#Republican war on lgbtqia+

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[nando161mando]

Dems are already rushing to scapegoat the trans community, some blaming the support of trans rights as a reason for Harris's loss.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us/politics/democrats-kamala-harris.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU4.kF1q.d5RAok6aekNd&smid=url-share

[disillusioned-diaries]

As Free as the United States is, our Foreign Interactions Suck (Specifically, US involvement in Ukraine Russia War)

If Ukraine joins NATO before the war with Russia is resolved, WW3 between the US, NATO countries, and Russia appears to be inevitable.

In the scenario in which this happens, I am leaving this country (the United States) for a country that is neutral and/or against the shit the United States pulls on the rest of the world.

I will not serve as collateral damage for whatever insanity our corrupt and demented leaders try and put us through

I want to have nothing to do with this shit.

I'm an American and I literally hate the fact that we are being emotionally and financially coerced by Ukraine to give them more and more of our hard-earned money to continue a war that does not benefit the American people, and a fight that neither Ukraine nor the United States HAS NO EXIT PLAN for.

I am starting to side with Russia in a certain way.

The United States is trying to impose their will on Russia by 1. Trying to turn a country that borders Russia into a NATO country, and 2. Portraying Russia as an unjustified aggressor.

Honestly, I hate the tragedy of war, but it just seems to be an inevitable part of life, in that, for example, if you see that your country is getting pushed around by the United States, a global superpower, you are of course going to want to push back.

The strength a country shows, and the respect they receive for that acknowledgement of their strength is the key to peace.

The United States does not respect the strength and political autonomy of Russia and many other countries.

As much as I appreciate the freedoms and opportunities I have in the United States, I am not proud of the foreign interactions the US has had with other countries.

The United States is always trying to convince foreign countries that our way of life is going to "elevate" their society, notably, in 2014 when Obama tried to convince Uganda that they shouldn't pass an anti-homosexuality bill (1).

I'm sorry, but does our society look like its thriving with gay and bisexual men representing over half of all AIDS and HIV victims(2) ?

We also have about about forty to fifty percent divorce rate amongst the general population(3), and sixty seven percent of black children being born into single parent homes(4), so tell me United States, who claims to be so anti-racist and accepting, why are you trying to ruin black-African societies?

I am in no way saying that African, or any foreign countries are perfect, or lacking problems of their own, but their problems are exactly that, their own!

Why does the western world feel the need to try and "fix" other's problems!

Especially with the inflation that the people of the United States are experiencing, apparently now is the time to devote our time, money and resources into other countries problems with governments that are, at the very least not free of political corruption.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/obama-issues-warning-uganda-anti-gay-legislation

2. https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/fact-sheets/hiv/HIV-gay-bisexual-men.html

3. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/divorce/divorce-statistics/

4. https://afro.com/census-bureau-higher-percentage-black-children-live-single-mothers/

*Bonus Content*

On a sort of related note, here is a savage video of the Uganda president unashamedly declaring his opinion about homosexuals. This man appears to be more honest than most US politicians.

[jbaileyfansite]

Interview with The Telegraph (2023)

We all know what is meant by McCarthyism. It ­popularly refers to the first half of the 1950s, when Senator Joseph R McCarthy led a ruthless ­campaign to hound suspected communists out of the US government. What’s less well-remembered than the Red Menace is the Lavender Scare: by an executive order from President Eisenhower, McCarthyism also targeted gays and lesbians. “If you want to be against McCarthy, boys,” the senator once told the press, “you’ve got to be either a Communist or a c--ksucker.”

Thus gay men and women, living closeted lives as they worked for the state, were targeted by sinister-sounding bodies: the FBI’s Sex ­Deviance Investigations Unit, ­Washington DC police’s Sex ­Perversion Elimination Program and the Department of State’s M Unit. All sought to identify ­government employees deemed to be security risks vulnerable to blackmail.

Popular culture lost sight of the Lavender Scare until it was brought into the light in the US by Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel Fellow ­Travelers. Set mostly in the early 1950s, it told of a tangled romance between two men; Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller, a handsome war veteran and political fixer who steers clear of emotional attachment until he meets Tim Laughlin, a sweet young Catholic newcomer to DC whom he nicknames Skippy and sets up in the office of a Republican senator.

The novel was not published in the UK. But now it has been adapted for television, and one piece of ­casting in particular feels ­calculated to get the attention of audiences beyond the US: Laughlin is played by British actor Jonathan Bailey, best known as the Regency heartthrob Anthony, 9th Viscount Bridgerton.

His co-star is the American Matt Bomer, who, like Bailey, professes ignorance of what the New York Times, in its review of the novel, referred to as “the Lavender Hill mob”. “It’s a chapter of LGBTQIA history that I was completely ­unaware of,” he says.

