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[–]FlippyKing 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Someone here on Saidit is saying one issue to oppose this is to raise the issue that right as this Dr Levine was forcing covid patients into nursing homes Dr Levine took his own mother out of a nursing home and put his mother into a hotel. First off, I sort of think there's something immoral about sticking your parents into nursing homes, especially if one is a doctor and can afford help and knows enough to help with their care. But then to force everyone into what you then take your mother out of is really duplicitous or something, and the icing on the cake is that Dr Levine did not take his mother home but stuck her in a hotel. Can you feel the love in that family? If so, slap that hand a way fast because that's not love. It's probably groping.

[–]Finnegan7921[S] 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Cuomo in NY did the same thing with putting covid patients into nursing facilities which killed thousands of people and is still treated as some sort of covid conquering hero despite NY being a complete shitshow. Janice Dean has been on him about it but predictably the media just ignores the whole thing or calls it a conspiracy theory. Dem governors=good. Rep governors=bad. That is how it works.

[–]purrvana 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

And Cuomo apparently had enough time to write a whole book about how great he was at dealing with the pandemic while the pandemic was/is still happening, despite his horrible management of the whole thing.

[–]Finnegan7921[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I know, right ?! The media practically had spontaneous orgasms b/c the guy held a press conferences every day saying the same shit, nobody asked him any sort of tough questions. What else he did wa snyone's guess, except sending infected people to nursing homes, write his book, demand a shitload of federal help and proceed not to use it, etc. Blue=good, red=bad. They ripped every republican gov., especially DeSantis of FL, yet NY's numbers were a disgrace. All that matters now is what team you play for. For fiur years everyone was told that Fox was like state media.....watch and see how little CNN and MSNBC, ABC news, etc handle biden. Oh wait, they've already shown how. Kid gloves and fawning coverage, spiking any story that makes him look bad.

[–]lefterfield 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

CNN political director: DC COVID memorial lights like 'extensions of' Biden's 'arms embracing America'

Naaah I'll bet they'll be super tough on Biden. /s

[–]jkfinn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

No, he didn't "kill thousands." And if you lived in rural NY, you would find yourself constantly defending Cuomo (as arrogant as he is) against the gun-loving, tax-hating, racists who bash every move he makes. The great scandal of Nursing Home deaths in rural NY was not Cuomo's position but the stupid directors of these places encouraging Covids patients to die "at home" (the nursing home) without going to the hospital to receive the latest treatments. In one nursing home near me, 14 out of 15 patients just died in place and only one opted for the hospital. This was murder, but everyone just lapped it up as so caring, so Christian, so in step with the wishes of the family and the patient.... (it's no fun defending Cuomo who I oppose on some key issues but for upstaters it's par for the course)

[–]Finnegan7921[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-new-york-andrew-cuomo-elections-nursing-homes-5212e305921c250eb6cba4f6f246fc4d

"The U.S. Justice Department vastly expanded an inquiry Wednesday that could determine whether New York is undercounting coronavirus deaths among nursing home residents, demanding detailed data from hundreds of private facilities."

"The demand ratchets up pressure on Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo after months of bipartisan criticism that the state’s official tally of 6,722 dead at long-term care facilities is probably off by thousands. That’s because New York, unlike nearly every other state, counts only residents who died on a nursing home’s property and not those who died after being taken to a hospital.

Cuomo’s administration has repeatedly refused to release such nursing home data to lawmakers and the media, including a public-records request from The Associated Press dating back to May. "An AP analysis in August found New York is probably undercounting nursing home deaths by thousands, noting that a separate federal count since May that included resident deaths in hospitals was 65 percent higher than the comparable state count."

"New York’s method of counting allows Cuomo to boast that his state has a lower percentage of nursing home deaths compared to other states."

Yeah, sounds like he is being unfairly treated. Get real. Oh, and there's this :

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/26/andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-execs-immunity

They donated to his campaign, he gave them tons of patients to charge the gov't for and he told anyone whose relative died b/c of covid in one of these places to go and fuck themselves. What a guy.

