So, just recently President Biden promoted Dr. Richard Levine, an overweight, mentally disturbed man – who apparently is an expert on health that we should all listen to! – to being a 4 Star Admiral. Apparently, this makes him the first female 4 Star Admiral in American History! Well, I mean, he’s not the first woman to achieve a 4 star rank…General Ann Dunwoody of the US Army achieved 4 stars long ago, and of course Levine isn’t the first 4 Star Admiral, because Michelle J Howard – a black woman…who’s actually a woman….she became an Admiral in the US Navy and earned her 4 Stars. But Richard Levine IS the first woman to be awarded 4 stars in the US Public Health Services Commissioned Corps. This is Historic…or so they keep telling us. Except he’s not a woman…and also nobody cares about the fact that the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Services wears uniforms.
Honestly, can anybody tell me WHY the federal public health service wears uniforms and uses Navy ranks? I mean, I get ranks in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, and the Coast Guard. I get it. These are combat forces. Discipline and rank matter in combat. But do a bunch of doctors and nurses really need to play Navy to be able to do…whatever it is that the US Public Health Services do. Because if you don’t know what they do – welcome to the club – I’m not sure anyone who doesn’t work in Washington or have family in the USPHS knows what the USPHS does.
I looked at the internet at the USPHS website and to be honest they don’t exactly make it clear what they do…I’m not sure they know…but there are over 6,000 of these folks working in like 2 dozen agencies. After I spent a lot more time than was probably prudent researching the USPHS and its history I learned that it was founded in the late 1800s and has basically had the same problem since the 1800s – it’s not the military, but it kinda acts like the military, with none of the militariness, though the government sometimes treats them like the military.
Long story short, the USPHS has qualified doctors and nurses doing important medical work, but the organization is very badly managed, and that bad management and confusion about its mission leads congress to constantly wonder what on earth the taxpayers are paying for and then the budget is cut which leads to tighter circumstances and more mismanagement. To put it simply, nobody knows what to do with it – Trump wanted to scrap the thing and ended up keeping it, after gutting it. If it’s a uniformed service, it needs to act like one – but it doesn’t. If it’s going to be a civilian force, why do we need it?
But, in many ways, the confusion about what the Commissioned Corps of the USPHS is, does, should be doing, or how it functions, makes it a perfect place for Richard Levine – who calls himself Rachel — to work. Richard, was just made an instant Admiral – which means that people who have served in the military for their whole careers are now outranked by this dude. Levine outranks and must be saluted by all but 45 people in the entire military! I mean, let that sink in. An obese pediatrician dressed in drag and pretending he’s a girl, now outranks about 2 million active duty and reserve soldiers, sailors, and airmen.
And we’re all supposed to applaud this. We’re all supposed to celebrate that a man, pretending to be a woman, was given a political appointment, in a largely redundant and unnecessary government department, and it being touted as the first female 4 star admiral (well first four star in that tiny, mismanaged branch).
The problem is that Richard isn’t a female. He’s a man. A quite mannish looking man. There really isn’t anything feminine about Richard except that he has grown his hair long and dresses up in women’s clothing. That in and of itself presents an incoherence in secular thinking which I’ve addressed before. Think about it. If men and women are the same, there are no differences between them, people with penes can be women – even female!...so I guess that whole thing about distinguishing gender from sex was just another lie to get America to eat a poisoned apple…but I digress…if men and women are the same, and there are no differences, and Richard can be Rachel, and Sally can be Salvatore, and gender and sex are fluid, and gender is a social construct and the patriarchy is something we need to smash, and we need little boys to play with dolls and little girls to get into MMA then why, oh why, does Richard need to put on a dress and have a ponytail and wear lipstick? Isn’t he reinforcing the idea that there are behaviors, fashions, and affects that are fundamentally female and not male because there must be some kind of real difference between the sexes?
I admit, clothing is, in my opinion, largely a cultural construct – but every culture has clothes for men and clothes for women. And many female fashions are fashioned to accentuate the female form – or hide it. But, all in all, men and women have different styles of dress in every culture, largely because of biology and society’s take on biology.
When Richard puts on lipstick and a dress, he’s saying that to be feminine means looking a certain way. But he doesn’t look that way. So, on the one hand he says that having ovaries and breasts and a higher hairline and wider hips doesn’t make you a woman – it’s how you feel inside that makes you a woman; yet, he insists on trying to look a certain way, which gives the lie to his claim that biology and appearance don’t determine sex. Either we can tell women from men by looking at their primary and secondary sexual characteristics or we can’t. If we can, then Richard isn’t Rachel – if we can’t, then why is Richard trying (and failing) to look like a Rachel?
There is a failure in our society to examine the Richard/ Rachel dilemma with basic logic and apply basic logic to the situation. Basic logic would tell us that Richard is not a woman and his behavior is incoherent. And I expect incoherence from Richard. I expect it because he is mentally unwell. He is insane. His mental state does not match objective reality. He is delusional. I expect delusional people to behave incoherently…that’s kinda their dealio.