This is not the first time the novel has been adapted – it was staged as an opera in Cincinnati in 2016. By then it had already caught the attention of Ron Nyswaner, who laboured over bringing the book to the screen for the best part of a ­decade. Best known for his script for Philadelphia, the 1993 Aids courtroom drama which earned Tom Hanks his first Oscar, it was his stint as a producer of Homeland that persuaded Showtime to fund an expensive eight-part decades-spanning drama. “I’m still in ­disbelief that we were able to tell this story on the scale that we were able to tell it,” says Bomer, who is also an executive producer on the drama.

The scale is considerable. The period detail of 1950s Washington, in both corridors of power and gay demimonde, is lavishly recreated. And as the story progresses it parts company with the novel, which opens with Hawk looking back at the closure of his career as a ­diplomat in Tallinn in 1991. Nyswaner’s script expands to take in other pivots in modern US ­history: the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the spread of Aids in the 1980s, when the now-married Hawk and the dying Laughlin meet for a final reckoning.

I met the drama’s two stars in London earlier in the summer, before the actors’ strike in ­Hollywood put a stop to such encounters. It was the first time they’d seen each other since the end of the shoot. Bomer, though just off the plane and heavily jet-lagged, exudes a chiselled, blue-eyed intensity. Bailey fizzes with puppyish energy. Both are themselves gay and Bailey in particular sees their casting as a sign of ­progress. “We would not be playing these parts five or 10 years ago,” he says. The highlights of his CV are mix and match. He has played mainly straight characters on ­television in the likes of Broadchurch, Crashing and W1A, and gay characters on stage in the Sondheim musical Company and Mike Bartlett’s play C--k in the West End. 

The career of Bomer, 10 years his senior, looks a little more linear. His most high-profile film role is as an object of ladies’ lust in male-strippers drama Magic Mike and its sequel. But in 2014 he won a Golden Globe playing a closeted journalist in HBO’s adaptation of Larry ­Kramer’s play The Normal Heart. In 2018, he made his Broadway debut as part of an exclusively gay cast reviving The Boys in the Band, a ­portrait of gay life in 1960s New York. 

Earlier on the day we met, ­Stanley Tucci had said on Desert Island Discs that he doesn’t see why straight actors shouldn’t play gay characters. “I think it’s incredibly complicated and nuanced,” says Bailey with a sigh. “You just want to make sure that everyone feels there’s enough space at the table. Everyone who is panicking that they’re never going to be able to play outside their own experience is wasting their energy.”

Bomer counters that it ought to cut both ways, that gay actors should be allowed to play straight. He speaks darkly of movie ­producers who “wouldn’t hire me because of who I was”, of gay actors who “weren’t even given a shot. A lot of it boils down to opportunity. Was ­everyone given the opportunity for the role? There is something about seeing the most authentic version of who you are represented on screen. It gives you hope.”

In Fellow Travelers that ­authenticity is portrayed most unswervingly in the bedroom, which the plot requires Hawk and Laughlin to visit often. “I haven’t necessarily really seen gay intimacy in a way that I would want to,” says Bailey. I gently remind him of Linus Roache, who plays a senator in ­Fellow Travelers but, back in 1994, starred in Jimmy McGovern’s Priest as a Catholic priest struggling with his sexuality – graphically so in a central scene with Robert Carlyle. “Oh yeah, that’s true,” he says. “I looked to that a lot.” 

As is on trend for male actors ­nowadays, both leads look ­impeccable with their shirts off in low honeyed lighting. “Hawk is ex-military and he also wants to appeal to people in bathroom stalls,” ­reasons Bomer, who did period-appropriate Royal Canadian Air Force drills and looks no less ­pneumatic than he did in Magic Mike.

Bailey concedes that Laughlin, who orders milk the first time we meet him, boasts the body of a Greek god for the simple reason that the shoot overlapped with Bridgerton (yes, he confirms, the newly married Anthony is back for the third season). “There’s no way Tim would have had a Bridgerton body, but what can you do if you’re commuting? I was like, I really want to lose weight to tell Tim’s story, but I lost fat and just got really ripped.”

How resonant is the history ­portrayed in Fellow Travelers to today? It’s easy to play six degrees of separation between now and then. For instance, McCarthy’s ­closeted sidekick Roy Cohn is a lead character (played here by Will Brill). A ferocious prosecutor of both communists and gays, he would go on to be Donald Trump’s lawyer, before dying of complications from Aids. It was Trump’s three appointees to the Supreme Court who this summer enabled a 6-3 ruling releasing businesses and organisations from the obligation to treat same-sex couples equally. The landmark ruling occurred just days before I met the actors, and has been widely interpreted as a ­profound attack on LGBT rights.

