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The cons are just the worst. They repeat slogans like "pro-life" and "protect the children" - then do everything to cause harm to children.
I wish we could just carve out some Gilead area for them in some cattle country somewhere and let them go form their perfect utopia there and leave the rest of us normal Americans the hell alone. The only downside is that they'd be abusing the hell out of their own kids in that utopia.
Wooooow.
What a strange time to be alive.
To be fair to our ancestors though, this isn’t new. They just change the target from time to time. Once they do their damage and everyone sees how ugly it is and gets behind the victims of their shit, they just switch targets.
“Well, I got a half black grandbaby, I reckon I’ll stop lynchin’. I’m sorry. You mean I can lynch a gay? Well heck! Yeeeehaw! Git over here fruitcake! Awwww shucks, you mean my grandbaby done growed up to be gay? Well, now I understand, it all makes sense. Can I lynch the trans? Wooooohooooo! Git over here deadname!”
The GOP is really full of the worst of humanity and have nothing better to do than do shit like this.
Ok, with trans folks conservatives found a pretty small group to go after, curious what even smaller group would be next.
Way to dilute the meaning of being on the list.
I would bet that if you investigate the author of the bill enough, you'll find that they have some kind of relationship (friends, relative, money changing hands, etc...) with someone in the list who has a vested interest in it being watered down!
Gotta find some way to hide all the priests that the churches couldn't protect when they got caught preying.
Doesn't that go against free speech? The first amendment?
It absolutely does, but the republicans don’t care. They hope the courts won’t strike it down, but even when the courts do strike it down, it’s still a win for republicans in office because their voters love the attempts at violating the human rights and civil rights of anyone who is different from them. Republican voters also remain ignorant of the fact that all these court battles cost money, their tax-payer money.
Fuck the GOP.
You can here the calls now, can't you? "Why don't people want to go into teaching anymore?"
Killing education has been a GOP cornerstone for at least a century now. Education teaches people to think for themselves and make educated decisions, and those types of people would never vote Republican. The GOP are grooming children to vote for them to let them stay in power.
Their politics isn't "support the next generation". It is "how can the next generation support us". Education is the antithesis of this ideal.
I'm honestly surprised that people are still in teaching positions considering the terrible wages and ridiculous amount of work they have to do
I love how the GOP is committing suicide.
Their base loves this.
We like to pretend that but they seem to be going strong. Their base, and there is a lot of them, eat this shit up.
We’ll find out in November. 🤢
True. But, as of right now, polls have Biden and the dip shit neck and neck pretty much. I know polls aren't' everything but....yeah. Thats still scary.
Polls mean nothing and should be ignored. The last 3 elections have proven that.
The last election had them being pretty close and that's what it was. Remember?
I never said they are perfect, I was very clear about that. But they do give you a general idea.
I’m pretty worried. If he wins, I doubt there will ever be another election until the government is overthrown, which could take decades.
Handmaids tale was not on my list of acceptable dystopian futures.
Yep. Not gonna lie, pretty fucking worried too.
The fact that anyone thinks this is sane is legitimately sad...
They don't want trans people to exist as anything but a porn category, so they treat us as just that, a profanity. It'd be funny because of how pathetic it is, but real people are dying because of this.
I hear you. Have you read Project 25? They have plans to take it to the extreme if Trump wins.
it leads down a pretty dark rabbit whole of general Federalist Society plans for an overtly conservative autocratic regime, and it's terrifyingly plausible if they consolidate enough power and funding. and that's all pretty easy with the support of foreign oligarchs that need the US to be fully involved in its own libertarian implosion, so it can turn a blind eye to international war crimes.
i long for the times when conspiracy theories used to be fun spooky stories about cryptids wandering the wilds, and aliens doing creepy stuff in cornfields to mess with farmers
This is a campaigning bill. The wrote it to create these headlines, to rile up their shit base.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A newly proposed law in Missouri could charge teachers and counselors with a felony and require them to register as sex offenders if they’re found guilty of supporting transgender students who are socially transitioning.
In an interview with CNN affiliate KY3, Gragg said the goal of the bill is to “put the social learning development of our children back in the hands of the parents.”
During a news conference Thursday, Charles Gragg, Jr., a retired and disabled veteran who lives in Springfield, Missouri, said he was shocked by the bill his younger brother authored and that the measure “took his breath away.”
“We will certainly have conversations with legislators to see what can be done, but also we’ll mobilize our community of LGBTQ+ Missourians and allies to fight back against this because teachers are an incredibly crucial part of our educational system,” Fischer said.
“While this egregious bill is expected to die in committee hearings, it is increasingly alarming to watch extremist state legislators peddle anti-trans hate and continue to introduce discriminatory policies,” Willingham-Jaggers said in a statement to CNN.
Civil rights groups and advocates have blamed a heightened and hostile climate against the LGBTQ+ community for contributing to Benedict’s death.
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It's wildly absurd yet entirely on brand for the GOP.