Why do Rs hate the LGBTQ community?

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Anonymous wrote:I want to tell parents they can’t opt out because it is a nightmare to manage this.

I want people to use common sense that books about gender dysphoria don’t need to be a part of the 2nd grade curriculum.

I don’t want this to be a slippery slope situation. What if I don’t want my kid to be read books about Muslims? (Again I really don’t care but this has big implications.)

We have a close family friend that is trans and my 2nd grader understands that she identifies as a woman, but was once a man. This has not confused my child. I think children are capable of understanding a diversity of human experiences... Far more capable than many adults.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile 50% of American school children read, write and do math at a level four grades below the grade they are in.

Good times.

Don't muddy the waters with facts, logic and reason.

Or how about don’t change the subject. Just go ahead and admit you are a culture warrior.

How is it changing the subject to acknowledge that as schools keep trying to teach about gender and sexuality issues, our international test scores in math and reading and science have fallen plummeted? There are only so many hours in the school day for instruction.

OP here - agree. I don’t care if a word problem says Dan and Matt have $50 to spend on gas to get them to Philly for their nephews bar mitzvah. It costs $6 a gallon. How much will it cost to get there?


That doesn’t require a sexuality discussion. It’s just what you might see in society. It’s a fact.

But that wasn’t what was happening in the case decided today. Maryland teachers were specifically told to disagree with a child who said marriage is between a man and a woman, and to respond to a cult who says “a boy can’t become a girl” that the comment is “hurtful.” They are told to say that when a baby is born, “people make a guess about our gender.” Those are specific unscientific, moral claims at odds with parental beliefs and no different constitutionally than a teacher saying a child should accept Jesus.

No, what you are hearing is that teachers were not reinforcing Stone Age fairy tale nonsense. In America, marriage is NOT exclusively between man and a woman. In America, we recognize that trans people exist, because God made them. We recognize that gender is a made up concept that varies over place and time.

Your “facts” are actually opinions, and you’re not entitled to have them validated at every step of your life journey in America. Pray on it.

You lost me at this statement -- this gender ideology is not a made-up concept. And I don't know when this started to be a thing but that is where I draw the line.

It started with anthropologists. People who study humans and cultures. They happened to observe all sorts of inbetweens in different cultures. Sorry that doesn’t jibe with your worldview, but the problem is you.

It's not just me...it's many people...and not just Rs...Dems and Independents too. It's not just Americans it's people all over the world.

We are only talking about gender "identity"....not biological sex.
The belief that gender identity matches biological sex is tied to religious and cultural beliefs and values. Fact.

Biological sex is real. Gender identity is a concept - outward expression based on societal expectations and stereotypes.

Fact.

Opinion.

Actually, I'd say gender identity is a belief.

But one that is based on some fact, unlike most religions.

DP. The idea of transgenderism posited by the left is more religious than scientific. They assert that people can be a gender that isnt aligned with their body. This implies that we have an existence separate and apart from our mortal coils. This concept is generally referred to as a "soul." You can't both say that you have a deeply held belief that people have souls that have a different gender than the body that they inhabit, while also scoffing about "religion."

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is why many people abstained from voting, voted independent or held their noses and voted for Trump.

If Dems continue down this path I see a similar fate in 2026 and 2028.

Brilliant post of the year right here. Soo many mediocre men that just crumbled and decided you know what, I want the guy that makes me feel good, even if he is a felon and a rapist and working overtime to destroy the country and get revenge on the loyalists he threw under the bus in 2020.

America deserves what it gets.

And so do trans people. Actions have consequences. You tried to impose your mental disturbance on society by ambush and fascist tactics, and to win your war on sanity by grooming children. You failed. Backlash is your well-deserved reward.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to tell parents they can’t opt out because it is a nightmare to manage this.

I want people to use common sense that books about gender dysphoria don’t need to be a part of the 2nd grade curriculum.

I don’t want this to be a slippery slope situation. What if I don’t want my kid to be read books about Muslims? (Again I really don’t care but this has big implications.)

We have a close family friend that is trans and my 2nd grader understands that she identifies as a woman, but was once a man. This has not confused my child. I think children are capable of understanding a diversity of human experiences... Far more capable than many adults.