“There is an entire generation of men and women who suffered and struggled and loved under a ­government that felt that its morals were more important than their personal freedoms,” says Bomer. “And that’s exactly what we see happening today. Whether it’s McCarthy or the current Supreme Court justices, are morals more important than freedoms?”

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[loveerran]

Growing Up

Growing up, I learned to see the world through the lens of people who often demonized other groups. For one minor example, I grew up in a Republican home that demonized Democrats. History has seen discrimination, violence, unjust law and even war justified by painting minorities, the marginalized or even whole races and cultures as 'other' using rhetoric that often draws on similar tactics. Aspects of practice or belief are singled out and de-contextualized, the actions or words of individuals are used to characterize an entire group, atrocious stereotyping is circulated and digested (often with little pushback), fake scientific or statistical claims are peddled to show degeneracy, all that is lovely or of good report is ignored in an effort to paint 'the other side' in the worst light possible to justify atrocity. This rhetoric often seems to be generated around the power and class goals of the state or another entity interested in protecting the exercise of power over the 'other'.

The popular 'of the world' view seems to be to go along with these things. To accept the narrative popularized by society. The unpopular view seems to be the one I find in the New Testament and Book of Mormon. Share your wealth so there are no poor among you. All are alike unto God. Be a good neighbor, even when there is risk and it costs you. In fact, love your neighbor as yourself. Everyone is your neighbor. Be a peacemaker. Turn the other cheek. Forgive. Actively serve everyone. Even those who have sinned are welcome home. We are all flawed. We have all fallen short. Salvation is available to everyone. Look for the beam in your own eye rather than your neighbor's. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Love one another. Comfort one another. We are all siblings with divine potential. Every single one of us is precious to God.

Sometimes I hear people in church talk about the 'ways' or 'designs' of the world and the evils of the last days. It's interesting to me how often LGBTQIA+ folks are brought into that discussion and demonized using the world's standard attack book. I would like to hear more heavenly views, filtered through the gospel lens of how to treat each other here and now.

[asensefeed]

Why did socialism have to start in france / People make such as fuss about the differences between socialism and communism when karl marx was a socialist and also created the communist manifesto / Quite possibly the worst effect of american politics on the american mind has been the gross oversimplification of communism/socialism into the idea of either a socially progressive representative democracy with semiregulated liberal markets and social programs and soviet-style authoritarian government-ownership and economic redistribution / 1984 is antifascist and antistalinist, not anti-socialist/anti-capitalist / Ingsoc is literally stated to be against true communism and fascism / It additionally critcizes the idea of total war as a device for social control and a government that seeks to create an entire societal atmosphere of paranoia and fear amongst the populus, via the normalization of informing the government of social wrongdoing and also trust in the military, police, and intelligence agencies / 1984 is about the collapse of the world into authoritarian rule and jingoistic imperialist empires; the government's final triumph over the people following the end of the cold war. George Orwell didn't predict the future, he envisaged a world that he never wanted to come true. If our present is like 1984, then it's because our world simply hasn't evolved past the geopolitics and ideologies of the 1940s, not because Orwell was a prophet of cancel culture or woke culture. / Did the Simpsons predict the future? Did Nostradamus predict WW2? Was HG Wells an agent of the Illuminati UN One World Government trying to warn us of it? No. / A One-World Illuminati Lizard-People Government will never happen if the specters of the Cold War still haunt us, which they still do. Republicans gather in Bohemian Grove because they're rich scumbags who hate poor people and are too cowardly to be furries worshiping owl statues while naked in public. Disney includes lgbtqia+ representation and rhetoric in their media because they can make money off of it, and it's more lucrative than losing a couple of traditionalist reactoids who want their 2 kids in the suburbs to grow up on family guy reruns and george bush speeches. / Nazis exist in the furry fandom because they're too stupid to realize Hitler would've ended his life in 1939 if he'd saw a fursuit with a swastika on it at one of his speeches and Robert E. Lee would've summoned Satan to kill of the entire United States.

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

IDK what the cause is; the fact that Biden is willing to spend over $15 billion to fund a genocide, violate international law, risk a world war, and severly damage (and possibly destroy) his chances at reelection should tell you he doesn't care about the things he's running on.

LGBTQIA+ rights? Insignificant to him. Abortion rights? He couldn't care less. Health care? Lol. Environment? He's destroying it in Gaza, mining uranium in the Grand Canyon, and more.

Because the things he's doing now are what he's willing to do when he really wants to accomplish something. Yeah, the Republicans are blocking his way on many things, but he hasn't put half as much effort into keeping his campaign promises as he has into committing genocide.

Moreover, he knows his actions are risking another Trump presidency....but he doesn't care.

[scarred-by-monsters]

Post election mun post.

To all of my rp partners, I'm sorry. I couldn't bring myself to post for a while after the election. More under the cut because I don't think people want to read this because I am going to get very VERY personal. But I feel like I need to post this.