[–]FlippyKing 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Cuomo was openly considered one of the most corrupt governors just a few years ago BEFORE his "bridge-gate" scandal with Christy of NJ happened. Now he's treated like an angel when he's an angle of death corruption and authoritarianism. My sense of the whole Dems v GOP thing is that they work for the same bosses, they put on the show they're told to and regardless of which one is in power the same things will happen. The big monkey wrench was Trump in that he did not pass any new trade bills, his initial bombing in Syria was weak and in spite of his mis-steps in foreign policy we did not invade any new countries. His overthrow of Bolivia has been undone democratically which can not be said for Obama's overthrow of Honduras. That I can think Trump was better than Biden can ever hope to be is a damning statement about Biden not praise for guy who doesn't even know how little he knows or who doesn't realize what a terrible person he really is.

[–]MarkTwainiac 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

First off, I sort of think there's something immoral about sticking your parents into nursing homes, especially if one is a doctor and can afford help and knows enough to help with their care.

Please don't use the objectionable actions of this individual as an excuse to cast aspersions on all families who have members in nursing homes. First of all, not all people in nursing homes are passive blobs without any agency who have been stuck there solely by their children or others. A lot of people in nursing homes are still sentient enough to have a choice - and a voice - in their own place of residence and their care.

There are many reasons why an elderly woman might quite reasonably and understandably prefer to live in a nursing home/long-term care facility over staying in her own home and having her care and life arranged and overseen by her adult child(ren), or by moving in with her kid(s). This is especially the case if she has financial resources to afford a decent- or top-quality nursing home/LTCF.

In a nursing home/LTCF, an elderly woman might find she has much more peer companionship and regular social interaction, access to more activities and social life, more suitable meal options, and far greater autonomy and privacy than she might have living at home under the eye and perhaps thumb of her child(ren). She might also have access to carers and medical personnel who are more competent, varied, respectful and lively and fun to be around. When you're dependent on others to meet your basic needs, sometimes it's more comfortable to have a network of people to rely on rather than just one or two as often happens in home care.

Moreover, not all adult children are kind to their elderly parents, and not all always put the needs and interests of their elderly parents first. Coz a lot of adults with elderly parents are selfish, narcissistic assholes incapable of being good carers or supervisors of care. Some are controlling and manipulative. Some are downright abusive, even physically - elder battery is very real and unfortunately common.

To complicate matters, even adult children who really mean well and will try their best often have a lot of lingering, smoldering resentments towards, and issues with, their parents left over from earlier in life. And once adult children end up responsible for caring for their parents directly or indirectly, and managing their parents' lives, many feel put upon, stressed, aggrieved and even more resentful. The family dynamics in these types of situations are complex and often not pretty, and they do not necessarily bring out the best in people.

My guess is, when Levine pulled his mother out of the nursing home due to COVID, she might have been the one to insist on going to a hotel rather than to his house. Coz honestly, when a woman has a grown son who is a autogynephilic female impersonator who demands that the world call him a woman, why on earth would she want to live with him? For all we know, Levine might be a total dick to his mother, and she might not be able to stand him or even the sight of him.

Also, as a general rule, many women are very happy when their children get to the age where they can leave home, and a large number of such women would prefer never to stay or live again under the same roof with their child(ren). In fact, some elderly women will tell you that they'd rather be caught dead than to have to live with their adult child(ren), especially in a dynamic where the traditional roles between parent and child(ren) are reversed.

[–]FlippyKing 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Considering the large number of scandals that involve abuse and neglect of the elderly in nursing homes, I think it is fair to see the choice as questionable.

I agree that if Levine's mom did not want to be with her, admittedly very successful career-wise, child, that is a wise choice. But, Levine had a choice he essentially denied others. In the US we've had decades of hospital closings and abandoned buildings which could have been renovated and retrofitted to provide the needed beds for patients. Hospitals are overcrowded even when there is not a pandemic as shown buy the kinds of infections and problems are are unique to hospitals. So many errors made in hospitals are caused by overworked staff. Levine, like so many other vying for promotions into the new administration, choose instead to just put the most at risk into greater risk while rescuing his own mother from his choice. But that's quite a side issue.

