“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Tyranny, loss of basic human rights and ill-conceived immigration policies - fucking not interested in any regime that espouses what Trump is putting forth.
Trump is as sick an individual as there is and if you imagine his vision as one you can get behind, then you are just like him. Not a friend of mine and certainly not someone whose opinion I’m interested in considering.
May you bask in the glory of what is to come. You will surely enjoy it.
Agreed on some of what you espouse and I am certainly disgusted by Democrats right now.
However, many of your comments are fact-free and time will make clear which things you are choosing to believe are true and best for our country. The results, even with Trump manipulating statistics are becoming clear.
You write well, but much of what you’re saying smacks of homophobia, racism and ignorance, in particular your comments on immigrants. Perhaps actually look up demographics on crime. Nothing backs up GOP claims of rampant crime caused by these people. Just the opposite. And consider the billions of dollars immigrants contribute to our GNP through their purchases. Did you know the majority of these people pay taxes? lol. Yep, our infrastructure is paid by immigrants as well as US citizens. Employers take taxes out of immigrant paychecks exactly as they do for everyone else.
To be clear: I’m not a fan of Dems at this moment in our history. The old guard needs to cede to more progressive and younger politicians who are willing to take on the corporations and oligarchs who have their hands in everything. And they need to take a more forceful stand against the tyrannical regime that is emerging out of the MAGA movement and the horrible human rights atrocities occurring worldwide.
All of this seems clear as day to me and has fuck all to do with sports. The GOP is fucked. We are heading into a Nazi-like regime.
Agreed. Trump is a POS who will take down his party, and Democrats who think men who “perform woman” have magically changed their sex will take down our party. Transwomen are men, by definition. Women are not going to cede the hard won rights our ancestors fought for. And then there's the inane DEI policies Dems promote. Categorization of oppressions will never work because the assumptions are inaccurate. Skills, qualifications and competence are individual traits, not racial or sex-based traits. You can't make up for past wrongs by oppressing other groups today. That's why the SC decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard was won by Asians who were more qualified and than black college applicants.
"You write well, but much of what you’re saying smacks of homophobia, racism and ignorance, in particular your comments on immigrants."
Homophobia? Do you think keeping men out of female spaces hurts lesbians? How about sports, something that many gender nonconforming lesbians excel at? Does keeping male athletes out of female sports hurt or help lesbians? If you believe lgbTQIA2S+ is some kind of "community," you are mistaken. Yes, the lowercase lgb is intentional because the TQ-crazy screws over homosexuals, especially lesbians. We get kicked off lesbian dating apps for not wanting to have sex with “lesbians with a girldick.” Ugh. We want a divorce from the force-teamed alphabet soup.
Racism? I have worked on blue collar teams for decades, teaching my colleagues who were illegal aliens how to speak English. I volunteer at a free medical clinic that primarily serves illegal aliens who do not have medical coverage through their cheating employers. If I was born in Latin America, I'd come here illegally too. That doesn't mean I want official policy to allow and even encourage illegal immigration. Why spend billions on an immigration system if the government is going to just ignore it with the intent to destroy working class economic gains? But since I can see the big picture with policy, many people who can't resort to calling me racist. So tell me, which race am I against? I don't want white Canadians, Europeans, Russians etc entering our country and remaining here illegally either. My black relatives who lost their good paying construction jobs to illegal immigrants during the Biden years have gotten them back now. They don't care about the "billions of dollars immigrants contribute to our GNP through their purchases." They care that white Dem voters care more about illegal aliens than about their livelihoods. They say they'll never vote for Dems again.
And no, most employers are not paying employee taxes on their illegal employees. Bosses pay those employees cash every Friday. They're not paying their income or social security taxes. Some large employers like canning companies that have been repeatedly charged for illegal employment practices now require employees to have TINs and accept someone else's SSN. Those employees pay into SS. But most illegal employees work on a cash basis. No income taxes. Since many eventually have children here, they get free housing, free healthcare, free food stamps, free education without paying anything into the system. NOT good policies by Democrats.
Ignorance? Ouch.
