Shame on the Girl Scouts: Thin Skin instead of Thin Mints

Just imagine the flip side(s).
IF the SCOTUS nominee had been a progressive socialist "questioning" transgender, along with hating Israel, our Constitution and Bill Of Rights, a non-Trumper, gun hater, private enterprise hater, car & truck hater, a climate change freak, pro abortion freak,...well what else could the Left could want?
I don't like to wonder what would the Girl Scouts say then?

I'm saddened by what GSA did, but I'm on their side always. I'm angry and sad that Ayanna Pressley is so wrong-headed and it'll take two years to primary her to the oblivion she earned by her tweet.

I congratulate Amy Coney Barrett on her appointment to the Supreme Court. Not because she is a woman, but because she is a great constitutionalist and judge.

Shame on the Girl Scouts leadership for bowing to the left policy of political correctness. They are guilty of a violation of the first amendment. The leadership of this organization should be removed and replaced with unbiased leadership.

Mal apropos;
Last summer I went to Canada, and decided to go to a gym. Nearby the apartment we rented in Victoria there was a YMCA, so we went there, as Christians thinking we would feel right at home. Now, there was some wishy-washy statements about something, but not a single Christian message. So I asked, and they said they had long ago dropped Christianity.

But the NAME they had kept, for it was so well known.

Personally I found them hypocrites, and if I had been Canadian (I am from Norway), I would have sued them.

What is it like in the US of A?

Are there anybody sailing under a false flag?

I agree with Alan and if we conservatives can't stand up to the truth we are doomed to failure of ourselves and our country. All in D.C should be fired and we need to start again with term limits.

Barrett is a member of Kappa Delta Sorority. KD Sorority Headquarters recognized her confirmation and congratulated her for the achievement. Their response to criticism was the same as the Girl Scouts; they hitched up their petticoats and ran for the tall grass. Someone in the future will write a best-seller "Profiles in Cowardice". I'm sure these two organizations will each get their own chapter in the book.

As a Brit and a former scout I really find this situation incredibly strange.

In political terms, I am a life-long Labour Party supporter but if a scout or guide was elected to be a Conservative Prime Minister, I and the scout movement would be really proud. We will probably not agree with the Conservative Prime Minister on policy issues but we would recognise that it is a great achievement.

What is more, Amy Coney Barrett isn't even a politician. She is a judge!!

For anybody who likes GSA cookies, Walmart carries their own brand that is similar thin mints, chocolate peanut butter, and the cookies with chocolate stripes. The only ones I can attest to are the Chocolate peanut butter ones. I don't care for the others. Also, they don't always have the cookies on the shelves so you may have to go back.

The American dream is turning into an American nightmare. Scouts motto: Be prepared!

Thanks for this. What disheartens me is that it seems so many issues these days are decided by bullying. How do we instill courage?

Great article. More please.
My strong support for Amy Coney Barrett is not bounded by the likes or dislikes of Girl Guides, boy scouts, or even the activity of the Secular Humanists who through the activity of Madalyn Murray provided the funds from which the Supreme court drank deeply from, and as a result dislodged both the national observance of the crib at Christmastime, and prayer and scripture in public institutions. Murray was touted by TIME magazine as the most hated woman in America.

If the roles were reversed the Democrats would wait on the election? If so then why, in an election year, did Obama even put up Merrick Garland for nomination? Good for Trump following the constitution and filling the vacancy.

USA Today quote: "... President Obama when he nominated the highly qualified Merrick Garland, and the Republicans refused to process the nomination..."
The Speaker refused the charade of processing the Obama nomination because the Republicans were in the majority of the Senate and would have never voted for Garland!
IOW a waste of time.
Next?

I think it incomprehensible that the management of the Girl Guides should have withdrawn this totally applicable comment simply because two seeming "leftists" feel it is inappropriate. And who are Pressley and Tamblyn; I have never heard of them before. They should be laughed out of the country and the comment reinstated everywhere so that it is read even more widely. Just what is America and the West becoming when we accept such blithering nonsense causing the demise of rational free speech. It is time to take up the fight my friends.

I do not understand why Mr. Dershowitz would buy and eat something that will leave a bitter taste in his mouth. It is time to boycott Girl Scout cookies, not buy and continue to support this behavior. There are other organizations kids can join that are not insane.

This was typically sniveling political, while attempting to look and sound apolitical. After receiving predictable social media retaliation, the Girl Scouts delete a tweet congratulating Amy Coney Barrett and post two groveling apologies masked as explanations.

