#every Republican is a nazi

[captain-price-unofficially]

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

[musashi]

posts about the alt-right pipeline being compassionate towards young men while radical leftists shun and shame them are not fucking saying "the men are becoming violent because feminists are too mean!" and if that is your takeaway you need to get off tumblr until you've better honed your critical thinking skills.

those posts are talking about how effective the language and approach you take in your activism can be. this is literally cult deprogramming 101. if someone is being taken in by a violent or dangerous group, that violent or dangerous group is usually offering them compassion and solace while working hard to convince them everyone else in the world is their enemy. you are under no obligation to coddle or act compassionate toward these men and their violent ideologies, but if you have the means to try, it is something that you can do to make a tangible difference.

radicalized people are often only one loving friend or family member or external voice away from being de-radicalized. of course that is not always the case, but it very often is. a lot of y'all rightfully understand that you do not carry the burden of being that voice, but a lot of y'all also have a lot of internalized ideas about morals and punitive justice and have simply written off these people as deserving of only the worst and not worth saving.

ten years ago, my grandmother was a fox news watching republican who voted red in every election and very well could have fallen down the qanon rabbit hole if not for me and her daughter challenging her compassionately, walking her through hypotheticals that validated her feelings & proving why they were false, & being patient with her despite our extreme division in political ideology. it was frustrating fucking work! but i decided i wanted to do it, because i could see the horizon and i could see me making a difference!

"misogynists have been saying feminists are too mean for years, get new material" that is not the fucking POINT. the point is that you, feminist, can be the compassionate voice that guides your brother, your father, your cousin, your grandfather away from fucking becoming or staying a nazi. you can show them compassion and companionship. you can be the woman they think of when their alt-right bros try to convince them that women are the enemy. and you can choose to crystallize that image of yourself so wholly in their mind's eye as worth protecting that they may very well choose to reject those harmful ideas.

it's not saying you HAVE to do it! it's saying you CAN do it! don't you 'firebomb a walmart' people all love taking change into your own hands? where the fuck is that energy right now, huh?

[baekuras]

During work we got a radio going upstairs and I swear every time I hear them mention how x,y or z-person of the german (and others sadly) government fully endorse and want to help Israel I wanna hit someone

"We fully trust that Israel will stay within humanitarian laws during these attacks" bitch they already broke em? We are way past "uwu but poor Israel has to defend itself" being churned out over and over and OVER again

I am sorry but if "defend yourself" is equal to mass murdering thousands of innocent people deliberately-either quickly via bombs or slowly by letting them die from thirst or hunger or festering wounds etc....then I got a new defense in court prepared for whatever may come

Aside from the fact that if we treat a whole nation as terrorists because of one group we'd have to nuke a whole lot of places so Hamas hiding, or not, or yes actually, but no we know fully where they are-whatever the better 'truth' is right now is still insane

[dejwrld]

coming back on to say fuck donald trump & elon musk. also fuck every single person who voted for trump. fuck ice. fuck jd vance who look like he’s product of fucking incest. fuck trump kids while we at. fuck teslas. fuck cybertrucks. fuck melania trump, idc how many fashion houses style you…fuck you too. fuck all the people who voted for trump cause of tariffs and don’t even know know what a tariffs are. fuck all the people he pardoned for that jan 6th shenanigans (but tbh the way it’s looking like, karma is slowly snatching some of you guys up bit by bit final destination style). fuck the Latinos that voted for trump, baby girl (saying in gn term) trump supporters do not care…they see you speak a lick of spanish…they’re calling ice on you, fuck jill stein for crawling out the hole she be living in every 4 years when election comes around. fuck all the twitch/other platform streamers that are slowly indoctrinating young boys down an alt right pipeline. fuck israel. fuck all politicians that would rather accept a lobby check than being in their political positions for the people. fuck the swole neck man that killed ace in one piece. fuck the coon black man that ruined my morning when i saw a clip of him in 4k live calling donald trump daddy. fuck the republicans who comment under people who are genuinely afraid of what’s to come for the next 4 years with “we won” (as if this is a sporting event :/).

