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Calling it now:
DeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination.
Trump goes independent and splinters the vote.
Biden wins.
Trump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them."
] |
>
Trump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.
Perot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing."
] |
>
If he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive."
] |
>
I remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...
Bet none of them ever changed their tune.
Sad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him."
] |
>
Otherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community."
] |
>
They wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews."
] |
>
Once they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation… | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people."
] |
>
Naw. They'll Keep hating them anyways.
Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…"
] |
>
They can only organize themselves around hate. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter"
] |
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Because hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate."
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Going after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love."
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George Santos entered The chat | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will."
] |
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god forbid people be happy in their bodies | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat"
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Bringing back the pink triangles, huh? | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies"
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I legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!! | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?"
] |
>
This attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity.
I am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].
-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016
^(emphasis mine) | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!"
] |
>
US politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)"
] |
>
As a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.
Please, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing."
] |
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My heart goes out to you. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried."
] |
>
There's the fascism. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you."
] |
>
The republican obsession over trans people is freaky. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism."
] |
>
It's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky."
] |
>
So he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes."
] |
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It’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet."
] |
>
"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary". | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags."
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He’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.
It’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\"."
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What an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives."
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Pretty much all Republicans | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low."
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Reporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is "infrastructure week"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base? | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans"
] |
>
Go after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?"
] |
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1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.
2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.
3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent."
] |
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Of course he fucking is.
The US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.
This is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.
The "drag bans", the "bathroom bills", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.
The laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/"adult"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on "performers" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.
After all, if someone they consider a "man in a dress" is legally classified as an "adult performer" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a "man in a dress" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?
They don't actually distinguish between "drag queen" and "trans woman", or between "performance" and "just going about our lives". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.
And they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle."
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Remember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist."
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They have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters"
] |
>
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄"
] |
>
There must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore"
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He's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution.
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison."
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Whomever keeps saying the phrase "The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful." really needs to stop. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right."
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Then he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄 | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power."
] |
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I’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.
I'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men."
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This is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure."
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Republicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group."
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The anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already."
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He’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide."
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Don’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad."
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Who is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?
Ditch healthcare
end social security
limit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)
ban green energy
snuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own
end drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)
no more bare shoulders and ankles
pregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies
30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy
double our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal
add the occupation of “serf” to the national census
i’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have."
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There's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?"
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When you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole."
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I wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.
Let me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.
And if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting."
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I really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media??? | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???"
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Out of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down? | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now"
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He knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news"
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Pick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before.. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen."
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He’s such an ass. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before.."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then..."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure..."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump."
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He really just wants to grab them by the.... | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?"
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Proof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the...."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit."
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Nothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS...
I am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up."
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Wow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣"
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What does that suppose to mean? lol | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it...."
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Richard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol"
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queer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..
Because if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller."
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Hopping on DeSantis’s bandwagon.
Sad. Low energy stuff right there ya orange fuck knuckle. | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.",
">\n\nLet’s not get him re-elected"
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Nothing would please these hateful intolerant right wingers more! | [
"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.",
">\n\nLet’s not get him re-elected",
">\n\nHopping on DeSantis’s bandwagon. \nSad. Low energy stuff right there ya orange fuck knuckle."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.",
">\n\nLet’s not get him re-elected",
">\n\nHopping on DeSantis’s bandwagon. \nSad. Low energy stuff right there ya orange fuck knuckle.",
">\n\nNothing would please these hateful intolerant right wingers more!"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.",
">\n\nLet’s not get him re-elected",
">\n\nHopping on DeSantis’s bandwagon. \nSad. Low energy stuff right there ya orange fuck knuckle.",
">\n\nNothing would please these hateful intolerant right wingers more!",
">\n\nIf only we could prove that Trump and DeSantis are trans."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.",
">\n\nLet’s not get him re-elected",
">\n\nHopping on DeSantis’s bandwagon. \nSad. Low energy stuff right there ya orange fuck knuckle.",
">\n\nNothing would please these hateful intolerant right wingers more!",
">\n\nIf only we could prove that Trump and DeSantis are trans.",
">\n\nHe is full of hate and gets evangelical money"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.",
">\n\nLet’s not get him re-elected",
">\n\nHopping on DeSantis’s bandwagon. \nSad. Low energy stuff right there ya orange fuck knuckle.",
">\n\nNothing would please these hateful intolerant right wingers more!",
">\n\nIf only we could prove that Trump and DeSantis are trans.",
">\n\nHe is full of hate and gets evangelical money",
">\n\nThis is the most important thing going on inside this dumbass’s head?\nOr is he just trying to out stupid de Santis, Abbott and Lake?"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.",
">\n\nLet’s not get him re-elected",
">\n\nHopping on DeSantis’s bandwagon. \nSad. Low energy stuff right there ya orange fuck knuckle.",
">\n\nNothing would please these hateful intolerant right wingers more!",
">\n\nIf only we could prove that Trump and DeSantis are trans.",
">\n\nHe is full of hate and gets evangelical money",
">\n\nThis is the most important thing going on inside this dumbass’s head?\nOr is he just trying to out stupid de Santis, Abbott and Lake?",
">\n\nHe’d promise to kill his son if he thought that would get him elected."
