Nobody can wipe out 2 of my grandchildren, the kindest, most honest, peace loving, generous people. They are examples of what is good. They have a right to live happily and not be judged and excluded from society. And they have a right to be loved and adored not just by me.
I think it's worth noting that this is driven by both simple cruelty and by Trump's embrace of White Christian Nationalism and American evangelical fundamentalism as a political strategy and to build the MAGA coalition. Trump has no religious convictions whatsoever. Indeed, he considers his religious supporters "dupes" and "weak-minded" people. But he is willing to cater to them in social policy because it builds and secures his political power.
To recap this evil: certain Christian fundamentalists read The Bible in a selectively literal way to assert that God (please substitute the word or phrase for God that is right for you) created only strictly binary, heterosexual men and women. Because God only created straight, strictly binary men and women, these fundamentalists believe (reality is not in play) that any other sexual orientation or gender identity is chosen or a sickness. Either way, it's an affront to God and God's Created Order. Since anyone other than a strictly binary heterosexual person is actively opposing God by choice or is sick, that person should be corrected or cured, shamed, shunned, driven out, and even eradicated if the person cannot conform as a strictly binary straight person.
The violence inherent in these beliefs is real. "Pray away the gay" involves not just the infliction of psychological trauma and violence, it can and has involved physical violence, as well. Moreover, the deployment of state and non-state violence to enforce this very narrow White Christian Nationalist and Christian fundamentalist social order and worldview is very much in play now.
If you voted for Trump because you wanted lower grocery prices, you're not going to get that. Instead, you're going to get an authoritarian theocracy, with social policy reflecting the beliefs of a small minority of mostly White, mostly evangelical, and very fundamentalist Christians.
What Trump gets out of this is an opportunity to hurt people, right here, right now, through executive order. Makes him feel powerful, all those victims.
Like with RFK jr. and his efforts to destroy our public-health agencies. At first, I was puzzled because the thing with RFJ jr. seemed purely transactional, pretend to care about vaccines, get a few more votes out of it, throw the guy to the side after the election. But then I realized, what RFK jr. offers to Trump is a whole new arena of hurting people through executive action. And for Trump, that's irresistible.
This is "alternative facts" all over again. In this instance, however, the Trump administration is trying to negate an entire marginalized group of people rather than simply boost the president's ego and profile. It's revolting stuff, and I'm sorry you have to be a party to it.
This is driven by cowardice and malice! Terrified of the truth. Unable to live in reality. Targeting a small number of people with little political power until the left decides that they want to defend ALL human rights, and that they are done wasting their time fighting over which human rights are worthy of defense.
The 2024 documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story is about the life of transgender R&B singer Jackie Shane. The film was directed by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee. The film explores Shane's life, including her time in the Toronto music scene in the 1960s and her disappearance from the public eye in the 1970s. This film is rate 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and is available on Crave and Amazon Prime (but who knows for how long given it's owned by one of Trump's billionaires).
Where the trans and gender ideology has made a mess of things... ya'll went from feeling oppressed from societal norms to demanding to be made to feel special by forced changes to societal norms.
The people have rightly rejected both.
From the normie perspective trans will always be different than the norm, but today there is no material number of people that accept bias, hate, oppression... what ever the real victim labels are we can think of. The truth of the matter is that you overshot the hope that you could be treated normal to this anger-fueled radicalism to somehow alter society so some trans people and their feminist advocates can wear a crown and sit on a throne.
The pursuit of a crown and throne has been stopped and that is why you are still upset. Just sit back with satisfaction that real civil rights progress has been made and trans people, while always considered individually different, are accepted in society as being part of normal society.
You don't even see it, but Trump is doing a favor to the entire trans population... if not the malcontent 3rd wave gender ideology feminist radicals exploiting trans people for their radical pursuit of power.
Your comment is a mess of contradictions and bad-faith assumptions. Trans people aren’t asking to be "made to feel special" or to "wear a crown" — they’re asking for the same rights, respect and dignity as anyone else. The fact that you frame basic recognition and equality as some radical power grab says more about your worldview than it does about reality.
If society had truly "accepted" trans people, as you claim, we wouldn’t see efforts to ban their healthcare, restrict their legal recognition, or exclude them from public life. The push for equality isn’t about forcing society to change on a whim — it’s about removing barriers to living safely and authentically.
And invoking Trump as some savior for trans people? That’s just willful ignorance. His policies and rhetoric have actively harmed trans communities. If you cared about fairness and civil rights, you wouldn’t be celebrating attempts to roll back their progress.
Respectfully, if you want to have a "perspective," start with facts instead of this mix of projection, bad faith and misplaced self-righteousness.
"Stay in your place and you won't get hurt." I don't know why he uses so many extra words, I guess he just really likes the sounds the keys on his keyboard make.
What I keep saying is: Look for the words President or Executive Branch in the First or 14th Amendment. Then pray that the Extremes don't, under "literal reading" or "unitary executive" theories, decide these amendments don't apply to trump or his hellions.
Good point, "Congress shall make no law" comes from a time when it was clearly understood that Congress was the only one with the power to make laws, and that the job of the Executive was to faithfully carry out the laws Congress enacts. If you're prohibiting Congress, you've covered all the bases, right?
Nobody can wipe out 2 of my grandchildren, the kindest, most honest, peace loving, generous people. They are examples of what is good. They have a right to live happily and not be judged and excluded from society. And they have a right to be loved and adored not just by me.
