Signing the NDAA into law with a ban on some trans care for service members' kids would be a horrible move from Biden, and a sadly full-circle moment for America.
Honestly, I expect no support any longer in the next 4 years at least, likely until after climate change dismantles the USA entirely. I trust nobody anymore. Trans rights are human rights, and I will die fighting for those rights.
85-14 appears to be the USSenate's margin for acceptable anti-LGBT discrimination: NDAA yesterday, DOMA in 1996. Remember the bigots' cry in California? "Think of the children!" Not trans kids, apparently....
Under the aegis of revoking the doctrine of substantive due process, the Roberts Court, esp. Clarence Thomas in his Dobbs concurrence, has very strongly signalled its intentions to overturn all USA court decisions against racial segregation & furthermore strike down all USA Black Civil Rights -related laws. In like fashion, they’ve also signalled similar intentions to overturn all pro-LGBT USA court decisions & strike down all USA laws protecting LGBT rights or otherwise favouring LGBT people. While the approaches are from different angles from those against racial minorities & LGBT people, the impending tactics to be deployed against women as a whole appear to have a Kissingerian „The illegal we do immediately & the unconstitutional only takes the littlest bit longer” flavour to the „family vote,” stringent voter ID laws disqualifying all married women who undergo surname changes not also carried out on their birth certificates, suspected trans-ness or pregnancy recognised as sufficient legal grounds for radically invasive body searches & I’ve yet to encounter any limitations whatsoever on how severely the Right intends to restrict women’s freedom of movement. There are even noises about reimposing coverture, only more radically this time so that all persons deemed female are subject to coverture under male barons (guardians) at all times i.e. are femes covert, furthermore at all times sub potestate viri akin to below-age-of-majority children, where the historical schemata had femes sole. But there are also sickening weird hints that they might newly contrive statuses in lieu of gender-neutral minority to regulate girl children being married off at super young ages.
This is nothing more than Musk threatening people because he can’t handle the fact that he has a transgender offspring! Shame on Democrats who caved and once again let the American people down!
He changed his mind on pardoning Hunter. Call it a flip flop after circumstances changed, eg Kash Patel being named as the new FBI director. Sadly, both Joe and Kamala went quiet on transgender rights during the election. So wish that the deplorable bloody Rethuglicans wouldn't weaponize people who just want to live in peace. Like trans people. And immigrants.
Yeah Biden also categorically that he'd Veto any bill containing anti-trans legislation that came to his desk. Because, yaknow, as many of his empty speeches said, he "has our backs." I suppose when he said he has our backs he was trying to say "I have your backs... Ready for this knife I'm going to stick in them"
Honestly, I expect no support any longer in the next 4 years at least, likely until after climate change dismantles the USA entirely. I trust nobody anymore. Trans rights are human rights, and I will die fighting for those rights.
85-14 appears to be the USSenate's margin for acceptable anti-LGBT discrimination: NDAA yesterday, DOMA in 1996. Remember the bigots' cry in California? "Think of the children!" Not trans kids, apparently....
Well, so trans soldiers lose some rights … better for the greater good. So women lise so rights, better … So, African-Americans … So,
So, the Jews … So, people of color … So, re-segregation …
Slippery slope indeed
But to MAGA, happy days on the ski slope.
Under the aegis of revoking the doctrine of substantive due process, the Roberts Court, esp. Clarence Thomas in his Dobbs concurrence, has very strongly signalled its intentions to overturn all USA court decisions against racial segregation & furthermore strike down all USA Black Civil Rights -related laws. In like fashion, they’ve also signalled similar intentions to overturn all pro-LGBT USA court decisions & strike down all USA laws protecting LGBT rights or otherwise favouring LGBT people. While the approaches are from different angles from those against racial minorities & LGBT people, the impending tactics to be deployed against women as a whole appear to have a Kissingerian „The illegal we do immediately & the unconstitutional only takes the littlest bit longer” flavour to the „family vote,” stringent voter ID laws disqualifying all married women who undergo surname changes not also carried out on their birth certificates, suspected trans-ness or pregnancy recognised as sufficient legal grounds for radically invasive body searches & I’ve yet to encounter any limitations whatsoever on how severely the Right intends to restrict women’s freedom of movement. There are even noises about reimposing coverture, only more radically this time so that all persons deemed female are subject to coverture under male barons (guardians) at all times i.e. are femes covert, furthermore at all times sub potestate viri akin to below-age-of-majority children, where the historical schemata had femes sole. But there are also sickening weird hints that they might newly contrive statuses in lieu of gender-neutral minority to regulate girl children being married off at super young ages.
Is this quoting something?
I quoted Henry Kissinger at one point.
This is nothing more than Musk threatening people because he can’t handle the fact that he has a transgender offspring! Shame on Democrats who caved and once again let the American people down!
His choice will be to send a gift basket to Trump and beg to take another selfie with him.
With Republicans, the cruelty is ALWAYS the point.
Is the line-item veto still a thing? Could Biden sign the bill into law, but veto the anti-trans portion of the bill?
No. The line-item veto was ruled unconstitutional: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1997/97-1374
probably a good thing.
Darn
Too bad the line-item veto isn't a thing anymore.
“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.”
German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
I’m listening to his interview with Ben Meiselas. There’s nothing wrong with President Bidens cognition
He changed his mind on pardoning Hunter. Call it a flip flop after circumstances changed, eg Kash Patel being named as the new FBI director. Sadly, both Joe and Kamala went quiet on transgender rights during the election. So wish that the deplorable bloody Rethuglicans wouldn't weaponize people who just want to live in peace. Like trans people. And immigrants.
Yeah Biden also categorically that he'd Veto any bill containing anti-trans legislation that came to his desk. Because, yaknow, as many of his empty speeches said, he "has our backs." I suppose when he said he has our backs he was trying to say "I have your backs... Ready for this knife I'm going to stick in them"