What else would he be doing? Fixing the economy? Repairing infrastructure? Going home to spend an evening with his family? It’s not like America has bigger problems than specifically telling one junior congresswoman that she has to use a different restroom than she’d prefer.
They’re trying to break her, the only winning move is to shrug it off with poise. The goal is to demonstrate herself as a serious legislator and them as the lunatics who are more concerned with hurting her than helping their constituents
If you want tips for how to make it uncomfortable, slow, and humiliating you can crib from Real Life Experience (RLE) the process that they used to make trans people go through to prove our genders
Yeah but they immigrated from Europe and do you think Europe will take both them and white Americans?
And be sure to encourage those in your life to empathize with us. Bigots are attempting to dehumanize and other us, to make us into monsters and freaks, when someone understands us as just people, neighbors, friends, family… then the virulent hate becomes seen as shameful. It disemboldens them
Oh hey, surprised devoss didn’t buy it again. I assume McMahon’s platform is more concussions for children
That actually doesn’t mean much. Constitutional law is a specific subset of law and a specialization. Maybe she dealt with constitutional law as a judge, but most judges don’t. Things like family law, criminal law, IP law, and other basic everyday things are far more common. I would expect her specialization to have been something like mediation
He’s the embodiment of America but dammit some of us really thought our country might be willing to attempt being better.
Ok but the golden age of television is when tv stopped being constrained to news, sports, unintelligent serials, or the occasional series of one off episodes with a brain like twilight zone and Star Trek. It’s the era in which it stopped being exceptional for a tv show to have artistic merit thanks to the rise in expectations of continuity from episode to episode. It’s the least dumb tv has ever been.
This is the product of social media and the failure of the education system
We all knew it’s run by idiots. That’s what “by the people” means.
It wasn’t just that they had guns. It’s that they stood there armed, watching people get arrested, and started reading rights. It’s not enough to have guns, you need to use those guns as an implicit threat while brazenly not only following the law, demanding the cops do so as well
Because EA wanted bioware to make an mmo, but bioware wanted to make kotor 3
Oh, ones like feeding the hungry, pacifism, and being kind to immigrants and foreigners?
I want a Honda fit but electric. Or something similar. I don’t need more car and neither do most people
Really I’m just happy to be at an end. Nigerians have it rough there.
As an American, do it. Seriously I don’t eat meat anymore but when you said this I started craving a giant fucking black bean burger with all my preferred fixings and enough fries to concern a cardiologist. Ooh and maybe a glass of my preferred bourbon to go with it.
I may be some metric using socialist pescatarian but there are parts of this country that I feel deep in my soul and my cardiac tissue.
I’ll try to assimilate and attempt to not make too much small talk with the neighbors, if I end up up there, but I am midwestern so I’m probably not going to be able to quit the stuff entirely. We may be annoying, but we’re almost as handy as Germans, so y’all should be able to learn to live around a few of us.
I think it should be said. I went to a reading of the names this year, as I have in some form every year since 2015; and I’ve never seen so many children’s names read. For context, the names are of the people murdered in transphobic hate crimes in the past year. It used to be a notable tragedy when a 15 year old was driven to suicide and this year we had multiple 14 year olds dead by others’ hands.
Speaker Johnson doesn’t care though. I’m sure he’d say his behavior today was in those children’s best interests, but no the transphobia he is promoting is killing children both by emboldening bigots and by driving them to hopelessness.
I hope someday he has to stand before his victims and a deity and explain himself. I hope he begins acting in a way so as to make it a less unpleasant experience when he gets to that point.