Another side issue is: the cultural role the elderly have played for our species throughout our history is essentially cut out. The reliance on professions to do what community and family did, and benefited from, naturally as part of the full life cycle, removes a lot from us and the benefits are questionable.

Your point at the end about how some elderly women would rather be caught dead that have to live with their adult children leave so much out of the context for that feeling that it is irrelevant. If they were fully independent the would not be in nursing homes. If they hate their kids or vice versa then nursing homes might be an answer but it's not a solution to a problem that might not have a solution. If they are just "too good" for a manner of living our species used right up till the mid 20th century, then that's perhaps more a reflection of capitalism control over our culture and our minds than any individual choice.

[–]MarkTwainiac 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I wasn't defending what Levine did with his mother. Nor did I touch on hospital closures, overcrowding, hospital-acquired infections, hospital errors, overworked hospital staff, and all the other stuff you go into in your second paragraph.

I also did not bring up the cultural role of the elderly in our species. Nor, again, did I make any comments on the changing modes of living that have resulted in many today getting care in nursing homes or from paid carers such as HHAs at home, when - according to you - the "manner of living our species used right up till the mid 20th century" was for care to be customarily provided by relatives at home occupied by multigenerational families. Nor, finally, did I say that nursing homes are either a or the answer/solution to the question of where and how to best house and care for elderly persons who do not want to live with their own adult children and be reliant on them for their care and needs.

I was simply responding to this one point you made in your earlier post:

First off, I sort of think there's something immoral about sticking your parents into nursing homes, especially if one is a doctor and can afford help and knows enough to help with their care.

Coz I thought - and still think - you were using what Levine did vis-à-vis his mum as an excuse to take a cheap shot at people who have "stuck" their parents in nursing homes - you called them "immoral," in fact. And coz I thought you were being ageist and condescending towards the parents themselves, suggesting that because they're now old and have health problems that make them dependent on others for care and assistance, they no longer have any say and no agency - they're simply pawns controlled by their children.

Your point at the end about how some elderly women would rather be caught dead that have to live with their adult children leave so much out of the context for that feeling that it is irrelevant. If they were fully independent the would not be in nursing homes. If they hate their kids or vice versa then nursing homes might be an answer but it's not a solution to a problem that might not have a solution. If they are just "too good" for a manner of living our species used right up till the mid 20th century, then that's perhaps more a reflection of capitalism control over our culture and our minds than any individual choice.

I never said that women who feel this way hate our children. You're the one who came up with that, and it's pure projection! And balderdash.

Actually, one of the reasons many of us don't want to live with our adult children is coz we don't want to burden them and interfere with their own families and personal lives. Coz we love them. A lot.

I was gonna go into reasons why elderly and infirm women would not want to live with our adult children out of love, amongst other reasons, but it got too long. So instead I'm going to start a separate thread.

I also never said that women who'd rather be caught dead than to have to live with their adult children are all choosing to live in nursing homes. You're the one who set up that either-or scenario. There are lots of other options for older and elderly women who require various kinds of care and assistance. I will set them out in the separate thread.

As for your claim that elderly women who don't want to live with our adult kids feel this way also coz we think we

are just "too good" for a manner of living our species used right up till the mid 20th century, then that's perhaps more a reflection of capitalism control over our culture and our minds than any individual choice.

I really am floored that anyone would not only think this, but that you'd write it out and post it publicly on a forum for feminists. Yikes. So elderly women aren't just hateful for not wanting live with and burden our adult children, but we're also mighty uppity too. Sounds like you've taken the sexist adage "a woman's place is in the home" and given it a new spin by adding an extra large helping of ageism: "an elderly woman's place is at home with her adult children." Double yikes.

