Author: Scottie

I am an older gay guy in a long-term wonderful relationship. My spouse and I are in our 36th year together. I love politics and news. I enjoy civil discussions and have no taboo subjects. My pronouns are he / him / his and my email is Scottiestoybox@gmail.com

LGBT voters, a larger share of the electorate than ever, shift away from Trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/lgbt-voters-away-from-trump-2024-election-record-change-rcna178939

As I said yesterday, today is the day we start to figure out how to fight back against what is coming.  From what I read yesterday a lot of men still won’t vote for a woman, especially Latino heritage men.  Plus people said things cost less under tRump in 2019 and felt he could bring prices down to those levels.   But that is stupid, he won’t and can’t because to him and the wealthy profit is king.  But what could happen is that their incomes will be cut, their safety nets will be cut.  One guy was heard saying tRump had the economy and immigration and Harris only had women’s rights and Democracy.   Think on it, hating others was more important than others rights and Democracy.   But we will learn more.  Arab voters who claim they warned Harris she needed to change on Gaza will notice that already Israel has increased its take over of Gaza, saying that Palestinians will NOT be allowed to return to the north and all that are still there will be killed.  Knowing that tRump will back him.  So they sure made a difference didn’t they.  Hugs.

Vice President Kamala Harris led President-elect Donald Trump 86% to 12% among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voters, according to the NBC News Exit Poll Desk.

By Patrick J. Egan, NBC News Exit Poll Desk
 

Former President Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to become the next U.S. president, NBC News projected, but he didn’t do so with the help of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voters.

LGBT voters shifted even more solidly into the Democratic camp this year, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. Harris led President-elect Trump 86% to 12% among LGBT voters, the poll found. That’s a 15-point change from 2020, when Trump won 27% of the LGBT vote against Biden.

Harris’ performance among LGBT voters was stronger than that of any Democratic candidate in the last five presidential elections.

Although Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance predicted that he and Trump would win the “normal gay guy vote,” the GOP presidential ticket captured fewer than 1 in 5 LGBT male voters, though that figure could also include bisexual and transgender men. Trump’s support among LGBT female voters was even more tepid, at 8%. White LGBT people went solidly for Harris over Trump by 82% to 16%, though Harris’ margin was even bigger among LGBT voters of color at 91% to 5%.

 

Most LGBT voters said they’d be either “excited” (39%) or “optimistic” (43%) if Harris were elected president. By contrast, 62% of LGBT respondents said they’d be “scared” if Trump won.

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According to the exit poll, 8% of American voters identified as LGBT in 2024. That’s the highest share on record. The percentage of the electorate identifying as LGBT has doubled since Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, when it was 4%.

As in previous elections, LGBT voters stood out as one of the most left-leaning voter blocs in the electorate. Among LGBT voters, Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans, 56% to 5%, and liberals surpass conservatives, 61% to 5%. LGBT voters are staunchly pro-choice: 59% say abortion should be legal in all cases, a much higher level of support for abortion rights than among non-LGBTs, at 31%.

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Patrick J. Egan, NBC News Exit Poll Desk

Patrick Egan is a professor of politics and public policy at New York University and a contributor to the NBC News Exit Poll Desk. 

Anyone feel like more memes

A comment I saw elsewhere:

“As an American, I’m out of fucks to give for my fellow Americans. It’s been almost 10 years to see who he really is, and 3/4 of us either LIKE that or are too ignorant to care.

Don’t come crying when your loved one gets beaten by a police officer and they face no charges.

Don’t come crying when a friend/family member gets raped and the baby can’t be aborted, nor if they suffer a miscarriage from a pregnancy and bleed out because they can’t get medical help.

Don’t come crying when the Supreme Court is packed with 2 more far right corrupt justices and more lifelong rights start to vanish.

Don’t come crying when Ukraine aid stops and, if the rest of the world doesn’t pick up the slack, Russia takes even more land and continues killing more people.

Don’t come crying as the deficit explodes from corruption and the economy crashes as Trump lines his own pockets.