There is also going to have a lot of triggers in this so skip if you'd like.

I have extreme anxiety and depression. I've talked about it a long time ago. But the last 9 days have caused a resurgence of the feelings I've pushed down and crashed my mental health.

So fun.

One reason I pushed my tubal ligation so hard, was because being in the political sphere that is American politics.

I knew that if we lost this election, the Alt-Right would try to push to make me and people with Vaginas into incubators for an unwanted child. Which if you don't stay up with American politics, has already started to happen.

Rape culture has already begun its push back into normal people's lives along with the lives of female children. Just a few days ago, Nick Fuentes posted a tweet saying, " Your Body, My Choice." And it has blazed into the lives of everyone I know, youtubers I follow, and the anxiety that I am already feeling.

I saw a Facebook post today that someone had posted about keeping their three 6 grade girls home because the sixth grade boys were saying that to all the girls in their school when the teachers weren't looking.

If you want to see more: here's a YouTube video about it. https://youtu.be/RdDHrIiazsg?si=PUJZnMIxbE9DbKSR

I also have a deep-seated fear of the years to come.

My best friend and her wife are already planning to flee the country. I have tried to stay in contact and check in with all of my LGBTQIA+ Friends, but my mental health is so bad atm I barely have enough energy to go to work so my car doesn't get repossessed.

I am also scared of what my personal life is going to look like.

The Republicans have been trying for years to strip away social security. I live with my parents and take care of them as much as I can on top of my full-time job, writing and being an anxious bean.

We relay on Social Security to pay our mortgage and other bills. It is quite possible that I will be homeless if they get rid of it.

And I have no idea what we will do then.

That isn't even touching on the fact that they are already talking about sending Red State National Guard officers to Blue states to round up both legal and illegal immigrants and not caring whose caught in the middle.

All of this is awful and life is going to be the absolute worst for the foreseeable future.

Unless we have a designated survivor moment. But I digress.

All of this has made me come to a decision in my life and in the life of my family and friends.

I want to run. I want to flee the country I grew up in and leave everything I've ever known behind because I am so scared.

But I'm not going to.

I have never backed down from a fight and I have never backed down to a man. I wasn't raised that way.

I am going to fight. In EVERY POSSIBLE WAY THAT I CAN. I am not ready to give up and let these fascist Nazis win. I am going to fight and if it comes to a civil war, Then I'll fight for everyone I fucking care for.

All of my LGBTQIA+ Brothers and sisters. All of my disabled neighbors. All of my elderly neighbors who are going to be homeless as well.

The little girls who are going to grow up in a hellscape that makes them think that they are nothing more than a man's plaything.

I refuse to give up and run.

Fuck Nazis. Fuck Donald Trump and the Alt-Right who are too far up their ass to see the real world.

I will survive on spite for the rest of my life. However, long or short, it's going to be.

@travelingthroughworlds @ask-lee-twdg @staggeringlytony @nytehavyn-circle @countfromthecarpathians @breannasewell and anyone else I'm forgetting

[lesbiangummybearmafia]

Having a night, so to ground me and destruct me I decided to do this.

These Are Sure Some Asks

What do you really need right now? My favorite person to snuggle with and fall asleep in her arms.

What are some of the things that have made you who you are? Pain, trauma and love

What are some of your pet peeves? Stupid, bigoted, ignorant, annoying people!

Share a dark thought? (Go on, vent a little) need my time machine to go back and kill baby Trump, Hilter, Mussolini, Stalin, and any other evil SOB!

Something that makes you ridiculously happy? Just being with my favorite person, listening to her talk, being in her presence, talking to her for hours. Seeing her smile and laugh, making her laugh. Learning new things about her no matter how small. Finding out things we have in common. Having everything in my gut, body and soul screaming at me that she's who I've been waiting for my whole life.

What are you craving? My favorite person! I only got to see her for a very short time today and I wasn't nearly enough.

Song stuck in your head? Electric Love - Borns

Last thing you watched? Metlock

Shows on your watch list? Before, The Floor, New episodes of Bob's Bugers, How To Die Alone

Books on your reading list? Not really a book reader so I'm going with fanfic. Been reading new Brenda x Sharon and Janeway x Seven fics

Something on your wish list? My favorite person 😘 naked spread out on 1000 thread count sheets!! Spending hours making love to her.

Something you want to monologue about? Omg so much! The climate crisis, the state of the government in the US, how broken every single system is in the US, how the Republicans party must be dissolved to save the US because it just became breeding ground for fascism! About all the outrageous lies the Right tells about immigration and immigrants!! How the US has stop supporting Israel! About the genocide of the Palestinians!! How the lgbtqia+ community is being targeted in our country, especially our trans brothers and sisters! The war on women's reproductive rights. Which is horrible but is ultimately a red herring to control women's freedom once again. I can keep going...