I never said there was "rampant crime." But if you lost your 22 year old daughter to a man who choked her to death while raping her, you might understand that the government could have prevented that crime by deporting him after he was arrested the first or second time he committed a crime. I know about Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray and the women who were assaulted in Seattle and many others because I did my research. I don't listen to the left or right-wing media bubbles. I read the Laken Riley Act because it was the first bill passed by the Repub Congress. I read federal bills, I look up court cases. I have lived experience on working class and professional teams that hire illegal aliens. I'm not ignorant.
What I hope is that smart people who believe in “vote blue no matter what they do to us” will do their own research and come to the conclusion that we need an entirely new process if we want the government to work on our behalf. I see you have a good perspective on Repub dishonesty and corruption. But if the TPP didn't scare you off Dems, or their decades of perpetual wars for profit, or their destruction of working class gains and women's rights, or their destruction of children's bodies and minds to promote the transitioning profiteers who donate to Dem candidates, then you're one more person who will accept “Not Trump” as a reason to not just vote for Dems but to ignore how they are destroying our country's advances.
I hope you'll join those of us who can see and understand complexities and are who are no longer willing to pretend Democrats are on our side.
So hard to reply when you've made so many assumptions, namely that I am on board with Democratic policies. I am disgusted by the state of the Democratic Party. However, EVERYTHING about the GOP is beyond the pale. They are a hateful, hypocritical bunch. Ignorant, uncaring, self-righteous. They pretend to be advocating for hardworking, middle class Americans, but nothing could be further from the truth. There is nothing they do or say that I can get behind. ZERO.
Yes - corruption is everywhere, and on both sides. But the degree of it with the GOP, the MAGA movement, and the Christian right — well, if you can't see the problem, then you are the problem. It could not be clearer.
IF you imagine that the GOP is pro-women, pro-children or pro-blue collar, then you surely are watching GOP propaganda. Try something more factual:
Ah... yes, a huge portion of our tax base comes from immigrants - every kind (legal, illegal, documented, undocumented).
Your ignorance on trans people based on your blog is absolutely appalling. Shame on you. Try reading and listening to something other than FOX and JK Rowling. Consider what top medical institutions and psychiatrists, people who are well-versed on the subject of sexuality, have to say. Sexuality is complex.
“IF you imagine that the GOP is pro-women, pro-children or pro-blue collar”
I don't. But because Democrats are so awful, we now have to rely on Republicans to stop child transitioning and male intrusion into female spaces. We're stuck with Trump because Democrats broke the border and women's rights. As bad as he is, at least he's getting males out of female sports and showers.
“ They pretend to be advocating for hardworking, middle class Americans”
So do Democrats, but their statements over the past 5 decades are belied by their polices, in particular NAFTA & other trade deals that help the rich while screwing our working class. Then there's the terrifying TPP that was secretly promoted by Obama and Hillary as SoS. If she had won, and if it hadn't been wikileaked, Obama would have signed it in December that year and newly elected Hillary Clinton would have convinced Dem voters that it's not too bad. Once people realized exactly how it was designed to destroy our country, she would have said she's still on our side but as President she can't get us out of it. That would be true. Once signed, a US president would be helpless, even if we elected an honest, ethical leader. The TPP was designed that way on purpose.
“Your ignorance on trans people based on your blog is absolutely appalling. Shame on you. Try reading and listening to something other than FOX and JK Rowling. Consider what top medical institutions and psychiatrists, people who are well-versed on the subject of sexuality, have to say. Sexuality is complex.”
Yikes. Sexuality is not gender identity. How did you get those two confused?
I know thousands of trans people. You think I'm ignorant? I don't read or listen to Fox or Rowling. I do my own research. If you believe humans can change sex, or that changing your sex characteristics magically makes you the opposite sex, then we're not going to be able to agree on the impacts of transgender ideology. But if you want to promote male rights over female, women like me will fight back to preserve our right to privacy, safety and dignity in female showers, bathrooms, prisons, rape crisis centers, female hospital wards/rooms and every other place where men (and “transwomen”) have been given access to females and sexually assaulted us. But if you don't know or care about those dangers, we'll be happy to build special showers for you and the men who declare a female identity. Since there's no test for trans, every man who wants to will be legally able to come in to view your naked body. You'll eventually figure out the problem with men having legal access to naked women and children.