Don’t come crying when our education system bottoms out because Elon guts the government so that, combined with project 2025 ending all abortion care, poor people are forced to raise lots of stupid babies to run his factories.

Don’t come crying when worker protections are cut and overtime pay is all but eliminated.

Don’t. Complain. To. Me. I’ll ask who you voted for and then laugh in your fucking face. ‘But. But. I didn’t think. . . ‘

‘Of course you didn’t fucking think. You voted for him. Well, we tried to tell you. We tried to reason with you. We tried to compromise, but no. You just had to take your stand on whatever single fucking issue.’”

 

 

It was still something shoved up your ass while strangers watched.  

 

LGBTQ+ people got lots of support this election

Colorado Voters Repeal Ban On Same-Sex Marriage
QAnon Nutbag Loses Bid To Run NC Public Schools
WA Dem Becomes First LGBTQ Latina US House Rep
Texas Dem Becomes First LGBTQ US Rep From South
New York Voters Enshrine LGBTQ And Abortion Rights
California Repeals Prop 8, Enshrines Marriage Equality
DE Elects Sarah McBride As Nation’s First Trans US Rep

Great song, better meaning

Teach Your Children …

Thanks to Ten Bears for the reminder that others faced a harder struggle and stood their ground in order to create a more perfect union.  I will give myself today to absorb it, to be stunned at how we were so misled.  How with all the support, money, and him being him, how did Harris lose.  Misogyny comes to mind.  But we fought for our rights before.   We started at the ground, the grassroots and changed minds along with changing who was in charge.  The other side learned our lessons and turned them against us.  So tomorrow we go back to doing what we must to change the direction the country is going in, to make sure school boards are filled with people who want kids to learn science, learn to treat those different from them with respect and dynasty.  We were on the way to a better world, those that did not want that fought back.  Now the shoe is back on our feet.  We have to make sure it starts at every level and every state.  Make sure we are in the community and seen.  Make sure we let people know we will not return to the 1850s or even the 1950s.  We remember, let’s make sure everyone else does also.  Hugs

I just can’t today

Ron and I stayed up until 4 am watching the election results.  We got about an hours worth of sleep.  Then we got up and sat stunned.  I am sorry this is going to take me a long time to understand and bounce back from.  So many people of this country are so uninformed and so many thought sending a message by not voting for Harris would somehow be better for the Palestinians.  What this means for Gaza and the West bank is no more restraints on Israel, no aid for Ukraine.  More right wing ideologue justices who rule not by law but by ideology and feelings.  Thomas and Alito have hinted that if tRump won and had the Senate they would retire so he could fill their seats with 40 year olds to be there for generations.  What this means for other countries and our relationships with them … who knows.  But what this means for the LGBTQ+ community is clear.  We have large targets on us now.   Sad hugs

Do they really believe this shit

Fascist Felon: Harris Is Running “Campaign Of Hate”
Trump Files FEC Complaint Against Washington Post Over Its Stories About Cultists Leaving His Rallies Early
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/11/giuliani-dems-cheated-in-ga-fani-the-ho-is-the-da/
RFK’s Sugar Mama Spreads QAnon Lie About Jill Biden
Kirk: Harris’s Ad To Women “Undermines” Marriages
QAnon FL Surgeon General May Be Trump’s HHS Sec
Rubio Whines That Media Conspires Against Trump
Heritage Foundation: Harris Will Make It Illegal To Pray

“We’re going to lose our ability to worship, we’re going to lose our religious liberty if the Harris-Walz campaign prevails,” he asserted. “Although I’ve got other things I’m concerned about, I think it’s not hyperbole for me to say that I think the entire First Amendment is endangered” in the event of a Harris-Walz victory in the 2024 election, Roberts declared.

