THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Please pass on the message that Ben, Cori and Lisa spoke BEAUTIFULLY and clearly and compassionately. Many many thanks and applause. I will go back to take notes on points that can and should be repeated by all of us to our friends and families when appropriate. I am beginning to feel brave enough to incorporate all that you have taught me into conversations with my troubled daughter. Thanks for posting this video and thanks to Maud for forcing the ability to host despite great push back.
Hopefully "The going up [will be] worth the coming down" ... 😉🙂
Sad state of affairs that it took an EO to give legal weight to the standard biological definitions for the sexes -- more or less in any case. But there are a number of flies in that ointment, one of which is that, by those same definitions, none of us have a sex from conception -- we just acquire one at the onset of puberty.
We are lucky in the quality of legal analysis Kara and others (Glenna, Judge Cypher, eg) provide, as it helps so much, for one, in knowing how best to target our efforts. The District 2 video is definitely a must watch—and also, something to boost so it gets as wide as possible a reach. One way to do that is to share clips from it in whatever way you have available to you, including here on Substack notes. For my small reach, I got a good number of clicks and likes, for example, on this heartfelt clip of Ben Appel speaking: https://substack.com/@susanscheid/note/c-86923831 For, as Kara says, “if we can be heard, we will win.”
My biggest disappointment with Trump’s executive orders from a gender identity standpoint was the lack of mention of the mutilation of children under the rubric of gender affirming care including specific instructions to the DOJ to quit supporting it in pending lawsuits.
The following is my overview of what the Democratic Party should be doing in response to the president’s EO’s to prepare for upcoming elections.
Biden was not smart enough or competent enough to resist caving to the far left wing of his party. He left the Democratic Party in shambles from which it may never recover.
If the remaining party leaders (whoever they might be) were smart (which they are not) they would look closely at at Trump’s many executive orders (EO’s) and maybe find a few popular ones that they could agree with and then use those along with the more popular positions that they currently endorse as the basis for a resurgence in 2026 and 2028.
So what’s currently in their bag that people don’t hate and what can be done with them to make them more salable to a majority.
First, a woman’s right to an abortion is one but many believe there should be some time limit put on its availability. So consider limiting it to the first trimester except to protect the health of the mother or when the fetus is not viable.
Second, most people are worried about climate change but the intermittent renewable energy sources located far from load centers Democrats are currently pushing will never provide reliable energy. The best answer is nuclear power plants located at existing coal fired plant locations that already have cooling and distribution infrastructure. We also should be leading an international effort to develop geoengineering solutions to the problem because we will never reduce carbon emissions in time to stave off disaster.
Third, most people support vaccinations when their development is transparent and their use is voluntary. Use that approach to offset the current anti-vaccine rhetoric of the Republicans.
Back to Trump’s executive orders. There are three worth considering supporting.
The first of these EO’s recognizes that open borders are politically unacceptable and that the age of mass migration is over. Importing millions of people who will work for next to nothing just to be here destroys the wages of working class Americans and drives up housing costs when we can't house our own citizens. People cannot overpopulate their home country and just expect to move to greener pastures. There are no more green pastures. They need to voluntarily reduce their own country's population to an environmentally sustainable level, stay there and work to improve their living conditions.
His second acceptable EO addresses the insanity of gender identity which denies the reality of human sexuality and results in men invading women’s sports, and spaces, and even more diabolical the mutilation of innocent children in pursuit of the impossible.
Finally his EO that corrects the craziness of DEI which discriminates against whites, Asians and men in attempting to cure past discrimination against others is absolutely the correct approach. Who could believe that creating a new privileged class and a new discriminated against class would provide a solution to the problem? Not to mention that it’s clearly unconstitutional.
Would these actions help the Democrats recover? Who knows but absent change there is no hope for them.
I watched the school board meeting and listened to Eliza, Lisa, Jamie, Ben, and Cori discuss it in Informed Dissent. I also read a few of their individual Substack posts about it. Thank you for echoing my sense of both how important that meeting was but yet also how far we still have to go. It’s beyond heartbreaking and infuriating that their compassionate, trauma filled words and concerns for other people‘s children were so easily dismissed.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Please pass on the message that Ben, Cori and Lisa spoke BEAUTIFULLY and clearly and compassionately. Many many thanks and applause. I will go back to take notes on points that can and should be repeated by all of us to our friends and families when appropriate. I am beginning to feel brave enough to incorporate all that you have taught me into conversations with my troubled daughter. Thanks for posting this video and thanks to Maud for forcing the ability to host despite great push back.