but i love you to the people who are sharing and expressing empathy to their friends and family as y’all are trying to navigate through this. i love you to the people who are posting pics and videos of ice sightings. i love you to the people sharing resources like gardening tips. i love you to the people who are buying banned books. i love you to the people who are still teaching their kids about black history. i love you to the people who never stopped talking about palestine, congo, sudan, etc. i love you to the people who are still being hopeful that america won’t continue to be pushed further and further into the grasp of billionaires like elon. i love you to the people who are standing up against bigotry. i love you to the people who are standing against elon doing a nazi salute (twice). i love you to the people sharing information that seemed to be not being shared on mainstream media. i love you all (except trump supporters).

[germiyahu]

This phenomenon of so called Leftists throwing up their hands at the tiniest pushback, or criticism, or suggestions on how to not actively be antisemitic needs to be studied. Because what do you mean instead of just accepting that an antisemitic troll claiming to be on your side said "Zionist Occupied Government" and denouncing this and moving on with your life... you double down, defend, and deflect. It's classic DARVO, but like, when people are very patiently and slowly explaining how this is a literal KKK Nazi white supremacist fascist phrase, it's not enough? You don't care?

It's clear that the "pro Palestinian" left have been fully infiltrated by fascists, both Western fascists who have always been nakedly antisemitic and are finding the perfect avenue to mainstream their Jew hatred... and Islamist fascists who simply never cared that Jews are a global minority group that has faced oppression and violence in multiple different continents, they don't care about social justice or fundamental human rights. It's not part of their intellectual tradition.

The "pro" Palestine movement has been captured by people who have decided that a) Palestine is emblematic of all of the problems of the world, and that b) every Jew is worth sacrificing to correct these problems, because c) if Palestine is emblematic, aren't Zionists responsible for everything then?

Now the prevailing thought is that someone should be able to call for violence against Jews, someone should be able to harass or even assault Jewish Americans, because bringing it up, complaining, taking a stand, that's the equivalent of telling them you like children blowing up, you like hundreds of thousands of people being homeless and food insecure, you like prisoners being detained in Guantanamo conditions without due process, where anyone can torture them as revenge even if there's no proof they're an actual Hamas member.

Is there a reason they argue like Republican Fox News addicts? I guess that kind of explains how easily the "movement" is falling apart to literal fascists.

They say "nobody cares about your hurt feelings ZIONIST!" if you mention literal stabbings and firebombs. They say "but we should talk about how pervasively synagogues indoctrinate the vast majority of Jewish people with Zionist ideology." They roll their eyes because "don't you know Palestinians are suffering 200x what these cushy American Jews could even imagine?" Facts don't care about your feelings uwu~

But at the end of the day, they care a lot about their own feelings, much more so than the facts. They feel entitled to hate all Jews all over the planet, to secretly revel in antisemitic rhetoric and acts, to want to take out their impotent frustration and despair on any and all Jews they'd like. This is very much about their feelings and not any Jewish people's feelings.

They've been waiting for this, or many of them never cared at all. Now it's finally Leftist to quote Nazis and openly make fun of Jews who are getting stabbed. Now it's finally Leftist to call for incinerating all of Israel and maybe we should consider a lot of Diaspora Jews too, you know they can't be trusted! Oh but don't forget to honor the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, innocent civilians should never have been targeted by America's vicious imperial violence!

The fact that it took this substantial contingent of watermelon twitter less than a year to go full mask off like this... is that revealing or troubling?

[liberalsarecool]

💫💫now you know💫💫

First Felon and Heritage Foundation Project 2025 Nazis then used Musk's unelected power to threaten any Republican from stepping out of line.

All the illegal Executive Orders replaced Congressional legislation. The GOP House did not pass a single bill. The GOP Senate confirmed every unqualified candidate.

Corruption at every turn.

[socialistexan]

I'm not sure what's funnier, Don Jr - the endboss of Failsons - in second place or the fact that Marco Rubio sold out everything he believes in, reversed every statement he's ever made, and burned every bridge he built in the Senate just to get 6% in a meaningless Republican primary poll.

He didn't want to be remembered as the glass of water guy, and now he'll be remembered as a fucking Nazi. Good job, Marco.

