It was never about the children.
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Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned
(www.thepinknews.com)
yes, but also maybe take the threat against trans people seriously? like, Trump just said he wants to ban trans healthcare. it seems like that should also be a big deal. saying that everything is a distraction from the Epstein files has become a distraction from some serious shit.
The point is that the Epstein files has been pretty much the only thing to bring cracks in Republican support for Trump.
Everyone who is upset at this news on Trans health care already know Trump is a useless piece of shit. His base on the other hand will probably cheer this on.
So driving that wedge that is the Epstein files is imperative if we want to chip away at his approval ratings and hope we can salvage this shit in next year's midterms (I know, a stretch).
The other stuff is also bad–the fascism and stuff–but it might be useful here.
good to know the forced death of people like me is just a distraction to you.
Oh, so when the government shuts down in a day or two, because you’re a piece of shit and no one wants to give you money to continue with being a piece of shit, of course you’re gonna blame trans kids for this
You piece of shit
I'm concerned they want to shut down that way they can keep it closed indefinitely. Funny that meeting with the top brass is coincidentally around the time of the shutdown.
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Let them shut down the government. Keep it shut down. Let's see how long the troops will work for free.
I’m quite confident Schumer will continue to display the backbone of a sea cucumber and capitulate with no meaningful opposition whatsoever.
We really need a nationa1l calling campaign for chuck schumer to step down.
CALL HIS FUCKING BLUFF!
LET HIM DO IT AND FAIL OR WITHDRAW AND BE WEAK
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Oh no! I guess the ONLY Option is to Ban ALL Transgender Healthcare in American in exchange for NOTHING!
-Chuck Schumer!
I can't wait til this prolapsed asshole drops dead.
I'm still in the closet but have been making moves to try to transition and this fucking orange shit stain is ruining everything for every decent person here.
FUUUCK
Thought this was gonna be a 2026 thing.
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
You might want to fly into Canada/Mexico and then take a bus.
You might want to fly into Canada/Mexico ~~and then take a bus.~~
FYFY
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I'd call him a garbage human, but he's way beyond sub-human at this point
It would be an insult to garbage.
Ok... I squat corrected
Or the truth, Democrats are shutting down the government because Trump and his regime are developing into a fascist autocracy.
Democrats are shutting it down? I thought they were the minority.
Developing?
Sounds like he's looking for a win because he's going to lose on healthcare in general. It's a smart way to go about it because the transgender people are going to be sacrificed again and it puts healthcare at the top. It's smart, but 100% evil.
If the Democrats cave on that, then fuck them too.
But as far as I'm concerned Trump just delivered an easy win for the Democrats - this is an easy out for Democrats to not cooperate with Republicans (obviously morally abhorrent demand) and shift the blame for the shutdown to the right.
there are only. 001 maybe less of the population. It's a non-issue in reality. Unfortunately, they make it an issue to divide people.
Wait.
Is he trying to reverse psychology something
He's trying to convince his very stupid followers this is a shutdown he started over transifa. They will overwhelmingly accept this.
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Do it. Shut down the government. At least we'll get rid of ICE this way
I wish it were that simple. But they passed that budget for ICE already, which funds them all year.
Things that help people? Yeah, those are what's gone.
Surely this is the last group of people whose rights he want to remove. Surely.
Fingers crossed… up next, dei hired professionals all lose their license.
All trans healthcare? Does that mean all transition-related care? Or all healthcare to trans people?
My moneys on both
Its almost as if he doesn't care about the reason and will make up anything on the spot.
Oh, and hes also a child fucker.
Well I guess no more gender affirming surgeries for balding fat loser white guys also then.
Wait I thought you had medbeds for everyone?
Gotta love that freedom and small government
Shut down the government because of 1% of the population. What a loser.
I'm actually for that, but a different 1%, that's actually hurting everyone.
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Well, sure, but remember that Harris was so terribly transphobic many people just plain didn’t vote at all! Which is obviously the Democrats’ fault for running such a terribly transphobic candidate.
And yes, this option that we have here, this - ban transgender federal funds, make trans people terrorists - was the only other choice available. But that still means it’s the Democrats’ fault because otherwise you’d have to blame people who didn’t do the one most important thing they could to prevent this and obviously we can’t blame them.
Look, we’ll call it even and should we somehow make it to the midterms next year we’ll all decide to protest by not voting again. Then the Democrats will really start paying attention to us! Pretty soon after that, bang-zoom! Workers will seize the means of production and . . do something with chains. Ride bikes maybe? Anyway, sounds fun.
With coalition building and solidarity like this, I can't imagine how they lost.
No point in electing dems if they dont fix anything, prosecute crimes against humanity or coups, etc. They haven't shown willingness so far.
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On the one hand I agree, on the other I'm so angry and tired of either hearing that my issues aren't important enough to do something about (the line told to Millennials during pretty much every election - presidential and otherwise - from Bush onward outside of Biden and Obama on things like housing prices and student loan debt/price of college) or that as a transgender person, we need to let the Republicans do a little genocide and removal of our rights and freedoms as a treat or else the "moderate Republicans" won't vote for the Democratic candidate (are the "moderate Republicans" in the room with us right now?). And then we get blamed for the Dems losing one way or another regardless. Either the Millennials didn't vote hard enough, or our demands of things like affordable housing and protection of minorities' rights were "too radical and lost the Dems the moderate vote."
I still voted for Harris because it was either the Dems rein in the fascists to some extent at the federal level or the only safe places being Democrat run states, but the Dems absolutely threw us under the bus as a "worthy sacrifice" to court a mythological voting base that hasn't existed in decades - if it ever did at all - and I can't really blame people for being sick and tired of it.
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