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  Does anyone love small, limited government as much as Republicans?
context: A twice divorced 76 year old man with a teenage son and kids by three different women, who paid hush money to a stripper, is promoting the nuclear family... >
  
  had sex with that stripper while his wife was pregnant with said current teenage son too. >
  
  "No I did not have sexual relations with a stripper while my wife was pregnant.
  She was a porn star." >
  
  He paid her, so technically she was a prostitute. >
  
  Not if they were filming. >
  
  The GOP is continuing to alienate voters with their weirdness. Conservatives are so lost right now they don't realize just how profoundly bizarre and creepy their transgender hysteria is. We continue to see the Republicans bashing their heads against reality >
  
  If you consider gender "nonsense" as a counter culture issue you start understanding that it's basically old men getting mad at the world changing. 
  Gender neutrality is not a thing that is widespread. It's weird how they focus on this. >
  
  They have no real policies, they never do. Anger is the only thing they ever focus on. Fox News has spent 30 years stoking the fires of non issues to rile up the base and distract from the fact that they have zero policies that help America. >
  
  I will never let republicans live down “our platform is whatever Orange Julius says” >
  
  It’s really sad that rhetoric attacking one of our most marginalized communities can actually be used to appeal to voters. >
  
  It's clearly more than rhetoric. They plan on doing all these things to us. It plays great with their followers. >
  
  First they came for the trans people..... >
  
  More people need to learn about the Weimar Republic and how the trans community were amongst the first on the chopping block >
  
  So fascism. >
  
  “Mutating sexual appearance”
  This is so tiresome, they are so tiresome. Also, pay your electric bill you cheap fuck, Jesus >
  
  But it's just fine when young ladies inject fix a flat into their asses to look like kim Kardashian.  Or for 16 year olds to get implants to help with depression in their minds. >
  
  Planning more executive order shortcuts.
  He's the Bondo of politics. >
  
  didn't he scream bloody murder when obama did it?  then did the same thing  himself?  then found out just how quickly the bond falls of a rusty foundation when your successor just undoes all your crappy work with one bang of the hammer?
  world's gotten silly. >
  
  And scary. >
  
  This is not a traditional Republican platform.  It's really more of a fascist platform, invading the privacy of individuals to force them to conform. >
  
  Traditional or not, it's their current platform.
  A fascist platform because they are now a fascist party. >
  
  With ever growing support from some really terrible Latinos. Strange party of Nazis and Cubans and proud boys and latinos and white supremacy. What brings them together? >
  
  Patriarchy . Men mostly white some others losing everything because women just don't have to tolerate their abuse, their religion, their financial control.  White supremacy is male supremacy and Christian supremacy.  Largely women and educated Americans are just discarding these men and they have no other identities to turn to but fascism and violence. >
  
  Turns out, when women can support themselves, you actually have to be a decent person to get a wife, and these guys just can't have that. >
  
  Definitely.  It's a huge factor in religious supremacist countries  . The taliban and Christian supremacy the way many Texans want. Limiting women's lives and choices so they " have " to choose horrible men. Or escape. Very hard to escape a whole country for these women, they get excommunicated from even mormonism if they speak out about abuse. Just heard that story on npr about American ladies who are mormon and wanted to stay mormon just wanted equality for women in it and their bishops just excommunicated them. >
  
  Once all of the Republican's enemies are gone, the enemy becomes Irish people, Italian people, Catholics, the wrong Protestant denomination. They require an enemy, and at some point, that enemy will be you. It's cute they think they're safe. >
  
  People are not standing up enough to protect people from these Nazis. >
  
  Dude you have a wife and your mistresses. Wtf do you care how other people choose? It's none of your business. >
  
  I don't care how other people choose.
  At the same time, I don't want they with dicks in girls locker rooms or bathrooms or female sports. >
  
  So you want trans women in the men's room what about trans men who were born women.  Should they use the women's room?  Or do you want all trans folks in the men's room? >
  
  They can all use trans room >
  
  They can all use what? >
  
  My favorite solution is having private bathroom (single person)  readily available everywhere so these people can use it.  Men's Room, Women's Room, and Private Room.  We already have these in many places. >
  
  Unisex bathrooms do in fact already exist, so your solution changes literally nothing about our current situation. Unless your implication is that trans people will only be allowed to use unisex bathrooms? If so, how do you plan on enforcing that? Genital-inspecting bathroom attendants? >
  
  How do you today enforce if I cross-dress, and enter female bathroom?
  I'm a man >
  
  If I see someone in a bathroom, minding their own business and doing what bathrooms are there for, especially someone who is taking pains to conform with norms for that particular bathroom, I don’t think necessary for someone to be there to scream “HEY BRO YOU GOT A DICK?!” at them, no.
  But it’s all a moot point, because that doesn’t fucking happen. The epidemic of boys sneaking into women’s rooms ala Buffalo Bill doesn’t exist outside of JK Rowling’s fever dreams and the tight ten of back edgelord comedians. 
  It’s bigotry in search of an outrage. >
  
  Milk, eggs, housing, and fuel are becoming increasingly unaffordable for middle class Americans, but this is what they want to focus on. >
  
  Have you heard of scapegoating? >
  
  My gender insanity was my life before transitioning. >
  
  Way to go and hope this country of ours starts to value and appreciate you more freely! >
  
  Somebody should ask him what happened to being the biggest friend to the LGBTQ+ community.  Was he lying then, or is he lying now?  He held up a flag! >
  
  He held a flag with something along the lines of "LGBTs for Trump" scribbled on it (upside down, no less).  His reasoning why he believed himself to be a friend to the LGBTQ+ community was because of his ostensibly "tough" stance on radical Islam.
  I even remember a few right-wing folks giving me that bullshit talking point when I expressed concern regarding my right to marry.  They said that I should be more worried about some imaginary terrorist who wants to kill me for being gay, rather than the very real threat of Republicans erasing my rights. >
  
