Anthony Rispo

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The Supreme Court ruling on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban may have been a win against state overreach. But it also o...
04/01/2026

The Supreme Court ruling on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban may have been a win against state overreach. But it also opens the door to something many people do not want to say out loud: the possible return of conversion therapy, with momentum that could now spread across 23 states.

A lot of us left the left because we were tired of ideological pressure, moral reflexes, and forced conformity. But the right is not immune to the same impulse.

If you left one rigid moral framework, do not ignore the signs of another.

03/31/2026

The Supreme Court just ruled that Colorado’s 2019 ban on conversion therapy for minors violated the First Amendment.

That does not mean conversion therapy is good. It isn’t. The research on that is clear.

But the Court’s issue was different: once the state allows one viewpoint in the counseling room while prohibiting another, it moves from regulating professional conduct to regulating speech based on viewpoint.

That is the key detail.

Colorado did not just ban harmful conduct in some neutral sense. It explicitly permitted affirming, supportive, and transition-related counseling, while prohibiting counseling aimed in the opposite direction. That asymmetry is what created the First Amendment problem.

My larger point in this video is that both conversion therapy and gender-affirming care can function as ideological distortions of what therapy ought to be. Therapy should involve exploration, discovery, and restraint, not steering a person toward a prefabricated identity outcome.

And underneath all of this is another problem: trans issues have been conflated with gay rights issues, and that conflation has weakened the rights-based framework that helped g**s and le****ns make real civil progress.

There are important legal and cultural details in this one. Watch the full video.

03/29/2026

How projection is expressed in the “No Kings” crowd. More broadly, how projection is expressed by people in the Democrat party and their leftist cult.

03/25/2026

Rest in peace, Sheridan Gorman. Gone too soon, not only by the hands of the perpetrator, an illegal immigrant (Jose Medina), but also by the policies of leftist politicians who are intoxicated with “empathy” for the “underdog.” The moral inversion of these individuals not only shows a diabolical lack of genuine compassion but also enacts a social script through policy that has severely compromised our national sovereignty and the safety of law-abiding citizens.

03/24/2026

Body positivity starts to look a lot less positive when self-awareness gets framed as self-hatred.

Noticing obesity, metabolic strain, or physical decline is not shame. It is self-concern. But this therapist turns honest concern into oppression and avoidance into virtue.

And to make matters worse, Jillian Michaels never even said half of what this therapist is accusing her of saying.

The body does not care about the story. It responds to reality.

Watch the full episode on the Jubilee YouTube channel.

03/22/2026

I made one comment about how callous it was of Trump to (essentially) celebrate Robert Mueller’s death. You’d think I had a TDS breakdown with the way people are reacting, so activated and bent out of shape that I dared to criticize him. Funny enough, “TDS,” while not a real diagnosis, does harbor some similarities with anxious and compulsive symptoms at base— and this shows itself in overreactive behavior, regardless of the object of fixation. So, if you’re so ass hurt over ONE criticism from me, that speaks to what psychology calls an intolerance of ambiguity, you need certainty, knowing that I’m on your page— on your “team.” Well, good news for me, I like to think critically and think it’s entirely fine to say, ‘hey, just chiming in once in a while to make it clear that there are things the President does that I definitely do not like; oh, AND, there are still many things that I do like.”

I feel like that’s logic my two nieces can grapple with fairly easily. They’re 5.

03/20/2026

Mayor Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, is facing some public tension due to a few of her 'colorful' social media posts from several years ago. Don’t ask for or demand apologies. Allow them sit in their dissonance.

03/19/2026

Oh, what a “Joy.” just did what she did best, which is make no sense. To compare the U.S. Government to the Islamic Republic is a whole new abysmal level of WTF.

03/17/2026

New York City just created an Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs.
Not a neutral service office. Not just basic support. A cross-agency moral bureaucracy with the power to shape housing, employment, healthcare, compliance, and the language around all of it.

03/16/2026

Social media algorithms are created to keep us focused on one story. We can shake that up by checking where our news originates and picking what we consume!

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03/15/2026

People are quick to label criticism of Islam as “Islamophobia,” but that evades the real question: why does the fear exist in the first place?

It did not come from nowhere. It came from repeated exposure to Islamist violence, religious extremism, and terror carried out in the name of Islam with clear ideological motives.

The West is supposed to be different. It rejects collective blame, retaliation, and coercion. But preserving that moral distinction does not require pretending the threat is imaginary.

Fear should not be turned into vengeance or silence. It should be turned into clarity. We can’t preserve our freedom without it.

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