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State of Wednesday: TRAINS FOR WOMEN

So, ironically, liberals who claim to support women would be sending them into harm’s way en masse if social workers started responding to 911 calls instead of police.

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Geoffrey Ingersoll
Jan 07, 2026
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Greetings, Dear Reader,

Welp, as promised.


TRAINS FOR WOMEN

In one of my many D.C. online chats yesterday, in mixed-gender company, both the men and women were discussing women’s liberation.

Yikes, amirite!

Not to worry, we’re all on Team Good Guy, Dear Reader.

We had been discussing various vices: gambling, prostitution, porn, and the policies guiding them. One of the women remarked that a friend had said “we should just let women do what they want and not judge.”

“I’m 100% judging them,” she said, and concluded, “I need to be better at standing up to women. New Year’s resolution.”

Of course we are. Just like when men gamble away their kids’ college fund, when women perform sexual acts on the internet for subscriptions, we judge. Often we think, in fact we assume, “where is your father?”

In response, another recalled a recent double date in which policing crime came up. The other woman at the table became visibly offended when my chat cohort suggested it was foolish to send social workers to police any kind of domestic disturbance 911 call.

“So annoying,” she concluded.

It is indeed. Even without responding to 911 calls instead of police — as some liberal policy advocates have suggested — social work is already a dangerous job. Maria Coto, a case worker in Westchester, was beaten to death in 2024 for knocking on the wrong door. Two years earlier in Illinois, Deirdre Silas responded to a call about children in danger and was stabbed to death.

Why on earth would a social worker be sent to help “children in danger”?

Social work is dominated by women. Roughly 90% of case workers are female. So, ironically, liberals who claim to support women would be sending them into harm’s way en masse if social workers started responding to 911 calls instead of police.

The policy push came from the political left in large part due to the mass delusion/hysteria that police were somehow murdering black people at a stunning clip. Harvard’s Roland Fryer ultimately proved that delusion for what it was, false, and as a result his colleague, Professor Claudine Gay, waged a successful campaign to destroy his career on some trumped up sex charges.

(Not to digress, but she was then elevated to become a “historic first black” president of Harvard, only to resign after losing control of her campus to radicals and being outed as an academic fraud.)

What I’ve just outlined above is, in my opinion, what happens when we allow the feminine impulses of humanity to dominate our culture. We end up with wildly irrational solutions to problems, in some cases, that don’t even exist! Our best and brightest end up sidelined on trumped up charges for imaginary crimes!

For the purposes of this column, I should define feminine and masculine. I’ve been playing around with Gemini lately, so I’ll let it do the talking for me:

Traditional “Masculinity” is assertiveness, independence, strength, dominance, rationality. “Femininity” is nurturing, empathy, sensitivity, cooperation, grace. Masculinity prefers roughness, utility over beauty, and “stoic” presence. Femininity prefers softness, aesthetic presentation, “gentle” presence.

Can we all agree that about sums it up? Now, can women exhibit these traits? Can women be “rough”? Of course. I’ve hired many fierce female competitors. The women in my chat basically wanted to send in the Marines to respond to domestic disputes. I think we can all also agree that sending in troops to act is the more masculine response versus social workers to discuss feelings.

I should also define what I mean by “woman,” in the case of the proverbial trains that I’d like to stick them on. Normally, as we all know, a woman is an “adult human female.”

For the case of my argument here today, “women” are folks whose approach to problems both real and imagined would be categorized by a rational onlooker as “mostly feminine”; think social worker to talk feelings versus armed police to arrest. So for example, a man who studies the “intersection of race and culture in Russian poetry” and becomes the “Diversity Coordinator” at a nonprofit is, for all intents and purposes, a woman.

There are millions of these sorts of people and, worse, they occupy positions of power.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s director of appointments went viral for an old tweet saying “it’s important white people feel defeated.” Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned on day one, but not for hating white people. The local Anti-Defamation League found tweets of hers in which she appeared bigoted toward Jews as well.

The kicker: She has Jewish children. How about that for a “devouring mother,” eh?

And where did this person come from? She studied Political Science at Binghamton University — $30k a year — where she chaired a race-based student union. She then did a hodgepodge of gigs, including work for de Blasio, until she earned a “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” certificate from Cornell.

Why the hell is Cornell certifying something as useless as DEI?

After that she went to Sotheby’s, which sells extremely high-end art, jewelry, collectibles and antiques, to be their “Global Head of Equity and Impact.”

