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  Let’s not get him re-elected
context: Imagine looking at the current state of the world and deciding that one of the most important issues is that Trans People have too many rights. >
  
  Honest to god, why the trans hate and drag queen fury?  Why can’t people just mind their own damn business?  The world would be a much better place. >
  
  They need a "Them" so they can be an "Us". >
  
  Used to be gays and black ppl, I wonder what they will pick in 10-20yrs from now.  Robosexuals? >
  
  It’s still the gays and black people. Very little has changed. What they’re resisting is the next generation that will benefit from our past achievements and liberate themselves even further than we were able to achieve for ourselves. >
  
  
  It’s still the gays and black people. 
  
  It is, but it is not as easy to go after them now, so they're specifically focusing on the trans community as their new 'other' of choice. Then once they've killed all of them, the gays will be back on the menu. >
  
  "Gays are back on the menu boys!"
  Wai.. not like that! >
  
  Well, they do say you are what you eat. >
  
  Culture wars are useful when you have no tangible ideas about how to actually govern. >
  
  They want to rule, not govern. >
  
  They want to rule forever while actually not doing anything productive but still keep getting more and more money while the world around them burns. >
  
  I'd call Trump an asshole, but an asshole has a useful function. >
  
  A blue whales asshole is almost 3 feet wide, and is the second largest asshole on the planet. >
  
  Did I miss something and Cultural War suddenly became a winning campaign strategy for the GOP? Last I checked, they weren't, especially at the polls. >
  
  sadly, it did great in 2016 and even more sadly, while Dems eked out congressional majorities and the presidency in 2020, it didn't turn off nearly enough people for a Blue Wave that year and we are stuck with horrible gerrymandering for another decade.  
  oh, and assclowns Desantis & Abbott won huge with it.   
  they don't have to win big, they just have to win enough. >
  
  They’ve been losing more nationally in every election since 2016. 2018, 2020, 2022 haven’t been good for republicans. >
  
  yes, but my point is they are winning "just enough."  
  i mean, they did take over the House. Was it a Red Wave? No. But they have that power now.  
  That's the whole point of cancer--it spreads everywhere. >
  
  As a trans person this shit is terrifying. I'm honestly worried that the majority of people don't care about us and are happy to let us die, and wouldn't help fight, and bleed with us.
  Please, someone prove me wrong. I'm not even American but I'm worried. >
  
  I am from the US and also trans, the amount of apathy towards our rights as people I find is scary. For a lot of people in my life it is the sort of thing where they'll acknowledge that it sucks but then shrug and move on without a second thought.
  I know seldom few who would fight and bleed for/with you or I, though I can't say most would be happy to see our suffering. They just don't have skin in the game and don't care because of it. >
  
  Oh yeah, all these supportive allies in the comments? They don't do anything else. It's a show for them. >
  
  Reddit is one thing, and a rather biased sample on average. While I appreciate the support this site really isn't particularly representative of how a lot of things are out and about in many parts of the world (such as mine upon which I draw my observations). >
  
  Allies seem to only know how to offer their sympathy and not actually stand up for us. It's sad. As someone else said today, they're more upset about gas stoves than trans people. >
  
  The conservative political project is truly deranged. >
  
  They're competing to see who the bigger bigot is.
  Truly disgusting stuff... >
  
  And they’re just salivating over being able to do a genocide to trans people >
  
  Guarantee you not a single one of these goddamn imbeciles knows a trans person or has ever spoken at length with one. >
  
  It's pretty rare, something like 0.5% of people, so that's a safe bet. >
  
  So it’s important to recognize that that’s the rate of out trans people. We don’t know what the actual rate of being trans is due to the extremely abusive attempts to keep people trans.
  It’s higher than 0.5%, as in recent generations where people feel more free to be themselves the numbers are significantly higher.
  Even taking a 0.5% incidence, however, and it’s still almost a certainty that most people know at least one trans person.
  It comes down to how our brains are real bad at estimating probability. 
  There’s about a 0.25% chance of anyone having the same birthday as you (1/365), yet having a group of randomly selected people have two who share the same birthday only requires a group of 23 people for a 50/50 shot.
  At a naive estimate, that means that if you know 50 people then you have a roughly 50% chance of knowing a trans person. >
  
  
  So it’s important to recognize that that’s the rate of out trans people. We don’t know what the actual rate of being trans is due to the extremely abusive attempts to keep people trans.  
  It’s higher than 0.5%, as in recent generations where people feel more free to be themselves the numbers are significantly higher.
  
