Trump's Address to Congress - March 4
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Anonymous
| Trump is a convicted felon and a terrible president. He won’t be happy until the little people are eating cat food from the dollar store. Enjoy MAGA! |
Anonymous
I mean, yes? Because the Democrats are not doing anything else, except of course giving female athletes the finger. They’re on that! I’m angry at how utterly incompetent they are. Trump lied through his whole speech. But who came out looking bad? The feckless Democrats. It is infuriating. |
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like this
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Anonymous
Yer this person won the election handily and has Democrats swarming like angry bees because so many Democrats disagree with what most Americans want. Democrats need to listen and change course. |
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Perhaps this was mentioned upthread, but here is some info on Trump family guests at the speech from CNN:
The first lady will host Payton McNabb, “a former high school athlete who had her dreams of competing in college sports crushed in a September 2022 volleyball match when a biological man playing on the opposing women’s team spiked the volleyball at Payton’s face, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury,” according to the White House. The first lady is also hosting January Littlejohn, “a mother and parents’ rights advocate who sued the School Board of Leon County after school officials at her daughter’s middle school socially transitioned her daughter to a different sexual identity without January and her husband’s knowledge or permission,” per the White House. |
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This is the 2nd popular vote the GOP has won in 30 years. You are way to overconfident. |
Anonymous
You're not smart enough to spot a spelling error and then use context clues to figure out what word should have been used? That's pretty bad. |
Anonymous
Aren't there rules for decorum in Congress? Just like in court? If someone acts the fool in court the judge can throw them out. Has nothing to do with free speech. |
Anonymous
PP is not wrong. There is a trans girl on MCPS track, completely blowing the females out of the water. Not sure why everyone keeps quoting the NCAA number of trans athletes. What about HS athletes? There was just another article about a transgirl track athlete winning state titles. I mean c'mon, can we stop waving this away and admit that this is common sense issue? Sports are, and always have been, separated by sex. It was only after the trans movement co-opted the word gender and made it completely different from sex that this became an issue. I am old enough to remember when the dictionary definition of "woman" was "adult female." If we need to call them male and female sports, which I find ridiculous that we would even have to, then let's do it, for the sake of clarity. Because sports are most certainly not separated by a "social construct." |
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And, for some balance, here is some background on these two individuals used by Trump to make anti-trans political points: 1) Payton McNabb McNabb is a paid spokesperson for a group that aggressively lobbies against transgender people, the so-called Independent Women’s Forum (IWF). IWF has ties to Project 2025, has lobbied against access to contraception, and activates against transgender people under the guise of “protecting women” but has taken actions that do not protect women and instead tries to harm LGBTQ people, including: Pushing bans on essential health care; Supporting the harmful practice of outing LGBTQ students without their consent, without consideration of the risks to doing so to unsupportive parents. Up to 40% of all homeless youth are LGBTQ; Urging the dangerous and illegal relocation of detainees to facilities that do not match their gender identity, action that has been blocked by multiple federal courts as cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of the U.S. Constitution. McNabb is among more than 214,000 high school and college female athletes injured while playing volleyball since 2012. The vast majority of these injuries and accidents involve cisgender competitors and teammates. No one is calling for cisgender athletes involved in injuries and accidents to be banned from sports. There has been no legislation proposed at the federal level by anti-trans activists that addresses actual problems of safety and equity for women and girls’ sports, including how to protect athletes from abusive coaches and fans, ensure equal facilities, pay, and marketing, or ways to expand access to health care and recovery, for all players including people like McNabb. In Trump's telling, the school was both pushing gender nonconformity on the Littlejohn's child and doing so without the parents' knowledge. But emails obtained by media outlets years ago suggest that not only did the parents know this was going on, it was they who first broached the subject with the school and suggested that staff follow their child's lead on name and pronouns. https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-opponents-of-transgender-people-invited-as-white-house-special-guests-used-to-further-spread-disinformation/ 2) January Littlejohn In Trump's telling, the school was both pushing gender nonconformity on the Littlejohn's child and doing so without the parents' knowledge. But emails obtained by media outlets years ago suggest that not only did the parents know this was going on, it was they who first broached the subject with the school and suggested that staff follow their child's lead on name and pronouns. The reason that some outlets discovered this years ago is because last night's Trump speech wasn't the first time the Littlejohns have been used by politicians pushing an intolerant agenda. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis "repeatedly pointed to the [Littlejohn family] to explain the need for a controversial new law, dubbed by critics the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, that bans schools from teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity," CNN reported in April 2022. Trump's Florida trans child story doesn't add up https://reason.com/2025/03/05/trumps-trans-kid-story-doesnt-add-up/ |
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np I was told by someone who has been in the Capital that it can be very difficult to hear what is going on. But, let's face it. You know no matter what the Democrats do the extreme Maga and Dumypy will use it against them. It was a lose-lose situation. In an ideal world with a normal Republican I am sure they would have stood and applauded. But, we all know that he is using this kid. |
Anonymous
OK, then don't change course. |
Anonymous
I predict he will make the Dems look foolish. I was wrong. The Dems made themselves look foolish. |