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Viral Video of 13-Year-Old ‘Drag Queen’ Will Shock and Appall You, and So Will the Responses

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As someone who follows politics, I naturally end up also being exposed to the immoral excesses of the left. Still, there are some things that still shock me, and a recent viral video of a 13-year-old “drag queen” performing for gawking adults meets that criterion.

The video was put out by Libs of TikTok, and I have to include a disclaimer on this one because it’s that bad. While there’s not any nudity (which we would never post here), it is easily the worst of all the child “drag queen” videos out in the wild.

If you are smart and choose to not click on the video, what it contains is a small child dressed in a skin-tight leather backless dress performing sexually for adults who are snapping pictures and cheering. It’s one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in modern society, and there’s a lot of trash in modern society. This isn’t adult drag queens performing for children, which is bad enough. This is a child giving literal up-skirt poses to ground men.

There are some parts of the dancing I’m simply not willing to post here, but to fight this scourge, we need to be honest about what we are up against. Here’s one shot that gives you a pretty good idea of how shocking the video is.

Don’t get me wrong. I also don’t take my children to Hooters, but it’s become a bit of a trend for people on the left to compare these sexualized drag shows to waitresses in shorts serving wings or cheerleaders. In fact, right on cue, the far left ran to defend what was in the video, suggesting that straight 13-year-olds do things that are way worse.

There are? My daughter dances. She has never worn anything like that while dancing nor has she performed a sexualized routine for anyone. And to compare that video to cheerleading is just laughably stupid. High-school cheerleaders kick a leg up every once and a while. But Krassenstein actually suggests that stuff is worse than what the 13-year-old “drag queen” is doing.

Besides, let’s say he was right. Then most of us would condemn that too. In fact, I have in regard to child beauty pageants (which are still nowhere close to the drag performance in question). This isn’t difficult. If your first response to that video is to defend it and deflect, you’ve already failed the test, and it’s not a hard test to pass. All you have to do is say it’s bad for boys to dress up in skimpy dresses and grind on stages for adults. I mean, come on.

I know the term gets thrown around a lot, but if you are defending what’s in that video, you are a groomer. You are a sick, depraved person who should seek professional help.

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Do Not Take This Democrat’s Advice On How to Raise Children

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I might be a brand new dad, but I’m no stranger to the concept of raising children. As the eldest of five brothers and sisters, I know something about kids.

One thing I do know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that they’re complete and total idiots.

I don’t say that to be mean or edgy. I mean this as a natural statement of fact. When you first arrive in this world you have nothing but your instincts. You’re literally seeing everything for the first time. You don’t know what a spoon is or what it’s for. You’ve never interacted with the common dog. You might recognize voices but you’ve never been able to put a face to them, and wrapping your head around the concept of faces takes some time to understand too.

You start at square zero, and you accumulate knowledge about the world around you from that starting point.

It’s around this knowledge that you begin to form the basis for your personality. Over the course of years, you will develop an understanding of basic things like shapes, numbers, and colors. More complicated concepts will come your way that takes time and experience to sus out an understanding over, but even then, that can take years. There are adults that still haven’t completely understood the concept of nuance, and a lot of those people are in my mentions on Twitter.

The point I’m making is that children don’t understand the world and they certainly can’t contemplate their place in it.

So when I hear someone like Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan say “When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That’s what it means to be a good parent,” I can only assume she herself is either an idiot, inexperienced with children, corrupt to the point of willingly putting children in harm’s way, or all three.

How many boys told their parents they were a dinosaur or a superhero? How many girls told their parents they were a pony or a butterfly?

Young children understand their own identities as well as they understand calculus. If your son comes up to you and declares he’s actually a girl, the last thing any sane person would do is believe them. Sadly, the first thing too many people do nowadays is begin the process of making their young child’s claim a reality.

Even as a teenager, claims of transgenderism or gender fluidity are usually born from a desire to stand out while fitting in. They need to be dynamic and discover one’s identity is a powerful draw and for a teenager, the pull is so strong as to be destructive.

