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[–]BEB[S] 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

“California has some of the strongest pro LGBTQ+ laws in the nation and with the bills signed today, our march toward equality takes an additional step forward,” (California governor) Newsom said Saturday.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/newsom-signs-law-allowing-transgender-inmates-to-be-placed-in-prisons-according-to-gender-identity

Gavin Newsom also signed a bill that would help track LGBTQ+ healthcare, which begs the question - how will California track COVID statistics accurately if transgenders are included as if they were born the sex they ID as? COVID disproportionately affects males, so is CA going to skew the world's COVID stats for transgenders' feelz?

And what about gender fluids and non-binarie? What's the point in keeping health statistics, or any kind of statistics if people can identify into and out of biological sex?

Back when Bush the II was running for re-election and Gavin Newsom was mayor of San Francisco, Newsom decided to make gay marriage legal. Footage of joyous same-sex marriages in San Francisco flooded the airwaves. Well, that would have been great(!!!) except the US apparently was not ready for it, not even California (Prop 8 was proposed a few years later) and I have always thought that Newsom helped swing the election to Bush II.

Now, in the most crucial election of my lifetime, Gavin Newsom does it again - men in women's prisons - conservatives are Tweeting and people across the political spectrum are aghast.

Thanks, Gavin Newsom, thanks for getting a crazy Republican asshole re-elected president, AGAIN.

Prop 8 - California passed a bill to ban gay marriage a few years after Newsom legalized it in San Francisco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8

[–][deleted] 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

To be fair, Biden is a lot worse even from a "social justice" viewpoint. He authored the 1994 crime bill that locked away millions of people for drug offenses, a large percentage being minorities due to the wording of the bill. He supported segregation as well and only backed off on it when it became politically inconvenient. Let's not forget that Kamala threw the book at non violent drug offenders including Cannabis users while laughing about how she smoked weed in college, to which her own father said "stop lying."

Trump is a hard pill to swallow on a personal level and I don't really like his third justice pick but he's not trying to divide the country on race, sex, and religion like the left currently is.

I find it very ironic that so many people here still lean as hard left as they do given the current circumstances.

[–]BEB[S] 16 insightful - 3 fun16 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I hate the Democrats, but I have had the opportunity to travel overseas fairly widely, and part of my job was to pay attention to both US and global events, so I have seen how countries can go from stability to dictatorships seemingly overnight.

I have never been more frightened of any US president or any US party than I am of Donald Trump and the current Republicans. Trump and his goons are actively encouraging a Civil War in order for him to stay in power - no US president has done that as far as I recall.

And a second Trump term won't just be the loss of clean water/ clean air/ food safety standards - because that's already happening.

A second Trump term will result in the absolute corruption that I have seen in other countries, the stifling of dissent by violent means, hatred and strife between ethnic groups and religions, the triumph of the 0.01% over the 99.9%.

We will be a country destroyed if Trump wins again (or seizes power), and I don't think there will ever be hope of America as we knew it somehow making it back to "beautiful."

[–][deleted] 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Dude you are unhinged. If you hated the democrats you would actually see how much they lie. I'm not a big fan of Trump but saying he's instigating a civil war when it's proven that very wealthy progressive donors are the ones behind the rioting is just gaslighting. It's impossible for me to take anything you say seriously.

[–]BEB[S] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why don't you look at my posting history to see how much I hate the Democrats? It's all there.

But the Republicans and Trump scare the fuck out of me, and I've been stuck in the middle of a bloody civil war.

I am convinced that, like in 2016, it's actually right wing donors and chaos enablers like Soros behind the riot funding. They're the ones who want Trump to win (Soros just wants chaos), and the sight of Democrat cities on fire certainly doesn't help the Democrats.

Notice how Hands Up Don't Shoot and BLM emerged during the last presidential election year and then disappeared until this year? The right wing Daily Mail, only during election years, has about six inflammatory article on often minor racial spats. The Karen meme emerges.

The first question detectives ask is, "Who benefits?"

Do the Democrats benefit from rioting? NO.

Also, do you listen to anything that comes out of Trump's mouth - not out of Fox "News," not out of Breitbart, but out of Trump's mouth itself?

Did Trump's TAPED interviews with Bob Woodward miss you?

There was a website running a lie count of Trump's lies and he's told hundreds of verifiable lies, often contradicting himself.

Trump has said that he's not sure if he's going to peacefully transfer power (I'm paraphrasing).

Trump has said he is going to put down Election Night insurrection.

Trump got rid of Post Office boxes, machines, put one of his corrupt cronies in charge of the Post Office and admitted it was to stifle voting by mail.

Trump is now trying to install as a Supreme Court justice one of the people involved on the Bush side in the Bush Gore 2000 election recount, and he's trying to do it before the election so she can decide the election if it comes down to mail in ballots, which, given COVID, it will.

BTW: The FBI found that it was actually Right Wing extremists that have actually done the vast majority of domestic terrorism in this country, and the Proud Boys are certainly jonsing for a fight.

But hang out on Right Wing sites, look at the comment sections - they are ready to use all their firepower to keep Trump in office, and they're the ones with the guns and the know-how to do it. I don't think they stand a chance, but I do think they can cause chaos, and from Trump's own statements, he'd welcome it.

After all, Trump is going to be prosecuted the minute he leaves office, and he'd rather take the US down than go to jail.

We will see if you are right or if I am, but again, I have witnessed firsthand countries go down, almost overnight. It can happen here, and I think it will.

[–][deleted] 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I am convinced that, like in 2016, it's actually right wing donors and chaos enablers like Soros behind the riot funding.

I stopped reading right there.....You are too much. I will ignore your rants in the future if you will please never respond to anything I post. Thanks.

[–]denverkrisMy pronouns are Vodka?/Yes!/please 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"the stifling of dissent by violent means, hatred and strife between ethnic groups and religions"

It's the left that's doing that. They're the ones attacking/killing/refusing to serve Trump supporters, destroying businesses and implementing policies that are destroying cities (along with women's rights).