💯— I love that comment! Thanks so much, Caroline!
Hopefully "The going up [will be] worth the coming down" ... 😉🙂
Sad state of affairs that it took an EO to give legal weight to the standard biological definitions for the sexes -- more or less in any case. But there are a number of flies in that ointment, one of which is that, by those same definitions, none of us have a sex from conception -- we just acquire one at the onset of puberty.
We are lucky in the quality of legal analysis Kara and others (Glenna, Judge Cypher, eg) provide, as it helps so much, for one, in knowing how best to target our efforts. The District 2 video is definitely a must watch—and also, something to boost so it gets as wide as possible a reach. One way to do that is to share clips from it in whatever way you have available to you, including here on Substack notes. For my small reach, I got a good number of clicks and likes, for example, on this heartfelt clip of Ben Appel speaking: https://substack.com/@susanscheid/note/c-86923831 For, as Kara says, “if we can be heard, we will win.”
My biggest disappointment with Trump’s executive orders from a gender identity standpoint was the lack of mention of the mutilation of children under the rubric of gender affirming care including specific instructions to the DOJ to quit supporting it in pending lawsuits.
The following is my overview of what the Democratic Party should be doing in response to the president’s EO’s to prepare for upcoming elections.
Biden was not smart enough or competent enough to resist caving to the far left wing of his party. He left the Democratic Party in shambles from which it may never recover.
If the remaining party leaders (whoever they might be) were smart (which they are not) they would look closely at at Trump’s many executive orders (EO’s) and maybe find a few popular ones that they could agree with and then use those along with the more popular positions that they currently endorse as the basis for a resurgence in 2026 and 2028.
So what’s currently in their bag that people don’t hate and what can be done with them to make them more salable to a majority.
First, a woman’s right to an abortion is one but many believe there should be some time limit put on its availability. So consider limiting it to the first trimester except to protect the health of the mother or when the fetus is not viable.
Second, most people are worried about climate change but the intermittent renewable energy sources located far from load centers Democrats are currently pushing will never provide reliable energy. The best answer is nuclear power plants located at existing coal fired plant locations that already have cooling and distribution infrastructure. We also should be leading an international effort to develop geoengineering solutions to the problem because we will never reduce carbon emissions in time to stave off disaster.
Third, most people support vaccinations when their development is transparent and their use is voluntary. Use that approach to offset the current anti-vaccine rhetoric of the Republicans.
Back to Trump’s executive orders. There are three worth considering supporting.
The first of these EO’s recognizes that open borders are politically unacceptable and that the age of mass migration is over. Importing millions of people who will work for next to nothing just to be here destroys the wages of working class Americans and drives up housing costs when we can't house our own citizens. People cannot overpopulate their home country and just expect to move to greener pastures. There are no more green pastures. They need to voluntarily reduce their own country's population to an environmentally sustainable level, stay there and work to improve their living conditions.
His second acceptable EO addresses the insanity of gender identity which denies the reality of human sexuality and results in men invading women’s sports, and spaces, and even more diabolical the mutilation of innocent children in pursuit of the impossible.
Finally his EO that corrects the craziness of DEI which discriminates against whites, Asians and men in attempting to cure past discrimination against others is absolutely the correct approach. Who could believe that creating a new privileged class and a new discriminated against class would provide a solution to the problem? Not to mention that it’s clearly unconstitutional.
Would these actions help the Democrats recover? Who knows but absent change there is no hope for them.
I’ve shared the recording with a number of Democrats I know. I hope others are doing the same. The panelists are such effective messengers!!
I watched the school board meeting and listened to Eliza, Lisa, Jamie, Ben, and Cori discuss it in Informed Dissent. I also read a few of their individual Substack posts about it. Thank you for echoing my sense of both how important that meeting was but yet also how far we still have to go. It’s beyond heartbreaking and infuriating that their compassionate, trauma filled words and concerns for other people‘s children were so easily dismissed.