In the life of the teenager and the child, the parent is tasked with guiding their offspring through what is a very corrosive world with people and things around every corner that could lead them into a life they wouldn’t choose for themselves if they were armed with just a little bit more experience and wisdom.

In the absence of this experience and wisdom, the parent must fill in the gap with theirs. This is why Flanagan’s words aren’t just foolish, they’re dangerous. What she and those who agree with her are saying is that your child’s inexperience and ignorance should supersede your much vaster knowledge of people, slippery slopes, pain, mistakes, joy, wisdom, and experiences you’ve collected on your decades-long life’s journey.

Without a parent’s guidance, children would be unhealthy due to the over-consumption of sugar, spending every waking moment in front of a screen and treating everyone around them as a means to a very selfish end. Understanding this, the idea that a child should be able to have their parents act on changing their identity on demand is ludicrous, and anyone putting that idea forward should immediately be suspect.

If there’s one thing we all know, it’s that children are highly susceptible to suggestion and all it takes is one trusted adult to teach them something destructive that could have them under the thumb of certain groups for the rest of their lives.

And whoever wants control of your children is automatically your enemy.

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Op-ed equates children’s safety with gun control

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As adults, we’re predisposed to think of protecting children. I suppose it’s something encoded in our DNA, a way in which we can insure that humanity continues to thrive by making sure the next generation is safe and sound.

It’s not universal, though.

After all, we’ve all heard the stories about some parent who murders their kids. We’ve seen examples far too recently, unfortunately.

But most who don’t feel this need to protect the young in some way are just apathetic. They simply don’t care enough to not risk a kid’s life.

As a result, a lot of innocent kids have been killed recently.

Yet for many, the answer lies exclusively in gun control.

Firearm-related deaths became the leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 19 years old in 2020, according to a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine last spring.

In 2022, 11% of homicides in the city of Atlanta were children and teens. During the holidays, just weeks before Deshon was killed, four other teens under the age of 18 died in shootings.

This week, AJC reporter Alexis Stevens wrote about Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens kicking off his “Year of the Youth” plan to help curb the violence among the city’s children and teenagers.

“The vast majority of our homicides are interpersonal — people that are acquaintances, people that are familiar to one another, domestic violence, you have a business relationship or a neighbor. They are angry. They have access to a gun. And they use it,” Dickens said.

The initiative includes programs such as a midnight basketball league and employment opportunities for teens during summer and winter breaks. Those are positive efforts, but they don’t address the most important part of Dickens’ statement, “They have access to a gun.”

Some people will read this column and they won’t connect the deaths of Deshon and the other teens that recently died in shootings to the 39 school shootings that have occurred in Georgia from 1970 through May 2022, or to the 51 kids in Georgia, age 19 and under, who were lost to firearm suicide deaths in 2019.

It is easier to parse the details of each incident and speculate on whether the perpetrators are criminals or mentally ill rather than focus on what we know for sure in every case — someone had access to a deadly weapon.

First, we really need to stop lumping 18- and 19-year-olds under the heading of children. They’re either adults or they’re not. They can legally vote, enlist in the military, sign a contract, live on their own without parental permission, and so on. They’re adults.

And let’s be clear, those account for the lion’s share of “children’s deaths” we’ve seen.

Many of those school shootings are gang shootings that simply happened in schools. At least one of the shootings involved a police officer in a murder-suicide.

So these claims only tell a bit of the story, not the whole truth.

Further, they don’t tell the truth about how gun control would impact these shootings. After all, while it’s true that all the shooters had access to a gun, few of them had access to a gun lawfully, and that’s the rub.

See, this idea that Georgia needs gun control ignores the fact that few of these people got guns lawfully, and those that did were unlikely to be disarmed under literally any new effort put in place.

Instead, this is just a classic case of using emotion and only part of the truth to try and manipulate people into thinking a certain way.

Further, this claim ignores the untold number of children’s lives saved because of guns during that same time.

Children’s safety matters. There’s no mistake about that.

But gun control doesn’t make anyone safer. It never has and never will.