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The First Time As Farce, The Second As Tragedy

Posted on September 19, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Karl Marx, as usual, got things backwards: The first time is farce, when something comes across as so outlandish that it seems impossible for many people to take it seriously for any amount of time if at all, while the … Continue reading →

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Politics As Faith

Posted on September 13, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Politics often results in emotions overriding reason. But increasingly politics has become a form of faith, with political saviors and a good vs. evil mindset that seeks to purge heathens and heretics aside. Most troubling is a certain gnostic view … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – Modern Schools: Zero Proficiency; War On Math; Cutting Back School To Four Days

Posted on August 31, 2023 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: Making sure the children are mercifully free of the ravages of … Continue reading →

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Move Over Gender Unicorn, Here Comes The Gender Minotaur

Posted on August 30, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Genders are becoming increasingly diverse… diversely stupid. Tumblr lever “genders” are now urged to be accepted blindly by professionals. Transgenderism has become a Children’s Crusade (by proxy). “‘I totally agree we are in the midst of a gender revolution and … Continue reading →

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The Fix Is In: The Real GOPe In Nevada Strikes Again

Posted on August 28, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Nevada will have a Presidential primary with all Republican active voters receiving a ballot.   Most Republicans in Nevada will assume their vote will count, but it won’t. The Nevada Republican Party executive officers (not even as of yet the … Continue reading →

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The Gender Homunculus

Posted on May 9, 2023 by The Political Hat

     The magical nature of transgenderism—right soul in the wrong body—now gives us the gender homunculus (not to be confused with the “genderbread person” or the “gender unicorn”. But even the difference between “gender identity” and “biological sex” is gone now, … Continue reading →

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Let’s See How Abolishing The Police Is Working Out In West Hollywood…

Posted on May 8, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Remember how the “enlightened” Left believed that police caused crimes and were tools of the “system” of oppression, and how they should be replaced with experts in reconciliation?      Let’s see how that’s working out in West Hollywood… Notoriously liberal West … Continue reading →

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The Memory Hole Comes For Jeeves And Wooster

Posted on April 25, 2023 by The Political Hat

     So-called “sensitivity” readers have rewritten various authors from Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, R.L. Stine, and even myriad fairy tales! Now, they are “modernizing” P.G. Wodehouse’s “Jeeves and Wooster” stories to they don’t offend modern snowflakes. “Jeeves and Wooster … Continue reading →

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Transgender “Gotcha” Question Long Since Answered

Posted on April 19, 2023 by The Political Hat

     Matt Walsh, who has recently made the documentary “What is a Woman”, tried to ask a “gotcha” question, specifically how a transgender EMT would respond to a patient with a patient who claims he’s having a miscarriage. A trans EMT … Continue reading →

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The Memory Hole Comes For Mysteries

Posted on April 5, 2023 by The Political Hat

     From Roald Dahl and James Bond to R.L. Stine and myriad fairy tails, the woke work of “sensitivity” readers continues unabated? For many people, why this is happening is a mystery. But that and other mysteries is now more woke. … Continue reading →

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