Tag: US Politics

Republicans being assholes and the damaging effects on people it has

Incoming FCC Chair: I’ll Punish CBS On Trump’s Behalf
Walmart And Lowe’s: Trump Tariffs Will Raise Our Prices
AutoZone CEO: “We’ll Pass Tariffs Back To Consumers”

Texas Board Approves Bible Lessons In Public Schools

The bible lessons were pushed by Jonathan Covey [photo], head of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Texas Values, which has appeared here multiple times in the past. In February 2015, on the tenth anniversary of the Texas state ban on same-sex marriage, Texas Values held a “banniversary” celebration complete with a cake-cutting ceremony. The actual tenth “banniversary” wasn’t until November 2015, but Texas Values held their little party months early because they rightly feared what the Supreme Court would ultimately rule in June of that year.

 
https://twitter.com/TFN/status/1858571686955614544
https://twitter.com/technolibrary/status/1858578424874582183
Nancy Mace Has Vile Anti-Trans Melt Down [VIDEO]
Johnson Bans Trans Women From Capitol Restrooms
danolgb5 days ago

I had a classmate tell me that Dems would do better if we dropped the “whole bathroom thing.” I educated him that this was not a fight we chose and that trans people have been around for decades using the bathrooms they fit in best. It was Republicans that made it a “thing.”

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – Vive la résistance  danolgb5 days ago

All of the “hot button social issues” are issues created and kept alive by Republicans.
People are just trying to live their lives, and the GQP decides they’re doing it wrong.

Elagabalus  danolgb5 days ago

Exactly, because Rethugs always know what triggers their fragile, fearful, deeply insecure base the most.

Gigi5 days ago

American People: We don’t have enough money to buy gas, groceries, healthcare or pay rent. We need help!

Republicans: We’re banning trans women from Capitol restrooms.

MTG Threatens To Assault Transgender Rep-Elect

Update In Case Of Just-Elected MAGA Republican Convicted Of Sexual Assault: Victim Was His Daughter

A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas. It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter. fox59.com/news/indycri…

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) 2024-11-20T01:22:20.078Z
Graphic Details In Alleged Hegseth Assault Incident
Hegseth Plans Christianist “Educational Insurgency”

Three wives, adultery with an employee, and an alleged sexual assault is what Jesus would want.

NC House Votes To Strip Power From Dem Gov And AG
Felon-Elect Calls On GOP To “Kill” Press Freedom Bill
Laura Ingraham Admits Trump Will Wreck Economy
Former Marine Charged With Pride Flag Hate Crime

Let’s talk about Texas, a rose by any other name, and Bibles…

McBride To House Dems: Ignore Anti-Trans Attacks

McBride To House Dems: Ignore Anti-Trans Attacks

November 20, 2024 News, Politics

 

NOTUS reports:

House Democrats are brushing off Republican attacks on Rep.-elect Sarah McBride after some GOP members made clear they would attempt to keep McBride from using the women’s restrooms in the Capitol. That’s because McBride told them to.

By Tuesday morning, Democrats had a clear message: Republican attacks on trans people were a distraction from other issues. Sources told NOTUS that McBride had made obvious in meetings that she wanted her colleagues to talk about policy — and what Republicans weren’t doing — instead.

The congresswoman-elect, one lawmaker said, reiterated that Republicans’ messaging was a “distraction” and that this isn’t “her first rodeo” dealing with anti-trans rhetoric. Another House Democrat said they’ve personally talked “extensively” with McBride and “she doesn’t want to be seen as a victim.”

Read the full article.

SkokieDaddy5 days ago

McBride shows us what courage is.

Our incoming president elect remains butthurt over a Vanity Fair article (small hands) from over 30 years ago.

McBride brushes off direct personal attacks and wants us to focus on policy. Our incoming president wants SNL taken off the air because they told jokes.

Ron the Juan5 days ago

We just need to elect more trans people to office.

stuckinthewoods  Ron the Juan5 days ago

In 2018 Virginia’s Danica Roem was the first out trans person elected to any state legislature, as a Delegate. Last year she was elected as a state Senator, and when that happened she became the second in the US to be elected to a state Senate, after Sarah McBride’s election in 2020. Interesting both mid-Atlantic, soon everywhere hopefully.

DmR 5 days ago

Most people have more important things to be concerned about than what is or may have been between another’s legs!

CB5 days ago

Greene and her ilk are beyond pathetic. As it happens, I’ve worked with and written about more than a usual share of trans people.

Their journeys and, in some cases, what they’ve endured to live their lives authentically and with joy are far greater than this.

McBride can let them spin in the sewer of their ignorance, immaturity, and hatred while McBride focuses on being a grownup. I applaud her response, and I have to say I’m not the least bit surprised.

Todd20036 5 days ago

Democrats always play the mature opponent

Usually very noble, but that won’t help in a fascist government

Houndentenor 5 days ago

The problem is that Democrats can’t avoid talking about trans people because Republicans won’t let us. We aren’t bringing it up. I don’t think it’s a big issue. Yes, it affects trans people but no one else is harmed by a small percentage of our population being treated fairly and decently.