As to your broader [sic,LOL] claim: if you really think that "right up till the mid 20th century" all elderly, infirm people everywhere else on earth, including in Western countries like the US and UK, lived at home with their adult children in happy extended families where everything was hunky dory for all, then you really have not looked into the history of what was actually the case.

I will post more about the history on the separate thread and include plenty of links. For now:

By the early 20th century care of an aged relative was regarded as the concern of the State. Relatives came to view admission of an older relation to a chronic sick bed as ‘a bed for life’, and the patient’s home was given up. Consequently, if they become well enough to be discharged they had no accommodation to return to. Relatives made every excuse for keeping their old folk in hospital. All too often patients became institutionalised and did not wish to be discharged.

https://www.bgs.org.uk/resources/a-brief-history-of-the-care-of-the-elderly

A great deal of information about the history of elder care and living arrangements in the US, and the true story of how today's "nursing home industrial complex" actually came to be, has been compiled by Karen Stevenson Brown for a website originally called elderweb.com that now has been incorporated into a special history section at seniorliving.org. There are separate sections for specific time periods, such as 1776-1799; 1800-1899; 1900-1929 and so on:

https://www.seniorliving.org/history/

Of course, you are free to continue believing and claiming that since the dawn of our species, elderly infirm people in all cultures around the world were treated with loving care until American-style capitalism in the mid-20th century swooped in and told paradise to get lost. Yeah, mid-20th century capitalism sure put the kibosh on the custom that was widely practiced until then - a custom in which kith and kin with only kindness in their hearts spent their time gathered 'round the family hearth singing Kumbaya in harmony whilst holding hands, exchanging hugs, thinking nothing but good thoughts about each other, and compassionately caring for their elderly and infirm relatives.

But if that was the case, how come senicide?

Also, please look into a form of male violence that has been on the rise in recent years: adult sons killing their retirement-age and elderly mothers.

[–]FlippyKing 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I love that you feel the need to put words in my mouth, such as the "loving care until American-style capitalism" and how you have to spin my words, which are already critical enough of nursing homes without the spin. Comments like yours are why i take good breaks from social media, to avoid reading them and to avoid making them. I think you lose the thread, or something, maybe credibility, when you try to make nursing homes into some kind of win for feminism. I think you are projecting a lot, like you are taking my comment personally when I can not know what your reasons are for anything you do.

If you think nursing homes are an improvement in our ability to deal with the elderly compassionately, and assuming you are not taking societies where the elderly walk off into the wilderness to die as the norm, then I simply think you are lying to yourself and no amount of rationalizing on your part will change my mind about it.

Quite simply, Cuomo's and PA governor's decision shows how disposable those in nursing homes are treated-- not by me, but by those who run our society. Even in Italy, which was hit by COVID very early due to the massive amount of tourism from China to Italy before the virus was common knowledge, the elderly were sacrificed. If there is anything that can be said about that choice they made, they at least feel shame guilt and remorse over it where in the US it is spun as heroic and wise without ever considering out that inflated the death toll used to justify more draconian measures.

[–]MarkTwainiac 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, come on. I wasn't standing up for US nursing homes. I was standing up for elderly, infirm and disabled women to have a measure of agency and autonomy, and for the right of older women with grown children such as myself and Dr Levine's mother not to want to or have to live the last years/period of our lives with our grown children and be under their eye and control - and for our grown children and their families to have a right to have their own private lives which are not under the eye and control of their parents, either.

I was also standing up for the right of Levine's mother to choose to live apart from her AGP TIM son both on a long-term and short-term basis. You strongly disapproved of this, coz you assumed that the only reason son and mother could be living apart was coz he'd made the "immoral" choice to "stick" her in a nursing home.

My view is decidedly in contrast to your view, which seems to be that the only persons in a family who should be considered to have moral agency and deserve decision-making powers are the children or relatives of elderly, infirm and dependent people - never ever the elderly, infirm and dependent persons themselves.

In the viewpoint you've put forward so far, older women should be treated as if we are either dementia patients or have always been total dummies from birth. Our fate should be left up to our adult children whose right it is to decide, or not to decide, to "stick" us into nursing homes.