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.",
">\n\nLet’s not get him re-elected",
">\n\nHopping on DeSantis’s bandwagon. \nSad. Low energy stuff right there ya orange fuck knuckle.",
">\n\nNothing would please these hateful intolerant right wingers more!",
">\n\nIf only we could prove that Trump and DeSantis are trans.",
">\n\nHe is full of hate and gets evangelical money",
">\n\nThis is the most important thing going on inside this dumbass’s head?\nOr is he just trying to out stupid de Santis, Abbott and Lake?",
">\n\nHe’d promise to kill his son if he thought that would get him elected.",
">\n\ntbf some of us have horrible children"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.",
">\n\nLet’s not get him re-elected",
">\n\nHopping on DeSantis’s bandwagon. \nSad. Low energy stuff right there ya orange fuck knuckle.",
">\n\nNothing would please these hateful intolerant right wingers more!",
">\n\nIf only we could prove that Trump and DeSantis are trans.",
">\n\nHe is full of hate and gets evangelical money",
">\n\nThis is the most important thing going on inside this dumbass’s head?\nOr is he just trying to out stupid de Santis, Abbott and Lake?",
">\n\nHe’d promise to kill his son if he thought that would get him elected.",
">\n\ntbf some of us have horrible children",
">\n\nOk yup. Checks out"
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"Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights.",
">\n\nHonest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury? Why can’t people just mind their own damn business? The world would be a much better place.",
">\n\nApparently about two thousand years ago, a Jewish guy got nailed to a piece of wood and he was very angry about this type of stuff, his followers wrote a whole fan fiction about him when he died. Apparently he did pretty well commercially.",
">\n\nThat Jewish guy didn't say anything about gay people, or trans people. He did say a lot about people using religion to abuse others.",
">\n\nIf you want to get technicalities, the guys who wrote against being gay were being guided by god which is the Jewish guys father but also him in some weird way… so maybe in the years between being his own dad and being born to a virgin he had a change of heart but seeing as he hasn’t said anything to the pastors down here on earth I doubt it.",
">\n\nI would argue that none of that book was written by any god. It was all written by proto-jewish people, jewish people, and the last bit was written by christians. \nI say proto-jewish people because the early parts of the bible clearly depict god as one of many gods. It is only later on that there is a singular god.",
">\n\nI like to point out the story of Moses throwing his staff down and turning it to a snake is supposed to read as a \"our god is better than their god\" because apparently the Pharos magician can also wield supernatural power, just not as good.",
">\n\nThe conservative political project is truly deranged.",
">\n\nThey're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.\nTruly disgusting stuff...",
">\n\n\nTruly disgusting stuff...\n\nit is....but oh boy is this the best hill to die on. Keep taking the hard line and they'll find out just how many people don't want to live in an authoritarian shit hole. Every day another voter turns 18....",
">\n\nWhich is why they've been aggressively going after schools and education, to ensure that as many of those new 18 year old voters as possible don't have the ability to think critically when they vote.",
">\n\nThis will backfire, at least in the short term.\nTotal Streisand effect with banning books.\nThe kids are fine, and are learning at a young age their parents are not.",
">\n\nRemember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. \nHe is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho.",
">\n\nIt's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population?",
">\n\nIn the US it's 1.6%. That number is 5% among younger people. \nJust as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing. Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing.",
">\n\nCulture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule, not govern.",
">\n\nThey want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns.",
">\n\nThese motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them.",
">\n\nThey peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic.",
">\n\nWell they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back.",
">\n\nI'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function.",
">\n\nHis powerful function is wrecking people's rights and distracting people from real problems",
">\n\nDid I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls.",
">\n\nsadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade. \noh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it. \nthey don't have to win big, they just have to win enough.",
">\n\nThey’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans.",
">\n\nyes, but my point is they are winning \"just enough.\" \ni mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now. \nThat's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere.",
">\n\nAnyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him.",
">\n\nThis dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again.",
">\n\nThe party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says.",
">\n\nfreedom!",
">\n\ntrump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. \nI don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. \nHe’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket.",
">\n\nGod I hope so",
">\n\nBecause the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait.",
">\n\nCan’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative",
">\n\nIt’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.\nIf I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. \nThe fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of.",
">\n\nYou understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.\nSimultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best.",
">\n\n“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Communist \nThen they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Socialist \nThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews\nAnd I did not speak out\nBecause I was not a Jew \nThen they came for me\nAnd there was no one left\nTo speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller",
">\n\nI guess he's not selling these anymore...",
">\n\nTwinks for trump!",
">\n\nWhat kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this? Just what does \"go after\" mean here?",
">\n\nIt’s not allowed.",
">\n\nWell he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again. So yes, it is allowed.",
">\n\nThe pre-felon has said it, hasn’t “done it”",
">\n\nSo when you said \"not allowed\".....you were agreeing with me.....",
">\n\nI was disagreeing with your assertion that he ‘did’ something since he has no power to enact any of his crap. I agree that doing such would be illegal and unconstitutional and that even the rhetoric puts lives as risk. \nHave I explained myself well enough to satisfy you?",
">\n\nGotta keep up with DeSantis.",
">\n\nKeep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!!",
">\n\nI am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers.",
">\n\nThis extended election cycle is going to have a body count.\nThe people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.\nThe candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns. They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour. It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse.",
">\n\nThis is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.\nI mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.\nIt seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.\nThat's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.\nThe problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.\nNo matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.\nSo why do they keep getting elected?\nThe other raging assholes are voting for them.",
">\n\nCalling it now: \nDeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. \nTrump goes independent and splinters the vote. \nBiden wins. \nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.",
">\n\n\nTrump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.\n\nPerot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive.",
">\n\nIf he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him.",
">\n\nI remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...\nBet none of them ever changed their tune.\nSad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community.",
">\n\nOtherwise, they have to deal with fornication among the straights. But sex sells in advertising, and a fire & brimstone sermon about premarital sex is a way to empty the pews.",
">\n\nThey wouldn't care about straight sex. It's about hating other people.",
">\n\nOnce they eliminate/outlaw the undesirables, they would need a new demon….eventually they WOULD go after sex for pleasure and not procreation…",
">\n\nNaw. They'll Keep hating them anyways. \n Is like antifa. They never existed except on fox news. Truth and logic don't matter",
">\n\nThey can only organize themselves around hate.",
">\n\nBecause hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love.",
">\n\nGoing after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will.",
">\n\nGeorge Santos entered The chat",
">\n\ngod forbid people be happy in their bodies",
">\n\nBringing back the pink triangles, huh?",
">\n\nI legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!!",
">\n\n\nThis attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity. \nI am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].\n\n-- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016\n^(emphasis mine)",
">\n\nUS politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing.",
">\n\nAs a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.\nPlease, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried.",
">\n\nMy heart goes out to you.",
">\n\nThere's the fascism.",
">\n\nThe republican obsession over trans people is freaky.",
">\n\nIt's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes.",
">\n\nSo he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet.",
">\n\nIt’s a target that is small. Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend. BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute. Perfect choice for those scumbags.",
">\n\n\"Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary\".",
">\n\nHe’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.\nIt’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives.",
">\n\nWhat an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low.",
">\n\nPretty much all Republicans",
">\n\nReporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is \"infrastructure week\"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base?",
">\n\nGo after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent.",
">\n\n1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.\n2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.\n3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle.",
">\n\nOf course he fucking is.\nThe US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.\nThis is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.\nThe \"drag bans\", the \"bathroom bills\", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.\nThe laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/\"adult\"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on \"performers\" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.\nAfter all, if someone they consider a \"man in a dress\" is legally classified as an \"adult performer\" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a \"man in a dress\" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?\nThey don't actually distinguish between \"drag queen\" and \"trans woman\", or between \"performance\" and \"just going about our lives\". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.\nAnd they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist.",
