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  1. And then some
  2. i hope they do. the thing we have to hope for - if he's really a clown car - is that he oversteps and makes a mistake. He's being so aggressive I think the chances are high. will Republicans and the populace react soon enough, to be determined but he's fucking up the Ukraine thing royally and plenty are calling him on it - will it continue to snowball? let's hope so. Europe absolutely needs to call him on it.
  3. trump threatened Europe with troop withdrawals if they didn't acquiesce to a US led proposal for Ukraine to surrender. story just now coming out from Europe.
  4. troph

    LBGTQ

    that 10% number is old news. It's been 7-10% for a long time now depending on who does the polling. remember, LGBTQ includes your garden variety homos.
  5. his red state hurricane zones are gonna LOVE him now. more leopards eating faces!!
  6. unbelievable we've come to this. with Elon's threat to spend $100M to primary anyone who stands in their way and the threat of physical violence, there's nothing left to do but roll the credits.
  7. .001806% of the under 18 population. definitely should be the lead issue for EVERY politician...
  8. so infuriating. billionares don't need public health services, they just isolate on private jets and in massive compounds or on 300 foot yachts. grift folks this is about the grift. avoid a wealth tax by gutting the government. take more with no oversight.
  9. this needs to be pinned to the top of the board and updated with no responses allowed. then create a thread for discussion where the bullshit can insue but to have this list ongoing and comprehensive is amazing. @immamac we should have done it for biden. we need to track these fools - the old ones and the authoritarian ones.
  10. " “What we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change,” he added, while acknowledging that different people have other visions for change. " so acknowledging that misinformation is a problem and that the solution is to win elections is taking your personal right away how?
  11. Remind me what fundamental rights democrats are trying to take away from you? I mean other than your right to take fundamental rights away from others.
  12. with all due respect, I see all of it, but this impacts me directly and there are a LOT of guys on this board that have taken up the cause because they know me in real life, know me here, or they think i'm a bombshell and they want to fuck me. it is a real issue, but it's not what Trump is after, and I've said it repeatedly it's a grift and power grab. this trans issue is about retaining power by controlling the voting electorate. it's the proverbial red meat. the dog whistle. but that does not mean it doesn't matter, it does. and I'll add, if people really believe this is an authoritarian nazi or nazi-like regime then understand segregating, attacking, demonizing, discriminating against, and harming select groups of people who are "other" is not only the tip of the spear, it is one half of what makes them wickedly evil. so standing up on immigration and LGBTQ+ rights is paramount for the resistance. just ask the Jews in Nazi Germany.
  13. I'm out, I've given detailed accounts of how Trump and Abbott policies - every one of them have more unintended consequences that are drastic, dire, and destructive than his theoretical views. The laws of unintended consequences heap terrible outcomes on trans people with these policies. I just hope there's a crack in his views because of this conversation.
  14. one more post. 3 months ago I wasn't worried about this issue, at all. but even with surgery trans folk are now going to prison in the cell blocks of their birth sex. So, thankfully I make really good money. guess what is actually under consideration in my household...? hiring a permanent driver so that I can reduce my risk of law enforcement interaction to near zero. I'm almost 50 years old. I don't violate the law, so before you say - don't break the law and you'll have nothing to worry about - that's not the risk. The risk is personal animus against me, espeically if my license is now M that one thing leads to another and I'm in jail for personal animus and pretext reasons.... much like African American men. I'm literally talking to my wife about moving through society with the same strategies as illegal immigrants because of these policies.
  15. this is likely the last I will add, again it's incongruent with your core belief that government shouldn't be trusted. just like you say (and I think you believe you have no ill will for me as a human) your choices for who you vote for - I am telling you as someone directly impacted by those choices - are not consistent with what you say matters to you.
  16. it's not really the government's place if you mistrust government. and I'm not ignoring the severity of these decisions. It's just not the place for the government by fiat to ban it out right when doctors, mental health professionals, patient and parent are ground zero on the issue for years before any such decision is made. IF? Men hit on me all the time. I am attractive.
  17. it's why we are so adamant. my identity - my true identity - doesn't have one fucking thing to do with my government issued identification. my government issued identification is about making sure the world leaves me alone to live in peace. it's as simple as that. If my driver's license says M, I can't get F healthcare - example - my insurance company would deny a mammogram. I'm not kidding you. there's another one. the list goes on and on.
  18. the right decision is to wait. essentially a biological expression of non-binary and wait for the brain to develop enough for the child to signal their gender. I have no ill will toward the medical establishment on this issue but I do know people devastated by these early decisions.
  19. I think there is hope for him actually. I'm trying to share my personal lived experience hoping he is listening. I think he sort of is. I'd post a picture of me and my family so he could see the humanity but that would be a mistake. suffice it to say, I'm no different than anyone here, just trying to live in peace, unfortunately the politicians he supports have declared an out right war for my existence. I hope he sees that.
  20. by the way, if you think my driver's license should say M on it - why? give me the justification. The reality is when my passport is changed to M, I'm immediately outed. That can put me in extreme danger in many places where I would otherwise be fine. I could be detained at an airport or customs station simply out of morbid curiosity, subject to searches, harassment, etc. Same for my driver's license. That's just the tip of the iceberg. discrimination in lending, housing, job searches, etc. all open wide up when I'm outed. Fact is there is not one compelling reason to prohibit my gender marker being left as F in this world that overrides the risk I face if my gender marker is M, none.
  21. I'm not grouping you with anyone. I'm explaining to you that your actions have consequences. You do not get to vote for those that want to DESTROY my life and then say I should be respected first and foremost. Those are incompatible. and the mere fact that I'm disagreeing with you does not mean we aren't having a conversation. you are correct, you are not well versed in the opposition I face, I'm trying to tell you. Please listen, your vote matters and it is destroying people's lives. not about sports, about families, healthcare, mental health, suicide, violence, access to housing, insurance, jobs, and the right to have access to the very promise of America - the pursuit of happiness. There is zero reason for the government to target me and my people to the extreme degree they are. It's HORRIBLE. It's wrong and it has fundamental consequences I hope you never have to face.
  22. the definition of a nazi is someone who is or supports authoritarian leadership coupled with a belief that some groups of people are less than them simply because of who they are. actual genocide is not required, supporting and enacting legislation that segregates, harms and discriminates against those people is sufficient.
  23. I was preparing a post to give him credit. but then he would think he's absolved of the more important aspects here. there is unequivocally an existential threat on my right to (1) live, and (2) do so in peace, in the United States of America. That is actually not even in question anymore. so while I appreciate him saying she in other posts, he continues to have extreme animus toward me given his vote and his positions, despite him claiming otherwise.
  24. different? what the fuck does that mean. I just want to have healthcare that addresses my issues. what the fuck entitles you to health care different than mine? that's nonsensical. healthcare is healthcare. and it just so happens you can't treat trans people without health care. by the way, all the boogeyman bullshit about trans health care. my monthly cost for meds is like $100 or so, I don't mind paying, I don't mind paying insurance premiums, deductibles, etc. but for the LOVE OF CHRIST, Republicans want to take it away period, not make me pay, not take away insurance, they want to BAN ACCESS ALL TOGETHER. no ill will....
  25. you DO realize taking away my healthcare is on the Republican's list of things to accomplish, right? In fact, Trump threatened to pull funding for non-trans related care - Medicare and Medicaid - for hospital systems that perform gender affirming care? you realize there are laws proposed to outright ban my healthcare, as an adult, right? but no ill will....
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