The view you've put forward is that when it comes to those of us who have health conditions that make us dependent on care provided by others and are of "a certain age," it's always best that we live with our adult children and get our care only from them or carers whom they choose and control. Any other arrangement is "immoral."

If you think nursing homes are an improvement in our ability to deal with the elderly compassionately, and assuming you are not taking societies where the elderly walk off into the wilderness to die as the norm, then I simply think you are lying to yourself and no amount of rationalizing on your part will change my mind about it.

Now you're the one putting words into my mouth. But no worries. I am not trying to change your mind. I don't believe anyone can change another person's mind. We can only change our own minds - and in order for that to happen, we have to be open to hearing other views. My impression of your mind is that it's firmly shut, it's informed by very limited life experience and little knowledge of history, and it's quite small to boot.

[–]akkordeonplayer 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People won't care. They'll either ignore this story as "transphobic propaganda" or say "well, all those old ladies were Karens anyway, why bother wasting resources on life unworthy of life?"

[–]fediverseshill 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And it's important to note that we know of AT LEAST TWO other GOVS that did that same scummy move - it was BOTH dems. The mayor of NY and the Mayors of Michigan...

MI went from snyder poisoning the people with tap water, to Herr Whitmer, killing their elders with Corona. I think they both should be lined up inside a prison hall. What's the difference with the fucking dems these days?

Pelosi will stay silent.

[–]MarkTwainiac 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs was established on January 1, 1967 following Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966. The plan allowed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to restructure the Public Health Service to better serve public health. The office was renamed to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health following the Department of Education Organization Act in 1972.

As of 2018, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health oversees 12 core public health offices, 10 regional health offices, and 10 presidential and secretarial advisory committees. Prior to 2010, the Office was known as the Office of Public Health and Science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_for_Health

The 12 core offices run by the OASH are:

*National Vaccine Program Office

*Office of Adolescent Health

*Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

*Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy

*Office for Human Research Protections

*Office of Minority Health

*Office of Population Affairs

*Office of Research Integrity

*Office of the Surgeon General

*Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

*Office of Women's Health

*President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

So it's a position that sets policy for adolescent, minority and women's health, as well as for "research integrity." It also runs the POTUS council that sets PE and sports standards for school kids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_Assistant_Secretary_for_Health

Since 1965, 16 individuals have served as US Health Secretary after their appointment was confirmed by the US Senate. Only one has been a woman, Eve Slater, who became Health Secretary in February 2002 and held the position for less than a year.

In addition, there have been four "acting" Health Secretaries who did the job but without Senate confirmation. Two of those have been women.

So over the last 55 years, 18 men have served in this position, four women. With Biden's recent pick, the new tally will be 19 men, four women.

Looking at length of service, this office has been held by men for 46 of the last 55 years, by women for approximately 9 years.

Now with Biden's pick, the office will be run by another man for the foreseeable future - and not just any man, but a man who is pretending to be a woman and I presume buys into and probably promotes wholly unscientific and medically unethical trans ideology.

Given the purview of this position, I think this is a very dangerous appointment that will imperil the health of a good many people.

[–]Rationalmind 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I saw this and was like, “Fuck. Are you kidding me?”

[–]fediverseshill 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Joe also backtracked on his "I AM LITERALLY GOING TO SEND OUT A 2K STIMULUS! THIS IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION!" from before the election.

Now it's a single 1400 check - less than even trumph wanted.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/-2-000-checks-higher-taxes-personal-finance-impact-of-democratic-senate-biden

Democratic Sweep Sets Stage for $2,000 Stimulus Checks from markey bloomberg's rag January 7, 2021

Biden is a SHILL liar.

"The debate over $2,000 isn't some abstract debate in Washington, it's about real lives. Your lives, the lives of good, hardworking Americans," Biden said. He spoke of Americans struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic who are having difficulty putting food on the table, paying rent or their mortgage and paying their utility bills.

..."If you're like millions of Americans all across this country, you need the money, you need the help, and you need it now," the President-elect said.