If it sounds like a bullshit gig, that’s because it is. Nothing rational about paying someone an executive salary to talk about intersectionality. There’s virtually no shot she contributed to Sotheby’s bottom line in any meaningful way.

All to end up getting fired by Mamdani for hating Jews too much. Shame.

Next up is Mamdani’s housing advisor, who also went viral for saying “we need to impoverish the *white* middle class.” Cea Weaver went to Bryn Mawr College — ~$90k a year — to study urban development. If you want to know how Bryn Mawr approaches the subject of urban development, its “core curriculum”, according to Google, “Includes introductory courses, advanced seminars, and a focus on how power, culture, and society shape urban spaces.”

So, communism basically, probably of the gay and race variety. No wonder she wants to “impoverish” whitey. She learned it in college.

It was also very easy for a person like Weaver with roughly half a million in debt, barring very wealthy parents or a full scholarship, to become a gay race communist. The average city planner makes $70k a year.

You can’t live in any city by yourself on that, and never mind paying back the debt.

I think we can all agree we don’t need any more of this kind of person. Their highly feminine approach to policy is backward, terrible and corrosive.

So what do we do?

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In response to all the criticism Trump is getting from lefties and legacy media types (as if there’s a difference), Stephen Miller tweeted:

Not long after World War II the West dissolved its empires and colonies and began sending colossal sums of taxpayer-funded aid to these former territories (despite have already made them far wealthier and more successful). The West opened its borders, a kind of reverse colonization, providing welfare and thus remittances, while extending to these newcomers and their families not only the full franchise but preferential legal and financial treatment over the native citizenry. The neoliberal experiment, at its core, has been a long self-punishment of the places and peoples that built the modern world.

The next day he got in an argument with Jake Tapper on CNN.

Tapper was confused about how the US would control Venezuela following the rendition of Nicolás Maduro, since his vice president and apparatus is still in place. This is like being confused about how Andre the Giant could beat up a midget.

An exasperated Miller outlined how the entirety of Venezuela’s commerce was in a military chokehold. Caracas, he said, can’t do anything unless the US gives it permission.

Tapper then pivoted. Why not support the opposition candidate? Well why not immediately support free and fair elections?

Miller blew his top.

“The United States is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We’re a super power and under President Trump, we are going to conduct ourselves as a super power.

It is absurd that we would allow a nation in our own backyard to become the supplier of resources to our adversaries, but not us. To hoard weapons from our adversaries. To be able to be positioned as an asset against the United States rather than in support of the United States.”

Tapper interrupted, “Sovereign countries shouldn’t be allowed to do what they want to do?”

Tell you what, Jake, resign and go start an OnlyFans. The men have it from here.

“You invaded the country and we seized the leader of Venezuela!” Tapper squeaked.

“Damn straight we did!” Miller hollered back. “We’re not going to let tinpot communist dictators send rapists into our country, send drugs into our country, send weapons into our country, and we’re not going to let a country fall into the hands of our adversaries!”

Hours later Trump sent a list of demands to the remaining Maduro regime.

Top of the list:

  • Stop the drug trade

  • Expel Chinese, Russian and Cuban agents

  • Stop selling oil to US adversaries

So what do you think? Is this a social worker or a police officer?

You guessed it: The boys are back in town alright.

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I’m going to sound like a broken record here, but we need to demonstrate the same decisiveness on the battlefield here at home. Yes, of course, deport the fraudulent Somalis. DHS has already dispatched 2,000 agents to Minnesota to get that process started.

More importantly, what we really need to genocide are the pipelines that create such opportunities.

Why were so many Somalis allowed to run fraud rings for so long? Walz’s government either helped facilitate the fraud or overlooked it because they didn’t want to appear to be “racist” or “anti-immigrant.”

I’m sorry, would someone’s fee-fees be hurt if we upheld the law on Somalis?

The Bryn Mawrs and Binghamtons and Cornells need to be absolutely demolished. No more “diversity” certificates. No more $80k a year tuitions. You will produce no more soldiers. Put the entirety of the apparatus on that proverbial train. Camps for most of you.

I want to see shuttered universities. Ghost towns. Repurposed for more constructive things, like housing.

I want to see 75% of administrators and at least half the current professor population reduced to picking strawberries illegals used to pick. Cleaning toilets in hotels. Nailing shingles to my roof.

Just like we encircled and forcibly reorganized Venezuela’s whole headspace.

We need to do the same to the radical left’s pipeline. Masculinity is back on the rise and it needs to reassert itself in the most feminine “spaces.”

Universities should be at the top of the list.


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