  Yeah, the youth number is 1.4% or so and they probably have not learned enough about society to figure out that there's people out there want to see them executed, so they're not lying about it yet in an effort to hide from evil people. As they get older they might go on Facebook or read the news and that could change for the individual.
  The same concept applies with homosexual/bisexual and likely anything else that the republicans/religious groups deem "unacceptable." >
  
  Remember his ban on trans people in the military? This isn't new ground for him. 
  He is capitalizing on it being a forefront issue with the Republican Party right now, tho. >
  
  It's pretty telling that Republicans are so scared of trans people when they make up like, what, 0.01% of the population? >
  
  In the US it's 1.6%.  That number is 5% among younger people.  
  Just as with statistics on how many people describe themselves as something other than heterosexual, the numbers are much higher among younger people and growing.  Not because more people are gay or trans, but because more people are comfortable being out and that's a very good thing. >
  
  5% is a huge number. I am shocked. I’m nearly 40 and I do think if I were younger I might identify as non-binary. Deciphering my sexuality was more critical for me in the 90s than my gender. I imagine if the language was more at the forefront while I was at that stage of development I may have explored the intricacies of gender expression as well. >
  
  Honestly I would be surprised if it didn't end up closer to 10% once people understand us better and it's no longer fashionable to hate us.
  I mean think about that 5% number. That's with all the bullshit surrounding trans people the last nearly 10 years, which has totally exploded the last 3 years. That 5% number isn't due to acceptance, it's due to information availability and trans visibility.
  People like me who would have come out as kids weren't able to because we didn't even know people like us existed. We didn't have vocabulary for it. The best we got was Jerry Springer.
  When we hit acceptance, not just visibility, I expect that number to double at least.
  Remember, LGBTQ people as a whole used to be about 5%. Now it's what like 30% in the younger crowd? Wouldn't surprise me a bit if with acceptance trans people were at least 10%. 15% wouldn't surprise me, though I do expect that would be the upper bound. >
  
  I am really, really, REALLY tired of being called a child abuser by these… Child abusers. >
  
  Can’t wait for the “that’s not what he actually meant!!!” crowd over in r/conservative >
  
  Of course he fucking is.
  The US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence and he is giving them what they want.
  This is not a fucking game. They are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.
  The "drag bans", the "bathroom bills", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.
  The laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/"adult"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on "performers" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.
  After all, if someone they consider a "man in a dress" is legally classified as an "adult performer" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a "man in a dress" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?
  They don't actually distinguish between "drag queen" and "trans woman", or between "performance" and "just going about our lives". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.
  And they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist. >
  
  These motherfuckers are so pathetic. They find people to bully, so sadistic haters will vote for them. >
  
  They peaked in high school and are still trying to ride that wave. You're right, it's absolutely pathetic. >
  
  Well they got to bully trans people without suffering any repercussions back then. Good times. It's all they had and they want it back. >
  
  Anyone that votes for him is a horrible person just like him. >
  
  This dude is Satan... he's gonna do a Hitler and turn America into a dictatorship. I know what'll happen, they had a chance to prosecute Hitler but failed and then he got in power and the rest is history. History will repeat itself again. >
  
  It is amazing that they haven’t labelled him the Anti-Christ. When I was growing up, the profile that was made of whom and what he would be fits Trump almost perfectly. >
  
  There's a site out there where a priest uses biblical verses and analysis to describe him as the antichrist. I don't have it on hand but a quick Google should bring it up
  Its..uncanny. >
  