It's easy to understand that a person is pretending to be the opposite sex. It sounds like you have, thankfully, refrained from telling your child that the man *turned into a woman*, which is what conservatives take issue with.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to tell parents they can’t opt out because it is a nightmare to manage this.

I want people to use common sense that books about gender dysphoria don’t need to be a part of the 2nd grade curriculum.

I don’t want this to be a slippery slope situation. What if I don’t want my kid to be read books about Muslims? (Again I really don’t care but this has big implications.)

We have a close family friend that is trans and my 2nd grader understands that she identifies as a woman, but was once a man. This has not confused my child. I think children are capable of understanding a diversity of human experiences... Far more capable than many adults.

If your child thinks this man is no longer a man, then your child is indeed very confused. You have failed your child and outsourced your thinking to a destructive ideology in order to stay trendy. Shame on you. The rest of us won't be playing along in order to make you feel better about what a loser you are.

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Anonymous wrote:A compromise: allow our language to evolve to do away with gendered pronouns. Many languages don’t have gendered pronouns: Finnish, Estonian, Hungaria, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Persian, and Armenian, etc.

Gender has lost its meaning anyway. One’s gender is no longer a polite way of denoting male or female and has evolved into something completely amorphous.

Let’s still keep biological sexes, needed for medical purposes, do away with gendered pronouns, so that no one gets offended by being misgendered but also no one gets offended by being identified as their sex in appropriate circumstances. Intersex people can be just that or whatever is medically appropriate for that unique individual.

That's not an acceptable compromise.
Gender has not lost its meaning. There are many Republicans AND Democrats AND Independents (OP is 100% wrong!) who believe what "gender" means.
I do however, agree on keeping biological sex -- so here's a compromise.....

Do away with "gender" and keep biological sex for everything -- male, female or intersex (M/F/I) should be the only biological sexes. You are either M, F, or I. No more of the silly "X" thing.

I’ll accept your proposal when you accept mine: eliminate the baggage that goes along with sex and criminalize sex based discrimination, both overt and implicit, everywhere it appears.

Medicine. Rights. Schools. Workplace. And most importantly, churches. No more indoctrinating little girls to submit and devote their lives to breeding. No more teaching boys that they are inherently superior. If you want to pull that crap, you lose your tax status. No more subsidizing regressive behavior that limits both boys and girls.

If it’s separate, it had better be equal and based on a sound determination of necessity that would pass the strict scrutiny test.

Everyone signs up for the selective service. Medical exemptions only. Modern combat looks a lot different than it did 200 years ago.

Men and women get child leave and are expected to take it. Companies that have executive ranks that don’t generally track the sex composition of their workforce will pay a tax off their net with a % that reflects the difference. Same with salary differentials. If the company is “unprofitable”, the Board, shareholders, or executives are liable.

Anything merit based is done blinded. Candidates and applicants get assigned numbers.

Sex crimes are investigated promptly and punished harshly. This includes hate crimes against LGBQT individuals. The gay/trans panic defense is officially banned and treated as an admission of guilt.

Stalking, harassment, domestic violence? Automatic 5 years.

And police will be regularly audited and subject to customer surveys to ensure they are not ignoring cases or letting backlogs grow, and their pay adjusted accordingly. Poor performers are promptly terminated.

That sound good to you? Or were you hoping to keep a sex based system where you’d be sure you’d always come out on top regardless of your merit?

DP. Why are you writing as if this is a negotiation and society has to entertain you? Gender and mentally ill people's ideas are out. Sex and objective fact are back in. No one cares how you feel about that and we don't need to accommodate you on anything. You'll deal because you have no choice. Majority rules.

I think you’ll quickly find that the majority will grow very tired of the religionists shoving [twitter]their[/twitter] mental illness down everyone else’s throats. The world has moved on past the Stone Age, and reasonable people recognize just how toxic religious “freedom” has become to the fabric of our society.

Today the Muslims came for your inclusive kiddie books. Tomorrow they’ll come for your girl’s “immodest” clothing. The Orthodox attack women on buses. The Christians kept a corpse alive for months so they could deliver a doomed baby. Sorry no sale on that one.

