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Above is the sign from the right side of my car, the left is below.

I went to the theater on Saturday night. It was at the Westport Country Playhouse. I suppose flavor enough is given in the fact that it has a large land acknowledgment on the wall in the lobby.

On Friday, before I chose to go, I tried to reach out to the performer. I asked if gay was a feature of his show or just a circumstance of his life. He hasn't replied yet. It was a feature of the night, there being a LGBTQ+ wrap by way of a reception before the show for an upcharge. I did not take that option. It took a little something just to get there after Shabbat.

The thing is that the left seems to think that the right is somehow offended when a queen says “did I mention I am gay.” and laughs in recognition of that charicature, at least that's my analysis. I guess they're still stuck in the last century. It was a decidedly older crowd.

This is my message to the performer after the show: “I came. If all you want is to make fun of ridiculous charicatures of the right and screech how fucked up the world is for a few laughs from people who think exactly like you do, then you might as well respond with some blow me off emoji. I am smart enough not to reply to that with another four paragraphs.

“You said you are energized by the haters. Whoop de do. How about being energized by those who might actually challenge your world view but share a commitment to a world that works?

“I mean, you're gay! (like anyone cares). Edgy would be if you got on that stage and made a comment about how the trans-activists are cutting off all the beautiful schlongim and kisim of the next generation, how you still wouldn't be attracted to a girl with a simulated penis cut from her forearms and nipples that have no erotic sensation because the nerves have been cut, and no real voice because the overgrown vocal chords of the testosterone are too big for her larynx.

“I was going to write more, but I am not going to waste the energy. I have made it to four paragraphs. If you are interested in a conversation for a better world, come for Shabbat. I am in Stamford for Shabbat, or Israel for holidays. I prefer when my wife is here, but I'll cook if she's not. ”

That was his other theme, “I am so scared,” “the world is so messed up,” or something to that effect with a lot of F-bombs. The four paragraphs was in relation to one of his takes on communication in this age.

Cancellation

So someone on NextDoor, an usher at the show, took issue with my display of bigotry. She mentioned she went outside, only to see my car and asked “Who is this David Herz…” She inadvertently suggested that I had humiliated the band members, so that's what the next paragraph was about. To her credit, she recognized the issue and clarified that she left when the performer was introducing the band. He was ragging on them in his queenly way. I did not actually think on that, a little vulgar, but part of the show.

Anyway, here's what I wrote in the first round of clarification. Actually, I am just going to run the three messages together. My main beef was about the TQ+ of the LGBTQ+ reception on the flier.

Just for clarification, I didn't say anything last night except that I asked my seat neighbor if she was a fan. I mentioned that I do like my birthday. (another reference to the show. the performer asked if anyone liked his birthday; I discovered that I did) I also asked the security person where the bathroom was.

Attached is what is on my car. Yesterday the “TQ+ and Islam are Death Cults!” was not yet there. It said instead “keep the Sabbath Shabbat Shalom!” While I grew up in Stamford, and still maintain a house there, my residence is in Bridgeport.

I am against the sterilization and mutilation of our children in the name of “health care,” especially when that healthcare makes people sicker, more likely to commit suicide (contrary to what the activists tell you), and medically dependent for life. I actually write more about that at transisrael.org. It is against science. It is an affront to G-d.

Even more, if you actually care to think on the subject, the whole trans thing is an outgrowth of “queer ideology“ which seems to have as its main focus the undermining of society's institutions.

I also believe in following our laws, and dialogue. If you want to have a conversation, let's do it. Reach out. We'll put it on.

I won't show the picture here, but browse the gallery at California's Gender Confirmation Center, and this is mild, complete with loss of sensation, which affects ability to be intimate, menopause in the twenties when ovaries are removed. Incontinence, infection and a shortened medicalized life. You spend some time with parents whose children are going through this, often autistic, many would just turn out to be gay. The guy who developed lobotomy got a Nobel prize in medicine. This is worse. Don't take it from me. Check out LGB Courage Coalition https://www.lgbcouragecoalition.org/ or Gays Against Groomers. https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com/

Did Isaac mention that he is gay. Ask him about a world where all the young gay people have been castrated. Seems the worst kind of conversion therapy to me.