[wilwheaton]

Every day, more and more everyday people are at the point where they get it, and they get the urgency, even if the conventional politicians with their consultants and their focus groups and their big-ticket donors do not. Any leaders who join them on the Tesla protest lines are the ones who will be rewarded in the coming elections, and not the cowards who troll hopelessly for right-wing votes. The Democrats like Newsom or Houlahan who didn’t speak out for those being marginalized by the forces of autocracy will be remembered at the ballot box, but not in a good way.

Feckless Dems need ‘a Navalny, not a Newsom’

Newsom has been a reliable governor for us here in California. I have taken some comfort in the knowledge that he has stood up to Trump several times, and any of Trump’s fuckery will hopefully be mitigated or defused because Newsom is my governor.

But I’m disgusted with his platforming of a Nazi, his careless willingness to just abandon and betray our trans siblings, and his transparent effort to suck up to the shitty Gen Z nazis who are ascendant in Republican politics.

Like so many centrists who came before him, Newsom is about to experience -- but will learn nothing from -- the reality that, given a choice between a real piece of shit republican, and someone who is pretending to be a piece of shit republican, the real republican wins every single time.

It’s why Fetterman lied through his teeth about being a progressive; he NEVER gets elected if he runs on what he’s done since taking office. He has infuriated and betrayed the people who worked so hard to get him elected, and now he will be a one term senator, because no Democrat will trust him, and the garbage MAGA morons will choose some dipshit WWE guy or whoever the party puts up, no matter what.

It’s very early in Newsom’s national political rollout, and he has time to clean this up ... but he isn’t stupid. He knows exactly who Charlie Kirk is, and he knows exactly what platforming him on his premiere episode means to the Democratic base.

Trans rights are human rights, Governor. You know that. You’ve said it. Your conduct on your podcast is disappointing and morally bankrupt. My first strike against you was that idiotic French Laundry stunt you pulled during Covid, which directly led to the recall against you. This is your second strike. I really hope you don’t strike out.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jessica Valenti at Abortion, Every Day:

We have to talk about this absolutely batshit New York Times piece—the headline alone turned my stomach: “White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children.” “Persuade” is a polite way to put it, given that forced birth is the law of the land in half the country! But this isn’t just about abortion bans: Since Trump took office, the country has been handed over to a newly emboldened bro-natalist cabal—men like Elon Musk and JD Vance, desperate to increase the birthrate, whether women like it or not. Here are just a few of the ideas the Times reports are being tossed around at the White House:

A “National Medal of Motherhood” to women with six or more children;

Reserving 30% of government fellowships for those who are married with children;

State-funded education programs teaching women and girls about their menstrual cycle, “so they can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive”;

$5,000 cash as a ‘baby bonus’.

First of all, it’s telling that this administration will do anything other than what families really need. If the Trump administration was actually interested in supporting parents, they’d be pushing for paid parental leave, subsidized childcare, and an end to laws that make it deadly for people to give birth. But Republicans don’t care about making the world better, safer, or healthier for American families and children—they just want women to have more babies. What happens after that? They couldn’t care less. Actually, scratch that—because the administration’s “baby boom” push isn’t just about boosting the birthrate. It’s about reasserting a rigid, traditional vision of American family life: one where parents are straight, women are submissive, and the bro-natalists in charge get to pretend it’s all for the good of the nation. As Times reporter Caroline Kitchener points out, the White House has an ideologically-specific definition of ‘family’: Straight married couples with children. Consider what that means for some of the administration’s proposals: If 30% of fellowships (like the Fulbright) are reserved for married parents—and the administration only recognizes straight marriages—they’d be creating a deliberately discriminatory quota, excluding LGBTQ people from prestigious awards and funding. Imagine how many other government marriage promotion programs they could use to leave certain families behind.

The Trump Regime is proposing natalist ideas, such as creating a National Medal of Motherhood to women with six or more children, $5,000 baby bonus, and a quota of 30% of government fellowships set aside for married parents with children. The catch is: only straight married couples with children are eligible.

A lot of these ideas that they are pushing come from Nazi Germany, Stalin-era Russia, and Ceaușescu’s Romania.