I don’t see the First Amendment surviving this century. There’s always a reaction and it’s coming for the graybeards next.

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Anonymous wrote:A compromise: allow our language to evolve to do away with gendered pronouns. Many languages don’t have gendered pronouns: Finnish, Estonian, Hungaria, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Persian, and Armenian, etc.

Gender has lost its meaning anyway. One’s gender is no longer a polite way of denoting male or female and has evolved into something completely amorphous.

Let’s still keep biological sexes, needed for medical purposes, do away with gendered pronouns, so that no one gets offended by being misgendered but also no one gets offended by being identified as their sex in appropriate circumstances. Intersex people can be just that or whatever is medically appropriate for that unique individual.

That's not an acceptable compromise.
Gender has not lost its meaning. There are many Republicans AND Democrats AND Independents (OP is 100% wrong!) who believe what "gender" means.
I do however, agree on keeping biological sex -- so here's a compromise.....

Do away with "gender" and keep biological sex for everything -- male, female or intersex (M/F/I) should be the only biological sexes. You are either M, F, or I. No more of the silly "X" thing.

I’ll accept your proposal when you accept mine: eliminate the baggage that goes along with sex and criminalize sex based discrimination, both overt and implicit, everywhere it appears.

Medicine. Rights. Schools. Workplace. And most importantly, churches. No more indoctrinating little girls to submit and devote their lives to breeding. No more teaching boys that they are inherently superior. If you want to pull that crap, you lose your tax status. No more subsidizing regressive behavior that limits both boys and girls.

If it’s separate, it had better be equal and based on a sound determination of necessity that would pass the strict scrutiny test.

Everyone signs up for the selective service. Medical exemptions only. Modern combat looks a lot different than it did 200 years ago.

Men and women get child leave and are expected to take it. Companies that have executive ranks that don’t generally track the sex composition of their workforce will pay a tax off their net with a % that reflects the difference. Same with salary differentials. If the company is “unprofitable”, the Board, shareholders, or executives are liable.

Anything merit based is done blinded. Candidates and applicants get assigned numbers.

Sex crimes are investigated promptly and punished harshly. This includes hate crimes against LGBQT individuals. The gay/trans panic defense is officially banned and treated as an admission of guilt.

Stalking, harassment, domestic violence? Automatic 5 years.

And police will be regularly audited and subject to customer surveys to ensure they are not ignoring cases or letting backlogs grow, and their pay adjusted accordingly. Poor performers are promptly terminated.

That sound good to you? Or were you hoping to keep a sex based system where you’d be sure you’d always come out on top regardless of your merit?

DP. Why are you writing as if this is a negotiation and society has to entertain you? Gender and mentally ill people's ideas are out. Sex and objective fact are back in. No one cares how you feel about that and we don't need to accommodate you on anything. You'll deal because you have no choice. Majority rules.

I think you’ll quickly find that the majority will grow very tired of the religionists shoving [twitter]their[/twitter] mental illness down everyone else’s throats. The world has moved on past the Stone Age, and reasonable people recognize just how toxic religious “freedom” has become to the fabric of our society.

Today the Muslims came for your inclusive kiddie books. Tomorrow they’ll come for your girl’s “immodest” clothing. The Orthodox attack women on buses. The Christians kept a corpse alive for months so they could deliver a doomed baby. Sorry no sale on that one.

I don’t see the First Amendment surviving this century. There’s always a reaction and it’s coming for the graybeards next.

You couldn't be more wrong about the zeitgeist.

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Anonymous wrote:A compromise: allow our language to evolve to do away with gendered pronouns. Many languages don’t have gendered pronouns: Finnish, Estonian, Hungaria, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Persian, and Armenian, etc.

Gender has lost its meaning anyway. One’s gender is no longer a polite way of denoting male or female and has evolved into something completely amorphous.

Let’s still keep biological sexes, needed for medical purposes, do away with gendered pronouns, so that no one gets offended by being misgendered but also no one gets offended by being identified as their sex in appropriate circumstances. Intersex people can be just that or whatever is medically appropriate for that unique individual.

