The Honest Conservative

My sources on the ground tell me that Judge Brett Kavanaugh was sexually abused as a child during his prep school years and that he will bravely share his own experiences as the victim of abuse next week. People are saying that's the reason he was so eager to testify under oath.

We now have irrefutable proof that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was assaulted by someone other than Kavanaugh. But Ford was still assaulted. And so was Kavanaugh. And so were thousands of other students and alumni of both high schools.

Anyone who has ever set foot in a prep school knows the insularity, elitism, and unvarnished entitlement that plagues these institutions of overeducation. Even liberals recognize it - they call it "affluenza", as if affluence, and not immorality, is the problem.

Nevertheless, having attended a prep school myself (er, a “prepatory academy” according to the pretentious pedophiles that ran it), I easily believe both victims. By all accounts, Ford survived an attempted rape in her late teens (though the perpetrator was *NOT* Kavanaugh but instead his classmate) to become an esteemed college professor. Kavanaugh survived childhood sexual abuse to become an esteemed judge and likely Supreme Court justice.

We need more brave survivors like these to speak out. But they should not blame the wrong parties as Dr. Ford has done.

A little mentioned part of the diversity screed:

"In highly progressive environments, conservatives are a minority that feel like they need to stay in the closet to avoid open hostility," the author [whines]. "We should empower those with different ideologies to be able to express themselves."

How about instead of expecting your workplace to coddle you and your conservatism, you grow a pair and express yourself?

I am a conservative and have been expressing myself loud and clear in my leftist workplace for several years. Show respect to your liberal coworkers and they WILL respect you back.

If the majority of your liberal coworkers are being hostile towards you, I'd wager it's because YOU are not showing respect towards them in the first place.

It’s possible that all (or most) of them are assholes, but it’s more likely that you’re the asshole:

“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." - Raylan Givens

If gay employees can come out despite the risk of being legally fired, or atheist employees can come out despite the risk of being ostracized as satan-worshippers, I'm sure we conservatives can express ourselves without fear.

Excluding transgenders from the military? Come on!

I can understand not covering transition-related medical procedures, so that taxpayers do not have to pay for procedures with which they disagree. It's the same reason military healthcare doesn't cover birth control, abortion, or organ transplants, since some taxpayers disagree with those procedures as well.

But excluding transgender people from the military runs contrary to Jesus Christ's message that God is Love. We are rejecting our neighbors instead of loving them. We are turning away Americans willing to lay their lives down for their country. None of this is Christian at all. None of this is Conservative.

Rather, this latest policy statement - regarding the exclusion of transgenders from the military - sounds more like an Islamist policy.

Is President Donald Trump a Christian anymore... or has he gone Islamist, like his predecessor Barack Obama eventually did?

VP Mike Pence has been taking money from Saudi since his radio show days. Looks like Donald Trump has joined him.

I find this quote almost comical:

“I hope to encourage [prisoners] to take personal responsibility and give them a chance, when they do get out, to not to be burdened with children,” Judge Benningfield told WVLT.

Someone needs to tell this judge that using birth control is not taking “personal responsibility”. Only leftists think that personal responsibility means whoring around and having promiscuous sex. The rest of us know that self-responsible people don’t use birth control. Come on.

Secondly, someone needs to tell this judge that children are not a burden. This idea that people are “burdened with children” contributes to our decreasing birth rate as a nation. If they are burdens, no one wants them. We need to reframe children as blessings that everyone should want.

"After receiving several thousands of death threats in the past few days for making my art, my address was also posted on several forums."

Looks like when it comes to transgenders, we rightists take a page out of Islamist textbooks and make death threats. We're literally turning to Islamist behavior.

I disagree with sexually deviant lifestyles too, but such individuals should not be murdered or harmed for their deviances. And they should not be silenced or imprisoned either.

Der Spiegel: Trump beheading cover sparks criticism - BBC

The cover symbolizes a new beginning, a new dawn for America. The beheading of the Statue of Liberty is a beheading of our old traditions. The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of the past, not the future. America’s taking in other countries' poor, tired, and huddled masses was old thinking. Valuing of liberty, civil liberties, personal freedoms, and so on was old thinking. Those days are over.

We will no longer be taking in other countries' filth, the world's garbage, and calling them American. We are no longer pretending to value civil liberties, personal freedoms, and liberty in general. That is old thinking. We are beheading our past in favor of our future.

I find it hard to believe this cover has triggered rightists the way that it has, when it can easily be seen to support a pro-Trump message.

The debate about the title/honorific “Mx” will continue. And then it will stop.

I remember reading about when Ms was first introduced. There was a whole lot of pushback and anger, because when a woman used the Ms title, you could no longer tell at first glance whether or not she was married. There was no longer a Mrs or Miss to indicate that status.

Now, there is going to be -- indeed, already is -- massive pushback and anger over the use of Mx because you cannot tell its user’s gender.

And eventually, the debate about Mx will, like the debate about Ms, fall away into distant history.

baguettiquette said:                                                                                                                            That being said, I do NOT condone this at all, and anyone who wants to do this to their child is a terrible person.                            baguettiquette said:                                                                                                                            Some misconceptions here: - Conversion therapy does not necessarily involve electric shocks. This is an ‘aversion’ type of conversion therapy - I don’t believe electroshock aversion therapy has been widely used since 1973. - In order to legally perform psychiatric treatments you have to be qualified                           

@baguettiquette

Yes, I know there are other types of conversion therapy that do not involve electric shocks. However, there have been multiple cases of child abuse investigated my state in 2016 alone where it was used, so it has been widely used in recent times after 1973.

In order to legally perform psychiatric treatments you have to be qualified

But this is not legal, nor is it a psychiatric treatment recognized by any medical association. I rephrased the original post to clarify that we are talking about “an untrained and unlicensed individual (edit: not a licensed psychiatrist or other medical professional)”