See Also:

People: Trump's Team Ponders How to Make Women Have More Babies. One Idea Was Part of Hitler and Stalin's Playbook

Mother Jones: Trump May Soon Offer a Motherhood Medal, an Idea Popularized in Nazi Germany

The New Republic, via Yahoo! News: Team Trump Drafts Dystopian Plan to Get Women to Have More Babies

[covid-safer-hotties]

Me: "Wishing death-by-virus on a group of people is literally eugenics and public health is not supposed to be politicized."

Some bluesky liberal: "You're overly dramatic and you've proven you have no idea what you're talking about because you haven't singlehandedly masked every single republican in America."

Me: "Public health is for everyone, or it's actively harming the most vulnerable among us. If you can't understand that, you haven't killed the nazi in your head. Also plenty of liberals stopped masking and even many of those who still mask sometimes aren't taking enough other precautions or getting vaccinated, proving that you don't actually understand the science behind the spread of covid."

The bluesky liberal: "Quit being overdramatic and spreading fake news!" *Blocks me*

[comet-cola]

Immigrants and those racially profiled as such (including indigenous Americans!?!?!!), detained without due process, denied appeal, deported or shipped off to the neo-concentration camp being erected at the already dispicable guantanamo bay. Trans people having passports confiscated and legal documents reverted, having threats of care being cut off, studies related to trans people forcibly retracted. Missing queer kids scrubbed from missing kids databases. Federal research being gutted in every sector, limited, censored, even down to words as innocuous as "bias", "gender", and "female" in some contexts. Federal departments destroyed at a whim, all communication from the FDA (including food safety recalls) frozen. Elon Musk in the national treasury just doing whatever the fuck he wants. National media not covering protests at all, and most anything else that they do cover rarely being met with the severity it warrants. The largest social media platforms being biased to push right-wing content by design and bending to the whims of whatever they think the GOP will like in their policy and censorship. The tik tok and tariff stunts being literally just straight up propaganda to make Trump look like a hero while actually doing nothing whatsoever. Project 2025 being the goal all along (obviously) as Trump actions continue to follow this plan laid out for him. Appointees of abusers and rapists and racists and bigots to major sectors of governments. A seeming end to separation of chruch and state with the establishment of the White House Faith Office. Efforts to remove federal employees to destabilize internal resistance or install loyalists in their place. Massive donations to the republican party that just blatantly break the law to a comically transparent degree, not even an attempt to hide it through loopholes. Nazi salute at the inauguration. The promise of further and total ethnic cleansing of Palestine (and the continuous underreported breaking of the current ceasefire by Israel, with impunity). Genuine threats to annex Canada and Greenland into the States. Canada's own polling for their upcoming federal election that's leaning conservative, which could throw Canada right into the same situation as the US, thanks to exported rhetoric from the huge swath of American-owned news and media in Canada. Far right-wing leaders voted into power, or polling trending that way, all across the globe.

This is only what I could think of off of the top of my head. Most of this stuff has been since the beginning of Trump's second term, some has been ongoing for a long time. And still this is only the tip of the iceberg.

We're not on the path to fascism. Fascism is here. We crossed the line ages ago.

But there's still hope. There is resistance. Don't give up. Don't stay quiet. Don't normalize any of this shit. Fight.

[theozgnomian]

Added in Edit: Having had this up for a while, I have to say that it truly amazes me just how many of the religious (most of them in fact) are the epitome of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Not just stupid, but dangerously stupid. "Threat to the survival of humanity" stupid. Death cult stupid. So I'm adding a couple of tags to the blog, just for them.

Barnum was right. "There's a sucker born every minute." If you can believe in a god (or gods), an invisible, all knowing, all powerful being, based on nothing but your feelings and some moldy manuscript written before modern medicine and electricity, then you'll believe anything at all, no matter how ludicrous. And the evidence of that is in front of us every damn day. Trump. Republicans. Anti-vax. Anti-science. Climate-denial. Anti-abortion. Flat Earth. Steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Added it Edit on 04/02/2024: Just had a porn pusher call on me to repent. Typical of the breed. Hypocrites, all of them. ROTFLMAO!

