...and other dog whistles.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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I hate them so much
Rotten filthy people, every last one.
But you can stop them with this one weird trick.
Republicans don't want you to know this one weird trick.
It'd help if people used the weird trick more than once every four years
Learn how to shoot a handgun and a rifle while you still can.
And vote like someone less fortunate depends on it. They do.
I'm bi. I'm pretty sure I'm bi. Hold on let me ask my wife... Hold on I need to get this dick out of...I'll just text her. She said yes.
Anyway 😉, are they going to come for us too? How about swingers? What about the naked people who burn art every year out I. The desert in one big "city" bs they just want to be naked and watch others be naked...are they coming for those folks too?
The uncomfortable answer here is that they’ll likely try to force y’all into exclusively hetero relationships through overwhelming force on those of us who are unwilling to do that. And yeah they’ll definitely come for swingers and such but it’ll be like enforcement of marijuana laws under bush.
It was more of a rhetorical question. We're going to have to secretly love people that we can't love out in the open. And by love I mean love and or sexually pleasuring. I hope Trump goes away on his own. Maybe in a dream where Stormy is choking him but in reality it's a peanut that he didn't chew. Or heart attack right during a flight somewhere on a Boeing, but I mean while outside of the plane. Boeing makes it hard to stay inside the plane at all times for certain seats.
They're going to come for anyone that disagrees with them or anyone that they don't like.
Which if you disagree with them means you are included
Gosh darn it!
Conservatives love to hate everything and everyone. They love to make life miserable as much as possible, especially when it has no impact on their normal day to day life.
To be clear they love to make your life worse to enrich those and have convinced a massive voter base that their lives are getting worse because of you and not them.
If they owned a glass factory they would be hiring thugs to go around town breaking windows.
Conservatives will complain about broken families rasing kids then vote for wage cuts, force people to have kids and erode public education.
Will?
They are actively doing that right now.
I don't know if you're ESL, but yes, that was already implied grammatically.
Always have.
They'll have to win the presidency, both houses of Congress and end the filibuster if they want to implement any of these plans. I guess it's possible but unlikely. They could have done that in the first two years of Trump's presidency if it really mattered to them. But all they really want is corporate tax cuts.
It's important to keep news about these plans circulating though. Having a large anti-Trump turnout is the one thing that ensures they never get a chance to implement their agenda.
Project 2025 details exactly how they intend to do all of that.
They’ll have to win the presidency, both houses of Congress and end the filibuster if they want to implement any of these plans.
No they won't. Trump will do as much as he can through executive orders, backed by a cabinet full of sycophants, a Supreme Court willing to back him up, and various state governments (Most notably, states like Florida and Texas) gleefully willing to march in lockstep. Anything that has to be done through Congress will be done via a pressure campaign of essentially grinding the government to a halt until the Democrats cave in and give them what they want (see the now-shuttered immigration bill that almost got passed as an example), which has been a strategy that has been proven effective for decades.
Good luck on trying to enforce those orders in Blue states.
police in california are already brazenly violating California state law by sending license plate tracking info to red states. expect more and worse.
And for some reason California isn’t disarming and discharging them. The police there are acting as a hostile occupier opposing democratically decided rules.
They won't have to.
Their plan is to shutter things at the federal level. Blue states won't have a say in the matter. Their goal is to shutter agencies like the Department of Education. Their goal is to close DE&I programs at the federal level.
Sure, states can still do things like run a Head Start or fund their school meals programs if they want to. But how many states would be able to without the federal funds that currently support those programs? How many states would be willing to go through the effort? Or even able to?
None of this would need the support of blue states. They can just gut the funding and watch the state level programs shrivel up on their own.
So, they the want the blue states to secede.
Yes. Because then they can turn the army’s guns on the blue states with impunity. I’m pretty sure it’s why they float the idea among their base; so we hear it too, and it stays in our minds.
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