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  The party of small government.
context: If it quacks like a Nazi... >
  
  Or an ~~evangelical~~ baptist.
  Edit: I checked and corrected.  Like there's a difference. 
  Edit again:  From his campaign page (emphasis mine). 
  
  Coalition Builder: Senator Bullard works to build a consensus - even when faced with challenges during the pandemic and rebuilding the economy when strongly held beliefs of all perspectives were championed. He has focused on an even- handed, open-dialogue approach knowing that the right solutions come when we work together to become a top ten state. >
  
  Living here, the only things Oklahoma is top 10 in is the lowest education attainment (dead last), teenage pregnancy, women incarcerated, child hunger, child poverty, people unable to access healthcare, officer-involved shootings, and worst roads.
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  Bullard is helping Oklahoma be a Top 10 State...in everything terrible. >
  
  You skipped #2 in divorce rates. >
  
  so much for family values, apparently. >
  
  Why would he talk to them?  The bill isn'tfor them.  It's for the people who hate them. >
  
  ya no this shit is ridiculous. you call yourself a representative democracy and some pasty ass white man stands there in front of a flag making decisions for all of us
  as a trans woman i don’t think people can even begin to imagine how harmful a bill like this is. holy shit. if this country had any integrity this bill would be laughed out of state senate and a numbskull like this would be kicked to the streets
  sometimes i just feel fucking hopeless when i see shit like this. idk. >
  
  There are lots of people behind you ChloeXQueen. We are pissed and tired of this bullshit. Doing everything in my power to keep these fuckheads out of office. Fuck the patriarchy! >
  
  awww thanks! trust me i can feel the support 💖🏳️‍⚧️ >
  
  GOP voters, why are all of you supporting bigots? >
  
  Look at how they support child breeding advocate Matt Walsh. This is what the Republican Party is. They are worse than the Westboro Baptist Church. >
  
  Child Breeding? Do I even want to know...? >
  
  So he’s either a pedo or a pedo sympathizer ??
  People like this deserve to have the 8th amendment revoked on them. >
  
  Genocide. Active, ongoing and accelerating. The rightwing is waging genocide against trans people in the United States. Right now. 
  They are committed to our destruction in any and every way, by any and every means. 
  Not someday. Not maybe, possibly, once they do this or that. They are waging genocide against trans people right now. >
  
  Maybe a stupid question from an outsider: do you mean by pushing them to su***de or by actually encouraging thugs to murder them or both? Or something else? Forgive an ignorant. >
  
  Both. They're trying to legislate insane restrictions on trans healthcare as we can see here, and elected republican officials tacitly support direct violence against LGBT people. After the Club Q shooting not long ago tons of republicans blamed the victims. They're all in on framing LGBT people as child abusers and encourage violence against us >
  
  It sounds to me like the slow beginnings of a new genocide of sorts. Those always start by ostracism towards an already marginalised group in society that nobody will “miss/happy to get rid of”. I hope I’m wrong but you sure make it sound like you’re heading towards that. 
  I’m not envious of the American people right now. Everyone I talk to are anxious and worried, fearing the worst, war, anarchy, fascist dictatorship or planning to emigrate. It’s awful to see. I really hope the best for you, but my hopes mean nothing I’m afraid. >
  
  You should be worried about yourself as well.
  If America goes to war with itself it's going to destabilize the world as a whole. >
  
  True. We are all dependent on each other.  No offence though, but we have a bigger issue being closest neighbours to Russia. It’s been wild here for a while… 
  The destabilisation of the entire world right now, India moving forward, China on the brink of turmoil, smaller countries like Serbia and Kosovo rattling their weapons… a lot going on right now, very worrying indeed. 
  Add to this crashed distribution chains, inflation, energy crisis and the climate being upside down, it’s easy to despair. 
  We are still waiting for Turkey to stop fiddling their ballsack and let us into NATO. >
  
  Oh yeah definitely. 
  The last thing the world needs right now is for the US to decide to go to war with each other and then leaving all those military bases we have scattered across the world empty or half-assedly armed/manned.
  We really don't need a massive power vacuum like that when everything across the world is already going nuts. >
  
  With all that said, I hope you get your shit together asap 💛 >
  
  Absolutely horrifying. This bill will result in many, many deaths. Mostly by suicide. Some by their own caregivers. >
  
  This is by design. >
  
  Agreed. They want trans people like me to stop existing entirely. Not the first time in history that someone has buried and erased us. >
  
  They murder us and destroy our history, then claim that because there’s no history left that we are a modern “fad” 😡 >
  
  Exactly. They will do anything they can to stamp us out. >
  
  Trans woman here, checking into the apocalypse. Seriously, this is fucking ridiculous and it's not even frontpage news. The party that claims to be all about small government is now insisting that the government must prevent trans adults from transitioning?
  This is absolute lunacy. Thank God I'm already a criminal who buys black market HRT. These people have every idea how many lives they're going to destroy, and they're doing it gleefully.
  Is there any hope at all? Or are they literally going to bring fascism to America? >
  
  I'm not trans, but I'll fight them with you. I got your back 👊 >
  
  Sure. You go do that instead of improving the lives of your constituents, asshole. >
  
  jesus, this shit is ridiculous. the gop is hilariously pathetic >
  
  
  jesus, this shit is ridiculous. the gop is hilariously ~~pathetic~~ evil >
  
  Frighteningly evil. >
  
  Literally genocide >
  
  Anyone ask why? That’s an absurd premise. 
  They’re not lab rats they are people.
  Leave. These. People. The. Fuck. Alone.
  It’s embarrassing. >
  
