Quick Takes – Blame the White People; Blame the Republicans; Blame the Christians

Posted on January 11, 2018 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: It’s always everyone else’s fault.

     First, a little bit of mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Evil, of course, must be opposed and stopped… unless, of course, said evil suggests that the demographics of said evil is politically incorrect, in which case the facts must be silenced!

“Portland police will no longer maintain a database of suspected gang members, due to concerns that the vast majority of people with the gang label are racial minorities.

“Starting Oct. 15, the Portland Police Bureau will end the 20-year practice of issuing gang member designations, which police say can lead to “unintended consequences” and a lifelong stigma even for those who have given up the gang lifestyle. Officials intend to notify the approximately 300 people on the gang list that the bureau will purge all records related to the designations”

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Canada Channels Monty Python

Posted on January 10, 2018 by The Political Hat

     The end of one’s life ought to be surrounded by one’s loved ones, when one decides to die… at least that is the shtick pushed by Grim Reaper loving Left…

     Death is allegedly supposed to be dignified and bereft of pain. Of course, this runs counter to the socialized idea that “everyone belongs to everyone else” and that once you die your body is to be used to benefit those whose survival is deemed to benefit the whole… at least in Canada.

     Of course, to benefit everyone, one must be free of painkillers and all the other things that might affect the healthiness of someone else’s future organs…

“For one thing, the dying process becomes more medicalized. Patients need to undergo sometimes uncomfortable and inconvenient medical tests to see if their tissues and organs are viable for transplant.

“If someone is getting medical assistance in dying and wants to donate their organs, they have to be in a transplant-capable hospital, close to an operating room.

“‘We’re trying to reduce the impact of organ donation on the last few hours of their life. We want it to be a time they enjoy with their friends and family and leaves everyone with lasting memories, not of a hospital,’ says Dr. Adrian Robertson, medical director of Transplant Manitoba’s Gift of Life program. (Lyzaville Sale/CBC)…

“‘Most patients would prefer to die at home,” Robertson says. “So this is an extra burden to the patient. That’s explained to them, and in some ways signifies their interest in donation that they’re willing to forgo that part of the beauty of medical assistance in dying and take on this extra burden of donation.'”

     IOW, shut up and suffer so that your bit and pieces may be put to better use. After all, that “deaths of these patients have greater value than their lives”.

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Drag Club for Kids

Posted on January 9, 2018 by The Political Hat

     Considering that “wokeness” for appreciation for cross-dressing and being a drag-queen is the realm of pre-teens, it is no surprise that a pre-teen drag-kid Queen would arise as a mascot for a “drag” club for pre-pubescent children to embrace the gender-queer agenda…

“Drag clubs are nothing new in New York City — but it took a 10-year-old to dream up the first drag club for children.

“Desmond Napoles from Brooklyn in New York City is better known by his drag name, Desmond is Amazing. Though still quite young, he first expressed an interest in dressing up in drag as a toddler and has become somewhat of a celebrity on the drag circuit.

“And he is convinced that there are more kids out there just like him. So now, the precocious youngster is launching Haus of Amazing, the ‘first and only drag club for kids,’ where no adults are allowed.”

     Let’s face facts.

     This insanity would not have happened if it were not for some adult with insane obsessions about queer children not pushed such insanity.

     This kid seemed to be a normal boy with normal masculine inclinations.. yet somehow this young boy was exposed to Leftist delusions and convinced his Leftist parents with the assistance of a Leftist shrink to go balls deep in Leftist drag-trans-genderistm!

“‘Ever since day one… ever since I was able to walk, I used to take my mom’s towels and take her heels and clomp around the house. [I’d] put the towel on my head, wrap a towel around my body and walk the runway down my house,’ he revealed to Out.

“At age five, he liked to play with toy trains, maps, video games, and Barbies but when he was six, an Elsa from Frozen costume changed everything — and Desmond started asking his parents for princess costumes or dresses when they were out shopping.

“Admitting that they were concerned about how other people might perceive their son, Desmond’s parents consulted a therapist for advice on what to do.

“The therapist advised them that the best course of action was to do nothing, and let Desmond develop naturally and explore his own tastes in clothing, toys, and activities.”

     The new “safe space” for these victims is touted as:

“So far, the club has simply been announced on Instagram, andis described as being ‘the first and only drag house exclusively for drag kids who are doing AMAZING drag.’“

     Gee golly whilickers! I wonder who whispered such sweat insanities in the ears of such babes?

     Ever think that society is doomed? Congratulations, you’ve just got the strongest proof you’ll ever need…

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The Socialist Dictatorship of Venezuela Does What Socialist Dictatorships Do

Posted on January 8, 2018 by The Political Hat

     …repress and self-destruct, of course.

     Dropping any last pretense that Venezuela cared about the “will of the people” or an semblance of a functioning democracy, opposition parties have been banned.

“Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced Sunday that leading opposition parties will be barred from taking part in next year’s presidential vote after they boycotted mayoral polls, in a move set to further consolidate his grip on power.

“That includes the groups of key figures who have led street protests against his rule such as Henrique Capriles, Leopoldo Lopez and others, Mr Maduro told reporters after casting his vote in the municipal polls.

“‘That’s what the National Constituent Assembly set out,'” he said, referring to a controversial Maduro-allied special powers legislature whose legitimacy has been questioned by many in the international community.