  The party of small, non-intrusive government... as long as you agree with everything the party says. >
  
  freedom! >
  
  trump will promise anything to get elected. Once in office he could hardly get anything done at all outside of watching tv or golfing. 
  I don’t think republicans believe he’s worth electing anymore. 
  He’s going to be a spoiler for his parties ticket. >
  
  God I hope so >
  
  It’s such a small issue that is easy to propagandise about.
  If I had kids and I had to choose between a trans daughter or a suicidal teen then I would prefer a trans daughter. Just because I am not personally trans, it doesn’t mean I cannot support those who are. 
  The fact is these people exist whether we ignore them or help them and if we support them from a younger age then maybe they will grow up feeling less of a freak and something dirty to be hidden away or ashamed of. >
  
  You understand that, regardless of whether or not someone is trans or what their biological sex is, it’s illegal to burst into bathrooms and sexually harass people, right? This imagined crisis of boys saying they’re girls so they can go into bathrooms and leer at women totally free from reprisal is such a farce. By your logic, gay men should not be allowed into boys’ rooms and lesbians should not be allowed into girls’ rooms because those are the places where people have the genitals they prefer.
  Simultaneously, this idea that there exists a class of elite male athletes who are simultaneously ready to do anything to be a winner and also introspective enough to say to themselves “I absolutely cannot beat another man, I have to pretend to be a woman to even have a chance of winning” is childish thinking at best. >
  
  Because the party that's all about freedom, personal liberties, and smaller government... oh, wait. >
  
  Who is keeping a list of conservatives “top priorities”?
  Ditch healthcare 
  end social security 
  limit education through banning books and strict whitey friendly curriculums (i’m very white btw)
  ban green energy 
  snuggle up to dictators and acquire one of your very own
  end drag shows (except for rudy, he can totally keep on)
  no more bare shoulders and ankles 
  pregnancies, lots and lots of pregnancies 
  30% tax for you, no tax for wealthy 
  double our votes by counting them twice and making votes against us illegal 
  add the occupation of “serf” to the national census 
  i’m sure i forgot a few hundred idiotic ideas they have >
  
  “First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out
  Because I was not a Communist 
  Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out
  Because I was not a Socialist 
  Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out
  Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews
  And I did not speak out
  Because I was not a Jew 
  Then they came for me
  And there was no one left
  To speak out for me.” —Martin Niemöller >
  
  I see this quoted often when it comes to attacks on LGBT folks. It's almost funny in some weird way because one of the first groups targeted by the nazis was the Trans and gays population, yet they get left out. >
  
  Martin Niemöller was a priest. That's no surprise that he'd leave out or overlook LGBT people. >
  
  What kind of a fucked up country allows an identifiable and at-risk group to be openly threatened like this?  Just what does "go after" mean here? >
  
  It’s not allowed. >
  
  Well he's done it, walking free and no consequences at all, again.  So yes, it is allowed. >
  
  Keep fanning the flames you tangerine douche bag!!! Unite the entire country against you!!! Nothing gets more Democrat voters out than Trump shouting his rhetoric of hate and division!!! He's actually better for the entire country campaigning then he would be in jail. Keep that poopshoot of a mouth running Donnie Dipshit!!!! >
  
  Remember when Trump said that he would do everything to protect LGBT communities from violence?  Pepperidge Farm Remembers. >
  
  This extended election cycle is going to have a body count.
  The people who can't wait to use those guns have been at a fever pitch for years and just need a target.
  The candidate in an attempt to get media approval will be competitive in getting ugly with their campaigns.  They are going to have to outdo each other on attacks on trans, globalists, and whatever enemy conjured up du jour.  It's not gonna happen, it IS happening and will get worse. >
  
  Gotta keep up with DeSantis. >
  
  I guess he's not selling these anymore... >
  
  Twinks for trump! >
  
  Reporters need to hammer home this question: How does attacking trans and gay people improve the lives of Americans? What economic gain is to be had doing this? Where are your fiscal policies? Where is "infrastructure week"? Name ONE policy you have that brings economic relief to low income people, you know, your base? >
  
