Let’s talk about a Genie in Washington….

Alberta joins GOP in war on LGBTQ+

So Lance is a video YouTuber I enjoy listening to.   But the thing about his well researched true science rebuttal to the new trans hate battle in Canada I wanted to respond to is he missed an important aspect of the hate drive on the right.  

During the video the political leader says that they are requiring all teens to wait until 16 before using puberty blockers, and she says this is because no harm is done.  But this is the propaganda of the anti-trans people.  First the truth is puberty blockers are safe, long time used for at least 60 years, and the only time the right has an issue is when used for trans kids. 

But more importantly these people have to ask themselves why do they want trans kids to go through the assigned gender at birth puberty?   Because after the puberty changes happen, it is so much harder to reconcile the internal gender ID with the outside look. 

Think of it, a 12 year old boy who knows they are a girl is about to have his face change, hair grow on parts that women don’t, his shoulders broaden, his bones and muscles change, his chest and hips change.   Her entire body is about to become what she is not, a male.  Her testis will grow and produce even more of the hormone they want stopped.   They will turn more into what they know they are not.  Hating their own bodies even more.  Again requiring that surgery that the right hates and calls mutilation.  

Now think about a female who knows they are a male.  They are about to develop breasts that they hate and will have to have cut off, they will develop softer face features, they will turn more into what they know they are not.  They will have smaller shoulders and wider hips.  Hating their own bodies even more.

The problem is not that these physical changes can not be changed, but that a person’s looks don’t change easy.  Plus it creates the very thing the right claims to hate, confusion over gender identity and trans kids having surgery to change their breasts.   But worse so very worse it sets them up with face, hair, and so many other body images they have to deal with that they know deep inside them are wrong for them.  The thing is it could all be avoided by listening to the child, and administering the proper medical treatment which is totally safe puberty blockers.  

In both the male and female trans kids by forcing them to go through the WRONG puberty their body develops the very things they will hate all their lives about themselves.  Those body changes they will have to have surgeries, and forever try to hide, or worse always be accused of noting being pretty enough or not being masculine enough to be who in their mind they know they are.  

This is the critical point, and why the right hates puberty blocker, desperate to force trans kids to go through the wrong puberty.  So later they can look at these adults and shout at them … You are not a woman, or you are not a man.  So they can identify them when they go to the bathroom, or in public, so they can call them out.  It is sick.  

The right is so desperate to keep the clearest division between what is recognizable as a male or female.   That is why the right hates fem gay boys and twinks.  Shit, they are too easy to be attracted too.  The very thing the right is horrified about, they might be attracted to a trans person.  If you have questions you don’t feel you can google for yourself, comment for me to explain it to you.  If you are one of the normal people / viewers here, please comment and add your voice to correct the right wings insanity.   Hugs.  Scottie

Florida House Approves Social Media Ban For Minors

Understand this is about indoctrination and preventing social acceptance.  Where do kids encounter their most diverse and accepting environment, yes watching social media influencers who are openly different, LGBTQIA / or supporting of, and display rainbow flags and talk about how grand diversity and inclusion is?   That leads kids to understand the truth, it is OK to be different.  Young people’s programming on media starts with cartoons, and animated shows, and moves online.   Why do you think the right / DeathSantis went after Disney so hard also why the hard rabid right Daily Wire started all their own kids programming with hard right indoctrination?  It is why states like Florida approved using Prager U YouTube videos in public schools.  It is all about getting to the kids when they are young and developing so they can be indoctrinated in a regressive fundamentalist Christian right wing philosophy.  Also to prevent the Taylor Swift phenomenon from happening.   Hugs.  Scottie.

Ever wonder why left leaning stars are so popular they can sway large majorities of the public, but the right wing stars are so much less able to do it, especially individually?   Because the idea, policies, and goals of the repressive right are unpopular with the majority.   They want minority rule.   

 

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”

― Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-rest/201303/give-us-kid-till-shes-7-and-well-have-her-life


 

The Messenger reports:

The Florida House of Representatives has passed two bills banning social media for minors under age 16 and requiring age verification for pornographic sites, just two weeks into their 2024 legislative session.

With House approval, the bills will now head to the state Senate before making its way to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk. If the governor signs both bills, they will likely go into effect in July, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

The measure does not include which social media platforms will be banned for users under 16. State House Speaker Paul Renner, R, said the bill doesn’t focus on content, but on “addictive technologies” and “the courts will decide” what those are.

Read the full article. As I reported earlier this month, the social media ban is authored by freshman Rep. Fiona McFarland. Republicans hold supermajorities in both Florida chambers and can therefore force pretty much anything they want into law.

RELATED: McFarland’s mother, K.T. McFarland, served as Trump’s Deputy National Security Advisor under Michael Flynn and she was accused by Robert Mueller of complicity in Flynn’s lies to the FBI. The accusations scuttled the elder McFarland’s nomination by Trump to be US ambassador to Singapore.

 

They’re so fortunate that Florida has no economic or environmental problems, so they have all this time to regulate how their citizens think and act.

It is the ultimate command of the Party:
Ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears.
One simply can’t think if one can ignore the evidence.

