“Looking back, I probably wouldn’t do it again because I don’t want to bring that kind of scrutiny on my friends or anything else like that,” Slusser said.
Let me translate from GOP-speak: “I still truly believe he should be hanged, but I don’t like the personal consequences and public outrage at me for saying something so obviously obscene.”
“Anyone with common sense knows the remark wasn’t a literal call for public execution,”
“It was just a prank, bro” - Slusser probably
Nobody believed the Olympian damaged the pool. Headlines about the pool falling apart after trumps botched work were circulating for weeks before the Olympian came on the scene. The trump administration is trying to instill a chilling effect that trump cannot be questioned or you will be prosecuted, even if its on false charges. The trump administration knows the charges won’t still. They just want to cost regular Americans money and time they don’t have as punishment for making trump look bad.
I had a half written post responding to what you wrote before I realized just how far off we are from one another in both ideology and tone. Clearly I’ve deleted all of it. I feel sorry for you, but worse, I feel bad knowing the damage your actions will have on your cause and that of my family. Still, I wish you good luck in life and hope you don’t end up regretting your choices of who you vote for.
Feel free to respond to my final post to you if you like if you want to put a coda on this thread for others, but I’ll never see it.
Again, you’re stuck in binary short term thinking. I need to be more long term and strategic than you do.
I have a trans family member. I am personally invested in their rights as a person be respected.
And yes, transphobic DNC candidates losing makes the party less transphobic in the long run.
We disagree completely. Up until 2 years ago I think we would agree that the DNC, for the most part, supported trans rights. When did we start seeing a handful of DNC candidates shifting on this position? When the candidates winning elections, the GOP, went transphobic. So the DNC losing more elections won’t make them less transphobic, it will make them more. We’ve seen this in real time in the last 2 years.
(Please don’t put words in my mouth and pretend I’m saying that means it’s a net positive that Trump won. You’re better than that.)
WTF. Its a good thing I never said anything of the sort. I don’t even think you need me in this conversation when you’re the one putting words in my mouth, and then criticizing me for it.
And frankly, if both parties turn transphobe, this whole country can burn to the ground as far as I care.
You are the one advocating for the GOP and voting for GOP candidates directly opposed to trans rights. You are directly hurting my trans sister. You are the person with the torch setting fire to the country.
I as a trans person need to vote against any transphobic Democrat.
I don’t know your candidates, but if both candidates are transphobic in some way, can I safely assume that the GOP candidate is more transphobic or are you saying the DNC candidate is more transphobic than your GOP one?
For me personally, a transphobic Democrat is far more dangerous to my safety and well being than any Republican. It’s more important to make sure at least one party isn’t transphobic than it is to win every election.
Wait, let me follow your logic. Am I reading you right that you positing that voting for the GOP makes the DNC less transphobic?
You’re going to vote for the GOP, which by every measure, is the more transphobic party, as a strategy to try to reduce transphobic legislation being written into law? That makes no sense to me whatsoever. If anything I think it would make the DNC more transphobic because they see they are losing elections to pro-transphobia GOP candidates and the DNC would think thats what voters want.
I too, am disappointed in the lack of action from the DNC, and even worse the actions the DNC are taking to bridle the DSA who are actually pushing change forward. However, a “do nothing” DNC is safer than the actively destructive GOP.
“Sure we’re openly shooting and killing American citizens lawfully demonstrating against government overreach, but the Democrats want people to be able to go to the bathroom without us looking at their genitalia. Vote GOP this fall.”
The couple was reported missing in Guatemala on July 20 after attempting to register a motorcycle in a nearby town, Rolando Pérez Paz told the radio outlet.
The couple was murdered in Guatemala. My heart goes out to their infant daughter.
I think I see your problem. You don’t know what shitposting is. “Punching down” is not shitposting.
Up next is probably trump getting mad we’re ignoring his unfounded conspiracy rants and using abusing the cell phone Presidential Alert system that we’re not allowed to opt-out to shove it in our faces against our will.
That or he’s going to issue an EO for a federal poll tax to be paid directly to him, as a means of ensuring voter integrity.
So he would be checking off the 24th amendment to the Constitution as yet another amendment to violate. trump is going for the Pokemon method of fascism “Gotta violate them all”.
Can’t wait until I have to shelter ICE agents in my house under the penalty of law in violation of the 3rd amendment. /s
"The bad guys can be quicker,” Homan told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Wednesday night.
“…this is why we have to shoot innocent people dead before they do anything illegal just to be sure ICE is safe”. - Homan probably
Thanks for spelling HIPAA correctly, so many people get it wrong.
I always confuse what the HIP stands for, but always remember the last two are “Accountability Act” so “AA” at the end is easy to remember.
Do HIPAA protections still exist after the person is dead?
It depends on what you mean by robotic mowers. If you mean motors that drive the wheels and you don’t have to walk behind them (or sit on them), yes, these exist without any cloud service. However, if you mean autonomous, then I don’t think those are here yet. The non-cloud robot mowers use human held remote controls.
I can think of one that is autonomous and doesn’t require the cloud for operation, but does require the cloud for the inital setup and mapping. Once it has the map loaded in, it doesn’t need an internet connection.
That pretty well describes 1st generation robo mowers: lawn roombas.
Thankfully they’ve evolved significantly since then and are on 4th generation tech now.
Compared to trump? Absolutely.
But picking one specific even to try to define an administration isn’t very helpful. By your same measure you could define Carter as a right wing extremist for overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Iran in 1979.
I’m not following you. Are you saying Bill Clinton was a left extremist?
I can smell this picture just by looking at it, and now you are too.