  I agree, they should hammer it in. And hopefully enough people will listen. Sadly, a large portion will be duped even then. Conservatives will be convinced it's not the rich making record profits causing inflation, but the underprivileged trans people. They'll be convinced that it's not the Christians torturing LGBTQ Youth in Conversion Therapy Camps, but parents supporting their LGBTQ kids. They'll be convinced its not the literally sex offenders in the GOP or the Christians grooming children, but teachers telling kids to accept themselves. Fox News and other conservative stations have done a great job at getting their voters to point the finger but everyone besides the rich making record profits and bribing politicians, sorry, I mean "donating to" "lobbying" and "offering jobs" to politicians. I really hope enough people won't buy into it, but I know a lot will. >
  
  US politics have far exceeded the imagination of any dystopian sci fi writing. >
  
  I fucking hate republicans with every fiber of my being. >
  
  I need to borrow someone else's fiber too. >
  
  I remember reading about all the log cabin republicans twisting themselves in knots to support trump...
  Bet none of them ever changed their tune.
  Sad thing is, in a way this comment doesn't matter. Republicans have ALWAYS been after the lgtbq community. >
  
  log cabin only supports straight white rich crazy-christian cis-male gay men, not bisexuals, not lesbians, not transgender, nobody else in the rainbow.
  Their official website is full of gay bashing articles too, they just want a select set of privilege among upper society. >
  
  This is what you get when you elect a raging asshole to public office.
  I mean, we all have to deal with raging assholes in our private lives. Whether it's at the bank, the gas station, or just going about our lives getting groceries.
  It seems that Coleman Sweeney (look him up) is everywhere.
  That's fine. We can deal with those raging assholes in our regular lives.
  The problem comes is it when they get elected to public office.
  No matter what you think of policy, no matter what you think of political beliefs, it makes no sense to elect a raging asshole to a position of power.
  So why do they keep getting elected?
  The other raging assholes are voting for them. >
  
  Calling it now: 
  DeSantis beats Trump in the primaries and gets RNC nomination. 
  Trump goes independent and splinters the vote. 
  Biden wins. 
  Trump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing. >
  
  
  Trump becomes first independent/3rd party to come close to competing.
  
  Perot got almost 20% of the popular vote in 1992, iirc. That was certainly competitive. >
  
  If he hadn’t dropped out and then rejoined the race there was a decent chance he wins. A lot of people were behind him. >
  
  Bringing back the pink triangles, huh? >
  
  This is some really dangerous shit.  Unfortunately very few people will see this because it doesn’t directly affect them. >
  
  This alarmist rhetoric is so annoying. Every time they do this, violence to minority groups go up. It’s so sad. >
  
  Going after people's kids. Waging a war on children. This is not going to go the way they think it will. >
  
  The republican obsession over trans people is freaky. >
  
  It's like they think we're an alien species hell-bent on enslaving children and milking them for their adrenochrome and gametes. >
  
  They can only organize themselves around hate. >
  
  Because hate and fear are emotions that are much easier to trigger, and capitalize on, in people than hope and love. >
  
  god forbid people be happy in their bodies >
  
  Go after? Is this really the hill these twits want to die on? Cruelty to a tiny minority of Americans that are harming no one? This is just abhorrent. >
  
  1: Get stupid, bigoted poor people angry at 'them' so you get their votes.
  2: Get elected, give tax cuts to the wealthy.
  3: Ignore the stupid, bigoted poor people until the next election cycle. >
  
  Dearest Americans, please I beg you, please make sure this reprehensible asshole is never elected again. >
  
  Jesus fucking christ. Go after them for what? Being happy? >
  
  There's the fascism. >
  
  
  This attack [on the Pulse Nightclub] is a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation [and an] assault on people’s ability to love who they want and express their identity.  
  I am the real friend of the gay community [as opposed to Hillary Clinton].
  
  -- Donald Trump, June 13, 2016
  ^(emphasis mine) >
  
  "Trump signals he is adopting DeSantis' strategy because he is worried he will lose Primary". >
  
  He’s just seeing DeSantis’ success with this approach in Florida and instead of running against him - which he’ll most likely lose - he is just trying to steal his tactics and bring DeSantis’ supporters back around to trump.
  It’s so dumb that it’ll probably work. Or it won’t. It doesn’t matter because for every person (edit - conservative) writing about Trump/DeSantis/Florida’s obsession with genitalia, they’re not talking about the crazy shit going on in The House of Representatives. >
  
  George Santos entered The chat >
  
  Whomever keeps saying the phrase "The Republicans couldn't possibly be any more awful." really needs to stop. >
  
  Then he best give up the makeup, the girdles, the hair dye and toupee and the tanning bed. Just saying. 🙄 >
  
  Shoe lifts too >
  
  I legitimately hate every Republican Politician!!!! >
  
  Republicans literally identified the smallest minority group they could find so that they could drum up hate without backlash from the target group. >
  
  Someone needs to snipe this asshole already. >
  
  Thank GOD Trump the Rapist will ensure that the American government will target and attack more of the most persecuted and marginalized people on earth. Imagine that there could some kind of minority persecution that the GOP would allow us to not partake in? Fear of missing out is a terminal illness, friends, and we must all thank his Kremlin-serving ass for saving us from certain doom.
  Buy Snacky S’mores. >
  
  Hello FBI i need to report a hate crime in it's planification phase. >
  
  On June 14, 2016, in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub shooting, he tweeted "Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs." He echoed that in live speeches at the time. 
  Perhaps he doesn't know what the "T" stands for.
  Note that it wasn't exactly a pro-LGBT stance as much as an anti-Muslim one anyway, but still, "promises kept?" >
  
  As the father of a trans child, "Come at us bro... I dare ya" >
  
  Wish I grew up with this same thing, thank you for standing up. >
  
  Why is this guy still relevant and why does he actually get coverage by the press? >
  
  He is running for president, leading among Republicans, and in the middle of several legal battles stemming from his involvement to overturn his election loss. >
  
  Americans, he wants to go after Americans, wake the fuck up sheeple, he hates this country and he hates you. >
  
  By Go after, does he mane he wants to date them? >
  
  So he found a target that doesn't scare him ... yet. >
  
  It’s a target that is small.  Not a lot of people in the middle are willing to defend.  BUT a LOT of people are willing to persecute.  Perfect choice for those scumbags. >
  
  Ahhh yes... Trans people. Finally, someone's getting down to the real problems this country has 🙄 >
  
  They have nothing else to contribute so they have to scare their voters >
  
  Hate is really all they have. >
  
  What an absurd asshole, he's fighting for attention with Desantis, and Trump has absolutely no shame and no low. >
  
  Pretty much all Republicans >
  
  Terrible person vows to be even more terrible if given power. >
  
  Elect me. I will go after orange men. >
  
  The anti trans stuff is a part of the anti public school stuff. They have convinced their sheep that the goal of trans people is to ´groom’ their lambs through government schools. CRT hokum is part of it too. >
  
  gross.... this guy is a life long loser, grasping at straws, sad. >
  
  Don’t they have a guy who has dressed up in drag who just got elected to the House of Rep.? They seem fine with him, as long as he supports and votes for their fascist agenda. >
  
  Reason number 5,436 not to elect him! >
  
  Ah yes, classic. Go after all the raging fucking trans people everywhere. How many trans people has everybody actually come across? These attacks on any community other than their own, are starting to get so god damn tiring of hearing. Stop hating people just for being fucking people that are trying to be happy and live the one life they get to live. Pieces of shit. >
  
  "I don't trust guys that wear make-up!" If only he understood irony eh? >
  
  For the party of Don't Tread on Me, they sure don't mind doing the treading. >
  
  I'm just gonna leave this here. >
  
  
  flash to Hitler's campaign speeches 
  
  I'm telling you, the USA is heading very fast towards the Nazi SA. Persecution of minorities? Check. Persecution of intellectuals & higher education? Check. Worshipping of fascist figures like Putin and kimw dynasty? Check. Cult of personality, populism and sedition? Check. 
  Can't wait until they start blaming trans kids for inflation. Y'all better be prepared, america. It's gonna be weird if the west/the free world goes to war with you, the once "leader" >
  