Your links to studies that show how great transitioning is don't even mention detransitioners. Nor do they mention that they're based on surveys of people who got free elective surgery and then were surveyed to see if they liked the “gender affirming care.” Those studies don't ask patients who desisted or detransitioned. Boobs on a male chest is medicine under Obamacare. I know hundreds of men who think their fake boobs are a great sex toy. But I don't want to pay for that. I don't think it's medicine. Those studies don't mention that a huge percentage of gender nonconforming proto lesbian and gay kids get transitioned. I think lesbian youth should be allowed to grow up to be happy healthy lesbians, hopefully with their own children. Puberty blockers and opposite sex hormones destroy their lives, prevent brain development, and cause sterilization. How is that good for a kid who would have been a lesbian and is now mimicking men with a shortened lifespan, loss of the ability to orgasm and no ability to get pregnant or nurse children? The same goes for gay boys – maybe not a shortened life but an anorgasmic one.
Even your link to Cornell's article on how great transitioning is listed under LGBT with no mention of the high percentages of gay and lesbian (LGB) children who are convinced to destroy their bodies. Lesbians and gays are nothing like transgenders. We evolved as a normal, natural part of human sexual, emotional and bonding behavior. Trans people are nothing like us. We love ourselves; we grow up to be parents and to love our children. They just hate who they are or they despise their sexed bodies. lgbTQ is a force teamed nonsensical grouping.
I've read some of the other articles you cite. My impression is that they are designed to say Trump BAD (which he is) instead of asking why we have Dem policies that put people at risk. For instance, https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/the-trump-administrations-war-on-children/260583 never questions why Dem policies encourage multigenerational dependence on social welfare programs. Maybe that's what you want – generations of people living on welfare, living in section 8 housing, getting free food, free healthcare without paying into the system. For generations. Their teenage children getting their own Section 8 housing by having their own babies. Maybe that's what you want. Other people think it hurts families to encourage intergenerational dependency instead of personal responsibility.
Another way Dem policies put people at risk is allowing millions of people to enter our country and stay here illegally. When they have children who are declared citizens on the archaic basis of the location of birth rather than their parents' country, those children have been put at risk by the parents and the Democratic government that facilitated the problem. When they eventually get deported, it looks like the current administration caused the problem. But the parents and Dem administrations caused it by encouraging people to come here illegally.
OK, one more. The article, Do immigrants pay taxes? doesn't even mention cash under the table employment. The authors state: “For example, most immigrants with wage earnings have income and payroll taxes deducted from their wages throughout the year.”
Lol, I've done the books for thousands of employers from construction companies to home repair, yard work, arborists, house cleaners etc. They're not paying their employee taxes. That's the whole point of hiring illegal immigrants.
The workers are given cash every week. Do you think they're contacting the IRS to pay their income taxes when they're working here illegally? No, the only taxes they pay are sales taxes for all the great stuff they can afford with their tax-free earnings and property taxes for the homes they buy over Americans who don't have tax-free illegal earnings.
While there's plenty we agree on when it comes to how bad Republicans are, we obviously don't agree on illegal immigration, transitioning of kids and destruction of women's rights. Can we still work together? Or have you moved into judgmental hatred of someone who has educated opinions that differ from yours?
The story of the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City alone is worth reading for very dark humor about financial corruption.
Years ago, I thought Donald Trump was funny, until he assaulted Mexicans and Asians, and he used Joseph-Goebbels-like labels, "The immigrants poison our blood."
So, long ago, Trump's true colors showed.
What astounds me, just astounds me, as a jurist, is that a very gifted jurist with a fine mind, namely, Chief Justice John Roberts, has come to the Crossroads and sold his soul to the Devil.
How on earth could someone of the stature, learning and gifts of CJ John Roberts so deeply betray our Country.
As one who loves The Federalist, I absolutely believe that, in his most centralistic moments, Alexander Hamilton would have decried and prevented the brutality and arbitrary cruelty of this Administration.
