Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

It’s kinda why I don’t expect it will happen or if it does it won’t go very far. They will attack trans people to create scapegoats. But porn is consumed by too many of their supporters and so going after it will be a lot of hassle for no gain.
If history is any indication politicians usually only do the things the religious right wants that serve them. If it doesn’t serve them then they just don’t do it.

In other news, Sarah McBride will become the first openly transgender person in Congress thanks to this election. And Republicans are celebrating by passing a bill to - pause for the cause - bar them from using the bathroom of their chosen gender in Congress. You know the kind of bills they pushed on schools to “protect the children”…but now for Congress?

Meanwhile basically none in Trump’s administration is allowed within 100 feet of a school. So you know, priorities.

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@Dustcan
Proving how woke the republican Congress is.

The most frustrating part of all this is how quickly Representative McBride capitulated, calling it a distraction and agreeing to abide by the rules imposed on her. This has emboldened Mace, who has now introduced a bill to force trans people to use the restroom of their assigned sex at birth on all federal property, including Dulles Airport, national parks, and other government buildings.

Fox News aired a whole segment dedicated to gleefully misgendering and deadnaming McBride, and Libs of Tik Tok posted wishing her by her deadname a happy International Men’s Day. Fuckers smell blood in the water, and the escalation of their rhetoric (particularly from Mace herself) is pretty unprecedented.

I’m not even sure if I’m exaggerating when I say she’ll probably be found dead on the House floor before 2025 is over. The transphobia is going to come to a head sooner or later.

I don’t know if it’d happen to her specifically, but I fear for the many trans interns and assistants that work at the Capitol, and who don’t have the (theoretical) power of an elected office behind them.

Yeah, close enough.
Welcome back, Herbert Hoover. :/

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George W. Bush, actually.

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Oh, darn it.
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Well Putler carried through with launching an ICBM at Ukraine. No surprise there was little damage.