  He is sick. Campaigning on hate for others. Scum. >
  
  He is trying to out-DeSantis Desantis >
  
  Funny this is even a thing, considering he should be in jail for trying to have his cult followers overthrow the government but it appears laws aren't for some people in this country. >
  
  He’s upset that they don’t have p*say’s to grab >
  
  Weird that the party which rants about individual liberty always wants to take away the liberty of people who are doing absolutely no harm to anyone. >
  
  The Donald jumping on that transphobia train. >
  
  First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
       Because I was not a socialist.
  Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
       Because I was not a trade unionist.
  Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
       Because I was not a Jew.
  Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. >
  
  There's absolutely nothing big government about promising to use government to restrict civil liberties based on gender. Nope, nothing at all. >
  
  There must be an external reason for him to run because clearly not many are interested in his bullshit anymore >
  
  Avoiding prison. >
  
  He's still under the impression that being an officially-declared presidential candidate will give him immunity from prosecution. 
  And I'm terrified that he might be right. >
  
  A republican taking an active stance against a minority, whoda thunk it?! >
  
  
  I’ve looked into moving to Canada but there’s no real asylum seeking for US queer people yet.
  
  I'm hoping this will begin within the next few years if Trump or DeSantis wins in 2024.  America is going to be a dangerous place for anyone not white, heterosexual, cisgender male, and the right kind of Christian with a 1950s view of social structure. >
  
  Richard Nixon's Head : Oh, no? Well, listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, crazy over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!
  [laughs] >
  
  He’s just mad that his trans brother committed suicide. >
  
  But let’s not worry about fixing the economy… >
  
  Yeah! How dare they try and survive in a manner that is healthy for their own mental and physical well-being! >
  
  What, he’s had enough of going after hookers and porn stars >
  
  Isn’t this already one of the few confirmed planks on the republican platform aka the “we hate your freedom” platform? >
  
  It seems Trump’s getting desperate enough to borrow from DeSantis’ playbook… shocker. >
  
  Wonder if he or his base would also consider strapping a kid to a bull resulting in them being thrown and dying of cardiac arrest as child abuse… >
  
  That’s fucked up. >
  
  People being turned off by the strange obsession that conservatives have about what's in between people's legs, especially children's legs, helped to significantly quell the "red tsunami" of 2022. As a leftist, I think Trump, and every GOP politician for that matter, should make this a pillar of their policy.  
  Most voters think it's downright creepy. >
  
  So, is Caitlyn Jenner going to speak at the RNC National convention again? >
  
  Where’s a foreign assassin when you need one. >
  
  Might as well say he’s gonna create “special camps” at this stage. >
  
  It is sad, really.
  These Bootlickers probably had a brainstorming and wondered who to go after. 
  Which group has the smallest lobby and is already hated by homophobes, christian fundamentalists and other hypocrites and then went like: "Let us channel all the hate onto these poor fuckers for votes"
  Trans people already have it as bad as it could be in terms of mental health and acceptance.
  And now they will be politicized and demonized by a disgusting criminal like Trump, who should be in jail already. America really is on a dark path. >
  
  Hopefully his promise rallys the trans community to vote. Every vote counts!! >
  
  The difference is, Trump does this to appease his followers.
  DeSantis would do this because he legit hates people who aren’t straight white men.
  Both are dangerous, but one is smart and more dangerous. >
  
  I disagree. They are equally dangerous. Trump put three right wingers on the SCOTUS for LIFE. >
  
  I will respectfully disagree with you.
  Fact of the matter, Trump wasn’t conservative, the only reason he did all he did for conservatives was to stay in power. He ran for presidency simply for his own glory.
  DeSantis is an actual conservative, he actually believes all this conservative garbage, he would’ve put those 3 SCOTUS in there as well along with as many more as he could. Both were horrible, but I feel DeSantis would cause way more harm than Trump ever would. >
  
  Trump will always target whomever lights up his base.  In 2016 it was immigrants and Muslims.  Now it is the LGBTQ+ community.  He's a vacuous coward.  His transparency amazes me and is so confounding when you see the devotion he elicits from his base. >
  
