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Former MS lawmaker says supporters of trans rights should be executed
Robert Foster, a former Mississippi lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate whose Christian faith has always been a large part of his identity, says that anyone who supports transgender rights should be executed via firing squad.
The Republican—though, admit it, you already knew that before I said it—made the remark on Twitter Thursday night:
Some of y’all still want to try and find political compromise with those that want to groom our school aged children and pretend men are women, etc.
I think they need to be lined up against wall before a firing squad to be sent to an early judgment.
When reached for comment by Ashton Pittman of the Mississippi Free Press, Foster doubled down on his faith-based murder fantasies.
“I said what I said,” he wrote, adding to what he had tweeted. “The law should be changed so that anyone trying to sexually groom children and/or advocating to put men pretending to be women in locker rooms and bathrooms with young women should receive the death penalty by firing squad.”
To be clear, supporters of trans people aren’t in favor of grooming children or allowing men in women’s locker rooms and bathrooms. It’s a typical right-wing tactic to equate trans people (and gay people) with pedophiles while turning a blind eye to actual corruption within their ranks. It’s yet another lie conservative Christians tell themselves because they believe tolerance and acceptance are four-letter words. They would rather deny the existence of trans people than come to terms with their own ignorance about who trans people are.
Maybe this kind of rhetoric could simply be ignored if Foster was a random online troll, but he’s not. He served two terms in the Mississippi State House (from 2017 to 2020) and ran for governor in 2019. Even though he placed third in the Republican primary that year, he was able to snag up over 67,000 votes. He may well run again for higher office in the future.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Workers are being exploited in the US for the profit of the wealthy. Workers struggle to have the basics while the upper class live in luxury.
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Scottie’s world today
Thank you Randy for this cartoon. I feel like this most days.
I barely got 1/4 of the pages done. I have been in bed a lot again today. It is now nearly 6 PM and I am going to bed for the night. I hope to be able to get out a better roundup tomorrow. Best wishes to all.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
While the US government gives price gouging oil companies subsides of 20 billion of taxpayer money it is somehow wrong for the same government to give those same taxpayers some money also to make their lives easier. Wake up people, the wealthy are sucking the country dry and having the easy life while demanding that the people suffer and scrabble for the bare minimums.
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Zelenskiy asks: Is the West scared of Russia?
Study: States With High Murder Rates More Likely To Be Republican
Velshi’s Step-By-Step Guide To Joining NATO
Let’s talk about a question about the US and NATO’s honesty….
Let’s talk about a question about gender….
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Profit taking / price gouging is making the wealthy even more wealth while the people suffer more every day.
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Scottie’s world today
Allergies were really bad today, spent most of the day sleeping.
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Republicans think the rules they impose on others do not apply to them.
Republicans are a special interest group for mediocre white men.
Conservatives love these double standards. It has patriarchy and misogyny by design.
When white supremacy becomes your party line.
Investigate Clarence Thomas. Then Brett Kavanaugh
The ‘lock her up’ crowd were the biggest criminals. The projection is an admission.
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/679813193497968640
‘Not having the conservation’ is peak conservative cowardice.
A legacy of selfish nothingness.
This is Abe. Abe was a schizophrenic who hallucinated commands from the VOICE OF GOD, after which he mutilated his own genitals (plus a lot of other guys’ genitals!) before nearly murdering his own son. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are called “Abrahamic” religions because they all take this same nutty hot mess Abe to be their founding patriarch. Followers of the Abrahamic religions make up around SIXTY PERCENT of the human population worldwide! Well, no wonder the world’s in the shape it’s in. Don’t be like Abe. Dale Scott
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The US has now proven that countries with nuclear weapons are safe from US attack and will only face a financial sanction. That means every single country will try to get nuclear weapons because they know the US can be held hostage by them. Kim launched missiles, but so far those missiles can not reach the US. But the US claims to have missile shields and other way to defend against such launches. Then what is our real fear with North Korea?
What a stupid cartoon. Is that a boy or girl. And that is the point. You can not tell what gender a person is by looking at them, by their clothing, by the way they do their hair. I have a pony tail. What does that make me. See the problem?
They teach math, science, and reading and writing comprehension in kindergarten? boy, times have changed…“I’d like to discuss that, but it’s time for our shooter drill, then Bible indoctrination and shame time for those who opt out, and then abstinence instruction.”
Teachers aren’t focusing on sexuality. Each teacher focuses on the subject they are teaching. Elementary teachers focus on teaching the basic subjects of math, reading, writing and science. There are sex ed classes (sometimes incorporated in health classes) for older students and that’s when they learn how their bodies function. Why some people are so hysterical about that, I don’t know. By the way, having taught English to high school students for many years, while their hormones are raging, they were thinking about sex even though I wasn’t teaching anything about it They could use some guidance from their parents, although many parents avoid the subject. Parents often have scant ability to understand, teach and communicate with their children about sex.
Biden has called Putin a war criminal and also is calling for regime change in Russia. Rather unprecedented.
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Scottie's Playtime 