I’m a child of 1960’s Detroit.
I will never forget “I don’t even know what those people want me to call them anymore – is it Negro? Colored? Afro-American? African-American??”
As a general rule, I try to call people what they’d like to be called. Sometimes, I mess up. I’m human.
But the people we’re talking about will extend profound grace … provided your intentions are good.
Where are they gonna find 60 Senate votes for that?
I’d say “malice”, rather than “selfishness”. Outside of the demagogues themselves nobody is profiting from persecuting LGBTQ people, and may well suffer a loss for doing so - they just care more about hurting people than their own self interest. That’s why there’s so much hostility for “woke capitalism” from the Right; because it’s good business to attract the business of the people the Right hates, and a good businessperson puts the profit motive above hate.
Assuming that their motive is just selfishness leads to getting blindsided when they hurt themselves in their quest to harm others.
Is that the approach Republicans have used to make all their gains?
Yeah, that does sound like another example of people letting the Right stampede them into doing the opposite of what the Right is using to succeed.
On day one he promised to purge all transgender soldiers from the military via executive order. This will happen.
Link, please? I don’t know what you mean by “day one”.
But it looks like they might be walking that back.
On balance here, you’re annoyed that some people want to be treated a certain way, and I might have to leave my state and/or my country to avoid my rights being taken away.
So yeah, congrats, “What if the majority decides to use the jackboot of fascism to tell you to pound sand?” You got me. In that case, I guess I lose.
Trumpworld is full of leaks to American media. So it’s strange that the immediate discharge plan was only leaked to The Times (London).
Lots of plausible guesses are possible. Here’s one: Trump told one of his acolytes to throw out a trial balloon leak on this, Said leaker did not want to ruin their credibility with the NY Times or WaPo, so they picked a newspaper and reporter relationship they did not care about burning.
Now, just because it was a trial balloon doesn’t mean they won’t do it.
You mean the way it’s been forever since not all women meet a contrived definition of female appearance and sound?
And maybe if the general public doesn’t want to be forced to say “ma’am” they should just stop addressing people with an assumption of their gender?
Really, it reminds me of how when I was a kid the whole ranting-and-raving over “Ms” was still going on, like it was some huge imposition to have a term that didn’t specify if a woman was married. Even as a kid the whole uproar from the Right seemed stupid; after all it was me, as a guy who would benefit from not having to guess.
It’s just curious to me that folks don’t seem to be able to go through their day without identifying other people by their gender . . . but no one seems to have any problem not identifying other people by their race.
Trump may not care about gay. But his base is very worked up over transpeople. And the Republican Party has been feeding a fire of disinformation and malicious lies. Trump doesn’t have to be anti-gay for Congress under his admin to go hard on rolling back rights. He would have to veto to stop them, and what motive would be have for that?
What motive would they have to go so danged far anti-gay? Seems to me that, in such a scenario, remarkably few GOPers in Congress would need to side with the Dems against some hypothetical anti-gay to pre-Stonewall rollback that, again, AFAICT, Trump isn’t actually pushing for. Where’s the upside?
Also, he’s a bully. Even if he really has nothing in particular against gays (or transgenders or whatever), that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t enjoy making them miserable just to get a charge out of it.
I missed this earlier.
The first time, Trump lost the popular vote. The people had spoken, and they wanted Hillary Clinton. Trump became President only due to the electoral college. This time, it really was the will of the American people (or at least a solid majority of them) that Trump and others like him be elected. I could go on and on about the reasons people voted Trump. But it really comes down to two things-
Inflation is bad. The economy is bad. I am personally hurting financially. I do not care about whatever else Trump does or what other people he hurts, so long as he magically fixes my economic problems.
And
Trump has made it okay to say what I am really feeling. Puerto Rico is a floating island of garbage. Illegal immigrants are criminals here to sell drugs, rob and assault us, rape our women and eat our pets. Fggts and Tr*nn**s are sick weirdos who should not be respected, but (at best) subjected to conversion therapy and fixed.
Trump and others like him (in my home state of Pennsylvania it was McCormick) ran on a platform of bigotry and hatred. The voters embraced them. Certainly, some elected officials will try to resist. I doubt very much they will be successful.
To appease the Christian Nationalists, that they adore kowtowing to, in their belief that homosexuals are an abomination unto God.
How hard is it to “resist” voting yes on legislation that cannot pass unless at least seven Senate Democrats flip?