I believe that Alexander Hamilton, the one who argued most ardently for Central Government, would be appalled at the plenary powers in crime afforded by CJ John Roberts.
I think that Alexander Hamilton fully anticipated arbitrary power and did his utmost to prevent it.
And this is from the most Centrist of our Founding Fathers.
I think all should re-read the wondrous Federalist Papers.
Now, the only party that represents the values of The Federalist is the Democratic Party.
We need a responsible, middle-right, conservative Party.
We need a responsible, Wall-Street Republican Party back.
The loss of one of two major parties to tyranny is an unacceptable, precipitous danger to our Republic.
I would not fight with a traditional, Conservative Republican who shared hatred of tyranny and who shared core values of The Federalist.
I would work with her, learn from her, compromise with her, dialogue in civility with her, so we both could resolve needs in society consistent with scarce resources.
This is the traditional dialogue of Bob Doyle and Patrick Moynihan.
This dialogue with common values is where safety in our American Republic lies.
We cannot have this while one major Party is of the Aryan-ideology:
"Immigrants poison our blood."
"Haitian immigrants steal your pets and eat the kitties and puppies in blood voodoo rituals."*
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* In the Middle Ages, the trope was, "Jews steal your children and eat the little boys and girls in blood rituals." This trope fanned the flames of racial hatred and ignited deadly pogroms.
We can be proud to be Americans. In the tradition of The Federalist Papers. In the tradition of the Transcendentalists -- Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the tradition of the Abolitionists and heroes: Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. In the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois. In the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King and our dearly missed John Lewis.
John Lewis practiced already as a little boy. Mother Nature created in this dear boy the goodness of the future man. The little four, five-year-old boy preached to the farm chickens. There is a picture of the little tyke preaching to the hens. What a huggable, innocent, happy little boy.
The boy who grew into the man, crossing the bridge for Justice in Selma, and being battered in the head by ignorant, brutal police.
The young man who spoke at the March on Washington so memorably.
The Congressman who wants us, even today, to "create good trouble."
What a dear, dear Man, John Lewis, and how dearly we miss him. May God rest the good soul of John Lewis in well-earned peace. We love you!
Roberts is the worst kind of evil. Good-looking, well-spoken, charismatic, and in a position to do immeasurable harm, which he is doing. He's such a prick. Enjoy this bullshit from him: https://youtu.be/HgEbe9vbHfY?si=I6BhPeb41Q28giBe.
Chris Andrews: As a jurist, I do not adhere to "originalism," but was impressed with CJ John Roberts at his appointment.
Of course, in the GWB Administration, the appointment would be an "Originalist."
But, having read CJ John Roberts' background, I had realistic hopes he could develop a jurisprudence, albeit "Conservative," of the reasoning quality of Justices Felix Frankfurter and Benjamin Cardozo.
The fall from potential greatness is really tragic and D-A-M-N-I-N-G, especially in the cause of absolute and arbitrary powers in the Presidency.
Rarely has a public servant so bitterly disappointed.
I wonder two things about Roberts as my impressions are similar to yours: whether there is a cognitive component and whether he is isolated from all but colleagues Alito and Thomas (etc.) and thus missing balance in input.
Huh? And buh-bye Diane. Can't buy into what you peddle.
Tyranny, loss of basic human rights and ill-conceived immigration policies - fucking not interested in any regime that espouses what Trump is putting forth.
Trump is as sick an individual as there is and if you imagine his vision as one you can get behind, then you are just like him. Not a friend of mine and certainly not someone whose opinion I’m interested in considering.
May you bask in the glory of what is to come. You will surely enjoy it.
Agreed on some of what you espouse and I am certainly disgusted by Democrats right now.
However, many of your comments are fact-free and time will make clear which things you are choosing to believe are true and best for our country. The results, even with Trump manipulating statistics are becoming clear.
You write well, but much of what you’re saying smacks of homophobia, racism and ignorance, in particular your comments on immigrants. Perhaps actually look up demographics on crime. Nothing backs up GOP claims of rampant crime caused by these people. Just the opposite. And consider the billions of dollars immigrants contribute to our GNP through their purchases. Did you know the majority of these people pay taxes? lol. Yep, our infrastructure is paid by immigrants as well as US citizens. Employers take taxes out of immigrant paychecks exactly as they do for everyone else.
