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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 26, 2017 22:17:18 GMT -5
Medical costs associated with serving trans-gendered servicemen and service women: $8 million Medical costs associated with serving servicemen with erectile dysfunction: $41 million Which one is a superfluous cost that is a great hindrance to the armed forces again? Gee, in my time in the military, the only erectile dysfunction was Congress; they were usually a bunch of limp d...............
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 27, 2017 2:29:01 GMT -5
I’d like to see Trump or any of his relatives go hand to hand with a female-to-male trans pal of mine from the Bay Area, on youtube live, then let a plebiscite decide.
my pal would clean his clock. As they would anyone Trump chose to rumble in his stead.
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Post by Spike-X on Jul 27, 2017 4:53:14 GMT -5
So, now Trump is reversing anti-discriminatory actions at an unprecedented level. Last year, the Sec. of Defense announced a lifting on the ban of transgender serving in the military. There are estimates as high as 25,000 currently serving transgender, with other between 10 and 15,000. Now, someone who has never served a day in his life has stripped away their right to serve their country, openly and honorably. His proclaimed reasoning of medical costs is bulls#$%. His reasoning is bulls#$%. These are men and women honorably serving their country, not selling it out to Russians, corporate interests, or personal gain. The act of taking rights away is unconscionable. And how does he announce it? Does he take the podium and address the press face to face? No, the cowardly little sh@#$ does it another f#$%ing tweet! I served in the time when gay and lesbians were openly banned from the military, before Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I saw too many good people drummed out of the service due to fear and ignorance. The institution of that policy, a minor step that it was, put a stop to that (provided the servicemember kept quiet about their orientation). It was the right thing to do. Eventually, they progressed enough to fully protect those servicemembers. Now, a pampered, draft-dodging trust-funded, conniving, con artist, sexual predator, liar, self-absorbed, autocratic, mindless euphemism for genitalia says that a class of people aren't worthy to serve. I guess he missed the part about protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. I didn't when I took my oath and neither did those servicemembers. I've never served, but as far as I'm concerned, the military shouldn't be a safe space for bigots.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 27, 2017 5:06:20 GMT -5
I've never served, but as far as I'm concerned, the military shouldn't be a safe space for bigots. as bigotry in effect cancels any safespace, yes. well said. as long as 'bigotry' isn't 'malapropped' the way antifa abuses the word 'fascist'. and often spells it incorrectly on their placards and banners.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 27, 2017 7:09:51 GMT -5
leaving aside that this 'trumpism' yet again came forth in the form of a lousy tweet... (grrrrrrrrrr!)
it's also gonna 'open the barn door' for other grossly unfair things, imo.
such as intersex people in the military.
which will in turn start the slippery-slope to questioning whether we can have dedicated intersex ppl serving as police officers.
i mean, S***W this guy. i don't say that as someone either 'left' or 'right', i say this as someone who doesn't want the military embarrassed by someone who seems to hold a smartphone in his hand when he takes his morning dump and says to himself 'what can i do to outrage people today, and get away with it?'
that's BUZZfeed's gig.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 27, 2017 11:21:46 GMT -5
Mark Evanier linked to this article on his blog: it's from the American Conservative, and makes the case for universal health care... because it saves everyone money. It would be funny if it was a Republican congress that finally introduced such a measure.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 27, 2017 11:34:27 GMT -5
Mark Evanier linked to this article on his blog: it's from the American Conservative, and makes the case for universal health care... because it saves everyone money. It would be funny if it was a Republican congress that finally introduced such a measure. most likely will be, lol
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 27, 2017 14:30:00 GMT -5
I love the latest quote from Kellyanne Conway:
If you have nothing to hide then the disclosures are just something you fill out and never think about ever again...it's only if you have dealing you'd rather not be made public that these forms would demoralize you.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 27, 2017 15:23:18 GMT -5
I love the latest quote from Kellyanne Conway: If you have nothing to hide then the disclosures are just something you fill out and never think about ever again...it's only if you have dealing you'd rather not be made public that these forms would demoralize you. Do you mean "divulging" assets, not divesting, because those mean two different things? One jumps through hoops, not runs through them That's barely English, and it is definitely not a coherent or intelligible thought.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 27, 2017 15:41:13 GMT -5
I love the latest quote from Kellyanne Conway: I find it telling that "serve the president" comes first, "this administration" second and the country third. A distant third.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 27, 2017 16:06:15 GMT -5
I love the latest quote from Kellyanne Conway: If you have nothing to hide then the disclosures are just something you fill out and never think about ever again...it's only if you have dealing you'd rather not be made public that these forms would demoralize you. Do you mean "divulging" assets, not divesting, because those mean two different things? One jumps through hoops, not runs through them That's barely English, and it is definitely not a coherent or intelligible thought. I was going to comment on that as well, but at this point I thought it was kind of like beating a dead horse. The people that this President chooses to represent him has always been a bit of a joke but it's not one that's getting any funnier with age.
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Post by Spike-X on Jul 27, 2017 19:36:19 GMT -5
"...which is how he ends up with idiots like me."
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Post by The Captain on Jul 27, 2017 20:21:30 GMT -5
Do you mean "divulging" assets, not divesting, because those mean two different things? One jumps through hoops, not runs through them That's barely English, and it is definitely not a coherent or intelligible thought. I was going to comment on that as well, but at this point I thought it was kind of like beating a dead horse. The people that this President chooses to represent him has always been a bit of a joke but it's not one that's getting any funnier with age. Well, I'm not going to stop until the carcass is completely pulped, because it is an unending source of embarrassment for the US that Chief Oompa Loompa and his cabal of morons continue to speak and write and tweet, lots of tweeting, too much f#@$%ing tweeting in an absolute nonsensical manner like a gaggle of 13-year old girls hopped up on triple-espresso-laced chocolate caramel frappes with double whipped cream. After just 6 months of this idiocy, it makes me long for the bucolic days of GW Bush, who misused words a lot and seemed a little slower than the rest of the bunch, but who I honestly believe had good intentions at heart but just wasn't skilled enough to pull them off (although Emperor Palpatine, I mean VP Cheney, was a completely different story)
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 27, 2017 20:35:34 GMT -5
I was going to comment on that as well, but at this point I thought it was kind of like beating a dead horse. The people that this President chooses to represent him has always been a bit of a joke but it's not one that's getting any funnier with age. Well, I'm not going to stop until the carcass is completely pulped, because it is an unending source of embarrassment for the US that Chief Oompa Loompa and his cabal of morons continue to speak and write and tweet, lots of tweeting, too much f#@$%ing tweeting in an absolute nonsensical manner like a gaggle of 13-year old girls hopped up on triple-espresso-laced chocolate caramel frappes with double whipped cream. After just 6 months of this idiocy, it makes me long for the bucolic days of GW Bush, who misused words a lot and seemed a little slower than the rest of the bunch, but who I honestly believe had good intentions at heart but just wasn't skilled enough to pull them off (although Emperor Palpatine, I mean VP Cheney, was a completely different story) Yeah, I think President Trump is making a lot of people evaluate the Bush Presidency, and if that's the single good thing Trump actually gets done I'm glad as although I didn't agree with a lot of what President W. Bush put forward but I liked him enough to vote for him both times and have thought that he has gotten a raw deal in the court of public opinion.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 27, 2017 21:30:56 GMT -5
Al Jaffee has a few things to say about Trump and healthcare. Al Jaffee is a freakin' national treasure.
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