Elizabeth Warren had better lay off that beer. Or maybe it’s peyote she’s taking. One could wonder now that the Massachusetts senator has just vowed that as president she’d give a nine-year-old “transgender” child veto power over her candidate for secretary of education.
“You cannot be serious!” is the logical response here, to quote ex-tennis star John McEnroe. But Democrat presidential contender Warren is absolutely serious, having made the comments at a Sunday Iowa town hall while addressing a question about the supposed lack of “LGBTQ” history and sex education in government schools (a bit like complaining about a lack of mosquitoes in the Everglades).
“I’m going to have a Secretary of Education that this young trans person interviews on my behalf,” she said, “and only if this person believes that our Secretary or Secretary of Education nominee is absolutely committed to creating a welcoming environment, a safe environment, and a full educational curriculum for everyone will that person actually be advanced to be Secretary of Education.”
“You like that? Let’s do that!” concluded Warren, shaking her fist in the air.
The senator was apparently referencing a nine-year-old girl named Mia, who claimed to be a boy at age two and was allowed to “live as one” at four and now goes by “Jacob.” The child had asked Warren a question at CNN’s Equality Town Hall in October about keeping Made-up Sexual Status (MUSS) kids safe at school.
At the time, Warren slammed current education secretary Betsy DeVos and then told the girl, “I want to make sure that the person I think is the right secretary of education meets you and hears your story, and then I want you to tell me if you think that’s the right person and then we’ll make the deal,” reported Red State.
Of course, this would normally just be shrugged off as the kind of thing stumping politicians say to little kids if Warren hadn’t repeated it, as a serious proposal, on Sunday (video below).
Just as bad was that the crowd cheered Warren — who’s trying to revive her flagging campaign — as if hearing ethereal wisdom from on high.
Of course, if people believe children can “choose their sex” at age four, then why not let them help choose top government officials at nine? Never mind that they’re denied adult rights, with being allowed to enter into contracts and vote being examples; that can be changed, too (that’ll raise Warren’s poll numbers!).
Heck, why not let the kiddos choose the secretary of defense and the rest of the president’s cabinet while we’re at it? We can institute a juvenocracy.
Warren also said Sunday that the secretary of education should be a government school teacher and that remedying education woes starts with this official. In reality, the Department of Education is unconstitutional and shouldn’t even exist, as education is meant to be a state and local function.
But such analysis requires serious consideration of the matter, and Warren isn’t a serious candidate — except for being in serious pander-bear mode.
“In 2012, Warren told a Massachusetts radio station that ‘I don’t think it’s a good use of taxpayer dollars’ to pay for sex-change operations for prisoners,” reported National Review Thursday. Yet now she’s all-in on the unscientific MUSS agenda.
“In December, the Massachusetts Democrat pledged to annually read the names of murdered transgender people of color in the Rose Garden if she is elected president,” the Washington Examiner reminds us. Never mind that MUSS individuals are statistically more likely to kill than be killed and are less likely to be murdered than are average people.
But that again is serious analysis, and Warren’s bag is, as the New York Times euphemistically put it recently, being “a gifted storyteller.” Her tales have involved having American Indian heritage, losing a teaching position owing to pregnancy, plagiarizing a cookbook recipe, her father’s job, her parents’ elopement, and her son’s private schooling.
Unfortunately for the Prevaricating Pocahontas, her tales can now be bedtime stories for her campaign. Briefly the Democrat frontrunner, she has lost her party’s far-left vote to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) because (while his “honesty” is somewhat of an illusion) he’s far more authentic. Warren tries her best to pander, but she’s so profoundly lacking in — call it emotional IQ, people skills, or just self-awareness — that she satirizes herself.
Thus did she tweet November 7, “Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy.” Such statements may provide competition for the Babylon Bee and the Onion, but not for Warren’s primary opponents.
But there is good news for Lizzie. With her poll numbers dropping faster than Bernie’s jowls, she can now relax. It’s Miller time.
Photo of Sen. Elizabeth Warren: AP Images
Selwyn Duke (@SelwynDuke) has written for The New American for more than a decade. He has also written for The Hill, Observer, The American Conservative, WorldNetDaily, American Thinker, and many other print and online publications. In addition, he has contributed to college textbooks published by Gale-Cengage Learning, has appeared on television, and is a frequent guest on radio.