That's not an acceptable compromise.
Gender has not lost its meaning. There are many Republicans AND Democrats AND Independents (OP is 100% wrong!) who believe what "gender" means.
I do however, agree on keeping biological sex -- so here's a compromise.....

Do away with "gender" and keep biological sex for everything -- male, female or intersex (M/F/I) should be the only biological sexes. You are either M, F, or I. No more of the silly "X" thing.

I’ll accept your proposal when you accept mine: eliminate the baggage that goes along with sex and criminalize sex based discrimination, both overt and implicit, everywhere it appears.

Medicine. Rights. Schools. Workplace. And most importantly, churches. No more indoctrinating little girls to submit and devote their lives to breeding. No more teaching boys that they are inherently superior. If you want to pull that crap, you lose your tax status. No more subsidizing regressive behavior that limits both boys and girls.

If it’s separate, it had better be equal and based on a sound determination of necessity that would pass the strict scrutiny test.

Everyone signs up for the selective service. Medical exemptions only. Modern combat looks a lot different than it did 200 years ago.

Men and women get child leave and are expected to take it. Companies that have executive ranks that don’t generally track the sex composition of their workforce will pay a tax off their net with a % that reflects the difference. Same with salary differentials. If the company is “unprofitable”, the Board, shareholders, or executives are liable.

Anything merit based is done blinded. Candidates and applicants get assigned numbers.

Sex crimes are investigated promptly and punished harshly. This includes hate crimes against LGBQT individuals. The gay/trans panic defense is officially banned and treated as an admission of guilt.

Stalking, harassment, domestic violence? Automatic 5 years.

And police will be regularly audited and subject to customer surveys to ensure they are not ignoring cases or letting backlogs grow, and their pay adjusted accordingly. Poor performers are promptly terminated.

That sound good to you? Or were you hoping to keep a sex based system where you’d be sure you’d always come out on top regardless of your merit?

DP. Why are you writing as if this is a negotiation and society has to entertain you? Gender and mentally ill people's ideas are out. Sex and objective fact are back in. No one cares how you feel about that and we don't need to accommodate you on anything. You'll deal because you have no choice. Majority rules.

I think you’ll quickly find that the majority will grow very tired of the religionists shoving [twitter]their[/twitter] mental illness down everyone else’s throats. The world has moved on past the Stone Age, and reasonable people recognize just how toxic religious “freedom” has become to the fabric of our society.

Today the Muslims came for your inclusive kiddie books. Tomorrow they’ll come for your girl’s “immodest” clothing. The Orthodox attack women on buses. The Christians kept a corpse alive for months so they could deliver a doomed baby. Sorry no sale on that one.

I don’t see the First Amendment surviving this century. There’s always a reaction and it’s coming for the graybeards next.

This is pure cope. You tried, you failed, you suck. It's a measure of how disturbed you are that you're hoping groups of decent, productive people go down with you.

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Anonymous wrote:I just don’t understand why they are doing everything they can to make them invisible and strip them of rights. Help me understand. Don’t give me Bible BS. There are plenty of other things in the Bible we don’t permit like polygamy.

What happened OP? Can you be more specific or update us what the issue is right now for you?

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Anonymous wrote:I just don’t understand why they are doing everything they can to make them invisible and strip them of rights. Help me understand. Don’t give me Bible BS. There are plenty of other things in the Bible we don’t permit like polygamy.

The simple answer is that they don’t.

Correct

Bait trap

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile 50% of American school children read, write and do math at a level four grades below the grade they are in.

Good times.

Don't muddy the waters with facts, logic and reason.

Or how about don’t change the subject. Just go ahead and admit you are a culture warrior.

How is it changing the subject to acknowledge that as schools keep trying to teach about gender and sexuality issues, our international test scores in math and reading and science have fallen plummeted? There are only so many hours in the school day for instruction.

OP here - agree. I don’t care if a word problem says Dan and Matt have $50 to spend on gas to get them to Philly for their nephews bar mitzvah. It costs $6 a gallon. How much will it cost to get there?