What I don’t, or shouldn’t, expect is for the normal to start a slow clap for a dude in drag and start affirming his delusions. People trying to defend this nonsense are defending an incoherency. And we are a nation that is living in delusion. Our entire country is living and believing lies. Let’s look at a few pretty recent examples
Right now people are trying to make a big deal of the WNBA championships. Except it isn’t a big deal. It’s a big, juicy nothingburger. But people whinge and moan and cry because the women of the WNBA are only making 10s of thousands while their male counterparts are making 10s of millions. Except the difference is that the male players are PAYING THE WOMEN’S SALARIES! Yes, the WNBA loses money…every year. It loses millions every year and gets bailed out by the men.
And our society is full of incoherencies and delusions. And it isn’t just the overeducated, underthinking, woke crowd. It isn’t just liberals and secularists who’ve lost the ability to think critically and logically and move past their delusions. – conservative justices on the supreme court are apparently incapable of doing basic logic.
In Bostock v. Clayton County, Neil Gorsuch makes a catastrophic logical error, that anyone capable of doing an analogy could put the lie to. Gorsuch’s majority opinion states that you can’t fire people for being gay. Why? Because that’s discrimination based on sex? Umm, how? Well, Gorsuch says, a homosexual man is a homosexual because he has sex with men – but if he were a woman then he would be heterosexual…ergo, you’re only firing him because he’s a man (who has sex with men) but if he were a woman (who has sex with men) you wouldn’t. Therefore, it’s discrimination based on sex with the Civil Rights Act expressly forbids.
Now, most people at the time realized that this was pure sophistry and illogical. But what nobody seemed to notice[1] was that this opened the door, legally, for pedophilia. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act forbids terminating employees because of age when they are over 40.
Now, let’s say a 41 year has sex with a 10-year-old. People who aren’t insane would call this rape, and pedophilia, and say that this guy should probably be swinging from a tree by day’s end. But with Gorsuch’s logic, you can’t even fire this guy! And you can’t refuse to hire him either! Why? Well because firing a pedophile is ageism. He’s only a pedophile because he’s old. If he were another 10-year-old no law would be broken. With Gorsuch’s logic, pedophilia is only wrong because someone is old, which is ageism.
What Gorsuch deliberately failed to include in his opinion is the reality homosexuality is not about which sex you are. The point of homosexuality is not about whether you happen to be a man or woman it’s about whether you’re attracted to someone of the same sex. It’s the SAMENESS, not the MALENESS of the FEMALENESS that matter – hence the prefix “homo” which means “same” in Greek. The point of pedophilia is not about being old – it’s about sexually exploiting someone incapable of making a consensual decision.
In a society that understood and used logic in its politics and ethics and everyday lives, we would all have recognized Gorsuch’s ridiculous and farcical legal opinion for what it is: a ludicrous mockery of logic and reason. In a society that had wisdom and common sense and was able to apply logic to everyday problems, people would laugh in Dr. Richard Levine’s face when he puts on a skirt and tube top.
But we’re not a society of wisdom and logic. We’re a society of self-deluded fools and idiots. We’re rotting our brains away with our happiness boxes we compulsively stare at whenever there’s any break in the action – and even where there isn’t. We’re getting dumber – objectively dumber – every year. We have shorter attention spans, smaller vocabularies, our colleges aren’t improving critical thinking skills; people can’t read, and don’t! which means they can’t write, which means they can’t think. We’re not just entertaining ourselves into depression – which we are – we’re entertaining ourselves into stupidity.
Year on year Americans get fatter, dumber, more drugged up, more depressed, with less self-control, more addicted to screens, with less interest in family. Why? Why has all this happened? Why can we not see that the way we’re living is not a lifestyle but a deathstyle? Why can we not see that no nation can survive when its population is a bunch of arrogant, bratty, mewling, fat, drunk, lazy, stupid, chronically masturbating, perverted, voyeuristic, sexual deviants, who are full of unearned moral authority, without the intellectual, moral, or physical courage to do anything to improve themselves or their nation?
Why can’t we see it?
For the same reason that we’re all clapping along like a lot of organ grinders’ moneys to the announcement that Dr. Richard Levine is the first female 4 Star Admiral. For the same reason that Chief Justices, putatively legal scholars who are supposed to know how logic works, issue opinions like Bostock v. Clayton County.
We are destroying ourselves because we’re delusional. Just like Richard thinking he’s Rachel and everyone believing it – we’re delusional.
But why? Why are we deluded? Because we’ve rejected God. And the consequence of rejecting God is believing a lie. When you believe a lie you have to be deluded because the truth keeps trying to reassert itself – being necessarily and inseparably linked to reality – as it is. And since reality keeps on trying to reassert itself, people have to keep suppressing the truth in unrighteousness.
But the gods of the copybook headings will have their way. They come back with a vengeance because lies always die a painful death – and those who try to suppress truth are only hurt worse when truth is freed. Our society is like a foolish plumber who has sealed off all the pressure release valves on an industrial boiler because he doesn’t like the hissing sound. Well – you can get by with no pressure release valve – until you can’t! And the longer you keep that pressure building up the more explosive it’ll be when it gets out!
[1] After a good bit of digging I did find one guy who noticed the open door for pedophiles: https://www.yourdailyjournal.com/opinion/95070/paul-f-petrick-justice-neil-gorsuch-a-court-jester