  First they came for the trans people… >
  
  The GOP is going for four straight election flops. 
  Nice. >
  
  So much for representing and protecting all Americans. >
  
  Worth noting that he once claimed to be the most gay-friendly president, and iirc he didn’t make any fuss about trans people while in office.
  This should make it abundantly clear that he’s only doing what he thinks will get him attention rather than what he thinks will help people. >
  
  Lolls. Yes I remember that. “The gays love me.” What a joke. >
  
  He should be in prison for life. He is of no positive value to our society. >
  
  Let's replace "go after" with "persecute".
  This fascist doesn't deserve to have his evil shit described with soft language. >
  
  “First they came for …” >
  
  Should this be considered a hate crime now? >
  
  Oh please! President Tiny Hands wouldn’t even have to tuck. So, he would have to resign under his own stupid policy. >
  
  He really does seem to be transfixed on this issue. >
  
  Out of all the problems this country has, trans are pretty far down on the list, if on the list at all, IMHO. How about working to lift us all up instead of finding groups to put down? >
  
  Have to have an ‘enemy’. Now he is too weak politically to make one of his opponents the enemy so he picks one of the smallest marginalized groups. What an asshole. >
  
  I wonder what these Neanderthals are going to do when they find out there are biologically six human sexes (which would not result in the death of the fetus), not two.
  Let me put that a different way: God, who by definition can not make a mistake, chooses to order mankind's chromosomes such that there are six human sexes, not two. Amen.
  And if they can't understand sex, they sure as shit can't understand gender. >
  
  When you go after you will have to go through the majority of Americans who will not stand for your so called targeting. >
  
  Who cares what this irrelevant has-been has to say. He's like that turd that refuses to flush and keeps coming back up. >
  
  Trumps focus on pandering to the lowest common denominator is actually genius. 
  I hate his politics but I gotta admire his ability to recognize how prevalent window-lickers are in this embarrassment of a country. >
  
  I really don't understand this at all. Who on the right is gunning for transgendered people??  Is this something coming from right wing media??? >
  
  They have always hated anyone who isn't a cis straight person in a heterosexual marriage having sex for procreation. >
  
  Also white >
  
  How’s he going to verify? Grab them by the privates? >
  
  Luckily he doesn't stand a chance and will never hold the levers of power again. >
  
  that doesn't matter. this is republican policy now >
  
  He knows his base and how to attract certain other demographics who would vote Dem but love to hate on bays and Trans just like right wingers do. >
  
  Pathetic attempt to steal back votes from the religious right for DeSantis.  Not gonna happen. >
  
  Pick a minority and treat them as other than human.    Seems that happened before.. >
  
  He’s such an ass. >
  
  Good thing he won't be elected, then... >
  
  Someone ask trump what about raising taxes on rich people like yourself? >
  
  That'll bring down inflation for sure... >
  
  The morality police to the rescue! Brought to you by the Carl's Jr. Church of latter-day saints for Trump. >
  
  What is he going to do? Put them in camps? Or is that Ron DeathSantas goal? >
  
  He really just wants to grab them by the.... >
  
  Proof if you need it that even Christians don't believe in heaven and hell. >
  
  just when you thought that trump couldn't possible be a bigger piece of shit. >
  
  Nothing says winning like targeting a minority group and everyone around them. What should concern everyone is where does this go. Start with one group and systematically go after every other one to instill hate and fear where none should exist all to manipulate the worst in people. Trump is a raging POS... 
  I am sure this will help fix all of the issues facing Americans... /s >
  
  Wow. What a POS. I stopped reading at taking away rights. >
  
  Trans people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief as he will not be re-elected ever 🤣 >
  
  what a massive waste of time, resources, if not just for the evil nature of it.... >
  
  queer hate. always a winner with the right. and guns. the imminent threat that libs will take your guns. And babies. Happy little babies killed by libs for fun and profit.  And Jesus..
  Because if they talked about what they really do, lower taxes for the rich while cutting benefits for the non rich, would not be a big seller.