That doesn’t require a sexuality discussion. It’s just what you might see in society. It’s a fact.

Math teacher here. I posted on the page before this. I don’t care about that either and am fine with your example. Where I have an issue is when people come into my room with pressure to hang up posters for pride month (when it’s not even June because we don’t have school in June) and to support other causes and then insinuate I’m MAGA or R because I don’t allow any hanging up of anything other than my own posters in my room. Like my content posters. This is what is happening in schools today.

Agree.

All those flags and decorations passed around are uncomfortable for everyone- most teachers, parents and students. No need for that at school.

In Wash DC the large international population really finds this all stupid and unnecessary. And the math expectations too low. So two way swing in the misguided USA schools.
Those are to two comments we always hear at IMF, world bank, IfC, the neighborhood and soccer games.

The rest of the civilized world isn’t as religious as we are. In America, we’re not too far off from the time where we burned uppity women and picnicked at the feet of black men lynched by preachers wearing sheets.

Europeans absolutely think America’s race-focus and manufactured gender issues in schools are misguided and ridiculous. Sub Saharan Africans think that too. So does any Black person in London where I’m originally from. They would never move here for this very issue.

So people who never lived in America have opinions about the experiences of people who lived in America. I mean, maybe ask your black South African friends if they think Americans have overreacted.

DP. I have a Black friend originally from Africa living in the US and she told me that a lot of people would approach her and/or try to befriend her, assuming because she is Black, she would automatically be interested in DEI related events and causes. She always politely declined saying she was too busy or whatever excuse. In truth, the cause didn't speak to her lived experiences. She said then she was basically shunned by those groups.

African immigrant here. This has been my exact experience as well. I am constantly approached by very strange and disturbed people, who have a range of far leftist beliefs. These are mostly white people but also African Americans whose blackness is entirely academic. They're always strangely excited by me and assume that I share their beliefs and priorities. Unfortunately for them, I believe in society and its traditions and do not seek to deconstruct or "queer" anything. I immigrated for economic reasons, not to have my time monopolized by unwell people who see an actual, authentic African woman with an accent as the ultimate find to add to their collection of human misfit dolls.

The "social justice" movement in this country is overrun by grasping types who crave power, but can't attain it in polite society. They're too mentally ill, sexually depraved, socially obtuse, aggressive etc. So, they reinvent themselves as "champions" of the "marginalized" and build their self-esteems around the assumption people like me need their protection and guidance. We don't.

Here this all the time at the hospital I work with with tons of ghanans and Nigerian doctors and nurses. They steer clear of this all in the U.S.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A compromise: allow our language to evolve to do away with gendered pronouns. Many languages don’t have gendered pronouns: Finnish, Estonian, Hungaria, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Persian, and Armenian, etc.

Gender has lost its meaning anyway. One’s gender is no longer a polite way of denoting male or female and has evolved into something completely amorphous.

Let’s still keep biological sexes, needed for medical purposes, do away with gendered pronouns, so that no one gets offended by being misgendered but also no one gets offended by being identified as their sex in appropriate circumstances. Intersex people can be just that or whatever is medically appropriate for that unique individual.

That's not an acceptable compromise.
Gender has not lost its meaning. There are many Republicans AND Democrats AND Independents (OP is 100% wrong!) who believe what "gender" means.
I do however, agree on keeping biological sex -- so here's a compromise.....

Do away with "gender" and keep biological sex for everything -- male, female or intersex (M/F/I) should be the only biological sexes. You are either M, F, or I. No more of the silly "X" thing.

I’ll accept your proposal when you accept mine: eliminate the baggage that goes along with sex and criminalize sex based discrimination, both overt and implicit, everywhere it appears.

Medicine. Rights. Schools. Workplace. And most importantly, churches. No more indoctrinating little girls to submit and devote their lives to breeding. No more teaching boys that they are inherently superior. If you want to pull that crap, you lose your tax status. No more subsidizing regressive behavior that limits both boys and girls.

If it’s separate, it had better be equal and based on a sound determination of necessity that would pass the strict scrutiny test.

Everyone signs up for the selective service. Medical exemptions only. Modern combat looks a lot different than it did 200 years ago.