And for those calling me a Nazi (I had family on both sides of that conflict), you might want to note that the first guy to do one of these surgeries went on to conduct hypothermia experiments at a concentration camp.

Call me a bigot if you will. Then go ahead and stick your self-righteous head back in the sand. I pray you never have to wonder if your beautiful child is going to be coming home one day telling you about a plan to start cutting off his or her sexual organs.

On whether there was anything Trans about the show

No not to the concert itself. There was an LGBTQ+ reception surrounding this. I assert, and I am not alone, that the TQ+ is of a different kind than the LGB, that it is sinister and destabilizing, mostly the Q part.

Most of the right has made its peace with the LGB. That's between you and G-d. I found it particularly laughable that the crowd found it so funny that Mr. Mizrahi kept reminding us he is gay, like that is some edgy thing that might bother the people the left so likes to despise (flyover country, basket of deplorables, clinging to guns and religion).

But that lumping together of the LGB with the TQ+ is enough to do a lot of damage. I am labeled a hater here because I don't think a boy should be called a girl, that I think we should “Respect Our OffICErs” and that I don't think Democrat policy is what brings prosperity, and that we should “keep the sabbath” and “Arm every Iranian!”

I am amending that last statement though, I think it should be “except the Shia.”

Here is a list of some of the crises, panics, movements, and fads over the last two centuries (circa 1825–2025). It was generated through a dialogue with Grok.

My point is that we've been crying that the world is about to end for a long time. The fact is it has gotten better, but has always done so in the face of the voices that would tear us down. I didn't know all of these myself. I haven't exhaustively analyzed every point to determine its authenticity, but it's educating:

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It bodes badly for our Republic that we are so quick to cancel another for a stupid remark. The same thought police that comes today to cancel Ms. Figueroa is the one that will cancel you tomorrow for expressing your unpleasant or out-of-vogue idea.

All Ms. Figueroa did was say the quiet part out loud. Her constituency, her popularity, comes in part from her ethnic connections. She is probably right that I (another Jew lawyer) can not understand her experience and that of a large portion of her constituents as she can. If she had railed against white males and the patriarchy instead of noticing that this white-male was Jewish, she would be a hero of the DEI movement right now.

But even if she is right as to her understanding, it is possible she might still be good for people like me. If her concern for “minorities” is broad enough (i.e. includes my minority), I might be able to overlook the anti-semitic remark.

On the other hand, a would-be challenger could easily enough make the argument that her experience and commonality with certain constituents does not redound to their benefit. Maybe the Jew-lawyer could make a case that Ms. Figueroa is too close to advocate for what is best for her community and defeat her at the ballot box.

But this is unacceptable at the Democratic City Committee. She challenged their preferred candidate, and now is run out on a rail at the first opportunity.

Her “pattern of antisemitic comments” is two statements that she made with regard to one man. That she picked on his identity is just human nature. We are tribal, and sometimes lesser instincts grab a hold of us. Sometimes, a certain stereotype fits. I don't know either of the players here; I don't know how well Mr. Jacobson might fit a Latino stereotype of the Jewish-lawyer.

It's not up to the DCC to force her expulsion. They made their view known. They should have let the voters decide if there is “an innate inability to effectively serve all

members of her constituency and the City of Stamford.”

But the pièce de résistance, the topper of toppers is this: “It is untenable that she remain in office where the absence of bias and prejudice are critical to fair and just service to the City and all of its people.”

Talk to a moderately conservative or religious person, or someone who wears a MAGA hat, about our experiences with those in office. Using this “bias and prejudice” standard, many would agree that the “innate inability to serve” is as evident in her accusers as it appears to be in Ms. Figueroa.

What could have been used as the opening of a robust conversation has instead been used to silence and suppress, in service of what?

David R. Herz, Bridgeport, CT

Republican Candidate in the 126th.