Notes on the Way
AOC does smarmy, when you lose Bette Midler, our lousy Constitution, vacation time
It has to be said: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a smarmy, dishonest, two-faced little twerp. Here was her Twitter response to a report that a bunch of pro-abortion zealots harassed Justice Brett Kavanaugh, forcing him to leave Morton’s Steak House: “Poor guy. He left before his soufflé because he decided half the country should risk death if they have an ectopic pregnancy within the wrong state lines. It’s all very unfair to him. The least they could do is let him eat cake.” (1) Smarmy: box checked; no additional comment required. (2) Dishonest: box checked. As a matter of fact, treatment for ectopic pregnancy is legal in all fifty states, and the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization didn’t change that. Even the most strident pro-life groups recognize that embryos that implant outside the uterus are not viable, threaten a woman’s life, and require immediate treatment. (3) Two-faced: box checked. We need not imagine how AOC would whine and cry and pose as a victim of sexism, racism, etc., if a similarly smarmy attack was directed at her—she’s done it many times. My advice to the pro-abortion gang would be to look around for a champion who’s not such a toxic amalgam of mediocrity, mendacity and spite.
It may just be that the cancer of transgender ideology is going into remission. It was one thing when mere parents of school-age children objected to all that crap, and for awhile there even the complaints of radical feminists—the TERFs as they were labeled by the transgender crowd—were denounced in terms usually reserved for Republicans and conservatives. But then came JK Rowling, whose invention of Harry Potter & Co. rendered her impervious to cancellation for gender thought crime. She might be reviled, but she couldn’t be silenced. And now we’ve heard from Bette Midler, of all unlikely people, who is fed up with transgender lunacy. “WOMEN OF THE WORLD!” she wrote last week on Twitter. “We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or ‘menstruators’, and even ‘people with vaginas’! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!” Yikes!
It just had to happen. Now that things aren’t going the way progressives think they should go, many of our little leftie friends are ready to tear up the Constitution and replace it with some kind of people’s republic. Admittedly, Nicholas Goldberg doesn’t go quite that far. All he wants are a few tweaks here and there so that the Constitution will be more in tune with the needs of contemporary society. And wouldn’t you know it, it the needs of contemporary society as defined by Goldberg just happen to track closely with the ideological preferences of progressives, e.g. the elimination of the right to keep and bear arms, which he describes as “antiquated.” On the other hand, he complains, the Constitution doesn’t bestow rights to education, privacy, food, healthcare, housing—or abortion. In other words, our founding document isn’t doing progressives’ work for them. And a good thing, too…
Summer means vacation, i.e. family vacation, i.e. one planned by my wife and daughter. So let’s just say we won’t be touring the United States Air Force Museum. Some people are fortunate in that they get through their lives without visiting Dollywood, but I shall not among them. On the plus side, though, it’s a specimen of pure Americana—hard to imagine a French or Chinese equivalent! So who knows? I may have something to report. In the meantime, however, Un-Woke in Indiana will be on vacation also. See you in a week!