02/01/2025 "Science and religion co-exist". Until religion finds it inconvenient, then it's heresy. Bring on the thumb-screws and burning stakes. Like Christianity is currently doing in this country. Murderous savages, the lot of them. Ask Galileo. Ask the victims of the Inquisition. Ask the caretakers of the Great Library of Alexandria.

Just had another "Nazi for a never-existed Jesus" try to turn their bullshit back on me. Bigoted liars, the lot of them. Take a hike, Jesus-freaks....because that's what you what are. Dangerous "threat to human survival" freaks.

[kropotkindersurprise]

if everyone voted in EVERY election in the US, not just the presidential, it wouldnt be a choice between 99% hitler and hitler. but when it gets to that choice, that 1% saves 1% of life, at least. its a choice between a democracy and 20% rise in hate crimes. Between voting next election, and trump being a a fascist for "only the first few days".

No it doesnt "save 1% of life". it just moves the window so that next election 99.5% Hitler will be acceptable to you. If you never withhold your vote, if you can never tell them theyve gone too far (even when theyr committing genocide!), you're just telling them they can keep moving to the right forever, as long as the Republicans are 1% more right-wing.

It needs to stop at some point, and if "we enthusiastically support genocide" isnt that point i dont know what to tell you. you are a bad person and you would have kept you head down in Nazi Germany and pretended nothing was going on.

[silvermoon424]

I have a serious question for you. In my country, we grew up watching american shows, movies and cartoons, and in every single one of them the republicans were depicted as evil and greedy. Americans made those shows, so you do know republicans are evil. Why do you keep voting for evil people that is known for being evil?

Imo it comes down to this:

Lack of education:

The state of education- particularly public education- in the US is abysmal, and Republicans constantly demonize college, teachers, and education as a whole. There's a reason why highly educated people tend to be left-leaning, and the GOP knows this; it's why they've been attacking education for decades.

Treating politics as team sports:

Most people do not actually know what the politicians they vote for advocate; they just vote for them because they have an "R" or a "D" next to their name. Imo this is the biggest problem with Republican voters; the idea of voting for a Democrat is so unthinkable to them that a pedophile Nazi (Roy Moore) almost got reelected in Alabama a few years back, just because he was running as the Republican candidate.

Propaganda and socialism being demonized:

What's infuriating about a lot of Republican voters is that they do agree with leftists on a lot of topics, but they've been conditioned to have a kneejerk reaction to terms like "socialism," "capitalism," etc. I've talked to a lot of conservatives and got them to agree with me on concepts like work reform, healthcare reform, environmental protection, taxing billionaires, etc just by avoiding leftist terminology. In my experience, the average conservative very much agrees with left-wing ideas; you just have to present them as "common sense" and "bipartisan."

"Owning the libs"

A lot of conservatives (especially younger ones) are so fucking spiteful towards liberals and leftists that they're willing to tank our entire country just to "trigger" us. They love Trump for pissing people off; they love how he says and does awful, offensive things that "own the libs." The world could end in a nuclear apocalypse and they'd be lying in a cave slowly dying of radiation poisoning thinking "at least we got to trigger the libs, that was so funny."

As a final note, the movies and shows you're referring to were likely made in Hollywood; Hollywood- and the entertainment industry + the arts as a whole- are very liberal. It's not a conspiracy or anything, it's just that artists and creatives tend to be left-leaning. So yes, Americans made media depicting Republicans as evil, but it's very unlikely they're Republican voters themselves.

Republicans have actually attacked Hollywood for decades, claiming they're "biased" and "woke" or whatever. Some conservative media outlets (like the Daily Wire) have tried to start their own media empires, but so far they're total failures because explicitly conservative art is usually dogshit lmao.