If you were a note, what note would you be? I'll be truthfully I'm confused by this one. So I'll go with I'd be heart shape Post-It 😉🩷

Tactician, fighter, generalist, or supportive role? Generalist

Talk about a stuffie. Ok I'll tell about my teddy bear Orli. Got him at build a bear, he no longer available at the store. He has velvety fabric and super cute that why I choose him. I got him atleast 15 years ago, I was also a fully grown adult when I got him. I don't quite remember why I went to build a bear that day I got him or why. It was just meant to be. Because he's helped quite alot with my anxiety over the years. He was one of the only things I was allow to have when I was admitted into a level one psychiatric hospital 7 years ago, when I tried to commit suicide. Helped me through through that and everything that's followed. If there was fire he would be the first important possession I'm grabbing! I sleep with him every night and he's on bed the rest of the time. I'd be lost without him! He might be a stuffie but he's like family too! I get panicky when I can find him. He's a bit rough now, but fuck so am I. 😁

They say you can tell a lot about a person from the state of their desk... Do you have a desk? Can you describe it? No desk, I use my bed as my desk and complete chaos! But it reflects the chaos of anxiety ridden mind.

Space, enchanted forest, magical kingdom, or underwater city? Nope on all this jazz. I'm more I want to live in version of Los Angeles in Blade Runner or any other futuristic city I was told about in books, movies, anime and TV shows in the 80s and 90s!!

What are some of the meanings of your name? (Or url if you don't want to say.) I was a little high when I came up with it. So it's like this: I'm a lesbian, I like gummy bears and I was listening to Swedish House Mafia that night I came up with it.  So I got, lesbiangummybearmafia 🤩

What fictional doctor do you wish was your doctor? The Doc from Voyager

Are you a gamer? What was the last game you played? I'm a old school gamer. It was Mario Kart

How do you take your pizza? Another favorite it black olive, mushroom and pepperoni

Strangest thing that has happened to you this week? Got told that I'm basically a New Yorker, a new friend told me this. Way she figures it since both my parents were born in New York I have in my blood. Since she's from New York she should know. She said it's because I'm straight forward, blunt, can detect bullshit a 1000 feet. All that the New Yorker in me. I'm perfectly fine with that!

Share a bit of philosophy? This to shall pass, it could always be worse, put positive out it does actually come back to you, fight for yourself (that actually works to) others will fight with you!

Do you follow the news? Most of time...but not right now.

What's on your mind? My favorite person!

What is your dream mode of transportation? Transporters from Star Trek and Flying Cars from Blade Runner

What fascinates you about humanity? How we can be both infinitely kind and infinitely evil. Both should not be able to survive in a single species. However humanity is living proof that this is to be true. Also the complexities of the human brain. It's very much runs in ways like computer and yet we have emotions that seem to on a logically level make no freakin sense. Yet it these very emotions that are responsible for some of humanities most beautiful things like art, music, movies, books, poetry, sex, love, romantic, happiness, joy, family, etc.

What about life makes you smile? My favorite person ie, the woman in RL I very much have deep feelings for. She's made me realize that I want to be in a relationship again. Also perhaps those signs I've been waiting for finally showed up 😍

What is your favourite way to create? I have many. I like to free write, write fanfic, write songs, draw, paint, made collages, make quotes posters, make edits, sing, bed dance, car dance, bathtub dance, do nail art, do crafts, etc.

Insert your own question here! Awesome ok

Design your own music festival any artist are allow, both living and dead, who would be on line up?

Tagging all my followers and friends!

[cosmicsponge2004]

LISTEN...

For any US Viewers here, we all know Joe Biden hasn't been a good president at all. With both his contributions to Isreal's Terrorism in Palestine along with his incompetence when it comes to doing ANY for the United States of America

We also know the republican party is just as evil as last time. With the options there being either Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis. You can just search them here or on any news site to see why they would be even worse.

HOWEVER, We might not have to settle for Biden.

Now, I am under 18. So I am not allowed to vote. The US Government says my opinion dosen't matter. However, I can influence YOU! The 18+ Year Old US Citizens who DO matter in the eyes of the law

I found an independent candidate from a comment section on a tumblr post here (I forgot which one) and he seems great

He's very ambitious (I don't see him reaching most of his goals but surely he could get SOME change done)

Enter: Cornell West

More information on his website (more of his campaign's site but I think he runs it...?)

What does he plan to do? Here's a highlight reel of my favorites. Click "keep reading"

(the full list is on the site)

Abolish poverty 

Abolish homelessness (big statements right there, dude)

Wealth tax on all billionaire holdings and transactions

National $27 minimum wage with special considerations for specific geographies where $27/hour would not be a family-sustaining wage

Mandatory minimum of six months of fully paid parental leave

National free pre-K childcare

Habeas Corpus Healthcare, free healthcare for any and all residents of the United States

Codify abortion rights as a Constitutional mandate (THIS ONE!!! THIS ONE RIGHT HERE!!!!)

