitantly that gender is separate and distinct from biological sex while also claiming that taking on not just the appellation and manner of the opposite sex but also the superficial physical apparent of said opposite sex is necessary to “transitioning” genders.

     Though cloaked in academic robes and incomprehensible jargon, the view of transgenderism is fundamentally unscientific, ignoring basic biology and promoting the lie that one can literally become the opposite sex, via a form of sympathetic magic whereby taking on the appearance and appellation of the opposite sex, one becomes the opposite sex, lest someone use the “wrong” pronouns and thus break the ritual chant.

     The reality is that such “gender affirming surgeries” no not and can not change one’s sex, but result in a Frankenstein’s monster of a body. This is an unpleasant truth, and the evidence for that truth is horrid, but some truths are so important to be known that we ought to all know just how terrifyingly monstrous “transgender surgery” is.

     Fair warning: The following is NSFW.

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News of the Week (October 27th, 2019)

Posted on October 27, 2019 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for Oct. 27th, 2019


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Firing Line Friday: The Meaning of the China Vote

Posted on October 25, 2019 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     With the People’s Republic of China being in the news, primarily for the repression in Hong Kong, let us examine one of the big and despicable decisions of the United Nations: Handing over the Republic of China’s seat in the United Nations over to the People’s Republic of China.

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Quick Takes – Queer College: Queering God; Queering Straightness; Unqueering Gay Men

Posted on October 24, 2019 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: The timeline where a transgender YHWH smites Gay men for not being queer enough.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Maybe the Left will rethink the entire “separation of church and state” stance they hold once God comes out as Queer…

“Swarthmore College offers a course on ‘Queering God,’ most recently taught during the spring 2019 semester, that provides a feminist and queer perspective of the Bible, while also exploring God’s gender identity.

“The course, taught by Professor Gwynn Kessler, questions whether God is a masculine or feminine figure through the examination of feminist and queer writings. Its course description says the class ‘stretch[es] the limits of gendering-and sexing-the divine.’ Key themes of the class, also outlined in the course description, include gender, embodiment, masculinity, liberation, sexuality, and feminist and queer theory.

“’Part of the student community definitely wants to have more representation and to have LGBTQ issues addressed in courses and elsewhere on campus,’ a Swarthmore student, who asked to remain anonymous, told Campus Reform. ‘This means spreading awareness and getting people to action through taking courses like this.’

“Natalie, another Swarthmore student who asked for her last name not to be published, noted that the school demonstrates ‘normalized progressivism, unfazed by even the most controversial topics.’”

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Florida Democrats: Swamps Are People Too

Posted on October 23, 2019 by The Political Hat

     It is becoming increasingly common around the world, including the United States of America, to grant human rights to “nature” or “Gaia”, including granting “rights” to rivers, glaciers, and mountain—and then let eco-radicals sue on behalf of said geographic features. Now, the Florida Democratic party is making it part of their platform.

“Almost overlooked at the Florida Democratic Party’s bi-annual convention in Orlando last weekend was adoption of a platform resolution that includes potentially revolutionary language for efforts to protect Florida’s environment.

“One of the ‘be it resolved’ clauses in a ‘Demand Clean Water’ resolution approved by the party’s general meeting includes a handful of key words: ‘recognizing and protecting the inherent rights of nature, as we have done for corporations.’

“The seemingly odd wording is a nod to an emerging national legal strategy in the environmental protection community, one that already is appearing in other statements in Orange County and elsewhere. The effort is to legally declare that rivers, lakes, forests, estuaries, reefs, or other natural features may have inherent rights against degradation, which can be defended in court, much as corporations have been found to possess inherent rights.

“The notion has been emerging in recent years, and is being contested in courts, notably in a multi-pronged battle in Toledo, Ohio. Yet it has roots in a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case, in which Justice William O. Douglas proposed it, in a dissenting opinion for an environmental dispute, creating a concept which environmental activists now are seeking to validate.”

Pictured: Typical Florida Politician

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The Fight Against the Duo-Normative Diarchy Comes To Congress

Posted on October 22, 2019 by The Political Hat

     Increasingly, we are seeing more and more “throuples” arise to challenge the duo-normative oppression of the diarchy that insists that marriage and other such intimate relationships and domestic partnerships are limited to only two people, with the irrational animus that anything non involving exactly two people is some how aberrant.

     Gay, Lesbian, and mixed-sex throuples, not only in foreign countries, but also in the United States are known. Now, such arrangements are found in Congress!

“Photographs and text messages obtained by RedState show that Rep. Hill was involved in a long-term sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer. The woman, whose name is not being released, was hired by Hill in late 2017 and quickly became involved in a ‘throuple’ relationship with Hill and her estranged husband, Kenny Heslep.

“Heslep and the staffer, according to text messages provided to RedState, believed the polyamorous arrangement to be a long-term, committed relationship. The trio took multiple vacations together, including to Alaska, where this photograph was taken.

“…

“Also of concern in the alleged throuple relationship is the age differential between Hill, Heslep, and the staffer. The staffer was 22 and a new college graduate when the relationship started; Hill and Heslep were in their 30s. “

Blurred Picture via RedState Screencap

     Sure, Rep. Hill has abandoned both for a new staffer, but it’d be bigoted to say that a woman who demands multiple lovers will be willing to demand more and abandon old loves to seen a new kick, since that happens with couples, dontchaknow.

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The Perpetual Whittling Away of Venezuela

Posted on October 21, 2019 by The Political Hat

     How bad is it in Venezuela? So bad that fleeing Venezuelans are willing to accept forced labor and sexual exploitation rather than go back. Increasingly, nations are recognizing that something has to be done to stop the perpetual slow collapse of Venezuela, even to the point of calling on the United Nations. After all, with Maduro going out of the way to alienate potential allies, then certainly opposition within the United Nations could be found, right?

     Wrong.

“The United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights Venezuela released a blistering report on Venezuela in July. It found that President Nicolas Maduro’s government engaged in widespread human rights abuses, including the torture and murder of political opponents and average citizens.

“Yesterday, Venezuela was also elected to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, an intergovernmental body charged with ‘strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights.’

“Also being elected to fill several of the 14 vacant seats on the 47-member council were Mauritania—where local human rights groups estimate that up to 20 percent of the population is enslaved—and Sudan, currently led by a hybrid civilian-military council chaired by a general who overthrew the last president in a coup.”

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