Bad man refuses to get out.

State Opposition Leader John Pesutto has vowed to stay on in his role despite a damning Federal Court judgment finding he defamed ousted MP Moira Deeming and revelations the high-stakes case could have been settled for $99,000.

Pesutto was ordered on Thursday to pay $300,000 in damages and savaged over his time in the witness box in a 250-page judgment that found he injured Deeming’s reputation by repeatedly and falsely implying that she knowingly associates with neo-Nazis.

I think people of this type must actually persuade themselves that not believing in Magic Gender is pretty much the same thing as associating with Nazis. That’s how morally warped and confused they are.

Angry Liberal

Moira Deeming won her case!

Ousted Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming says she expects to rejoin the party room after winning her defamation case against Opposition Leader John Pesutto.

Ms Deeming brought the lawsuit against Mr Pesutto, alleging he had defamed her as a Nazi sympathiser in the wake of an anti-trans-rights rally on the steps of Victorian parliament last year that was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis.

In the aftermath of the rally, Mr Pesutto failed in a bid to have Ms Deeming booted from the parliamentary Liberal Party — she was instead suspended for nine months.

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On Thursday, Federal Court judge David O’Callaghan ruled Mr Pesutto had defamed Ms Deeming on multiple occasions, including in radio and TV interviews

They flop over the instant he looks in their direction.

FBI Director Christopher Wray became the latest public official to remove his own spine and dissolve into a puddle of genuflecting goo for the greater glory of MAGA with his announcement Wednesday that he’ll resign before Trump’s inauguration.

FBI directors are supposed to be independent, and Wray still has more than two years left on his term. But Trump loathes Wray, who, among other things, pursued an investigation of Trump’s mishandling of classified documents after he left the White House.

Which is slightly ironic, because Trump appointed Wray in the first place.

As Trump mentions in his post, he plans to replace Wray with unqualified craven bootlicker Kash Patel,

It doesn’t though.

This is a game of political football over the health care of a vulnerable group of young people. It is despicably ghoulish, though unsurprising, that public facing GCs are behaving as they are.

— Sally Hines (@sally_hines) December 11, 2024

It isn’t “gloating” to be glad children won’t be given puberty blockers for frivolous reasons. Blocking puberty isn’t “healthcare” except in the case of premature puberty. Gender skeptics are relieved that the harm of blocking puberty will be stopped. Hines doesn’t agree that it is a harm, but she ought to be able to grasp that many other people do.

I suppose for people like her trans ideology is like being in a club or a … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug at Miscellany Room.

We have all heard trans activism, or wokeism in general, described as a cult. On the other hand there are people who seem to suggest that because these movements don’t exactly meet the formal definition of cult, there is nothing to learn from the study of cults that’s at all relevant to the issue. Regardless of whether or not you think TRAs are a cult, I hope we can all agree that this is not a very compelling argument. Even if we accept the premise, the conclusion clearly doesn’t follow.

Robert Jay Lifton provided what still seems to be the most widely accepted definition of a cult in his … Read the rest

Julie Bindel on the toppling of Pink News:

[T]oday’s revelations are grimly unsurprising: the outlet has reliably targeted any feminist who dares speak out publicly against the misogyny of trans activism, publishing a seemingly endless stream of baseless hit pieces about nasty, bigoted Terfs.

Many of the allegations against Cohen and James concern misogyny. Female members of staff say they were badgered to act as surrogates for the couple — a horrible abuse of power by bosses in a workplace, even if it were meant in jest. Given that some men have wombs, according to the ideology PinkNews promotes, it remains a mystery why they never asked any male employees to bear their child.

During my 18 months

The BBC reports further developments in the Benjamin Cohen/Anthony James story.

PinkNews director Dr Anthony James has been suspended from his job in the NHS, after a BBC News investigation heard allegations of sexual misconduct at the publisher.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said they made the decision to suspend Dr James from his role as associate non-executive director pending further information.

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Following the publication of the investigation, more than 10 former PinkNews staff members have come forward to share their experiences of working there.

Their good experiences of working there, or the other kind?

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Is sanity slowly creeping back?

Puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria will be banned indefinitely in the UK after experts warned of an “unacceptable safety risk”.

The government said that following recommendations from independent medical professionals, existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of the drugs outside of clinical trials will stay in place.

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said there was a need to “act with caution” and “follow the expert advice” in caring for this “vulnerable group of young people”.

Of course both sides of this dispute consider the young people vulnerable, but they seem them as vulnerable to different perils. To the trans ideologues they’re vulnerable to the evil transphobes who want to … Read the rest

It apparently didn’t occur to Peter Tatchell that we can all see the quoted bit and the image. They don’t mention any T+.

We can see it. We can read it. It’s right there in the Working Class History tweet. Lesbians & Gays support the miners. NO T IS MENTIONED.

Never forget how LGBT+ community supported striking miners in 1984-85

In return, the miners supported LGBT+ rights & this led to the Labour Party passing its first major LGBT+ policies in 1985

A fine example: unity is strength & solidarity empowers the victims of injustice https://t.co/yzIXudOd38

— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) December 10, 2024

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I can’t get past this truth thing. I can’t get past the fact that official bodies are telling us we have to lie about who is a woman and who is not. The IPSO ruling makes it horribly clear that we are under orders to lie. How did we get here?

IPSO itself is incoherent.

Relevant Clause Provisions

Clause 1 (Accuracy)

i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information or images, including headlines not supported by the text.

So, surely, the press must take care not to publish assertions that some men are women.

