And the Dems now have 4 years to plan their reaction to Trump inevitably blaming them for the consequences of his actions. I'm sure they'll be well prepared.
The Trump Presidency - Part 2
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And the Dems now have 4 years to plan their reaction to Trump inevitably blaming them for the consequences of his actions. I'm sure they'll be well prepared.
My auto correct apologises to the grammer poilce and bows beofre the oracle almighty
Nice bit of pee taking there
Trump may or may not be a fascist, but actions taken by the Tennessee state senate aren't relevant to that question unless you think they're coordinating. It would be like claiming Biden is for open borders because of some bill that goes through the Washington State senate re: immigration.
Off course they are relevant. Trump stands for nepotism and rewards ass-licking, especially the proactive kind. Separating his actions and those of the state senate that strictly only makes sense if they aren't interdependent which they are.
Because democracy has taken a break in US.
it's hard to keep up
Why?? If we look at history, we see that the majority just submit to fascist leaders and stay safe than resist and get destroyed. If people rise up and protest en masse, then maybe some powerful people may decide to join them, but otherwise there is no incentive, except the conscience, which can easily be managed.
That wasn't the target of the post, which was targeted at Dem politicians resigning to make a point.
Oh ok. Not sure if that helps.
I dont think dei is limited to African Americans?
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1989 working. Same year Reagan still was the president. He had seen it all. Also it says it all of this current administration
Certainly not, Daily Fail love getting in on the act of up the backside of the Orange Führer
Surely it could, if sufficient enough, would force a constitutional crisis.
It already is a constitutional crisis when a bill that makes democracy unlawful is passed.
From The Guardian -
Gone from tariffs will happen in January to actually it will start on February 1st to now happening in March.
Gone from tariffs will happen in January to actually it will start on February 1st to now happening in March.
Democrat bragging about removing more people than Trump
The disconnect between posters on here taking about fascism and the current Democratic Party strange to see.
The disconnect between posters on here taking about fascism and the current Democratic Party strange to see.
I think they should point out that whatever trump touches turns to shit.
As long as a quorum is established (which in TN is easy since the GOP has a supermajority) then no issues at all other than the opposition would have no seat at the table. Now, in TN that doesn't really matter anyways, but even at the Federal level what would actually be accomplished? As long as a quorum is met then it does not matter if the Senate is only 53 members or the house only has 218 members.
Sums up things
Export the pronouns to China.
Can't control your borders, blame everyone else for your problems.
I thought Trump fixed trade with Mexico and Canada, with the trade-deal his admin negotiated with them last time?
So, an admission that your own trade-deal sucks, basically.
So, an admission that your own trade-deal sucks, basically.
Trump will never, ever admit that he is wrong.
say ta ta to those woke pronouns!
(ta in chinese is he, ta written differently is she, a different one is it)
in the space of 2 hours even the briefings to press are wrong. The white house must be a complete clusterfeck
Then again, nor will the electorate, apparently.
Guess I was right, yay :/Simbo said:
tens of millions of americans? someone's not good at maths.
Anyone in the UK need a roommate? I'm low maintenance and clean up after myself.
Sorry, I forgot to reply to this when I was tagged.
Ultimately, I'm going to break this down into three parts for each of the subsections.
1) The easiest part to reply to is bringing back the non-vaccinated soldiers: It's a pointless gesture. Will it actually cause harm if unvaccinated covid soldiers are running around? No, we're well past the stage of the pandemic being a serious problem now. It's been over 4 years since these guys have been discharged - I'd imagine that most of them should have moved on with their lives now. The vast majority of them are not going to come back anyway. Do I like the fact that uneducated buffoons are in the US military? No, but again there's almost no material difference.
2) Regarding DEI programs being cut - I'm not against it but it's been done for the wrong reasons. The military is one of the few institutions, surprisingly to many I would imagine, where the number of people across all levels from enlisted to senior leadership has a pretty concise amount of people based on their % of the US population. But the reason it's getting cut is to pander to the MAGA-right wing crowd, as opposed to any functional usage.
https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads...component-demographic-report-october-2022.pdf
Hispanics are slightly underrepresented, but the difference isn't staggering. For the other aspects of DEI like sexuality and such, it wasn't doing a great deal anyway. "Don't ask don't tell" was around in the US for a very long time and ultimately everyone knew anyway. From my postings with American units there were always a few guys that were gay and nobody had an issue with it. Regardless, many potential gay recruits aren't going to tell their recruiter they are gay so DEI in that regard wasn't going to solve much.
Anyway, DEI programs were not expensive, costing the DoD very little, its benefits were pretty few, but so were its costs. I'm not too fussed about this other than the reason why it was axed.
3) Trans ban I actually support. Not for the reasons that Trump has in mind or the right wing have in mind, but for something else entirely.
I'm pretty pro-trans in any context outside of the military - but its become a problem within the military. Not because they're trans in themselves, but because there's a really high percentage of trans servicemen and servicewomen who have, or develop, really bad mental health problems whilst serving.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9896366/#:~:text=In addition, transgender active-duty,cisgender active-duty service members.&text=MST and discrimination were associated,health outcomes among transgender veterans.
https://media.defense.gov/2018/mar/...litary-service-by-transgender-individuals.pdf
The above is a DoD report on this matter with recommendations.
Attempted suicide rate for Trans people is absurdly high, 42% according to research. I understand why too, bodily dysmorphia must be awful to go through.
Trans veterans are 20x likely to commit suicide when compared to CIS veterans.
LGBT Health did a research analysis and found that trans people in the military had much higher rate of mental illness during service. 51% of all Trans respondents reported a mild to severe level of anxiety. 55% of all Trans respondents scored highly in the Suicidality ranking. The study found overall mental health being "low" was at over 70% for Trans sample servicemen whereas it was 28.5% for CIS service members.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8336224/#:~:text=Transgender service members had greater,suicidality than their cisgender peers.
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301507
The culture is simply not tolerant enough, and Trans people are not normalized enough within military culture for things like "casual bigotry" to not be uncommon. Think about how 20 years ago "faggot" was common terminology in the military. There are some day to day things said which can be very upsetting to Trans people.
Hypothetically, were psychiatric assessments much better and thorough (Let's be honest, the tests are bullshit and easily gameified), then you can vet each Trans person and accept those who are of sound and stable mind and do not accept those who are not .We are not there yet today.
It's not good for the person themselves being exposed to that environment.
It's a high risk for the squadron (dependent on their position) due to the very high risk of mental breakdown.
The DoD simply do not have the understanding or the culture to accomodate Trans people.
The ideal solution is to have way more funding in place to accomodate Trans and better understand the reasons for these breakdowns, but since that is not going to happen (As the LGBT Health study recommends), unfortunately banning them from service until a solution is found seems to be the best option.
I didn't expect the purges to happen quite so quickly.
Once the tariffs start kicking in and tanking the economy and the real effects of Trump/Musk's torching of the federal government hit, there are going to be protests. I suspect that Trump and those around them are hoping for protests that they can violently suppress. He'll try to use the Insurrection Act to send the military after protesters. Russ Vought, Trump's OMB nominee, has planned for it.
Once the tariffs start kicking in and tanking the economy and the real effects of Trump/Musk's torching of the federal government hit, there are going to be protests. I suspect that Trump and those around them are hoping for protests that they can violently suppress. He'll try to use the Insurrection Act to send the military after protesters. Russ Vought, Trump's OMB nominee, has planned for it.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/a...ent-calls-to-throw-out-all-the-foreign-press/
If you have ANY accent, you're a target for the GOP.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/musk-...ystem-no-visibility-into-what-they-are-doing/
How the feck is this legal?