Men and women get child leave and are expected to take it. Companies that have executive ranks that don’t generally track the sex composition of their workforce will pay a tax off their net with a % that reflects the difference. Same with salary differentials. If the company is “unprofitable”, the Board, shareholders, or executives are liable.

Anything merit based is done blinded. Candidates and applicants get assigned numbers.

Sex crimes are investigated promptly and punished harshly. This includes hate crimes against LGBQT individuals. The gay/trans panic defense is officially banned and treated as an admission of guilt.

Stalking, harassment, domestic violence? Automatic 5 years.

And police will be regularly audited and subject to customer surveys to ensure they are not ignoring cases or letting backlogs grow, and their pay adjusted accordingly. Poor performers are promptly terminated.

That sound good to you? Or were you hoping to keep a sex based system where you’d be sure you’d always come out on top regardless of your merit?

DP. Why are you writing as if this is a negotiation and society has to entertain you? Gender and mentally ill people's ideas are out. Sex and objective fact are back in. No one cares how you feel about that and we don't need to accommodate you on anything. You'll deal because you have no choice. Majority rules.

I think you’ll quickly find that the majority will grow very tired of the religionists shoving [twitter]their[/twitter] mental illness down everyone else’s throats. The world has moved on past the Stone Age, and reasonable people recognize just how toxic religious “freedom” has become to the fabric of our society.

Today the Muslims came for your inclusive kiddie books. Tomorrow they’ll come for your girl’s “immodest” clothing. The Orthodox attack women on buses. The Christians kept a corpse alive for months so they could deliver a doomed baby. Sorry no sale on that one.

I don’t see the First Amendment surviving this century. There’s always a reaction and it’s coming for the graybeards next.

You couldn't be more wrong about the zeitgeist.

You sure? One state after another is making it hard for young men to get their porn, and women certainly aren’t going to help them. Come after their pot and you’re going to have a real problem on your hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is why many people abstained from voting, voted independent or held their noses and voted for Trump.

If Dems continue down this path I see a similar fate in 2026 and 2028.

Wut? You don’t like redefining basic terminology for your personal political purposes of a tiny tiny segment of society that wants tons of attention?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile 50% of American school children read, write and do math at a level four grades below the grade they are in.

Good times.

Don't muddy the waters with facts, logic and reason.

Or how about don’t change the subject. Just go ahead and admit you are a culture warrior.

How is it changing the subject to acknowledge that as schools keep trying to teach about gender and sexuality issues, our international test scores in math and reading and science have fallen plummeted? There are only so many hours in the school day for instruction.

OP here - agree. I don’t care if a word problem says Dan and Matt have $50 to spend on gas to get them to Philly for their nephews bar mitzvah. It costs $6 a gallon. How much will it cost to get there?


That doesn’t require a sexuality discussion. It’s just what you might see in society. It’s a fact.

Math teacher here. I posted on the page before this. I don’t care about that either and am fine with your example. Where I have an issue is when people come into my room with pressure to hang up posters for pride month (when it’s not even June because we don’t have school in June) and to support other causes and then insinuate I’m MAGA or R because I don’t allow any hanging up of anything other than my own posters in my room. Like my content posters. This is what is happening in schools today.

OP here. I am totally fine with this.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is why many people abstained from voting, voted independent or held their noses and voted for Trump.

If Dems continue down this path I see a similar fate in 2026 and 2028.

Brilliant post of the year right here. Soo many mediocre men that just crumbled and decided you know what, I want the guy that makes me feel good, even if he is a felon and a rapist and working overtime to destroy the country and get revenge on the loyalists he threw under the bus in 2020.

America deserves what it gets.

I'm the PP you responded to. I voted for Harris. But I didn't have my head in the sand and I know how to read the room. I know many who voted for Trump -- not bad or misguided people in the least, contrary to what DCUM seams to think.

My vote for Harris was an anti-Trump vote. But I 100% support the EO on gender. And I 100% support the SCOTUS decision for MD - although I do recognize the slippery slope.

We lost all "common sense" and catered to the extreme left.
It went too far.