And yet:

Findings of the Committee

9. The Committee first considered whether the article had breached Clause 1 in reporting

I’m studying the IPSO ruling, and one item jumps out at me.

4. The complainant said the article breached Clause 12 as she considered the claim that she was “a man who claim[ed] to be a woman” to be discriminatory as she legally changed her gender in 2018. The complainant considered she was deliberately misgendered with the intention being to offend her.

No no no no no. That’s what they refuse to get – or what they pretend not to get. The intent is not to “offend” him. It’s not about him. The intent is to say what’s true. The intent is to reject a major societal lie. The intent is to refuse all these orders to pretend a … Read the rest

Sometimes one branch of progressive awareness cancels out another branch of progressive awareness, revealing a hierarchy of disprivilege.

For example, the government of Northern Ireland on period products:

Period inequality contributes to the poor mental health and wellbeing experience of those who are unable to access the basic health essentials of period products. This is a growing issue particularly in light of the increased cost of living.

Period products are essential items for personal care to address a normal biological need and should therefore be available to everyone who needs them, regardless of their economic status.

First two paragraphs, and already the problem is obvious. The people who wrote this get that women and girls are disadvantaged by heavy … Read the rest

Michael Gove, the new editor of The Spectator, on truth and prejudicial or pejorative reference:

On 21 May this year we published an article by the brilliant writer Gareth Roberts headlined ‘The sad truth about “saint” Nicola Sturgeon’. Gareth was reporting on the former Scottish first minister’s appearance at a literary festival in Sussex. Ms Sturgeon was discussing the controversies which had attended her time in office – including her views on independence and gender recognition laws. Gareth noted that she ‘was interviewed by writer Juno Dawson, a man who claims to be a woman, and so the conversation naturally turned to gender’. 

Dawson complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation aka Ipso.

It was claimed the words were

The BBC takes a break from promoting trans ideology to report on the pair of bullies who run Pink News:

The couple who run PinkNews, the world’s largest LGBT news website, have been accused by staff of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct.

Several former staff members told the BBC they saw Anthony James, a director at the UK-based company and husband of its founder, kissing and touching a junior colleague who they say appeared too drunk to consent.

And more than 30 current and former members of staff said a culture of heavy drinking led to instances when founder Benjamin Cohen and his husband behaved inappropriately towards younger male employees.

I’m sure they identify as having behaved flawlessly.

Run

Originally a comment by Sackbut on How about panvomit?

The city of Prattville AL is near Montgomery, and is populated by a lot of people who decided that Montgomery is too dangerous and crime-ridden. (Prattville is 73% white, compared to 29% in Montgomery; make of it what you will.) A common sentiment is that they don’t want to go to Montgomery for any reason, because of the danger. The city had a municipal Christmas parade recently, and Prattville Pride had a float. The city was not going to allow the float, because, they said, there were threats, and it would be dangerous.

At this point, liberal columnist Josh Moon chimed in, with a mostly well-put column about the cowardly actions … Read the rest

Aaaand we’re off.

Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has clapped back at [retorted to] President-elect Donald Trump after he threatened to imprison her and other members on the congressional committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots.

In an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press that aired Sunday morning, Trump claimed that Cheney, along with a “committee of political thugs” deleted all the evidence from their investigation.

Another four years of endless stupid lying.

“Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” the President-elect said, referring to Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (the committee’s chairman). “They deleted and destroyed all evidence.”

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In a

The ACLU insists that “Gender-Affirming Care is Essential” – which is ridiculous.

The whole notion of “gender-affirming care” is silly jargon, in the first place. By “gender” they mean voluntary changeable personality label, and by “care” they mean medical care. There is no genuinely medical care for personality labels, because personality is not a medical issue to begin with.

There’s no such thing as gender-affirmation so there’s no such thing as medical care labeled “gender affirmation.” Deluded narcissistic people obsessed with their own glorious personalities don’t need surgeries or cross-sex hormones, they need to think better. They need to peel away the layers of trendy and pseudo-political and fake-lefty and histrionic junk that has built up in their brains.

Families

Sadism or stupidity or both?

A trans-identified male serving a life sentence for murder who was quietly transferred in to a women’s prison is now sharing a shower with female inmates, causing them to feel “violated.” Bradley Richard Sirvio, 53, was transferred into Minnesota women’s prison MCF-Shakopee at the end of last year after claiming to identify as transgender and adopting the name “Aurora.”

In November of 1995, Sirvio beat a man to death with a hammer before setting the victim’s house on fire. According to court records, Sirvio was checking himself into a detoxification center when he “volunteered to a staff member during the intake process that he may have murdered someone named George and then set the

Trump doesn’t have a great big huge sky-concealing mandate. He barely has a grocery list.

On Election Night, with characteristic modesty, Donald Trump claimed an “unprecedented and powerful mandate.” He certainly won the contest legitimately, if more narrowly than many observers initially thought. With nearly all the votes counted, the most complete tabulation, from Cook Political Report, shows Trump’s popular-vote margin over Kamala Harris has dropped from around 3 percent on the evening of November 5 (or about two-thirds of Joe Biden’s margin in 2020) to 1.47 percent (about one-third of Biden’s margin) today. That’s also about 0.6 percent smaller than Hillary Clinton’s national popular-vote margin over Trump in 2016. To make some other comparisons: Barack Obama won the

You know, we’re told, endlessly and loudly, that trans is innate, it’s built-in, it’s real, it’s an infallible inner sense.

Well then why is it being advertised?

This is gay conversion. pic.twitter.com/lOymIz24f5

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) December 8, 2024

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