As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?
Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?
That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?
That men don’t belong in women’s sport?
That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?
That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?
That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?
That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?
That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?
That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?
That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?
That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?
That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?
That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?
Let me have your thoughts.
Year-round Daylight Saving Time is not some new idea. America already tried it in 1974. It was an unmitigated disaster.
It was sold as an energy-saving emergency measure during the oil crisis. Congress put the nation on permanent DST starting January 6, 1974. But within weeks, the dark winter mornings produced exactly the kind of problems critics warned about: children going to school and waiting for buses in predawn darkness. Congress reversed course that same year and restored standard time for the winter beginning October 27, 1974.
The contemporaneous coverage is striking.
On January 24, 1974, the Miami Herald ran: “3 Children Killed, Four Are Injured on Dark Mornings.”
On January 29, 1974, the Sentinel Star in Florida said the legislature was meeting in special session because of “seven children killed while walking to school in pre-dawn darkness.”
The Congressional Record was already referring to children waiting at bus stops in the cold dark, and even citing headlines about children killed in the early morning while waiting for the bus.
By February 14, 1974, one paper was calling it “Daylight Disaster Time.”
Public opinion collapsed. What began with broad support quickly turned into a backlash once people actually experienced winter mornings under permanent DST. One later account, citing contemporaneous reporting, notes support fell from 79% to 42% in roughly three months.
This is the lesson from 1974:
People like brighter evenings in theory.
They like dark winter mornings a lot less in real life.
And when children have to walk to school in darkness, the politics change very fast.
@SenWarren Are you serious?! I used to have TDS too. I read your book & loved & supported you. Then I realized I was being lied to: my eyes were opened & now I’m continually blown away by the stupidity & blindness on the left, by those I looked up to for 20+ years! Wake up! Support Iranians
Iraq was attacked by the US during Ramadan and it sickening to know that the US is again going to attack Iran during Ramadan. The US apparently loves to strike Muslim countries during Ramadan and I am convinced it isn’t what these countries have done to violate international law but about who they worship.
I can’t believe what I’m seeing...
Every Leftist on X is crying about Iran's EVIL DICTATORS being removed from the earth…
…and every single one of the Iranian people is celebrating and dancing like there’s no tomorrow
This has been extremely eye-opening.
@jeremycorbyn This is all Absolutely false. Clearly you are either delusional or in denial of the current state of affairs in Iran and in the world. Shame on you for this baseless condemnation.
Standard Time keeps mornings naturally sunlit, for health and safety. Permanent Daylight Saving Time would force us to wake hours before sunrise, to start work/school in cold darkness. Tell lawmakers to ditch DST with permanent Standard Time! 🔗👇
“Complaints from parents, children, farmers, working people, all segments of the public. Hardship and inconvenience of [permanent] Daylight Saving Time is not worth possible minor energy saving… [Repeal] has significant bipartisan support.” On this day in 1974.
I was born in Lebanon, what used to be the only Christian majority country in the Middle East.
We prided ourselves on our tolerance and multi-culturalism, and as result, imported Palestinians into our country.
Europe is falling for the same mistake. America cannot do the same.
@RobSchneider Wait what??! Are there actually places that are cracking down on this?? I’m only aware of the overwhelming trend to give in and embrace it lest you be labeled an islamaphobe