To be clear: I’m not a fan of Dems at this moment in our history. The old guard needs to cede to more progressive and younger politicians who are willing to take on the corporations and oligarchs who have their hands in everything. And they need to take a more forceful stand against the tyrannical regime that is emerging out of the MAGA movement and the horrible human rights atrocities occurring worldwide.
All of this seems clear as day to me and has fuck all to do with sports. The GOP is fucked. We are heading into a Nazi-like regime.
Agreed. Trump is a POS who will take down his party, and Democrats who think men who “perform woman” have magically changed their sex will take down our party. Transwomen are men, by definition. Women are not going to cede the hard won rights our ancestors fought for. And then there's the inane DEI policies Dems promote. Categorization of oppressions will never work because the assumptions are inaccurate. Skills, qualifications and competence are individual traits, not racial or sex-based traits. You can't make up for past wrongs by oppressing other groups today. That's why the SC decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard was won by Asians who were more qualified and than black college applicants.
"You write well, but much of what you’re saying smacks of homophobia, racism and ignorance, in particular your comments on immigrants."
Homophobia? Do you think keeping men out of female spaces hurts lesbians? How about sports, something that many gender nonconforming lesbians excel at? Does keeping male athletes out of female sports hurt or help lesbians? If you believe lgbTQIA2S+ is some kind of "community," you are mistaken. Yes, the lowercase lgb is intentional because the TQ-crazy screws over homosexuals, especially lesbians. We get kicked off lesbian dating apps for not wanting to have sex with “lesbians with a girldick.” Ugh. We want a divorce from the force-teamed alphabet soup.
Racism? I have worked on blue collar teams for decades, teaching my colleagues who were illegal aliens how to speak English. I volunteer at a free medical clinic that primarily serves illegal aliens who do not have medical coverage through their cheating employers. If I was born in Latin America, I'd come here illegally too. That doesn't mean I want official policy to allow and even encourage illegal immigration. Why spend billions on an immigration system if the government is going to just ignore it with the intent to destroy working class economic gains? But since I can see the big picture with policy, many people who can't resort to calling me racist. So tell me, which race am I against? I don't want white Canadians, Europeans, Russians etc entering our country and remaining here illegally either. My black relatives who lost their good paying construction jobs to illegal immigrants during the Biden years have gotten them back now. They don't care about the "billions of dollars immigrants contribute to our GNP through their purchases." They care that white Dem voters care more about illegal aliens than about their livelihoods. They say they'll never vote for Dems again.
And no, most employers are not paying employee taxes on their illegal employees. Bosses pay those employees cash every Friday. They're not paying their income or social security taxes. Some large employers like canning companies that have been repeatedly charged for illegal employment practices now require employees to have TINs and accept someone else's SSN. Those employees pay into SS. But most illegal employees work on a cash basis. No income taxes. Since many eventually have children here, they get free housing, free healthcare, free food stamps, free education without paying anything into the system. NOT good policies by Democrats.
Ignorance? Ouch.
I never said there was "rampant crime." But if you lost your 22 year old daughter to a man who choked her to death while raping her, you might understand that the government could have prevented that crime by deporting him after he was arrested the first or second time he committed a crime. I know about Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray and the women who were assaulted in Seattle and many others because I did my research. I don't listen to the left or right-wing media bubbles. I read the Laken Riley Act because it was the first bill passed by the Repub Congress. I read federal bills, I look up court cases. I have lived experience on working class and professional teams that hire illegal aliens. I'm not ignorant.
What I hope is that smart people who believe in “vote blue no matter what they do to us” will do their own research and come to the conclusion that we need an entirely new process if we want the government to work on our behalf. I see you have a good perspective on Repub dishonesty and corruption. But if the TPP didn't scare you off Dems, or their decades of perpetual wars for profit, or their destruction of working class gains and women's rights, or their destruction of children's bodies and minds to promote the transitioning profiteers who donate to Dem candidates, then you're one more person who will accept “Not Trump” as a reason to not just vote for Dems but to ignore how they are destroying our country's advances.