I think it's worth noting that this is driven by both simple cruelty and by Trump's embrace of White Christian Nationalism and American evangelical fundamentalism as a political strategy and to build the MAGA coalition. Trump has no religious convictions whatsoever. Indeed, he considers his religious supporters "dupes" and "weak-minded" people. But he is willing to cater to them in social policy because it builds and secures his political power.
To recap this evil: certain Christian fundamentalists read The Bible in a selectively literal way to assert that God (please substitute the word or phrase for God that is right for you) created only strictly binary, heterosexual men and women. Because God only created straight, strictly binary men and women, these fundamentalists believe (reality is not in play) that any other sexual orientation or gender identity is chosen or a sickness. Either way, it's an affront to God and God's Created Order. Since anyone other than a strictly binary heterosexual person is actively opposing God by choice or is sick, that person should be corrected or cured, shamed, shunned, driven out, and even eradicated if the person cannot conform as a strictly binary straight person.
The violence inherent in these beliefs is real. "Pray away the gay" involves not just the infliction of psychological trauma and violence, it can and has involved physical violence, as well. Moreover, the deployment of state and non-state violence to enforce this very narrow White Christian Nationalist and Christian fundamentalist social order and worldview is very much in play now.
If you voted for Trump because you wanted lower grocery prices, you're not going to get that. Instead, you're going to get an authoritarian theocracy, with social policy reflecting the beliefs of a small minority of mostly White, mostly evangelical, and very fundamentalist Christians.
What Trump gets out of this is an opportunity to hurt people, right here, right now, through executive order. Makes him feel powerful, all those victims.
Like with RFK jr. and his efforts to destroy our public-health agencies. At first, I was puzzled because the thing with RFJ jr. seemed purely transactional, pretend to care about vaccines, get a few more votes out of it, throw the guy to the side after the election. But then I realized, what RFK jr. offers to Trump is a whole new arena of hurting people through executive action. And for Trump, that's irresistible.
I have no evidence for this, but I'll bet he also just loves the idea of having one of *the* Kennedy clan in his cabinet.
This is "alternative facts" all over again. In this instance, however, the Trump administration is trying to negate an entire marginalized group of people rather than simply boost the president's ego and profile. It's revolting stuff, and I'm sorry you have to be a party to it.
This is driven by cowardice and malice! Terrified of the truth. Unable to live in reality. Targeting a small number of people with little political power until the left decides that they want to defend ALL human rights, and that they are done wasting their time fighting over which human rights are worthy of defense.
The 2024 documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story is about the life of transgender R&B singer Jackie Shane. The film was directed by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee. The film explores Shane's life, including her time in the Toronto music scene in the 1960s and her disappearance from the public eye in the 1970s. This film is rate 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and is available on Crave and Amazon Prime (but who knows for how long given it's owned by one of Trump's billionaires).
Well gosh. I have a perspective.
Where the trans and gender ideology has made a mess of things... ya'll went from feeling oppressed from societal norms to demanding to be made to feel special by forced changes to societal norms.
The people have rightly rejected both.
From the normie perspective trans will always be different than the norm, but today there is no material number of people that accept bias, hate, oppression... what ever the real victim labels are we can think of. The truth of the matter is that you overshot the hope that you could be treated normal to this anger-fueled radicalism to somehow alter society so some trans people and their feminist advocates can wear a crown and sit on a throne.
The pursuit of a crown and throne has been stopped and that is why you are still upset. Just sit back with satisfaction that real civil rights progress has been made and trans people, while always considered individually different, are accepted in society as being part of normal society.
You don't even see it, but Trump is doing a favor to the entire trans population... if not the malcontent 3rd wave gender ideology feminist radicals exploiting trans people for their radical pursuit of power.
Your comment is a mess of contradictions and bad-faith assumptions. Trans people aren’t asking to be "made to feel special" or to "wear a crown" — they’re asking for the same rights, respect and dignity as anyone else. The fact that you frame basic recognition and equality as some radical power grab says more about your worldview than it does about reality.
If society had truly "accepted" trans people, as you claim, we wouldn’t see efforts to ban their healthcare, restrict their legal recognition, or exclude them from public life. The push for equality isn’t about forcing society to change on a whim — it’s about removing barriers to living safely and authentically.
And invoking Trump as some savior for trans people? That’s just willful ignorance. His policies and rhetoric have actively harmed trans communities. If you cared about fairness and civil rights, you wouldn’t be celebrating attempts to roll back their progress.
Respectfully, if you want to have a "perspective," start with facts instead of this mix of projection, bad faith and misplaced self-righteousness.
You are wasting your time, the bait is all he has.
I do appreciate it when someone else takes the time, although I won't myself.
The word Frank is struggling to find is "uppity."
"Stay in your place and you won't get hurt." I don't know why he uses so many extra words, I guess he just really likes the sounds the keys on his keyboard make.
Get fucked you worthless old cocksucker.
Well gosh, frank, your perspective is wrong and bad and ahistorical to boot.
Thanks for speaking out.
What I keep saying is: Look for the words President or Executive Branch in the First or 14th Amendment. Then pray that the Extremes don't, under "literal reading" or "unitary executive" theories, decide these amendments don't apply to trump or his hellions.
Good point, "Congress shall make no law" comes from a time when it was clearly understood that Congress was the only one with the power to make laws, and that the job of the Executive was to faithfully carry out the laws Congress enacts. If you're prohibiting Congress, you've covered all the bases, right?
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This is infuriating!
This is clearly what trump is being ordered to do by his bosses, putin & musk, who are clearly destroying our country.