  The rural people have the power in the state. Which is to say, the brain dead veg heads get their way! Odds say he will eventually get exposed for doing something exactly different that what he says he believes! Any takers?? >
  
  It seems common, both in the US and here in Canada, that the rural voters are the ones electing these idiots. They don’t interact enough with people of other cultures, don’t attend school, too much religion? Something is definitely missing from the bubble they live in >
  
  There is no more religious place in America than Oklahoma. It's like a megachurch on steroids being here. You could spit in one direction and hit a church. The Bible Belt is so tight in Oklahoma, it's constricting circulation. >
  
  Amen( meant sarcastic)!! As a fellow okie, you hit the mail on the head !! >
  
  Hammer time. >
  
  History has shown us the inevitable fate of fascists. This too shall be the fate of these christian fascists if they want to keep pushing. The right does not have a monopoly on the second amendment. >
  
  "said he did not speak to a single transgender person before writing it."
  Of course he didn't, they only make laws that suit themselves and their constituents, white dudes with micro peens. >
  
  Anti lgbt rhetoric is lgbt conversion therapy
  there it is folks >
  
  This sounds like a first amendment violation to self express. >
  
  If they oppress us with their new Jim Crow laws, we will break Jim Crow's legs. >
  
  They like to dress it up as concern for the youth, but I feel underneath the potential power grab is a darker motive. They want us to breed, whether we like it or not. They want cattle for their factories, servants for their restaurants. >
  
  How soon before they start burning left handers at the stake again? >
  
  Typical Republican. Culture wars and zero substance, leadership or character. >
  
  
  We just want to make sure that the brain is fully developed before we allow this kind of surgery, permanent thing to happen.
  
  If you want to get your under-developed 18yo brain scooped out by a 7.62 though, that's just patriotic. 
  Just to fill in the part of what they were saying that they accidentally left out. >
  
  Republican’ts, the alleged party of small government, finding yet another way to insinuate itself into the deeply person decisions of people. There is no end to their evil! >
  
  This is coming from the party that’s all about “freedom” but I guess freedom only applies to straight white men. It’s a shame they never sit down and talk with a LGBTQ+ member, get to know them better and judge them by their character but then again it’s a lot easier to judge than to understand; it takes empathy and compassion to understand someone, both qualities they lack. >
  
  Of course he’s from OK. >
  
  
  The bill’s name reportedly refers to a passage in the Bible that says it is better to tie a large stone to your neck and drown than to cause harm to a child. 
  
  Christians attempting to forcibly shove their religion down citizens' throats once again. >
  
  Don’t let anyone get it twisted, this is genocide. It is currently genocide and it will become worse. Mark my words >
  
  $1 says he didn’t write it.  ALEC writes most of this bullshit. >
  
  Them or the Alliance Defending Freedom. >
  
  I just saw he was from Oklahoma, we have the dumbest leaders on the planet and that includes Florida. >
  
  It's because they run all the teachers away and make this state an unlivable situation. If it weren't for the Thunder being here, Oklahoma would have nothing going for itself, seriously. >
  
  Oklahoma was unlivable for me because I couldn’t get employment. Lived there most of my life. I loved it, resented it, wanted to change it. Couldn’t stay without a good paying job. I mourn for how bad Oklahoma is. I mourn for my home state continuing to be so stupid and cruel. >
  
  Yup. It is awful. Not much wealth left in this state, as we are drowning in debt. It is terrible. >
  
  The solution to Oklahoma is to return it to Native Americans as reparations for centuries of genocide and for the government to resettle the bigots to Mars. >
  
  Nice shit eating grin bub >
  
  I like how his facial hair reminds us of where his chin should be >
  
  Ah yes, Himmler would be proud... >
  
  "a permanent solution to a temporary problem"
  Hmm, now that sure sounds familiar. >
  
  This lawmaker should de-transition from human. >
  
  As if anyone else needed a reason not to live in Oklahoma. >
  
  I think this GOP lawmaker should also go against testosterone therapy for middle aged men. >
  
  My fury at these people is unspeakable, and what I want to do with it would violate TOS if I were to say it. Literally all you need to do is just not. It’s easier for them to just not.
  Also ironic that he refers to the millstone. The fuck do you think this will do to trans kids? Harm them. This will kill trans kids and their blood will be on his hands. >
  
  I doubt he spoke to any actual doctors either. >
  
  Why in the world are politicians in charge of medical decisions?! >
  
  I’m a trans girl in Oklahoma. Luckily for me I’m 35, not 26. I say I’m lucky because I know that if something like this took away my ability to transition I would fucking kill myself. Assholes like this will get people killed. I hate it here. Fuck >
  
  Party of freedom right? >
  
  Weird old country the US >
  
  Pretty much all of the US is made up of immigrants short of the indigenous people who well if we look at the score card have done not so well.
  Weird old country the US >
  
  This is not about speaking to people. It's about destroying whatever you don't understand. >
  
  They believe it’s God’s will to assign a gender while simultaneously believing that a skilled doctor performing the procedure is not God’s will.  It blows my mind that they care so much about what other people do to their own body or with other consenting people. >
  
  I think it’s time for the GOP to de-transition. >
  
  Dude looks exactly as I would expect. >
  
  He’s literally a neckbeard. >
  
  Another Einstein. Where do they find these geniuses?