I hope you'll join those of us who can see and understand complexities and are who are no longer willing to pretend Democrats are on our side.
So hard to reply when you've made so many assumptions, namely that I am on board with Democratic policies. I am disgusted by the state of the Democratic Party. However, EVERYTHING about the GOP is beyond the pale. They are a hateful, hypocritical bunch. Ignorant, uncaring, self-righteous. They pretend to be advocating for hardworking, middle class Americans, but nothing could be further from the truth. There is nothing they do or say that I can get behind. ZERO.
Yes - corruption is everywhere, and on both sides. But the degree of it with the GOP, the MAGA movement, and the Christian right — well, if you can't see the problem, then you are the problem. It could not be clearer.
IF you imagine that the GOP is pro-women, pro-children or pro-blue collar, then you surely are watching GOP propaganda. Try something more factual:
https://www.epi.org/publication/100-days-100-ways-trump-hurt-workers/
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/8/1/trump-says-economic-growth-shatters-expectations-data-says-otherwise
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-24/claiming-a-historic-gain-in-blue-collar-wages-trump-shows-how-to-use-statistics-to-mislead
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/07/03/how-trump-big-beautiful-bill-will-affect-children-and-schools/
https://nationalpartnership.org/20-ways-the-trump-administration-has-already-harmed-women-and-families/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/25/republicans-against-womens-rights
Hegseth / current: https://19thnews.org/2025/08/pete-hegseth-doug-wilson-women-voting/
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/the-trump-administrations-war-on-children/260583
https://www.theyoungcenter.org/publications/anti-child-and-anti-family-how-the-trump-administration-is-targeting-the-most-vulnerable-among-us/
Here's some actual information on immigrants and taxes, not just one of your anecdotes:
https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/do-immigrants-pay-taxes
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/topic/tax-contributions/
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/pay-for-personal-services-performed
https://calbudgetcenter.org/news/new-study-undocumented-immigrants-contribute-8-5-billion-in-california-taxes-a-year/
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Ah... yes, a huge portion of our tax base comes from immigrants - every kind (legal, illegal, documented, undocumented).
Your ignorance on trans people based on your blog is absolutely appalling. Shame on you. Try reading and listening to something other than FOX and JK Rowling. Consider what top medical institutions and psychiatrists, people who are well-versed on the subject of sexuality, have to say. Sexuality is complex.
https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/transgender-people-gender-identity-gender-expression
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/transgender-identity-and-path-self-acceptance
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10063975/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-depth/transgender-facts/art-20266812
https://www.hrc.org/resources/transgender-children-and-youth-understanding-the-basics
https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equality/what-does-the-scholarly-research-say-about-the-well-being-of-transgender-people/
“IF you imagine that the GOP is pro-women, pro-children or pro-blue collar”
I don't. But because Democrats are so awful, we now have to rely on Republicans to stop child transitioning and male intrusion into female spaces. We're stuck with Trump because Democrats broke the border and women's rights. As bad as he is, at least he's getting males out of female sports and showers.
“ They pretend to be advocating for hardworking, middle class Americans”
So do Democrats, but their statements over the past 5 decades are belied by their polices, in particular NAFTA & other trade deals that help the rich while screwing our working class. Then there's the terrifying TPP that was secretly promoted by Obama and Hillary as SoS. If she had won, and if it hadn't been wikileaked, Obama would have signed it in December that year and newly elected Hillary Clinton would have convinced Dem voters that it's not too bad. Once people realized exactly how it was designed to destroy our country, she would have said she's still on our side but as President she can't get us out of it. That would be true. Once signed, a US president would be helpless, even if we elected an honest, ethical leader. The TPP was designed that way on purpose.
“Your ignorance on trans people based on your blog is absolutely appalling. Shame on you. Try reading and listening to something other than FOX and JK Rowling. Consider what top medical institutions and psychiatrists, people who are well-versed on the subject of sexuality, have to say. Sexuality is complex.”
Yikes. Sexuality is not gender identity. How did you get those two confused?
