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Feb 27, 2023·edited Feb 27, 2023Author

I've been informed that my call for censorship is troubling, and that I need to apologize. It is NEVER RIGHT to tell someone to shut up if they are busy insinuating themselves into an argument about which they know nothing. Because who is to say they know nothing? Who gets to be the arbiter of that? THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE TRUTH!

I'm sorry. I plan on having a Scotch while I repent.

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Feb 25, 2023·edited Feb 26, 2023Liked by Jeff Goldstein

If you think of the ongoing trans fad as in large part a kind of civilisational 'shit test', then the willingness to defer to the testers’ ratcheting demands, and to play along and pretend, to needlessly announce one's pronouns, or to politely stare at one’s shoes while the farce unfolds, does, I think, raise questions. Among which, what else would the pretenders pretend? And what else would the shoe-gazers be so careful not to notice? What precise level of farce, unrealism and dishonesty would be too much?

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by Jeff Goldstein

It's hard to believe that 15 years ago I daily clicked on Protein Wisdom to see what's up. It's been great to have you back, but where the hell is Billy Jack?

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by Jeff Goldstein

Fraudrey Hepburn? That is just brilliant. And I, too, am disappointed in folks like the Triggernometry guys for saying Walsh was too mean. He was telling the truth. The truth is not mean - it's the truth (said Andrew Breitbart).

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Feb 27, 2023Liked by Jeff Goldstein

This! THIS!!! This is why I stopped ever going to National Review at all!!! They don't want to win, they want to be liked.

If your motivation is not to tell the truth, and to tell it clearly, but instead you want to be loved, you will end up doing neither.

It is why DJT is so damn loved and Mittens and McCain were and are reviled by their own side. Yuk.

Thanks.

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Feb 26, 2023Liked by Jeff Goldstein

Totally agree, Jeff! Thank you for being a courageous advocate for truth and morality.

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Well said. We're all NOKD in the eyes of those who think it's all about dignity first and winning second.

To quote the late Oakland icon Al Davis, "Just win, baby!"

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Feb 26, 2023Liked by Jeff Goldstein

I can’t help wondering whether the same people would have been tutting and fainting and flapping their handkerchiefs had the video been made by one of the many women who feel much as Mr Walsh does.

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The problem on ‘the Right’ is much broader, observe: Because the Left is a cultural/voting block they instinctively consider any one who isn’t with them to also be a cultural/voting block which opposes them, hence they must the Right. When in fact the so-called Right is merely composed of all who aren’t the Left, people who wish to remain independent-minded. After all, people who are not of the Left rarely agree/vote together on policies/ideas/issues. ‘Conservatives’ are not a voting block so have been easily coerced into always compromising Leftwards.

My simple advice to those who are not of the Left is to merely, and often, just say no.

Cultivate a habit and practice it when it’s clearly required.

The same advice applies to those on the Left who recognize they’re being used.

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I call people who mutilate their children(trans) criminals to their faces and I refuse to call tranny's any pronoun other than Mr., Mrs., or Ms. Enough with this shyte! You have NOTHING to lose, folks.

Great post, Jeff.

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“they’ll happily forgive you for being wrong; but they’ll never, ever forgive you for being right.”

Sounds... familiar.

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Feb 26, 2023·edited Feb 26, 2023

The other possibility is simply that Matt Walsh is doing better with bluntness than you did because people are fundamentally less concerned with looking prejudiced against trans people (most of whom are simply shallow public celebrities) than black people (especially one who had just become President). Not all issues of group antipathy are exactly analogous or play out the same way. Matt's success on this issue may not translate to success with the same tactics on other issues.

That said, we can hardly (as the old gag goes) do worse than we have been doing, so trying something shown to work is far from a dumb idea.

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Although I generally like your content, I'm having trouble parsing the following:

"Matt’s response to his critics is a master class in addressing the timeless refrain that we must moderate our speech in order to win over those offended by unvarnished truths — and not a single response to his answering to their complaints is in the least bit persuasive."

Is this really a sentence?

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Barack Obama's election brought us the tea party. His re-election brought us Donald Trump. If the premise of this article is correct, Donald Trump will be elected in a landslide (it's really hard to steal versus a landslide). If not, we'll get Nikki Haley. The political class does not want DJT back in D.C. and will do anything to stop it, just like what they did to the tea party.

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