[mariacallous]

Amid Donald Trump’s recent attacks on transgender people, many critics of his Administration have cited the German pastor Martin Niemöller, whose 1946 poem “First They Came” describes Nazi Germany’s progressive targeting of maligned groups. Indeed, on the first day of Trump’s second term, he signed an anti-trans executive order decreeing that the federal government recognize only two sexes, male and female; since then, his Administration’s pursuit of groups that it deems enemies—immigrants, college protesters, white-shoe law firms—has progressed rapidly. But Trump’s anti-trans actions are not just opening moves in a battle against vulnerable groups. Nor are they simply fanning the flames of right-wing moral panic. The push to eradicate so-called “woke gender ideology” is also part of the assault on the government itself. The right understands this. It’s time the left did, too.

The administrative state, a term thrown around with much derision in conservative circles, is simply a label for what the government does to keep America running. In fulfilling its duty to attend to the health, safety, and welfare of the population, the state builds roads, regulates toxins, records deeds, issues identity documents, and studies birth, death, and disease. Whether passed by Congress or state legislatures, laws cannot specify all the minutiae involved in protecting the health and safety of the people. If a state legislature passes a law requiring its restaurants to maintain safe and sanitary conditions, its members are not sitting around deciding the correct food-storage temperatures.

Executive agencies exist, in large part, to make such determinations. Since the New Deal, they have developed tools—forms, protocols, expert reviews, and rules and regulations—to achieve goals set by legislatures. To implement broad legislative mandates, administrative agencies must create systems that categorize information about the public they serve, breaking down the population into discrete categories based on whatever classifications best support a particular purpose. A person’s identity can be sorted many ways, depending on the context: by age, marital status, income, occupation, residency status, parental status, and more. These categories aren’t timeless ontological judgments—they’re practical tools that help the government fulfill its duties.

One of those criteria is sex. Administrative agencies have often defined sex not to fit large philosophies about gender but to help themselves do their job. Until recently, when Republican-controlled state Houses began passing anti-trans bills, the Department of Motor Vehicles in almost every state allowed people to have an “M” or “F” gender marker different from their sex at birth. This is practical: it is in law enforcement’s interest for the D.M.V. to insure that applicants’ appearance, including their sex, matches how they’re described on their identity document. New York City’s Department of Homeless Services instructs unhoused people to “choose placement in a shelter type (men’s or women’s) that feels safest for them based on their gender identity” because the agency is tasked with trying to keep people off the streets. But when Departments of Health predict population changes, for instance, they rely instead on a definition of sex at birth, since it allows them to track sex ratios.

Sometimes agencies’ decisions help trans people; sometimes they don’t. But there is usually an underlying rationale that calibrates a particular definition of sex to an agency’s purpose. In other words, when it comes to governing, sex is not an input, with a predefined meaning, determining the state’s rules. It’s an output, a creation of those rules, reverse-engineered to fit what an agency needs sex to do. When senators tried to bait Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at her confirmation hearing, into offering up a strict definition of “woman,” she gave the answer anyone familiar with sex in the administrative state would give: “If there’s a dispute about a definition, people make arguments, and I look at the law and I decide.”

Trump’s executive order—titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”—instead declares that sex is binary and immutable, “grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.” Female “means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” Males belong, at conception, to the sex that produces the small one. That definition—nonsensical because there are no distinguishable reproductive cells at conception—applies to all agencies and programs of the federal government.

A deluge of policy reversals has followed.

The Administration prohibited trans girls and trans women from participating in women’s sports, banned transgender people from serving in the military, reverted to putting sex at birth on federal identity documents, tried to transfer trans women to men’s prisons, and began requiring federal employees to use the bathrooms aligned with their birth sex, among other actions. “Gender” was replaced with “sex” on federal forms, and references to trans people on federal websites (including the National Park Service’s page about the Stonewall Uprising) were removed.

The assault on administrative flexibility is most visible at the National Institutes of Health, where rigid definitions actively prevent scientists and researchers from carrying out the work Congress mandated them to do. (Before Trump was elected, Russell Vought, who now leads the Office of Management and Budget, had explicitly called for “unwinding policies and procedures that are used to advance radical gender, racial and equity initiatives under the banner of science.”) By mid-May, the N.I.H. had cancelled more than six hundred million dollars in research grants related to transgender health. Even grants that included small numbers of transgender patients were affected. Jason Flatt, a researcher at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, lost funding for a study that would have analyzed the medical records of two hundred thousand people in the course of ten years to understand more about dementia. “Of those two hundred thousand, only four thousand were L.G.B.T., but that was enough to have the award cancelled,” he said. “Basically, they’re saying all my grants are cancelled because they also include trans people.”

