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Crazy watching the US slide further and further into authoritarianism… like so much for freedom loving Americans? The US has been captured by far right extremists pushing shit that nobody actually cares about. Like but for far right propaganda, most Americans wouldn’t give a shit about putting gender identity on IDs. Hell! A few years ago, there’d’ve been a contingent of libertarians questioning why the government needs gender information in the first place! So sad. It’s just nazi Germany: find a vulnerable group and turn the public against them, then strip that group of their civil rights. That then lays the foundation for the regime to rinse and repeat until only desirables are left…

Good luck everyone! Yalls should just voted for the damn women!

Which is basically what the court said, so it didn’t make it any easier or harder—it just reaffirmed that discrimination claims from straight people should be analyzed the same as discrimination claims from other minority groups. The court didn’t even weigh in on the facts of this case—the woman claiming ‘hetero’ discrimination still has to prove it in lower courts.

Well put!

I feel like I’m in the Labyrinth again…

I hate how hard this made me laugh

Earnest answer: they have made the argument that they lost the presidency and both houses of Congress, therefore, whatever happens is not on them. They are taking the stance that since they don’t have the legal power, they’re doing their part by raising awareness, going to committee meetings to verbally oppose trump’s regime, and voting against bills when they can. In the Senate, Dems have been almost united in voting against trump’s nominees (looking at you, Fetterman). But they (Dem leadership) have been very straightforward that they don’t have the power. Their strategy is that republicans will fail so hard that the rest of the country will be running back to democrats by the midterms. I’ll let you decide how effective they’ve been.

To their credit, it’s true that they have almost no legal power. The House votes by simple majority, so there’s next to nothing House Dems can do. In the Senate, Dem Senators can filibuster some bills. It’s super important to remember that a lot of bills, like budget bills or judicial nominations, cannot be filibustered. Add on top of that, republicans are disorganized as hell and have barely submitted any legislation for a vote that could be filibustered even if the Dems wanted to. So there’s really very little Dem Senators can do on the Senate floor.

So, the answer is, barely nothing because legally, they truly don’t have the power. That all said, they are basically sitting on their hands. There’s SO MUCH they could be doing. For instance, imagine the POWER and HISTORY that Dems could’ve made had they one-by-one stood up and walked out of trump’s state of the union address. Dems could stand on the Capitol step EVERY DAY to protest, demand media attention, and use their platform. They aren’t. They’re letting us burn because most of them are playing politics.

Good luck to them, you, me, and everybody else…

What a godawful shitty take

Fuck disney and fuck everybody who continues to support their trash. Hold the line.

Reuters, AP, NPR and all the other formerly credible news outlets went right starting last year and have continued to sanewash and mischaracterize trump’s actions. These news outlets aren’t grasping the harm they’re doing. I thought doing shit like cancelling my NPR membership might prove a point to them that now is not the time to buckle—we need truthful news. They’re too busy worried about engagement and their own careers to do the right thing. Journalism is dead, died this year officially. Fuck fascism—fuck orange hitler trump—fuck every single person who has ever voted for him.

Jihadi christians at it again. Subhuman pigs.

Praying to god this gets postponed indefinitely. I have exactly -1 confidence that this movie won’t be awful.