  Don't let Republicans fool you they want you dead just as much as the Islamic Fundamentalists.  The difference between Islamic and Christian fundamentalists is just in who they praise while executing sinners. >
  
  Islamic extremists will kill you with a knife in your front as they yell about how you're an abomination.
  Christian extremists will kill you with a knife in the back as they tell you that Jesus loves everyone equally. >
  
  Because yeah, we all want another 4 years of his tired shtick. >
  
  “Freedom” >
  
  And if Biden did a flurry of EO on guns where would the right stand on presidential powers? >
  
  Never go full Florida Man. >
  
  So hilarious that he keeps on acting like he is running the country and hasn't left his life in complete ruins already.
  Or that he won't be rotting in a prison for the rest of his life soon. >
  
  He's clearly shifting to try and siphon voters from DeSantis... >
  
  That voting base that want cruelty and hate is not as large as those that support trans lives and rights…thankfully. >
  
  They will say they don’t appreciate the cruelty and hate, but they have no choice but to hold their nose and vote for it, because they’ve been conditioned to believe Democrats are evil by default. >
  
  It’s tribalism. Democrats are conditioned to believe republicans are evil by default as well. Pretty sure no American actually votes for personal reasons. Y’all just picked team blue and  red and staying with it regardless of what the party platform is >
  
  I believe that a society is better off when all people have equal opportunity to succeed, so I vote for the party that best supports that. I believe that capitalism only works if regulations and taxes are designed to keep the wealthy from crushing the working class, so I vote for the party that best supports that. I believe we could be better off if more of our tax money was spent on improving our nation rather than bombing other nations so....ok, both parties keep increasing the military budget far beyond what it should be, but I vote for the party that at least hasn't started multiple wars in my lifetime. I definitely recognize that a lot of people vote for a party because it's just part of their identity or because "our family has always voted for that party", but plenty of people vote for the platform itself and would act accordingly if the platforms were to change. >
  
  DeSantos (Diet Trump) is grabbing headlines by enacting actual policies… anti-LGBTQ, anti-voting, anti-science, anti-public health, anti-woke (aka racist white supremacy ). Trumpy falling behind and can only fight back by promising to be more Nazi than DeSatan. >
  
  My half serious/joking take:  I honestly feel if the Republicans (and transphobes) have any true greviance with transgendered persons it is just they hate living in a world where they aren't 100% sure who they are sexually harassing. They fear misgendering someone before harassing them. >
  
  I can confirm this is the case for one member of my extended family at least. I overheard my uncle talking to his friends about how “unfair” it is to “have to think twice before hooting at pretty women on the street”. >
  
  Someone tell this assmouth that only presidents (& governors) get to issue executive orders.. >
  
  good thing people's sexuality is determined by legislation otherwise this would never work. >
  
  He and DeSantis will try to outdo each other on these cultural issues. Sad duo. >
  
  Desantis will absolutely do worse if he wins. >
  
  The guy covered in bronzer who takes hours to do his hair daily and wears lifts in his shoes is going to be in charge of gender expression. 
  Ok Donald 🙄 >
  
  How about just combating his own insanity? >
  
  What a fuq-nut. >
  
  If Newsweek didn’t report it, know body would know what he said. >
  
  These orders will be sent from his cell to the warden >
  
  Trumps going to sign an executive order preventing women in the work place.  Boebert and MTG will support it wholeheartedly and then act shocked when they are kicked out of congress. >
  
  Lol good luck passing those when you lose. Again. >
  
  Republicans:  Manufacture a "crisis", then sell the "solution". >
  
  And they want to go harder to ban abortion >
  
  Yeah they absolutely will. >
  
  “Give a man someone to look down on and he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket.” -  LBJ.  Modern translation:  stroke the rubes’ prejudices with culture wars and they won’t notice that the working class pays the government’s bills. >
  
  Pretty fucked up that the republicans candidacy is so reliant on who can be the most homophonic/transphobic >
  
  Old man yells at cloud >
  
  Gender insanity: the belief that if you assert over and over again that everyone must conform to traditional gender norms, you'll eventually get a result where everyone willingly complies. >
  
  Sounds like projection, we're gonna find out Trump's really an old lady in drag some day. >
  
  Old man yells at cloud >
  
  Trump ain’t shit >
  
  he's dug a hole and and figure out why digging isn't getting him out. >
  
  Downvoted because I don’t want to see his stupid face. >
  
  Fair. >
  
  yeah, it makes sense to take well educated english speaking folks in our country that will pump our gdp for 4 decades each and kick them right the fuck out.  morons.
  all its going to do raise the gdp of the countries they end up in and raise our overall labor rates.  or maybe, just maybe, its a racist plot to pander to racist base. >
  
  ignore this loser he's desperate for attention >
  
  He's going to build a wall .... >
  
  Perhaps he should just visit a dog Vet and have himself fixed..... >
  
  With I assume most likely amount in their 20s-30s here all hating Republicans, why do you think anyone tolerates their parents and grandparents endorsing this fascist party ? This is most white adults who overtly endorse the white supremacist/ republican party. When their children obviously hate it. >
  
  EXCELLENT!!! We need a clear understanding of what each gender is allowed to do!! So makeup is for girls, no artificial skin tanning for boys, hair products are a woman's best friend,  high heels are also women's only, SPANX?? yea that is a girl thing.. Getting spanked with a copy of the Times with your face on it? Yup only women can be spanked!! >
  
  From jail? Or mar a lago? Does he realize he can’t issue executive orders anymore? This dude is insane.