Musk’s Mother: Maybe I’ll Vote Multiple Times In NY
Newsmax Host: Joe Biden “Might Be A Furry” [VIDEO]
Homocon New Jersey Senate Nominee Curtis Bashaw Signs Moms For Liberty Pledge Against LGBTQ Youth
Texas Hospitals Must Now Ask About Citizenship Status

Let’s do more memes

 

 

Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they’re in the US legally. Here’s how it works

https://apnews.com/article/texas-immigration-hospital-health-care-abbott-florida-aeee92d7515a18b492c737b3657569ab

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FILE – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a news conference in Austin, Texas on June 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

By  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 7:10 AM EST, November 1, 2024
 

Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state’s clash with the Biden administration over immigration.

Critics fear the change could scare people away from hospitals in Texas, even though patients are not required to answer the questions to receive medical care. The mandate is similar to a policy that debuted last year in Florida, where Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is also a frequent critic of the federal government’s handling of illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Texas hospitals have spent months preparing for the change and have sought to reassure patients that it won’t affect their level of care.

Here’s what to know:

Required to ask, not required to answer

Under the executive order announced by Abbott in August, hospitals must ask patients if they are citizens in the U.S. and whether they are lawfully present in the country.

Patients have the right to withhold the information and hospital workers must tell them their responses will not affect their care, as required by federal law.

Tracking hospital costs and patient data

Hospitals are not required to begin submitting reports to the state until March. An early draft of a spreadsheet made by state health officials to track data does not include fields to submit patient names or personal information.

Providers will fill out a breakdown of visits by inpatient and emergency care patients and document whether they are lawfully present in the country, citizens or not lawfully present in the U.S.

The reports will also add up costs for those covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP; and the cost for patients without it.

“Texans should not have to shoulder the burden of financially supporting medical care for illegal immigrants,” Abbott said when he announced the policy.

Texas is following Florida’s lead

Florida enacted a similar law last year. Health care advocates contend the law has made immigrants who need of emergency medical care fearful and led to fewer people seeking help, even from facilities not subject to the law.

Florida’s early data is — by the state’s own admission — limited. The data is self-reported. Anyone can decline to answer, an option chosen by nearly 8% of people admitted to the hospital and about 7% of people who went to the emergency room from June to December 2023, according to Florida’s state report. Fewer than 1% of people who went to the emergency room or were admitted to the hospital reported being in the U.S. “illegally.”

Texas hospitals have been preparing

Immigrant and health care advocates have sought to educate the Texas public about their rights. In Florida, groups used text messages, posters and emails to get the word out. But advocates there have said they didn’t see fears subside for about a year.

Health care providers received directives from the state and guidance from the Texas Hospital Association.

 

“The bottom line for patients is that this doesn’t change hospital care. Texas hospitals continue to be a safe place for needed care,” said Carrie Williams, spokesperson for the hospital association.

THE ATLANTIC: Trump’s Followers Are Living in a Dark Fantasy

Trump’s Followers Are Living in a Dark Fantasy
MAGA adherents deny and dismiss what they are a part of, but they believe Trump’s lies, and will support him until the end. November 04, 2024 At a rally just outside Atlanta in late October, thousands of Donald Trump supporters lined up in the punishing southern sun to see their hero; some had driven hours from out of state. Vendors hawked T-shirts with slogans such as Say no to the ho , and Roses are red, Hunter smokes crack, Joe Biden has dementia and Kamala isn’t Black , sometimes chanting

Read in The Atlantic: https://apple.news/AiOllMo4lS-uyXcnwIK7SEg

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

THE ATLANTIC: Trump’s Followers Are Living in a Dark Fantasy

Trump’s Followers Are Living in a Dark Fantasy
MAGA adherents deny and dismiss what they are a part of, but they believe Trump’s lies, and will support him until the end. November 04, 2024 At a rally just outside Atlanta in late October, thousands of Donald Trump supporters lined up in the punishing southern sun to see their hero; some had driven hours from out of state. Vendors hawked T-shirts with slogans such as Say no to the ho , and Roses are red, Hunter smokes crack, Joe Biden has dementia and Kamala isn’t Black , sometimes chanting

Read in The Atlantic: https://apple.news/AiOllMo4lS-uyXcnwIK7SEg

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie