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Topsy – Turvy !


If you are an author there are some things that you would be hesitant to put in your fictional novel, because they are so far out that a reasonable reader would have a difficult time actually believing that they could really happen.

Hopefully in the not too distant future reasonable people will look back at 2021, and say something akin to “I cannot believe that things were so askew and topsy-turvy back then!”

What sort of things might those in the future be looking back at?

Where to start? (The following are in no particular order of absurdity.)

On 8/26/21 the Supreme Court struck down a Biden-backed eviction moratorium in a 6-3 ruling. The Court said that Biden and the CDC did not have the authority to impose and renew the moratorium. Now one might ask why this threatens the limit of believability, as it certainly seems reasonable. The unbelievable part is that three of the Justices dissented. One might ask which constitution they were reading when they so voted? As Mollie Hemingway tweeted, “Scandalous that it wasn’t 9-0, given the Constitution and the law.”

On that same day Harvard University selected a man who does not believe in God to be the school’s chief chaplain. It difficult to think of a more woke definition of an oxymoron. As one might recall, Harvard University was established by Puritan colonists to educate American clergymen under the motto “Truth for Christ and the Church.” It was founded in 1636 as a Puritan/Congregationalist institution for training ministers. When I first read this headline I thought that for sure this was a make believe headline from the satirical Babylon Bee, but no! it was real!

Again on the same day to complete the “the world is topsy-turvy trifecta”:

U.S officials in Kabul provided the Taliban with the names of Americans and Afghan allies to evacuate. Note that the Taliban has a history of murdering Afghans who collaborated with the U.S. and allies. … So, of course, the logical thing to do is to help the Taliban identify all of them, so they that can be rounded up and slaughtered.

But lest one might be convinced that 8/26/21 was just a ‘bad topsy-turvy day’ for irrationality, a quick review of this entire year would offer some other tipsy-turvy things that have happened in 2021.

Granted most believe that the U.S. has been in Afghanistan too long. However, to pull out all of the American troops during the so-called fighting season in Afghanistan was nuts. And to give up the Bagram Air Base before getting the Afghan civilians out safely was even nuttier!  And how it was done was even more nuttier!!

From National Review:

“On the night of July 1, the United States military departed from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan ‘without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left,’ the Associated Press reported at the time.”

If this entire topsy-turvy Afghanistan situation was not so tragic, one might be tempted to ask if Bozo the clown was in charge.

Then there are teenage boys that tell us that they are really girls. Insanity!

But even more insane is that some adults believe that at thirteen or fourteen these adolescents are indubitably correct. The absolute insanity doesn’t stop there, as now some topsy-turvy courts are going along with this nonsense. 

From Virginia:

A Virginia school board will pay more than $1.3 million to the American Civil Liberties Union after losing a court battle involving a transgender student who sued the school over its bathroom policy, thus marking the end of a lengthy six-year legal fight. Much more than topsy-turvy, this is insanity!

I could go on and on, but because this piece is already running long, let me close with just one more example of tipsy-turviness … our so-called “devoutly Catholic” President is a big supporter of abortion. However what is even worse is that my local Bishop, Robert McElroy, is not only a big Biden fan, but also encourages to all who would listen that Biden’s backing of abortion is somehow okay and acceptable. 

Oops … I am getting too dizzy to think about the topsy-turvy year of 2021 any more.

8/29/21

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