Texas is a good example. Ted Cruz made trans girls playing sports a core issue in the campaign. Allred tried to avoid that topic but had to address it. And it didn’t matter. Never mind that Cruz used images of cis-gendered girls from Oregon in his ad because this is just not a problem in Texas. Nope. That’s not scary enough for the knuckle-dragging redneck assholes that show up to vote in Texas.

I agree we shouldn’t bring it up, but it’s naive to think that it’s an issue we can just ignore because Republicans are not going to shut up about it because they think it helped them in this year. Look for several more rounds of this shit. Trans girls in sports is the new gay marriage.

What AOC had to say about the House bathroom ban

Please listen to the audio as the written part doesn’t fully capture what she said and why she said it.   This is also in a post Ali made from friend Janet at her blog which I will link below.  Janet is an amazing woman and I enjoy reading her blog.  But AOC mentioned what this is about is targeting people who do not fit the people on the right view of who looks like a man to them or who looks like a woman to them.   

Also Johnson said this was not a hardship for McBride as she could use all the public bathrooms or I guess they have private bathrooms in their offices?  Well why couldn’t Mace also do the same or use her own bathroom rather than making the spectacle and forcing all trans people to be targeted with suspicion from people.   She was the only one complaining?   Well if he told her that they couldn’t make a big deal of it, Johnson wouldn’t be able to push his Christian cred and Mace wouldn’t be able to carry on for a week on a crusade against someone not harming her in any way.  Hard to fund raise off a threat that doesn’t exist unless they can make it seem like one.    Hugs.

Stand with Sarah McBride: Join the Bathroom Ban Protest

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride."They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can … fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2024-11-21T02:48:10.270Z

When We Can’t Tell The Difference Between Truth And Lies…

This is an incredible video on lies and truth, not because he tells us to call out the lies, but look to the real serious needs below the lies.   I finally after several hours of fighting got the finial very large big program installed on my main computer.   Hugs.  

Lunchtime Reading

The links are priceless to read on their own, but there is fine info when we click.

Lastday Lounge Losers Licking Lips …

Odessa Texas Legislates Bathroom Use…

I like how he brings it all together and asks what is it for really?  He mentions that if it is to protect the kids then you need to outlaw youth pastors from the bathrooms.  He mentions how churches have abused far more children than trans people.   He asks what kind of community does it foster if everyone is looking at everyone to judge if they are manly enough or feminine enough to fit some people’s gender ideas.  He points out how hurtful the laws are and how they serve no purpose.  The mayor who passed it said he needed to bring the people back to god.  Rev. Trevors asks how this is going to do that.  Hugs

Peace & Justice History for 11/23

November 23, 1170 BCE
 
The first recorded strike took place in Egypt when necropolis workers who had not been paid for their work in more than two months sat down and refused to work until they were paid and able to eat.
More about this 1st strike 
November 23, 1887
Black Louisiana sugarcane workers, in cooperation with the racially integrated Knights of Labor, had gone on strike at the beginning of the month over their meager pay issued in script (not cash). The script was redeemable only at the company store where excessive prices were charged. When the first freeze of the season arrived and damaged the crop, the plantation owners were angered. The Louisiana Militia, aided by bands of “prominent citizens,” shot and killed at least 35 unarmed black sugar workers striking to gain a dollar-per-day wage, and lynched two strike leaders in what became known as the Thibodaux Massacre.
More on the Thibodaux Massacre
November 23, 1981
President Ronald Reagan signed off on a top secret document, National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), which gave the Central Intelligence Agency a budget of $19 million to recruit and support a 500-man force of Nicaraguan insurgents to conduct covert actions against the leftist Sandinista elected government. This marked the beginning of official U.S. support for the so-called contras in their war against the Nicaraguans.

Read (most of) the memo 
More on the Reagan policy 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorynovember.htm#november23

SHRINKAGE: Trump’s victory shrivels into a tiny embarrassment

— Donald Trump’s popular vote victory margin continues to decrease, now down to just 2.5 million votes (1.6%)

Peace & Justice History for 11/22:

November 22, 1909

In New York City, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union went on strike against sweatshop conditions in what became known as the “Uprising of the 20,000” and the “Girl’s Revolt.”
The strikers won the support of other workers and the women’s suffrage movement for their persistence and unity in the face of police brutality and biased courts. A judge told arrested pickets: “You are on strike against God.” This was the first mass strike by women in the U.S.
ILGWU timeline 
November 22, 1963
President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas during a motorcade.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president within hours.
November 22, 1968

What is believed to be the first interracial kiss on U.S. broadcast television occurred in an episode of Star Trek between William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols.
More about this kiss 
November 22, 1998
7,000 marched on the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, outside Columbus, Georgia.They were protesting the school’s training of Latin American soldiers and other security personnel who return to their countries and are involved in violence and oppression of their populations. 2,319 people were arrested for trespassing.
Protests at the School of the Americas, organized by SOA Watch, occur every November. The school is now known by the U.S. Army as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.

2002 protest at SOA
Visit School of the Americas watch.

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