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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Surely it is THIS that will help those grocery prices...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Supporting people is lawful.

Whether the laws he passes are legitimate, up for debate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

His EOs aren't laws. That takes Congress.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What

The

Actual

Fuck?

By supporting they mean what? Calling the kid the name they want to be called by?

They don't necessarily need to explicitly teach gender and racial studies, whatever. But don't tell my kids' teachers they can't be courteous to the kids. The kids don't care one bit when someone who was a girl comes back saying they are a boy, they are nonchalant as fuck about it.

You have lost this round, conservatives. The generation who will raise the next generation is already grown up with more reasonable teaching and parents who model tolerance, there are too many of us for you to be able to control us.

Go back to your lairs and work on some other evil plan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

They dont wanna go after todays kids, they want the next generation. One decade of control, and they can raise Gen Beta in the bigoted pseudo50s hellacape they always dreamed of

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 hours ago

They already made women second class citizens. Now they're moving on to vulnerable minorities.

Sound like any other examples from history?

I'd say the alarms have started going off, but they've been going off for quite some time now. Deaf and dumb Americans as a whole can't hear them though.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

“No transgender, no operations—you know, they take your kid—there are some places, your boy leaves for school, comes back a girl. Okay? Without parental consent.” He added, “At first, when I was told that was actually happening, I said, you know, it’s an exaggeration. No: it happens. It happens. There are areas where it happens.”

Gotta wonder if he's manufacturing reality or if he's also caught up in a manufactured reality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

He knows his out is now "I saw it on TV"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 hours ago

It's definitely both.

He's a conman by nature, not by intelligence.

He inherently knows he has to manufacture lies to get what he wants, but he's very clearly not an actually intelligent person and you can clearly tell sometimes that he's 100% bought into some conspiracy theories, the same way any dumb person would. The guy's brain is mostly fried, but the conman in his nature is still there. Will be until he's 6 feet under.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I can't believe there's a single person who believes that children are being snuck into hospitals to just have a quick 20,000 dollar surgery that takes months to fully recover from during lunch and sneaking them home without anyone noticing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

If they had critical thinking skills, we wouldn't have Trump as president.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Let's play the "replace the group with jews and see if they sound like a Nazi"

Trump tells DOJ to proescute teachers who unlawfully support jewish students.

Eyup

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago

Fascism isn't coming.

It's already here.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Dipshit Donnie, your executive orders are not laws. They also only apply to federal government. As far as I know, we don't have federal schools except for the armed forces academies.

They'll probably end up making federal aid contingent on being assholes. Just like how Reagan coerced the states into 21 year old drinking age by withholding highway funds.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

It works like this:

  • Teach at a public school
  • That school receives funding directly or indirectly from federal programs under the executive branch, including the Department of Education
  • DEI support disqualifies institutions from receiving Federal funds
  • Supporting DEI and trans rights while receiving Federal funds counts as defrauding the US government
  • DOJ takes up the case

While EOs are not laws, they have the potential to do massive amounts of damage because most of the government runs on agencies under control of the Executive. And while universities and public schools are not federal, they receive shit tons of funds through grants, contracts, and subsidies from a wide array of federal agencies (see: academic panic at the NSF and NIH halting grant review and funding as a result of Trump’s recent orders).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

We're deciding right now how much power Executive Orders have.

It had strict definitions for its use, now the president is trying to stretch that power further.

How many people comply without being physcially forced is what determines how much power he truely has.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

How many people comply without being physically forced is what determines how much power he truly has.

That’s why the reduction of protections for federal employees was so important to implementing this phase. A lot of people have already been fired or reassigned which makes it really difficult for them to “do” anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

How many people comply without being physcially forced is what determines how much power he truely has.

Bingo.

So far America appears to be overflowing with pussies who are willing to bend the knee to an anti-democratic felon rapist.

Our ancestors are weeping.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That is exactly what I was saying how Reagan coerced states to raise drinking age.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Right on. I was just outlining how they’d probably make it personal against the teachers.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

Hey acceleratiionists and people who Harris "wasn't good enough" for, remember that you could've helped stop this shit before it even happened. Now people are going to suffer and die under this regime that you helped bring to power

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 hour ago

Hey DNC, stop blaming the voters you told to stay home.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Those people are far too stupid to grasp the mistake they made.

Ignorance truly is bliss.

Until you're thrown in an oven.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Them: Don't care, at least my eggs are cheaper...wait

Them: Don't care, I showed America that their two party system sucks...wait

Then: Don't care, voting doesn't matter anyway...wait

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Surely this will finally rein in the price of eggs.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And ended the war in Ukraine

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

If we don't ban trans people, then Trump could end up mistakenly raping a dude, and we can't have that! What would he even grab them by?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I believe it's known as a bussy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

I feel like a screenshot of your comment (without context for best effect) would make a great post somewhere

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A subtle aspect is that many of these people do like fucking trans women, but those trans women need to be vulnerable and disposable. When job discrimination is legal/encouraged, trans people turn to prostitution.

A lot of the conservative Christian machine is really a massive D/s kink. Punishing women for having sex, murdering trans women for making their dick hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

D/s kink? I don't understand the acronym

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Dominance/submission.

So much of the actions of Trump, Musk, McConnell - it’s a power fetish. That’s why it often seems counterintuitive or pointlessly cruel. There’s an erotic thrill from being able to control others and to hurt them.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Crickets from conservatives who love to screech about free speech

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They only like free speech when it's their voices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Me/Mine is the conservative ideology boiled down to two words.

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[–] [email protected] 203 points 17 hours ago (18 children)

I'll never forgive the people who worked to put this fascist in power again.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 16 hours ago (36 children)

Or the people who sat at home and let it happen.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 16 hours ago (14 children)

Being an educator in this day and age seems so difficult, we are taught all the studies and theories of healthy child development, how to promote healthy social emotional learning, but we must fight parents and increasely the law to maintain a safe, healthy social environmental layer.

Good educators are already beaten down from so many things and have become rare, but I know most of my colleagues and friends have no intention of bending knee to this and policies aimed at hurting students we fight for, and I desperately hope this sentiment is shared by many across our country.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Blatantly unconstitutional, and he knows it. But the point isn't to win on this issue, it's to move the Overton window a little more and to sow more chaos.

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