This is because kids used Tik Tok to pull the ultimate troll against Trump in 2020 in Tulsa

It also seems that giving folks the ability to see there are different was of escaping oppression is dangerous to the ruling class.

BINGO. That’s the sole reason.

Enforcement is going to be a bitch. Good thing they have taxpayers’ money to burn.

The measure does not include which social media platforms will be banned for users under 16. State House Speaker Paul Renner, R, said the bill doesn’t focus on content, but on “addictive technologies” and “the courts will decide” what those are.

 

Like that’s going anywhere.

 

And when the courts do not include the ones the fascists want, they will start screaming about activist courts pushing a liberal agenda.

Throw the pasta pot against the wall and see what sticks.

The courts will decide? That’s not their job regarding this.

This ban will clearly fix the mass exodus of insurance companies from Florida.

I thought the exact same thing. Then I was going to say it sounds like they’d probably put the onus on Social Media sites to follow the law, but the point would remain the same: Enforcement is going to be a bitch.

I hope social media co.s do what pornhub did and just make their sites unavailable in that state (although I could see how that could have a negative impact on the kids who count on it for social support and stuff).

 

URGENT: What happened fo Taylor Mras?

She was supposed to board a flight home, instead her belongings and cellphone were left at the airport and no one has seen her since.

Protecting their own?

Have the SAPD been stalling on an investigation because the suspect is related to a 20 year veteran of the department?

War on Women

Between Nikki Haley enthusiastically supporting a national abortion ban, to Donald Trump’s rape case, to the GOP’s entire personality, the Republican Party has declared war on women, and we just can’t be ok with it.

Let’s talk about Trump, Biden, and polling….

Seattle Police And Fire Departments Raid Two Gay Bars

What the fuck!!!  This culture war against the LGBTQIA and the attempt to drive the country hard back to the 1950s has got to stop.  We have had these fights, these arguments, and society has progressed into acceptance.  They found one exposed nipple?  Have any of you been to a redneck bar in the deep south?  I went to a bar in Georgia when I was 19 and in the US Army.  Man what I saw there made what I saw working in a gay bar in the 1990s look like a church picnic.  One booth was reserved for giving blow jobs by the local bar sluts.  I had to be very worried because they loved to get them some young army boys fresh from boot camp in training schools.  They about do you on the bar stool.  But that is OK to the haters because it is cis straight sex in the open, not an exposed nipple in a gay bar.  Wait, I am confused, I thought only female boobs were sexy and to be hidden.  Men boobs are fine to see everywhere.  There are different kinds of bars for different likes.  I bet you some of the high-end places are offering sex also, but those are upper society, so the police won’t bother them.  The republican Christian Taliban won’t be happy until everyone is as repressed and unhappy as they are.  Hugs.  Scottie


January 30, 2024

Seattle’s The Stranger reports:

Marching into a gay bar to issue citations feels a bit vintage in 2024. Nevertheless, over the weekend, the Joint Enforcement Team (JET), which is a coalition of Seattle Police, Fire, the state Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB), and others, entered two gay bars, The Cuff Complex and The Seattle Eagle, and started looking around.

And what did they find? A bartender’s exposed nipple and a few people wearing jockstraps, offenses that law enforcement can cite you for in Washington if you’re also selling alcohol.

At 12:30 on Saturday morning, a 10-member JET crew filed into Cuff, according to owner Joey Burgess. They came in with flashlights, scaring some patrons who left in a hurry. Inside, they saw the offending nipple, a violation of state law the JET may penalize in some way.

Capitol Hill Seattle reports:

 



A group of Capitol Hill gay bars and clubs are teaming up with neighborhood queer community leaders Dan Savage and Terry Miller in calling for the state’s liquor control board and Seattle Police officials to explain what they say was a weekend crackdown reminiscent of historical harassment of Seattle’s LGBTQ friendly venues.

Ownership at the bars including The Cuff, Queer/Bar, Massive, and The Eagle along with Savage and Miller say that citations issued over weekend over clothing and decency violations at a handful of clubs recorded by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board and so-called Joint Enforcement Team inspectors were targeted.

The group is asking for the community to demand the liquor control board explain its actions.

 

All this for a nipple ….If they had gone to the Manhattan federal court they could have seen an asshole.

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And, not just a regular one – a flaming asshole spewing noxious gases!

I used to have a lot of respect for the police. In the past 12-15 years, that has really eroded away. When I see the times they have shot people because they felt threatened by somebody sitting in a car or reading that the person was shot 56 times, I question them. It’s become worse when they show up dressed like tactical assault troops for simple things. They are getting away with murder. I am not sure how much that I trust them anymore.

They may turn off their own cameras when they cross the line, but they can’t turn off everyone else’s.

 

They’ve also developed the habit of raising their car hoods so their dash cams are unable to capture any footage.

 

Or just start playing copyrighted music at high volumes in the hopes that the posted video will be auto-blocked.

And if Trump assumes his dictatorship, cops will have his blessing to be non-compliant with laws and free of any accountability. That’s exactly what he said.

