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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

Jul 26

The Romans would, on occasion, engage in the practice of condemning the memory of emperors after their deaths. Monuments would be defaced, names struck from inscriptions, coins bearing their countenance recalled or countermarked.

America has seen its fair share of sanctions against memory in recent years, with schools, streets, and libraries renamed and statues toppled.

The latest batch of victims might be soldiers who were awarded Medal of Honor citations for their actions at the Battle of Wounded Knee.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered a panel to convene and review 20 citations bestowed by the U.S. Army to troops who participated in that engagement. The panel must submit a report that includes a “retain or rescind” recommendation for each recipient by October 15.

Their awards cite actions including rescuing others in the heat of battle.

I wrote about the panel and the buried history of Wounded Knee today:

One Brigadier General E. D. Scott actually published an investigation of the official records of the engagement in The Field Artillery Journal in 1939. He did so because the year before newspapers began referring to Wounded Knee as not the site of a battle but a “massacre.” 2/

Scott pored over official documents and statements, coming away with a very different picture than what is accepted today: the Sioux started the fight and the troopers acted in self-defense. He even found quotes from Indians blaming their comrades for the slaughter. 3/

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

Jul 4

Jocelyn Nungaray’s murder at the hands of two men from Venezuela has become a national flashpoint in the debate over immigration. It also comes on the heels of a series of rapes and killings by illegal aliens, mainly targeting girls and women. 🧵

The murder of Laken Hope Riley in Georgia was perhaps the most high-profile case before this. She was out on a jog when an illegal alien from Venezuela ambushed her and beat her so badly that he disfigured her skull. 2/

About a week later, a 14-year-old girl was raped by an Ecuadorian man in Louisiana who was arrested after he stabbed and tried to rob another victim. 3/

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

May 16

I have neighbors who owns pit bulls and they open their front door and allow them to run rampant in the neighborhood. They charge people and bark and run from property to property peeing and pooping. I’ve got between them and my kids once before.

We recently called animal control and the police after this happened a few times (they also came into our backyard and barked at my wife as she was about to leave the house) and nobody did anything. Animal control took the dogs for maybe two hours and allowed the owners to claim them. Within an hour of the dogs being home, the owner let them out again, and they immediately began terrorizing my neighbor’s dog while it was on their property. So I picked up a chair and scared them off, called animal control again. The guy who owns them doesn’t give a shit. It seems like he let his dogs out again as a flex. It’s like he knows the system is on his side or something. Very strange behavior. He just leaned on the railing of his porch and watched us chase his dogs around.

But the most bizarre thing is that I have neighbors who are loath to do anything because they seem to think it’s not nice. Not sure if this is an extreme case of “Midwestern nice” or something else.

The owner is a white guy with a man bun who wears neon pink pants btw

https://twitter.com/joekampf/status/1791213905353564655

Pit bulls are extremely aggressive and require disciplined owners. Not all breeds are the same. But very stupid people seem to like very big and strong dogs they can’t control

https://twitter.com/joekampf/status/1791213905353564655

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

Jan 25

BREAKING Trump has issued a statement in support of the Republican governors defying the Biden administration on the border

Just kidding, he posted about E. Jean Carroll about a dozen times

It just keeps going

look at my GOP front runner dog it’s over

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

Dec 30, 2023

Mike DeWine Is an Idiot

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Today, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill designed to ban the crime against children called “gender-affirming care.” What DeWine presented as the well-thought-out reasoning behind his decision was a steaming pile of garbage.

DeWine claimed that, were he to support the bill, “Ohio would be saying that the state, that the government, knows better what is best for a child than the two people who know that child the best—the parents.”

“The Ohio way is to approach things in a systematic manner, to follow the evidence, to be careful, and that’s really what we’re doing,” DeWine added.

Where to begin?

Perhaps it's best to start by highlighting that there is little (to be charitable) to no (to be honest) solid evidence behind the long-term effectiveness of “gender-affirming care” for minors.

Two major investigations recently conducted by The New York Times and Reuters came to that conclusion, each in their own wending way. Moreover, the puberty blockers used in this obscene form of “care” are administered off-label—without approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The pharmaceutical companies that profit from this have no desire to even conduct clinical trials to establish their safety in this regard or attempt to understand the permanent consequences of blocking puberty at a critical developmental stage. Why should they bother? They have fools like DeWine who will gladly enable them to pump poison into the veins of your sons and daughters.

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Lupron Depot-Ped is the most commonly prescribed puberty blocker given to “transgender youth.” Here are some adverse events filed in the FDA’s reporting database in connection with the drug:

-Depression
-Suicidal ideation
-Emotional disorder
-Depressed mood
-Emotional distress
-Mental disorder
-Psychotic disorder
-Suicide attempt
-Growth retardation
-Antisocial behavior
-Psychotic symptom

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So when DeWine says he is following the evidence, he betrays his stupidity about the issue or assumes the average American is stupid or both. But they’re certainly smarter than he is on this.⤵️

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

Dec 27, 2023

DeSantis' campaign has had problems. No doubt. But that's not the full picture. A key problem, one that had to be discovered the hard way, is that Trump has a patronage network that will not move to or support a different candidate.

For reasons that become obvious, this is a sacred cow few people on the right are prepared to poke, let alone slay.

Tucker Carlson's first post-Fox advertising deal was with a company in which Donald Trump Jr. is an investor. Once that happened, the hope of impartiality was gone. It's the same deal with Human Events and Post Millennial. The Human Events Media Group acquisition of Post Millennial was led by Trump donor and booster Jeff Webb, so there was no chance those publications would swing behind or help a Trump rival.

Consider that when Daniel Penny's legal defense fundraiser blew up because DeSantis promoted it, Post Millennial did a story about it *without mentioning DeSantis* once. It was like Stalinists erasing a purged person from a photograph.

When I was still doing conservative media, I was told that Team Trump was monitoring programs for critics, using their influence to try to suppress them. There is just no scenario in which a network like this will select a candidate that is best for the movement rather than the network itself, even if the individuals involved were to want the latter.

The whole thing was described to me simply as: if you play ball, you get access; if you decide that Trump isn't the best way forward, you lose access (and worse, if you don't keep your mouth shut). If you're a personality, that means no more invitations to Mar-a-Lago for a movie screening or retweets from big accounts. But there was no way of knowing how any of this worked until someone challenged Trump, then the whole thing sprang into action and circled the wagons around him and himself.

The ramifications of all this will extend beyond the primary, regardless of the outcome. There will be permanent fractures and disillusionment. That's how I feel about national "right-wing" politics right now. But to understand why, you have to understand the networks.

Nothing against @AuronMacintyre btw, these are just my thoughts on the broader rw landscape

This is a double edge sword btw, because if you benefit from it, it's nice and it can help you do some good or get your message out in your space--but it will also work against you by justifying everything Trump does. Say you're a pro-Trump tough on crime person. Sorry--but if Trump wants to do the First Step Act, you're going to get the First Step Act shoved down your throat. And the harder you protest, the more it will hurt going down.

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