Remove Transgender exclusions/limitations from all healthcare policies

Nationalize the healthcare industry, including the pharmaceutical industry

End medical apartheid and protect/increase rights for people with disabilities

End the war on drugs and associated collateral damage on families and communities (Reagan would shit his pants)

End mass incarceration and codify voting rights for all incarcerated people and immediately reinstate voting rights for all returning citizens

Address the disproportionate mortality rate for Black pregnancies

Establish a Land Back Commission to explore and address brutal land theft from, attempted genocide of, and broken treaties with Indigenous peoples

Protect free speech, enforce whistleblower protections, and stop the prosecution of those who expose government corruption

Shut down Cop City and plans for similar facilities across the nation 

Redistribute police funding to unarmed community-led forces

Eliminate crowded prison facilities by developing alternatives to incarceration 

Prisoner Bill of Rights that includes a right to humane treatment and humane living conditions for all correctional facilities

Investigate and end sentencing discrepancies based on race, ethnicity, and class

Ban the death penalty, life without the possibility of parole, three-strikes laws, mandatory minimums, and sentence enhancement politics

Restore voting rights for people with criminal records, including those who are currently incarcerated

Confiscate all military equipment from civilian police forces

Free tuition for all state and community colleges

Dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline by removing police and so-called School Resource Officers from all public schools

Cancel all student loan debt

End the unwarranted, unnecessary, and dangerous assaults on transgender people

Gender-affirming standards of care for trans people in public life and institutions

Codify an Equal Rights Amendment for LGBTQIA+ U.S. residents

National ban on any and all so-called "Don’t Say Gay" laws and all other anti-LGBTQIA+ laws

End crimes against humanity for migrants and their families - no separation of families, no children in cages

Slash the bloated U.S. military budget

Expeditious and responsible closure of global U.S. military bases - AFRICOM, etc.

Cease military funding to the State of Israel

End Israeli apartheid of Palestinian people and press the UN to establish a program for Palestinian dignity and liberation

Cease all military support to nations committing war crimes

(16-24 feel SUPER IMPORTANT to me as a Texan)

If he ain't all talk, I can see this going decently! Have a little hope. Vote for this guy. Or don't, I'm not your dead mom. But I am a concerned US Citizen with a tiny bit of hope. Emphasis on tiny

We can do it!!!

[profeminist]

[nando161mando]

God I fucking hate liberal queers.

[demontruth]

Sorry to all my followers. Yes unfortunately I'm going to get harsh, mean, maybe even cruel. I didn't call this Demon truth for no reason. This also why I separated this from my main blog. Politics, particularly politics in the US have become a naughty business. Before for me at least, before Trump become President I was fine to let that naughty business stay in DC and just heard about on the news. But the night of 2016 Presidential election, I with so many others watched in horror as the map of the US turned blood red as state after state went for Trump. A fear I've never felt exploded inside me because I had no idea what was about to happen in our country. I just knew it wouldn't be good. I'm a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and I'm a woman. I remember that night there was a newscaster on national channel that was covering the election results, he was an African-American gentleman when he spoke of the fear he had of the results of a Trump president there was true terror in that man's voice. It's something I never witnessed from a newscaster in my life. It's stuck with to this day.

Because of that and everything that came after. Now the true terror of what the fuck might happen because we're here again. But this time no one seems to taking this shit seriously because so many have forgotten how bad is was when Trump was President. Seen that yes Biden isn't the best-suited, strongest, President we could have or need right now. But he's 1000 times better then a Trump presidency so we, including me have been lulled back to a place of being complacent Americans. Until recently for me because what's happening in Palestine, the fear of Trump getting into the White House again, the war in Ukraine...

So I apologize that any gloves I once had are off I'm bare knuckle boxing here for our democracy, our country, our Constitution, our way of life. Yea our country needs help, but it's not a fascist authoritarian regime under Dictator Trump. I've been telling mostly the void since before 2016 Trump was, is a wannabe Dictator. (He idolizes Dictator all over the world. He fucking love Putin remember!)