Scientists and researchers understand that sex is a multidimensional category; in their research, they choose whichever dimension of sex and gender—chromosomes, reproductive organs, genital phenotype, hormones, or psychological or social factors—best suits their purpose. The diktat defining sex obliterates the nuanced, purpose-driven tools that allow agencies to support this work effectively. In March, the Trump Administration gleefully publicized the slashing of N.I.H. studies on what it called “transgender” mice, even though these studies were designed to study the effects of hormones on disease, fertility, and H.I.V.-vaccine efficacy which had little to do with what the right wing has derided as “gender ideology.” (One of the studies sought to examine the effect of estrogen on asthma; researchers hoped to understand whether biological characteristics associated with sex play a role, and, if so, which ones.) The Department of Veterans Affairs recently carried out a study on the rate of prostate-cancer diagnoses among veterans who are trans women; if the study were to be ongoing, it would now be forced to represent its subjects as men with prostate cancer, erasing data that could lead to findings about how hormone treatment might affect the treatment of prostrate cancer. “Trans wasn’t incorporated into biomedical enterprises just for the advancement of trans health,” a researcher at the N.I.H told me. “It was because trans people are an edge case that helps us think about sex and gender in smarter ways for the betterment of the entire population.”

The scale of the Administration’s funding cuts is so large that it can be difficult to parse the logic behind some of them. Many rejections have been cursory, simply informing researchers that their projects no longer meet agency priorities. Such a lack of precision may be intentional. The N.I.H. researcher told me that the breadth and vagueness of Trump’s anti-trans and anti-D.E.I. executive orders encourage anticipatory compliance. “It’s in the vagaries where they amass power, since the vagueness has to be interpreted.”

Trump’s “Defending Women” order doesn’t just erase transgender people; along with the Administration’s attack on D.E.I. initiatives, it signals that the concept of gender itself has become a chief target. It is nearly impossible to study disparities in health outcomes without studying the social, cultural, and psychological traits that typically fall under the banner of gender. During the first year of the pandemic, for instance, more men than women were dying of COVID-19, and news organizations were quick to point to biological sex differences as the cause. But, when researchers from the GenderSci Lab at Harvard combed through the data, they pointed out that gender-related social factors could also play a significant role. How else to account for the fact that men were more likely to die of COVID-19 than women in New York, but not in Connecticut? If the Administration forces various agencies to excise gender from the study of health, the government won’t be able to gather the evidence needed to justify policies that would benefit a wide range of people, including, in the case of COVID, men.

To say that Trump’s executive order is a wrecking ball is to vastly understate its scope and impact. Wrecking balls follow an arc. Trump’s order is like a tornado, crashing unpredictably into departments, reports, standards, forms—and now scientific practice. The goal appears to be not just making villains out of gender and sexual minorities but, by dismantling the health, safety, and welfare infrastructure of the administrative apparatus, targeting the same women that Trump’s “Defending Women” purports to protect. Much of what the administrative state does is mundane. But if basic indices of public health and safety cannot be measured accurately—if agencies cannot do the work they’re chartered to do, the part of the state that attends to the health and well-being of the population withers. That may be the point. 

[batboyblog]

https://www.tumblr.com/batboyblog/763234650399424512/the-recent-chappell-roan-thing-is-why-i-absolutely

I frankly also get the impression that a lot of these people genuinely think another Trump term will just be “business as usual” or “it’ll only hurt the people who deserve to suffer” and that they’ll just be able to hide away from the consequences for four years before someone comes along and fixes the mess for them and they get to benefit.

I don’t think they have any realization of just how bad this is gonna get the second time around, because the first time Trump was metaphorically behind a chained fence and held back by strong rope. This time he’s being let loose alongside his fascist theocratic friends.