I know thousands of trans people. You think I'm ignorant? I don't read or listen to Fox or Rowling. I do my own research. If you believe humans can change sex, or that changing your sex characteristics magically makes you the opposite sex, then we're not going to be able to agree on the impacts of transgender ideology. But if you want to promote male rights over female, women like me will fight back to preserve our right to privacy, safety and dignity in female showers, bathrooms, prisons, rape crisis centers, female hospital wards/rooms and every other place where men (and “transwomen”) have been given access to females and sexually assaulted us. But if you don't know or care about those dangers, we'll be happy to build special showers for you and the men who declare a female identity. Since there's no test for trans, every man who wants to will be legally able to come in to view your naked body. You'll eventually figure out the problem with men having legal access to naked women and children.
Your links to studies that show how great transitioning is don't even mention detransitioners. Nor do they mention that they're based on surveys of people who got free elective surgery and then were surveyed to see if they liked the “gender affirming care.” Those studies don't ask patients who desisted or detransitioned. Boobs on a male chest is medicine under Obamacare. I know hundreds of men who think their fake boobs are a great sex toy. But I don't want to pay for that. I don't think it's medicine. Those studies don't mention that a huge percentage of gender nonconforming proto lesbian and gay kids get transitioned. I think lesbian youth should be allowed to grow up to be happy healthy lesbians, hopefully with their own children. Puberty blockers and opposite sex hormones destroy their lives, prevent brain development, and cause sterilization. How is that good for a kid who would have been a lesbian and is now mimicking men with a shortened lifespan, loss of the ability to orgasm and no ability to get pregnant or nurse children? The same goes for gay boys – maybe not a shortened life but an anorgasmic one.
Even your link to Cornell's article on how great transitioning is listed under LGBT with no mention of the high percentages of gay and lesbian (LGB) children who are convinced to destroy their bodies. Lesbians and gays are nothing like transgenders. We evolved as a normal, natural part of human sexual, emotional and bonding behavior. Trans people are nothing like us. We love ourselves; we grow up to be parents and to love our children. They just hate who they are or they despise their sexed bodies. lgbTQ is a force teamed nonsensical grouping.
I've read some of the other articles you cite. My impression is that they are designed to say Trump BAD (which he is) instead of asking why we have Dem policies that put people at risk. For instance, https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/the-trump-administrations-war-on-children/260583 never questions why Dem policies encourage multigenerational dependence on social welfare programs. Maybe that's what you want – generations of people living on welfare, living in section 8 housing, getting free food, free healthcare without paying into the system. For generations. Their teenage children getting their own Section 8 housing by having their own babies. Maybe that's what you want. Other people think it hurts families to encourage intergenerational dependency instead of personal responsibility.
Another way Dem policies put people at risk is allowing millions of people to enter our country and stay here illegally. When they have children who are declared citizens on the archaic basis of the location of birth rather than their parents' country, those children have been put at risk by the parents and the Democratic government that facilitated the problem. When they eventually get deported, it looks like the current administration caused the problem. But the parents and Dem administrations caused it by encouraging people to come here illegally.
OK, one more. The article, Do immigrants pay taxes? doesn't even mention cash under the table employment. The authors state: “For example, most immigrants with wage earnings have income and payroll taxes deducted from their wages throughout the year.”
Lol, I've done the books for thousands of employers from construction companies to home repair, yard work, arborists, house cleaners etc. They're not paying their employee taxes. That's the whole point of hiring illegal immigrants.
The workers are given cash every week. Do you think they're contacting the IRS to pay their income taxes when they're working here illegally? No, the only taxes they pay are sales taxes for all the great stuff they can afford with their tax-free earnings and property taxes for the homes they buy over Americans who don't have tax-free illegal earnings.
While there's plenty we agree on when it comes to how bad Republicans are, we obviously don't agree on illegal immigration, transitioning of kids and destruction of women's rights. Can we still work together? Or have you moved into judgmental hatred of someone who has educated opinions that differ from yours?
Chris Andrews: I still remember this NYT article from 2016:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/nyregion/donald-trump-taxes-debt.html
The story of the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City alone is worth reading for very dark humor about financial corruption.