I disagree with Mr. Dershowitz on one point. He may continue to enjoy the thin mints, but I will not. I realize, to some, it will sound petty to penalize the member girls. It does to me. That said, conservatives almost always take the decent route, and we get nailed for it. So no one in the GSA will likely give it a second thought down the road. If the sales of their cookies drop, maybe it will send a message to the "leadership."

May these misguided girls achieve only half what Coney Barrett has achieved without compromising her beliefs. They will be blessed indeed.

America should have recognised the PC movement for what it is and been screaming with rebellion at the subversion intended to destroy its society.

Well done, Mr. Dershowitz. Bill O'Reilly reported on this in his last podcast. I am soooo tired of all of the cowards in our society.

This is exactly how dictators, terrorists, and tyrants have always operated. They intimidate until the object of their ire eventually backs down. Our nation was founded because the colonists decided we would no longer back down to the tyranny of Great Britain. The USA will not survive another century as a nation until we decide, once again, we will not back down to the tyranny of the radical Left or to tyrants of any kind!

There are far too many low-information folks in this country, and for them, history is to be ignored. I fear the lessons too many haven't learned from their parents and teachers, and the lessons they have learned from their leftist professors.

After several decisions that I disliked but overlooked in favor of continuing support of the Girl Scouts, I have finally decided to discontinue supporting them. And the last GS cookies - thin mints - that I bought this year had no taste of either chocolate or mint. And now a bad taste in my mouth overall.

I finally have a reason to NOT BUY Girl Scout cookies which never were really that good.
Prof. Dershowitz continues to make intelligent comments on most of the current issues. He never disappoints and his additions to civilized discourse are always welcome.
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It is just another case of politically anti-Trumps leftists opening their useless mouth and the girl scouts taking the knee as it appears to show they are politically correct. Until this madness stops, the West is doomed.

"I don't know why I am so mad at the Girl Scouts for having withdrawn their Tweet"

I don't know why you don't know. It's because it teaches girls to abandon their convictions to palliate the mob.

This is not the way to rear strong, principled women, it's the way to rear peer-pressured sheep.

I am afraid most people have taken "freedom of speech" for granted in this country. So if an aggressive/well financed group like the Marxist/Leftists shouts, riots, threatens and take control of the the media, many individuals feel defenseless and resort to behaving like "sheep" out of fear for their lives and family. We need our leaders to push back this "darkness"/this evil. This is "Animal Farm", Orwell wrote about, in the flesh!

* the Senate should have waited until after the election and allowed the winner to make the nomination *
Yeah, right ! That would have really fixed the balance of the Supreme Court, in much the same way perhaps as has just occurred. However, some people, such as DJT, recognise the ongoing threat to the USA and act accordingly.
If you don't see the wisdom of this, take a look at the UK . . .

I am always at loss of understanding, when I hear expressions such as "the first....woman, black, Hispanic, gay, transgender, etc." to successfully attain a political office or position of significance. Which of these descriptors has anything to do with the qualifications and qualities that are required to successfully function in that position?

But it is very clear that many of the voters have no clue as to what they should consider, before casting their vote, hence the many problems of all societies throughout time. And so it goes with our current election.

Withdrawing the congratulatory tweet was small-minded and cowardly. Let's give honour where honour is due.

I am really afraid for the future of our country.

As a convinced paleoconservative I do not count myself among Alan Dershowitz's most enthusiastic admirers. But I'm certainly with him here. Even more so than their male counterparts the Girl Scouts of America have shamed themselves in recent years by evolving into a disgracefully political organization based on the perverse ideas of George Soros. 100% left-wing of course.

If we cave in to unrighteous intimidation, and refuse to fight for our freedom of speech and expression, we as a people are no longer free. Once we lose this right, believing that we are supporting a fair, honest, and concerned left wing movement, there will be no return and in a few years we will feel the heavy boot of the conquerors on our necks. The unwitting and ignorant masses, who support such activity, don't have a clue, that they are just the fodder for fueling such movements, and will feel the oppression the most, which is sure to follow. Just look at any country where the masses cheered on the demagogues and gave them totalitarian victory and judge how well they have fared.

The Tweet is a genuine congratulation to Amy Coney Barret.

So I say:
"Congratulations to Amy Coney Barrett on becoming the 5th woman appointed to the Supreme Court since its inception in 1789."