Proposed legislation behind the impending US government shutdown contains provisions that would ban federal funding for transgender adults, as well as youngsters.

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    11 days ago

    How many kids did this fucker rape??? Every day it’s a new horrid thing to try and distract us from the fact He Raped Children!

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      10 days ago

      Yeah I’m pretty positive that he himself was a trafficker. Not just a client. Also a lot of the girls are likely dead.

      I bet that is what is being hidden. Because it’s worse than what people think it is.

      Maga is already ok with him being a pedo as long as it was girls.

      So it has to be much worse than that.

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    12 days ago

    Or the truth, Democrats are shutting down the government because Trump and his regime are developing into a fascist autocracy.

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    I feel like it’s a misdirection. Like, this isn’t what he really wants. This is a ploy to get/do something way, way worse. Or use this to cover up the Epstein files or something. He’ll use the shutdown and a hot button topic to get what he sees as a big fish…

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      12 days ago

      Why couldn’t it also be what he really wants? What part of anything happening in the US and anything coming from the right could possibly signal that they don’t want this?

      Conservatism is a cancer and fascism is perfectly happy to turn that knob up to 11.

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        Because if he plays that card now, he doesn’t get to use it again. If he keeps it in his back pocket, he gets to manipulate more people for longer. And it’s a win/win for him regardless.

        What ground would the democratic party be willing to give up to ensure it doesn’t happen now… what about in 6 months, next year, etc. One thing I’m pretty sure he wants more than anything is a 3rd term. So, unless they have a bulletproof way to stop him from taking health care away, it’s something he can keep weaponizing.

        I’d love to be wrong, but he seems to like to kick up a lot of noise before his real plan is shown.

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          Well, the US is pretty useless, at least institutionally, when it comes to resisting right-wing demands. The Democrats(the party) will give up pretty much whatever and then cry about it while doing nothing. “Someone must stop him!” just doesn’t have the same ring when coming out of the people who have the most power to do something about it.

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      Eliminating all trans people is what he really wants. The genocide of trans people is already happening in the US. When trans people don’t have access to trans-related medical care, they die at very high rates. When trans people are terrorized by their government and their neighbors, they lash out. When trans people are labeled as terrorists, there can be no peace.

      The Mormons, Southern Baptists, and some Jewish groups just asked the Supreme Court to consider trans people exempt from equal protections clause of the 14th amendment.

      The genocide of trans people and immigrants is happening. Now. Today.

      Government shutdown is also what he really wants, because he wants unrest and violence to justify sending the military to cities to carry out his nazi terrorism, declare a national emergency, and hold a third term in office.

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        Tbf, the US government has a long history of accusing peaceful citizens of being terrorists. Both parties love to do that.

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    12 days ago

    I have to fly back into the states soon, I would appreciate it if air traffic controllers would first off, get proper time off, pay, and benefits, but also that they are paid

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    Believe it or not, just a tactic. The “art of the deal” is only bullying or doubling down. Find something more horrible for your opponents to fight, to distract from the real battles. We need to stand firm on healthcare for millions and the rule of law, regardless whether they threaten permanent firings, regardless whether they threaten worse to marginalized people arts of our population.

    I’m not saying this behavior is in any way acceptable, just that it’s trying to move the battle lines.

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    The Democrats should threaten shut the government down unless they release the Epstein files. Fuck it all, make the Republicans have to tell their constituents they were willing to shut the government down to protect the Pedophile in Chief

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      That would require the democrats to act as an actual opposition party, which they have basically never done.

      EDIT: I apologize, I must make a correction, the democrat party did act as an actual opposition party from approximately 1861 until the early 20th century, but I don’t think anyone should cite that as a proud example.

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    12 days ago

    Oh no! I guess the ONLY Option is to Ban ALL Transgender Healthcare in American in exchange for NOTHING!

    -Chuck Schumer!