The people that support Trump... I've talked to some in real life to try to understand why their on his side. Not the full gone nut jobs, but just normal people. I spoke to this old woman on the bus once. I ask why she supported him, what she told me was insightful for me but also hard to completely understand. Now this woman was in I'd say her late 60s, early 70s so she not pigeonhole under what some think is Trump supporter, she's hispanic, was a teacher (that's how we got to talking actually because she taught at my old elementary school after I went there), had been married, her husband away passed, had 2 sons. I think the only reason she was so forthcoming telling me about her life was that I went to the school she taught at. What she told me was Trump as President for her made her feel safe. And felt he'd make sure older people like herself was taken care of. Just listening to her as we ride the bus, truthfully trying to understand how she could possibly get that from him. In that light I could understand why she'd vote for Trump. But I knew as we all do that it not true not in anyway. There's this complete disconnect from the truth that standing right in front of them. It's so literally like the Wizard of Oz. That MAGA, some Republicans and anyone else that like him and vote for him see him as the Great Wizard, but the rest of have always been able to see the real Trump that's behind the curtain. The con artist, the lair, the criminal, also now the traitor, the wannabe Dictator.

That would ok fine, if Trump hadn't controlled our government and doesn't want to control it again. For me that's where the train goes off the rails. I get angry, I feel the rage coming, I no longer have any, zero patience for anyone that supports him or anyone that has anything to do with him. Because when I say hate Trump I'm not exaggerating in any fashion. I hate him with every fiber of my being!! He could literally destroy democracy as we know it if he get back into the White House!

So yea I'm going to fight and claw and bite and snarl and punch and hit and kick and beat and scream and tear and rip and break noses and be mean and evil and anything if it means Trump loses the election!! I will be as bloody as I need to be (metaphorically).

I will use this to wake people up, to make the undecided, decide because truthfully at this point how can anyone not have decided by now! Make those who shouldn't vote (MAGA) stay the fuck home. Because the Republicans cheat to get votes what does everyone think gerrymandering is about. So about time we do to, by we I mean fucking everyone against Trump. Fuck he bitch enough about the election being rigged anyway.

My point is the time to be nice unfortunately is over. We have to remember how bad the 4 years Trump was President. Yes I thought I could just wipe that from my memories too but nope. The fucking villain in horror movie wasn't dead after all... motherfucker!!!

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DeSantis culture war drives AP Psychology out of Florida schools

@iamaffscandallover @glendathegoodone here we go again. So now he attacking AP Psychology because of a small part deal with LGBTQIA and sexuality. Does this man have a brain cell. Does he think this culture war fighting the woke will get him the white house. Nope. He is unappealing to the Republican party base he will sure be unappealing to independent voters. He is so stupid. Florida where stupid thrives starting with the Governor

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had a really bizarre experience today. cw political conspiracy theories and the racism/antisemitism/islamophobia that entails + homophobia/transphobia. long post, kind of rambling, it’s almost 3am, might delete later.

long story short I was in a situation where I was in a gathering of 4 adult (40s-60s), white, moderately wealthy trump republicans. one of which was my father, a woman who is an acquaintance of my father, and the other two were a couple. my father is a trump republican from the economically conservative side– he’s not on twitter, he like watching the stock market ticker on fox news, he likes the idea of trump as a political outsider. (our relationship is strained for it, and we avoid discussing it.) the woman was a trump republican from the side of so-called culture war– she expresses her views online, she thinks the american youth are devolved from her generation, her husband is a retired police officer so she has a lot of opinions about racism in america.

so obviously this group got to talking politics. this was not a conversation I wanted to participate in, but they were adamant they wanted my participation in it, and I wasn’t in a place where I could leave or refuse without causing larger issues. I was calm, I was safe enough to disclose my views come from being a lesbian, and in general I tried to respond as neutrally as possible.

the woman in particular told me directly, multiple times, how I only hold my opinions because I’ve been indoctrinated. she said “indoctrinated” so many times, it was just absolutely bizarre to say that to someone’s face. she repeatedly interjected that she wanted me to feel safe to share my opinions with her, that she didn’t want me to feel ganged up on, while insisting I wasn’t at fault for anything I said because I was indoctrinated.

in this conversation, I was asked if I believed in the “lgbtqia,” because “there are gay people who don’t believe in it, you don’t have to join,” as if it’s an organization. someone offhandedly mentioned “the transsexual issue.” they discussed a conspiracy theory that obama could have destroyed all racism in america in 2008, but instead allowed an islamic brotherhood to come into the white house take over all foreign policy. that obama still controls the current biden administration as a puppet master. they held a firm belief that the younger generation dislikes capitalism from pure laziness and entitlement.

when I said a lot of younger people don’t see themselves settling into economically conservative views with age because they don’t see the opportunities to gain wealth afforded to previous generations, the couple proudly told me about how they earned everything they had by working through college and getting good jobs. in the same breath, they also told me their daughter (my age) had never worked a day because of her indoctrination, and will be graduating college with what’s basically a mortgage in debt. I said exactly, you were able to pay your way through college and enter the workforce, but that’s impossible for your daughter to do because of increased cost + stagnating wages, plus her degree is now a requirement for entry level corporate work, not a bonus, so she will have a harder time accumulating wealth. they laughed it off because they’re convinced the situation is a moral failing on their daughter’s part, and doesn’t reflect on american economics or their parenting at all.