 

How soon will the “a few bad apples” explanation be disproven? It’s beginning to look a lot like expatriation.

For me, watching the old man get shoved down nonchalantly in Buffalo was the tipping point. First time I used a porcine term to describe them, just after an expletive.

I’ve distrusted cops ever since I shared a house for a while with, among others, a police cadet. The stories I heard about what cops allow other cops to get away with!

And this was just run-of-the-mill police dishonesty and corruption. At the time, I wasn’t aware of how aggressively violent many of them are, as well.

This was around 1979-80.

Then the cops went to Hooters for a post-fag-harassing wholesome meal. JFC.

Dude, you and I have a very similar take on this shit and I applaud you for the spot on comment. Being SWM I sometimes have to edit what I say but can always count on you to “send it”.

What kind of bullshit is this? Probably some fucked up religious psycho behind it.

Some fool thinking they’re doing “god’s work.” 🤦‍♂️ Never mind that it’s all myth.

 

Even if there is a god/gods (I’m agnostic), I doubt that He/She/It/They would care about people seeing each other’s nipples and various body parts. He/She/It/They made them that way, after all, even if through evolution.

Being that this was open knowledge for many years. I mean, it’s the cuff and the Eagle and all they found was an open nipple and jock strap. Lol
I too am wondering who’s behind this. At the liquor board. You know damn well that there’s some religious nut or right-wing POS behind it.

This follows closely upon the attempt to shut down one of the city’s two traditionally gay nude beaches (by building a children’s playground next door). Thankfully, that was nipped in the bud by an overwhelmingly oppositional public protest. Hopefully this will be too.

Brattleboro, Vermont built West River Park next to the traditionally nude (optional) beach on West River for that exact reason. No nudity within 500 feet of a park.

Remember when some liquor control guy took a snap shot of the Eagle balcony and caught some penises in the picture? They said they were going to close it until Dan Savage went around town taking pictures of himself in City Hall, etc with his dick out (public nudity is NOT illegal in Seattle) asking if they were going to close them down too and they backed off.

I know that they can only show ‘beefcake’ pictures on the monitors in bars, a bit amazing down in CA where they have full on porn movies going in some of the bars…

It’s been a few years, but I saw and showed off a hell of a lot more than a nipple at the Eagle. This is complete BS.

 

Ya, the last time I was in an Eagle there was someone locked in a cage in the center of the room performing oral sex and being urinated on by strangers. A nipple and jockstrap seem almost wholesome in comparison.

Seattle has a reputation for being a liberal haven, but in fact the SPD is virulently bigoted. Remember that they were under a consent decree for 11 years, effectively under federal supervision until they changed a racist culture that had led to the murder of a First Nations man. Parts of that decree are STILL in effect.

Details: https://www.justice.gov/opa…

Nipples and jockstraps kill. Oh, wait, no. They’re harmless.

We haven’t quite returned to the 1950s yet, but welcome back 1980s!

The bath raids in Toronto 1981(?) were a huge catalyst for solidifying the community and a lot of progress was made after.

Nipples, jockstraps and alcohol? You can see more flesh, alcohol, and lewd conduct on a public beach in any Summer. Yeah, the originators of that raid on gay bars has some ‘splainin’ to do, and an apology to make. Seattle, you’re better than this!

2016, Americans elected a rapist to the White House.
2024 that rapist is running for the Republican nomination.
Rapists gonna rape.

If you think that your liberties are protected by case law, – the Supreme Court, let me introduce you to the strict constructionists, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Any Barrett, Kavanaugh.
Raids on gay bars, – you ain’t seen nuttin yet

Raids on gay bars by Cops !

Are we worried yet about marriage equality, about gay health clinics, about PDAs, about flags or drags, about our freedoms of association in or out of gay bars………..
Are we worried yet about camps, about quarantines, about being ostracised ?
Are we worried yet about what the Evangelicals want to do to us?

 

Palestinian children describe nightmarish treatment at Israeli detention center

Please notice the date.  Two years ago.   These were children, 50% being held in pre-trial detention, but already convicted and serving harsh sentences.   Even though the boys were 17 at the time of the interview they were younger when picked up, and we have seen younger kids in each video I have shared.  Every single thing the Israeli soldiers did to these kids was to induce pain and fear.  It is the shit interrogators at Gitmo did to adults, and that was called a war crime then.   They are doing this to hurt, be cruel, to break these kids, and terrorize both them and their parents.   All because they are Palestinian.  This is the government the US has supported unequivocally, and this is why the attacks on Israel happen.   In the US some states have made it illegal to protest Israel, to support the BDS movement.  What is BDS? Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.  The republicans in congress are trying to equate the protesting what Israel is doing with antisemitism.   That is stupid.   Don’t fall for it.  This is a short clip, all the words are in big print on the screen.  Please watch, and then spread the word.  Help these kids.   Hugs.  Scottie


 

Palestinian teenagers Ahmad, and Abdulkareem, both 17, describe their harrowing experiences being interrogated and ill-treated by Israeli forces in the Huwwara Interrogation and Detention Center near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Let’s talk about the Biden impeachment inquiry….