Years ago, I thought Donald Trump was funny, until he assaulted Mexicans and Asians, and he used Joseph-Goebbels-like labels, "The immigrants poison our blood."
So, long ago, Trump's true colors showed.
What astounds me, just astounds me, as a jurist, is that a very gifted jurist with a fine mind, namely, Chief Justice John Roberts, has come to the Crossroads and sold his soul to the Devil.
How on earth could someone of the stature, learning and gifts of CJ John Roberts so deeply betray our Country.
As one who loves The Federalist, I absolutely believe that, in his most centralistic moments, Alexander Hamilton would have decried and prevented the brutality and arbitrary cruelty of this Administration.
I believe that Alexander Hamilton, the one who argued most ardently for Central Government, would be appalled at the plenary powers in crime afforded by CJ John Roberts.
I think that Alexander Hamilton fully anticipated arbitrary power and did his utmost to prevent it.
And this is from the most Centrist of our Founding Fathers.
I think all should re-read the wondrous Federalist Papers.
Now, the only party that represents the values of The Federalist is the Democratic Party.
We need a responsible, middle-right, conservative Party.
We need a responsible, Wall-Street Republican Party back.
The loss of one of two major parties to tyranny is an unacceptable, precipitous danger to our Republic.
I would not fight with a traditional, Conservative Republican who shared hatred of tyranny and who shared core values of The Federalist.
I would work with her, learn from her, compromise with her, dialogue in civility with her, so we both could resolve needs in society consistent with scarce resources.
This is the traditional dialogue of Bob Doyle and Patrick Moynihan.
This dialogue with common values is where safety in our American Republic lies.
We cannot have this while one major Party is of the Aryan-ideology:
"Immigrants poison our blood."
"Haitian immigrants steal your pets and eat the kitties and puppies in blood voodoo rituals."*
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* In the Middle Ages, the trope was, "Jews steal your children and eat the little boys and girls in blood rituals." This trope fanned the flames of racial hatred and ignited deadly pogroms.
We can be proud to be Americans. In the tradition of The Federalist Papers. In the tradition of the Transcendentalists -- Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the tradition of the Abolitionists and heroes: Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. In the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois. In the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King and our dearly missed John Lewis.
John Lewis practiced already as a little boy. Mother Nature created in this dear boy the goodness of the future man. The little four, five-year-old boy preached to the farm chickens. There is a picture of the little tyke preaching to the hens. What a huggable, innocent, happy little boy.
The boy who grew into the man, crossing the bridge for Justice in Selma, and being battered in the head by ignorant, brutal police.
The young man who spoke at the March on Washington so memorably.
The Congressman who wants us, even today, to "create good trouble."
What a dear, dear Man, John Lewis, and how dearly we miss him. May God rest the good soul of John Lewis in well-earned peace. We love you!
Roberts is the worst kind of evil. Good-looking, well-spoken, charismatic, and in a position to do immeasurable harm, which he is doing. He's such a prick. Enjoy this bullshit from him: https://youtu.be/HgEbe9vbHfY?si=I6BhPeb41Q28giBe.
Chris Andrews: As a jurist, I do not adhere to "originalism," but was impressed with CJ John Roberts at his appointment.
Of course, in the GWB Administration, the appointment would be an "Originalist."
But, having read CJ John Roberts' background, I had realistic hopes he could develop a jurisprudence, albeit "Conservative," of the reasoning quality of Justices Felix Frankfurter and Benjamin Cardozo.
The fall from potential greatness is really tragic and D-A-M-N-I-N-G, especially in the cause of absolute and arbitrary powers in the Presidency.
Rarely has a public servant so bitterly disappointed.
I wonder two things about Roberts as my impressions are similar to yours: whether there is a cognitive component and whether he is isolated from all but colleagues Alito and Thomas (etc.) and thus missing balance in input.
Thank you for helping keep me sane in our insane world!
My pleasure, very cool friend. 🕶️
Were it not for humor, I would be dead.
So, yeah.
I surely hear you on that. Only humor for a while now. Plus more Glinda.
Hypocrisy and greed
Oh yeah.