Parent in /r/parenting is just so proud of 6yo for coming out as trans. Many of the comments are surprisingly sane.

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[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Not that I normally enjoy displays of chauvinism, but watching Tom Hohman (former DHS acting secretary, or whatever) remind her in that Congressional hearing that "I'm a taxpayer, you work for ME!" and the look on her face...hahahaha you can tell she's a bit of a control freak between those kind of exchanges and the way she handles her (obviously gay, not trans) son.

Agreed Trump is a total piece of work, but as the nuclear options, that's a feature, not a bug. I call it the Dorian Grey strategy - force the left to look at what they themselves have become and perhaps they'll die of fright.

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I just read that Michael Cohen, Trump's former henchman, is warning that Trump will start a war to stay in power.

Trump said about nuclear weapons something like, "Why have them if you're not going to use them." so maybe Trump will be the literal NUCLEAR option.

I've struggled with this coming election since I learned of the Democrat-backed Equality Act, and especially after learning that Biden's foundation was partnered with Gender Spectrum, an organization that goes into schools trying to convince kids they are gender specials.

But now, after truly agonizing, I think that Trump is just too crazy and dangerous and we have to get Biden in, after which we burn the Democratic party and its misogyny down.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Trump is just too crazy and dangerous

For all the BLM faux-concern and posturing from the left out there, there is one graph that will tell you a much more powerful anecdote about who Black life and Black dignity matter to:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000006

Trump may be rough around the edges, but the mainstream media paint you their picture of Dorian Grey rather than just reporting objectively (Exhibit A: "Russiagate" turning out to be entirely fabricated as a stall tactic). At least Trump's intentions are straightforward and worn on his sleeve.

The bigger issue is the critical theory takeover of public institutions, including but not limited to Reddit, that are intent on brainwashing the public via mantras like "Trans Women Are Women" until these become normalized, at which point they'll criminalize anyone stating that 2+2=4

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I actually have dealt with Trump twice before he became president. The first time was decades ago.

He was, and still is, a rich-boy, financial failure, playboy, mob-connected, carnival barking, sexual assaulting, grifter.

And Donnie is dumb as a post, but very cunning. And funny. And malignant.

And completely, completely amoral, which is how he got people to flock to his parties.

Donald Trump is also the original Post-Modernist, as in, he creates his own reality. Remember when he moved the hurricane with his marker?

I am completely against what the Democrats and the Far Left are doing in terms of gender ideology and all the post-modernist clap-trap.

But Trump too is a post-Modernist and right now he seems to be playing brinksmanship with Russia, and according to his former henchman, Michael Cohen, would launch a war to save his own skin.

Trump has attacked everything from food and air safety standards to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

He's threatening to round up journalists and opponents.

He's threatening not to leave the White House if he loses.

He's trying to incite a race war.

He gave the relief money meant for Americans to corporations.

I have lived in Banana Republics and have no doubt that Trump will make the US into a Banana Republic should he get re-elected, or even if he isn't re-elected and tries to launch a coup.

The Democrats are in the clutch of some kind of madness right now, but they still can be reasoned with. Trump cannot.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

also - I would take anything coming out of Michael Cohen's mouth with a grain of salt, since he's sure to be disbarred at this point and as such I'd assume he's grasping at whatever strings possible for a new career

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I don't need to take anything out of Cohen's mouth to be pretty sure that Trump would start a war to save his own skin. He assassinated Solemani for gawd's sake to try to goad Iran into war.

Trump doesn't even need to deliberately start a war - he doesn't read his briefings so he could accidentally BLUNDER into a war.

I knew that China was having an outbreak of a very frightening mystery disease in January, and yet it took Trump, a man with the most access to sensitive intelligence reports in the world, after months of denial, until July to even wear a mask and he still hasn't done what he should to keep Americans, especially health care workers safe.

If Trump had ramped up production of personal protective equipment when he was advised as to what was happening in China, if he had worn a mask as an example, close to 200,000 Americans would not be dead. Some would have died, but nowhere near that number.

He's a showman, that's it. He's all smoke and mirrors. He was tied to Russian banks and the New York/ New Jersey mobsters. The slimiest man who ever lived, Roy Cohn, was his mentor.

A completely immoral/amoral former reality show star, complete business failure, who blustered and cheated his entire life after being given an incredible start by his con artist, KKK-affiliated father.

Woody Guthrie wrote a song about Donald's father -that's how notorious Fred Trump was.

The second time I dealt with Trump was not THAT long ago but long before he ran for president, and again, he was a showman/grifter out for himself. He has no love for the US. No respect for the Constitution.

And if you don't care about that, Donald Trump has made our food so unsafe I would not eat any kind of meat, and boil your vegetable really well too.

Are we better off today than we were four years ago? The buck stops with the president of the United States, and he has failed like he has his entire life.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

? Trump has literally made it a cornerstone of his presidency to extract the US from all foreign wars as quickly as possible and return to economic (bloodless) warfare e.g. Section 232 tariffs against China, renegotiating of trade deals.

Really. He was just nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this morning. Genuinely curious why you think this.

As for COVID, he suspended all travel from China and Europe and likely stemmed the tide. As for the deaths - over half are in NYC and California, with both Newsom and Cuomo consistently making it a point to decline any aid offered by Trump. In related news, the CDC revised its death counts two weeks ago to say only ~9600 people died from COVID-19 alone. The vast majority of deaths were elderly (again in PA, NY, NJ, all states which forced nursing homes to accept convalescing COVID patients in the sole exception of the 14-day quarantine period mandated on exposure for the rest of the country.

What more would you have had Trump do to respond? He invoked the Defense Production Act to assure medical devices and vaccines could move through the pipelines as quickly as possible.

It's a novel pathogen. What do you think you can reasonably expect in terms of a federal government response (regardless of which side the administration aligns with)? If there was a simple answer this shit would have been over 4 months ago.

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I literally have too much work to do trying to save women's rights to refute your points, all just on the borderline of spurious.

And seriously, I know a lot about the Middle East - I had to pay attention to events there for my job for years. There is no way in hell Trump should have been awarded anything. He assassinated Solemani. If you knew anything about the Middle East you would know that Trump took the powder keg that George W left behind and made it a lot worse.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Killing one militant is better than thousands of civilians.

If you knew anything about the Middle East

I know a lot about the Middle East

I literally have too much work to do trying to save women's rights to refute your points, all just on the borderline of spurious.

Just trying to have a discourse here. If you feel visceral antipathy towards Trump, that's understandable since he's of rather incorrigible character, but do you disagree on any of these items being positive developments?

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are we better off today than we were four years ago?

Black Americans were, at least, before the pandemic. Under the Trump admin, the Black unemployment rate receded under 6% for the first time EVER since the Federal Reserve started tracking by race in 1972.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000006

speaking personally - I, too, am much better off even now than I was 4 years ago.