">\n\nRemember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.",
">\n\nThey have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters",
">\n\nAhhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄",
">\n\nFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a socialist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n Because I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.",
">\n\nThere must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore",
">\n\nAvoiding prison.",
">\n\nHe's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. \nAnd I'm terrified that he might be right.",
">\n\nWhomever keeps saying the phrase \"The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful.\" really needs to stop.",
">\n\nThen he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄",
">\n\nShoe lifts too",
">\n\nTerrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power.",
">\n\nElect me. I will go after orange men.",
">\n\n\nI’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.\n\nI'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024. America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure.",
">\n\nThis is some really dangerous shit. Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them.",
">\n\nRepublicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group.",
">\n\nSomeone needs to snipe this asshole already.",
">\n\nThe anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too.",
">\n\nHe’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide.",
">\n\ngross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad.",
">\n\nDon’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda.",
">\n\nWho is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?\nDitch healthcare \nend social security \nlimit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)\nban green energy \nsnuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own\nend drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)\nno more bare shoulders and ankles \npregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies \n30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy \ndouble our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal \nadd the occupation of “serf” to the national census \ni’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have",
">\n\nOh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy.",
">\n\nHate is really all they have.",
">\n\nHe really does seem to be transfixed on this issue.",
">\n\nThere's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all.",
">\n\nShould this be considered a hate crime now?",
">\n\nHave to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole.",
">\n\nWhen you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting.",
">\n\nI wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.\nLet me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.\nAnd if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender.",
">\n\nI really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people?? Is this something coming from right wing media???",
">\n\nAny and every Republican politician that wants the bigot vote.",
">\n\nOut of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down?",
">\n\nHow’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates?",
">\n\nLuckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again.",
">\n\nthat doesn't matter. this is republican policy now",
">\n\nA republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?!",
">\n\nHe knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do.",
">\n\nhe already did while president. this isnt news",
">\n\nPathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis. Not gonna happen.",
">\n\nPick a minority and treat them as other than human. Seems that happened before..",
">\n\nHe’s such an ass.",
">\n\nGood thing he won't be elected, then...",
">\n\nSomeone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself?",
">\n\nThat'll bring down inflation for sure...",
">\n\nThe morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump.",
">\n\nWhat is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal?",
">\n\nHe really just wants to grab them by the....",
">\n\nProof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell.",
">\n\njust when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit.",
">\n\nWho cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up.",
">\n\nNothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... \nI am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s",
">\n\nWow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights.",
">\n\nTrans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣",
">\n\nwhat a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it....",
">\n\nWhat does that suppose to mean? lol",
">\n\nRichard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!\n[laughs]",
">\n\nqueer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit. And Jesus..\nBecause if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.",
">\n\nLet’s not get him re-elected",
">\n\nHopping on DeSantis’s bandwagon. \nSad. Low energy stuff right there ya orange fuck knuckle.",
">\n\nNothing would please these hateful intolerant right wingers more!",
">\n\nIf only we could prove that Trump and DeSantis are trans.",
">\n\nHe is full of hate and gets evangelical money",
">\n\nThis is the most important thing going on inside this dumbass’s head?\nOr is he just trying to out stupid de Santis, Abbott and Lake?",
">\n\nHe’d promise to kill his son if he thought that would get him elected.",
">\n\ntbf some of us have horrible children",
">\n\nOk yup. Checks out",
">\n\nWhat do you have to say now Caitlyn Jenner? 🤔"
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