I’m sure if you built a Venn diagram of people who were part of the silent majority, the moral majority, the Tea Party and MAGA, you’d have a set of concentric circles.
This is about as pure a distillation as you can produce. Trumpism legitimizes the personal pathologies of its adherents. That’s really all it has to offer to anyone who isn’t a hyper-polluting billionaire.
I have no problem with someone’s sexuality but I got to admit, when one person is being refenced, the pronouns they and them are a bit awkward for me.
When did America stop standing for freedom?
When did "I’m going to stop you from having the freedom to decide your own life because I think your decisions don’t align with my values and beliefs " become acceptable?
Is this the 21st century?
I just have this thought of the Puritans and others being kicked out of their countries 400 years ago.
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Most people don’t like anything shoved down their throats. But the only things being shoved with the force of law are denial of abortion rights, denial of parents to care for their transgender kids, restrictive voting procedures, and so on. Think about that for a minute. There’s a big difference between people speaking out and protesting that their point of view ought to be considered versus people saying “fuck you, here’s another law restricting what you can do”.
And then there’s that fascist Abbott deciding that he doesn’t like an Austin jury’s decision and he’s going to unilaterally nullify by pardoning a murderer. Do you know how overwhelming the evidence has to be to convict a police officer of anything, much less murder?
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Shoved down their throats?
Honestly, would you have ever heard of this woman if Kid Rock hadn’t thrown his hissy fit?
Que the name calling when a liberal doesn’t agree with you.
You know what, I’m not too crazy about they/them pronouns, either, but fuck it. If that’s what I can do to show some compassion to someone that has more to work through than maybe I do, whatever, man. I figure my linguistic discomfort is quite minor compared to what they (sing.) are dealing with.
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The fact that they view demonstrating a bare minimum amount of basic human decency as it “being shoved down their throats” speaks volumes.
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Oh, yes, let’s use one-day stock movements to predict the future. Shrewd investment advice.
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I don’t agree with Republicans’ view on abortion. I just don’t like seeing some hairy guy wearing a dress, I’m sorry, I can’t support that.
Buy low, sell high.
That’ll be $1 million, please.
$5 billion dollars is nothing to sneeze at. What do you suppose caused that?
How does it hurt you? How does it affect your life in any way?
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I’m not interested in arguing about it.
I couldn’t care less if the hairy guy is wearing a dress. Or if the guy in the dress is hairy. Or if the woman in the dress is hairy. Well, as long as they’re not wearing square-toed shoes. Either way, it doesn’t change my sexual preference. I’m secure in my sexuality.
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At 3PM there’s a town hall meeting in Llano to determine if they will
a) put the “banned” books back on the shelf, like the Federal Judge told them to, or
b) close the public libraries
I can agree on square toed shoes. But I feel an exception should be made about square toed boots.
Here’s what I can’t abide is open toed shoes with hose that is seriously fucked up and I don’t care what anyone thinks.
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