I've puzzled about this for some time, because like do people honestly not remember what it was like? what those 4 years were like? the fear, the chaos, the national embarrassment. Every day waking up and going "oh god! what did he DO! while I was asleep!" and how often you'd wake up to some story that he'd tweeted something scary and dangerous at 4am. I believe him threatening to nuke North Korea (the "Fire and Fury" tweet) was one of those very early AM specials that we all woke up to.

I mean for people like Chappell, its hard to remember, but Trump has been the more or less national main character for 9 years, since the fall of 2015. I mean an 18 year old first time voter could have been 8 years old when Trump came down the gold escalators told us all that Mexicans were rapists and he was running for President. So for anyone under 30, Trump is normal since every election they've been able to vote in, he's been the Republican nominee. I've spent 9 years of my life, across 5 elections fighting Trump directly or indirectly. Depressing thought that.

but past that there's been a national effort to gaslight us all into thinking "yeah no it was normal" I mean I remember the media coverage of 2017, the first year or so of Trump's Presidency, every few weeks or so there'd be some "is it time for the 25th amendment now?" story about if Trump's weird behavior this time for his cabinet to step it and remove him. (A quick google turned up CNN Oct 2017, New York Times May 2017, The Guardian July 2017, and Vox February 2017) compare that to coverage today? The term "Sane-washing" has been coined where when Trump says something bonkers it gets characterized as "sometimes meandering" rather than "incomprehensible" and "worrying"

figures in the media have gone so far as to claim there's just no point to covering new Trump scandals because "they won't move the needle" which really should not be a journalist standard. And we see that they do, take North Carolina's Mark Robinson. Caught in a massive scandal, involving sex, porn, and being a Nazi, he's now down massively in the polls after nation wide coverage. Trump just had new court documents opened that showed he wanted a riot on January 6th, that his reaction to a mob threatening the life of his Vice-President was "so what?" and they he knew full well that he had lost but was going to "fight like hell" any ways. And its not much of a story, indeed I'm seeing more news about a NY Republican Congress having worn black face (new story today) than Trump's effort to over throw the government and kill Mike Pence.

past the media's gaslighting of course there's been a major and on-going campaign to effect how we see reality. I know that sounds very woo-woo, but to step back for second, most of what we know about the world is stuff people tell us, so you know Joe Biden is the President because other people have said so, most likely you've never met him or even seen him in person. Well as more and more people turn away from traditional media, and traditional media turns more and more to making of money by confirming the bias of people, it becomes easier and easier to slip things that are not real into "facts we are told". So for example "Joe Biden is President, and also in decline" there's never been any real evidence of that, but if on social media you are bombarded with it 4,000 times a day... you start to take it as understood wisdom.

people are also getting worse and worse at not just taking what they're told if it confirms biases they already have. Former Vice-President Al Gore wrote a book nearly 20 years ago now, called "The Assault on Reason" which had a ton of very interest neuroscience about the ways that moving images, TV he was talking about, by-pass the logic centers of the mind, the way we relate and trust someone talking to us in a way the written word does not. I can't help but reflect on that with the rise of TikTok and short form video as a "source of information" (lol)

any ways this is a long winded way of saying bad faith players, Republicans, left wing grifters, and agents of chaos, have been very good at flooding the zone all through the Biden Presidency with stuff "student loan debt" remember when that was SO! important SO big and Biden "not doing anything" (untrue) was the biggest deal? well yesterday his newest plan got unlocked in court and 3 out of every 4 people with loan debt will get relief.... oh you're just now hearing about that from me? huh... funny... I thought it was the number one issue and reason we should never trust Biden and the Democrats... weird....

but there have been other issues pushed up as THE! issue, its all misdirection, its all meant to get natural Democratic voters to feel frustrated, upset, and hopeless, and not to vote their interest. The world is a big complex multi moving machine, and anyone telling you that one issue either fixes every other issue or totally totally outweighs everything else and should for everyone, is most likely BSing you and doesn't have your best interests at heart.

and lets be clear, Trump is a Rapist he's a lot of things, traitor, racist, scumbag, criminal, scab, tax cheat, fraud, etc but for me any ways, I'm not gonna vote for a rapist to be President and if other people aren't gonna do everything they can to stop a rapist from being the President I don't want to hear how much they care about progressive issues.