“‘If they don’t want elections, what are they doing? What’s the alternative? (Civil) war?’ the president asked, visibly angry.”

     They’d be so lucky to have a civil war, what with their inability to pay their own debts, going so far as to beg for help from China and Russia, even as they are incapable of even paying their own oil workers!

     Unsurprisingly, they are mining the Amazon forest via military assistance. But not even that is enough, they are now considering digital currency as a savior!

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News of the Week (January 7th, 2018)

Posted on January 7, 2018 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for Jan. 7th, 2018


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The Most Racist?

Posted on January 5, 2018 by The Political Hat

     A “trans-woman” model who recently threw a privileged temper-tantrum as a model, has declared that the U.K. is the most racist country:

     Not only that, but that “racism” is not learned, but “inherited” thus making White people the most racist race ever!!1!

     Of course, the fact that the U.K. police throw people in jail for suspicions of making “racist” jokes, it is mighty peculiar to think that racism has institutional privilege or that White racists have institutional power.

     That Bergdorf calls White Britons, who led the charge to abolish millennia old pre-Western institutions of slavery around the world, the “most racist”, is laughable at best.

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Quick Takes – Hypocrisy Incarnate: Intolerance for the Intolerant; Excluding the Non-inclusives; Desubjectifying Objectivity

Posted on January 4, 2018 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: Do unto others…?

     First, a little bit of mood music:

     Carrying on…

     One of the arguments of the Left is that they aren’t innately intolerant, it’s just that it’s logical to be intolerant of the intolerant (like those bakers who they hunted down and were punished for refusing to “bake the cake”), with those defined axiomatically as the prime “intolerant” ones by the Left and the opposition, no matter how excessively more intolerant than the axiomatic villain, are considered “tolerant” for no other reason than they are defined as such.

Case in point:

“The Federalist’s Bethany Mandel penned a piece about the totalitarian-like Thought Police tactics of the Left when it comes to social issues like gay marriage and transgenderism. In the piece, aptly titled “How The Transgender Crusade Made Me Rethink My Support For Gay Marriage,” Mandel explains that witnessing the Left’s bullying tactics used against anyone who dares to suggest men are men and women are women or audaciously uses an ‘incorrect’ pronoun, has made her reevaluate her support for gay marriage and reaffirmed her stance on transgenderism.

“‘My answer for those on the Left who ask me “Why do you care what transgender individuals call themselves?” is simply this: because you have made me,’ concludes Mandel.

“Unsurprisingly, LGBTQ Editor for Think Progress Zach Ford had a serious problem with all this free expression.

“Perfectly illustrating Mandel’s point about the bully tactics of the Left, Ford went after Mandel on Twitter, complaining that the conservative even had the nerve to think such

‘odious’ things as the biological reality that men are men and women and women.

“In fact, Ford thinks such thought dissent shouldn’t even be allowed.”

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When Transgender Rights and Socialized Healthcare Combine

Posted on January 3, 2018 by The Political Hat

     …the results are as sad as you’d think they’d be.

“A devastated young transgender woman says she has been left ‘disfigured and feeling like a freak’ following two botched gender reassignment operations.

“Kia, 26, from Wales, says she was forced to seek private treatment after the NHS procedures left herim in near-constant pain and with herim urethra permanently exposed, which she says means she is unable to have sex or urinate properly.

“She says doctors also failed to inform her she had effectively been ‘castrated’ by the operations – as the procedures have left herim with limited sensation.

“The 26-year-old, who is suffering from anxiety, says she is still a virgin, has never had a boyfriend, and is desperate to lead a ‘normal life’.

“‘I feel like a freak. I feel like I have been disfigured,'”*

     Aside from the subtext which suggests that this individual didn’t actually grok what was happening to his self, this is also a clear idea of how socialized healthcare is a disaster and harms patients.

     What makes this even more sad is that this surgery was not medically necessary.

“Immediately after the first surgery, Kia claims she went back to the hospital with heris complaints but was told she would have to wait nine months for a revision because heris original surgeon was on maternity leave.”

     Um, at this point it might have been a good idea to be thankful that the quack that mutilated him was unavailable and get a decent reconstructive surgeon.

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Not-So-Christian Church Celebrates Mohammad as Prophet

Posted on January 2, 2018 by The Political Hat

     All Saints Church in Kingston-upon-Thames, a part of the established Church of England has decided to celebrate Mohammed as Prophet… and also some guy named Jesus.

Flyer via ArchBishopCranmer.com

“[N]ote how this event is “Marking the birthday of Prophet Mohammed”, but not looking forward to the birthday of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Mohammed gets his prophethood, while Jesus gets neither his prophethood nor his priesthood; neither his kingship nor his messiahship. It’s the exalted Prophet Mohammed along with plain old Jesus, because to have added any of his claims to divinity would, of course, have alienated many Muslims (if they hadn’t already been alienated by the haram celebration)”

     To these “cosplay Christians“, the actual tenets of Christianity are something to be ignored and instead Jesus cited as some guy who “had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change”. Yet, they celebrate Mohammed as a Prophet, a clearly religious acclamation that they are not even giving their purported lord and savior!

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2018 by The Political Hat

     Have a Happy, and safe, New Year!

     Enjoy a tasty beverage (or ten)!

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