Yep, they forced our hand alright.
I love trans people, and believe they should be treated like human beings. I’m not afraid or ashamed to admit it.
If only the Democrats will do the same… who am I kidding, they won’t.
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Even the Democrats most on the corporate/religious teat changed their support before Trump (though many didn’t until Obama was in office), you can argue that they should have done it sooner (and you would be 100% accurate) but they didn’t drop identity politics after 2016 despite many, many of the donor class pushing for them to abandon it.
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And then hell froze over and Senator Shelby stood up for trans troops.
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My scout masters were almost all retired enlisted officers (Enlisted grades, no officer corp grades), Chiefs and Sergants and various Airpeople.
We learned a lot about ropes and fires and tenting in the rain. We also learned close order drill, which is the marching. We got good at it (no fake rifles or anything) and at scout camp we would march to dinner, march to the pond, march to roll call, etc… Years later I run into someone who attended a same camp, and remembers us. Terrifying 11 year old him.
All we could do was walk in unison. It can be pretty scary stuff when people team up.
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I read that there were republicans arguing about what would and wouldn’t be included for military trans people medically in the bill that also includes Trumps lame ass wall. And that it was causing some risk to the bill. So his solution was to just ban all trans people to end the debate that risked his fucking wall.
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that’s what I read, too.
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I know everyone here knows what a vile thing he is. But that he would just take a dump on 10k+ solders because he thinks their benefits might hurt his lame ass wall. He’s even shittier than I realized. And it’s not even about total dollar value. As has been pointed out. The military spends 10x the amount on Viagra. He just wanted to end a debate.
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Rachel Maddow speculated that this whole anti-trans thing is a way of placating the fans of Jeff (Hatefilled Bigot) Sessions. If they are feeling big and strong over this, then maybe they won’t get too pissed off when Sessions is shitcanned. Personally, I think Sessions should stay on long enough that he’s there to go down with the ship.
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He obviously lacks any ability to engage in nuanced negotiations. Someone says there is a problem, out comes his hammer, problem solved. He is so unqualified for statesmanship. I feel sorry for him that he is trapped in a role he is so unsuited for. I feel sorry for the rest of us having to put up with this person so incapable of serving us. I have no idea how I will survive the hate he represents and stirs in people. That Scout Jamboree speech is terrifying.
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Fortunately as the Soviet (Red) Army was pretty co-ed in WW2 and a lot of people either left accounts or have been interviewed by historians, we have the answer.
No.
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This just in: government policy decisions are best not implemented by tweeting.
Brenner-Beck said its even legally questionable whether a declaration from the president’s personal social media account is enough to launch the process of rewriting Pentagon regulations, calling it “a whole new frontier."
“A tweet doesn’t really give you policy,” she said. “How do you implement a tweet? Usually you would have some kind of an actual policy document that comes down.”
A Defense Department official, speaking on the condition they not be named, said Thursday that the Pentagon is scrambling to coordinate with the White House for guidance on the way forward, noting that there is an urgent need to explain to the troops what it means.
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I posted that over at TOS. Cracked is first and foremost a humor site, but they can put out some great news stories sometimes.
As for the topic… I’m as appalled and disgusted as everyone else here. It’s the typical bigotry we’ve sadly come to expect from this sorry administration. I’m ashamed that our brave servicemembers who have so nobly dedicated their lives in service to our country are facing attack from our vile shitgibbon of a so-called Commander-In-Chief. Beyond that… I have no words.
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This is the underlying issue for all his problems. Even if Trump was a diehard progressive democrat he would be fucking things up - some how, some way, because he just doesn’t know how to do the job.
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Tricksy hobbitses are not a protected class, my precious!
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Windbags require more lung capacity than Trump[et]s, there is that. Tweets don’t need much air at all.
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WWI, too.
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