President-elect Joe Biden said electing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in Tuesday's runoff elections would end the gridlock in Washington and allow a Democrat-controlled Senate to provide $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans. January 4, 2021

A new maximum payment for a third stimulus check has entered the conversation after President-elect Joe Biden pitched it as part of a $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal he plans to push Congress to get off the ground: $1,400 tops - Jan. 19, 2021

it took barely two weeks for this horrid politician to flip flop on 2k checks, he is known for trying to bankrupt social security, we're in for a ROUGH four years, everyone.

[–]hetisachoice 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He lied. Impeach him, Harris, and Pelosi right now. We are not putting up with this shit for four years.

[–]Rationalmind 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Former pediatrician? Biden better be kidding. Email your senators!

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

[–]MarkTwainiac 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

I haven't read all those ovarit threads yet, but I noticed on the first one that a poster said

What would you protest? He's not the secretary of women's health or anything. It's just sort of annoying how everyone is acting like this is such a great step forward when it seems like just a guy with a fetish, but there's nothing inherently wrong with appointing him either, is there? I dunno...

Which shows total ignorance of what this particular post entails. In fact, he will be secretary of women's health - and adolescent health, and minority health too.

User notgonnabenice, if you are amenable, please share on ovarit the list I've given here of the 12 offices/areas the OASH is in charge of. Thanks. I can't do it myself, coz I'm not on ovarit (yet).

[–]purrfect 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The first openly AGP in a wig in federal office 😬

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

LOL, ever since I read your comment several hours ago, I keep imagining all the "founding fathers" at the various meetings they held looking aghast and flipping their own wigs at the idea that in the future the government they were forming would be fronting for authoritarians and sexual fetishists wearing very different kinds of wigs.

Perhaps the US Declaration of Independence should be rewritten as follows:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that some of them were born in the wrong body and therefore must be called women and regarded as superior to those other kind of women, you know the female ones, and that all these men who were created equal and like to LARP as the opposite sex are endowed by their Creator with innate gender identities as well as certain unalienable Rights, that among these rights are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, as well as the right to have their gender identities constantly affirmed and validated, the right to indulge their male sexual fetishes openly and freely without compunction, and the right to slur, abuse and ostracize everyone who refuses to recite and sign the Pledge of Allegiance to Gender Identity Ideology: "Trans women are women! Trans men are men! Non-binary is valid! Misgendering is violence!"

Bet a few of the 56 signers of the original declaration would pause before putting their John Hancocks on that, LOL.

[–]purrfect 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Amen and awoman!

[–]fediverseshill 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

'Biden picks transgender doctor as health secretary'

..

So the Trumpf could pick school privatizers for the Dept of Education, but will the media call it out when someone who wants kids on hormones is in charge of our country's HEALTH????

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/education-secretary-faces-backlash-demanding-schools-reopen-full/story?id=71752468

For the people's entertainment: the Red versus the Blue administration.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-coronavirus-pandemic-80275870d7fca89bd38992a611b26616

[–]Finnegan7921[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The hilarious thing is that they're pushing the same things they swore couldn't be done and suggesting them was insane and was killing people. Cuomo last week went on about how the economy had to open back up, that it couldn't go on forever....just long enough to get rid of a political enemy. Biden wants to open the schools. Watch the teachers unions cave after months and months of them saying that it was a death sentence to do so. What a joke.

[–]Silverhatband 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's quite the theater, isn't it.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Doomed ... or is the US tipping point finally in sight?

This guy will peak millions.

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

There is no US as far as I am concerned. I will not recognize the existence of this nation after they have made voter fraud systematic and turned this country into a police state to silence, intimidate, and threatened people for pointing that out.

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

I was about to ask why so many Trump haters are so insistent on pushing this everywhere.

[–]whateverneverpine 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Everyone knows this is a man. What a farce!

[–]GaiusJuliusCaesar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wrote my senators that Pennsylvania needs a competent physician general right now so they should confirm Levine to save lives.