when it came to gay indoctrination in schools, I said well a hundred years ago left handed students were beaten for not using their right hand, and so all students were right handed. a decrease in anti-gay violence allows more students to express and experiment with how they want to be. it’s not that there’s an explosion of gay people since you were in school, they just weren’t safe to come out before. that bit sort of got through a little, but they were insistent that are “new identities” being pushed onto kids, and how could anyone ever want to be anything but straight? I would’ve lost my shit if we really got into it on these ones, but thankfully the topics shifted.

it was just one bizarre “why would you ever say this to another person in real life?” moment after the next. like are you willfully stupid or do you actually think your generation solved all problems in the world when you decided to settle down, and now everything else is extraneous nonsense made to make you look bad? do you really think your sheltered opinions matter on intercommunity issues? do you not understand how insane and rude and entitled you sound? I never expected or desired to change any of these people’s minds on anything, I was just trying to get through the interaction walking the tightrope of asserting myself so I wouldn’t hate myself after and not devolving into argument that would be counterproductive to the bigger situation going on.

the interesting thing is though, my dad didn’t say a word throughout the entire discussion. I know he agreed with them on a lot of points, but he never spoke against them, or to defend me from pointed comments made towards me. and after, when he was apologizing that it got political, he said he didn’t say anything because he was hoping they would stop. he didn’t try to change the topic, he didn’t speak up for me, he just let it happen, and apologized that it “wasn’t a safe space” for me after. and I think that’s really telling about trump republicans in general. his disapproval was entirely silent because he was not willing to speak against the others on any particular point, even the insane shit, even when it was hurting someone he loved directly in front of him, because that would destroy his credibility in the eyes of the other trump republicans. it really is a fascist fucking movement.

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Like legitimately it's so annoying

Also....when they say they're protecting the unborn, that's also kinda not true because sometimes the unborn includes birth defects that are not compatible with life, meaning that any baby born with a birth defects that is not compatible with life will suffer greatly (and may already be suffering in the womb)

And like if someone wants to carry a fetus with birth defects to term they should have the option to do that but if someone doesn't want to they should have the option to do that

I was born and raised in a red state (went completely red in 2011 with the establishment of a republican supermajority trifecta) and the education quality went down so much like

It's amazing watching the decline. Now I don't remember very well (I was 8 in 2011) but like my home state went from the mid-thirties to the late forties (and the fifties, depending on your list (some of the lists include US territories. I know there are 50 states lol)) and like

This state was one of the states that had a teacher walkout in 2018 because of low teacher pay, class sizes (which are a huge problem in states that struggle with education. The ideal ratio is 1:18 or less and I've personally been in classes that are like 1:31 or more), and tax cuts. All of these aspects have some bearing on educational quality.

Also the decline seems to be getting worse due to every single new "culture war" topic that, despite being disproven to death or torn to shreds as being racist or gross or whatever. Like it's really bad

I think it's also worth noting that states that are considered "red" depend on blue states for federal aid which tends to be due to the fact that blue states tax more and tend to give more back to the federal government

A lot of this comes back to ideology because Republicans believe in small government (generally speaking. The way some of their ideas look now (especially in project 2025 and agenda 47) are very Fahrenheit 451 and 1984), while democrats believe in bigger government. I want to preface that I'm not defending democrats here because while I believe both parties are FAR from the same (and while I tend to lean far left), I also believe that it is impossible to say that democrats are saints. This is politics, not a religion.

Anyway, because Republicans believe in "small" government, they don't like regulations or welfare or things that I, personally, would expect a government to provide (like welfare (TANF, Social Security, disability benefits, healthcare, etc). However, that also means they don't like most (or all) of the things that tax dollars typically go to. There is a reason why Project 2025 and Agenda 47 discuss defending and or dismantling regulatory agencies like the EPA and the Justice Department and Education Department. They managed to go through with that with the overturning of Chevron. One of the main points of regulatory agencies is to sustain and protect life. Defending and destroying regulatory agencies would seriously harm people in the United States and that in itself is a huge understatement.

I tend to believe that government exists to protect people and provide for their basic needs through federal programs like taxes. The United States spends more on healthcare than any other developed country on the planet and it has some of the worst healthcare results in the developed world. A universal healthcare program may help with this.

The government exists to protect and serve us and it has not done that very well due to the fact that control of congress, the presidency, and now the Supreme Court keeps changing.

The importance of this election cannot be understated. Literally everything is hanging in the balance. The control of the Supreme Court for a generation. The rights of people with uteruses. The rights of immigrants. The rights of refugees. The rights of the LGBTQIA+ community. The general, basic rights like freedom of speech.

Freaking vote.

Watch: George Carlin spoke the truth about pro-lifers in 1996 — and it’s still being proven today.