Author: Crowhill Report

Let’s say you have an accountant who is a perfectly good accountant, but on her own time she says crazy stuff like this: Transgender activist calls for all children to be placed on puberty blockers until they can decide their gender

Should you fire her from her accountant job?

As long as she keeps it out of the workplace, no, you should not.

Actually, I’d even let her talk about this stuff in the workplace, so long as she’s civil about it and it doesn’t interfere with work.

Virtue-signaling people are posting “their pronouns” in various places.

I know some people see this as some sort of virtue. I see it as a vice. Specifically, narcissism.

“You must address us in this manner.”

I might put up with that from royalty. I don’t know why we put up with this from ordinary people.

Individuals don’t own the language. You no more have your own pronouns than you have your own adjectives.

When P&C were lads, there was a lot more public display of religion. Over the ensuing years, public displays of religion have been under attack.

It sometimes gets to the point that you’re committing a hate crime if you wish someone a Merry Christmas. I suppose that’s “mis-religioning.”

The modern so-called “war on Christmas” is nothing compared to the traditional opposition to the holiday in America, starting with the Puritans.

P&C review some issues surrounding the holiday, including …

* Was Jesus born on Dec. 25th?
* Where did Santa come from?
* Are nativity scenes accurate?
* Are Christmas trees pagan?
* When does Christmas really start?
* How did gift-giving get involved?

Now that a Democrat administration will be taking the reins, will conservatives in government become “the resistance”? Betsy DeVos hopes so.

DeVos urges Education Dept. staff to ‘resist’ when Biden takes office

I will start with the trite and obvious observation that this is probably a media hit job, and that DeVos probably didn’t say what they are accusing her of saying. Your first instinct with any political story from the U.S. should be “that’s probably a lie.”

But for argument’s sake, let’s assume it’s true.

If it’s true, it’s foolish, for many reasons.

First, in general, what can we say about the idea of deep state resistance? Do the bureaucrats owe allegiance to the new administration, or can they press their own agendas?

This should be obvious. The president has the right and the authority to set the agenda for his administration. The bureaucrat’s job is not to agree with it, or to love it, but to implement it. If he can’t do that in good conscience, he should resign. Everyone who takes a government job knows that administrations change, and that ideas come and go. If you can’t deal with that, work somewhere else. Undermining the president is not a valid option. It’s a dishonorable way to behave.

Except in an extraordinary case — e.g., if the president were a traitor. In that case, duty to the country would take precedence. The hyperventilating left / media industrial complex wanted us to believe that was the case with Trump, but that was idiotic from the start.

That’s why deep state resistance is wrong on principle. It’s also wrong practically, from a conservative point of view.

Washington, D.C., is a liberal town. Government is a liberal occupation. The “deep state” will always tilt liberal, substantially, so the idea of a deep state tit for tat as administrations change will be more like tit for WHAM, SLAM, KABOOM!

By asking the conservative deep state to fight against Biden, DeVos would be legitimizing this dishonorable conduct. Aside from being wrong on principle, it’s radically stupid. It’s a battle conservatives can’t win, and it takes away their ability to call out the liberals when they do it.

Update — Pigweed and Crowhill did a “Nooze and Booze” episode on this one.

Three spirits guide Pigweed and Crowhill through the bars of Christmas past, present and future in the hope they can see the error of their ways and join the progressive, woke mob.