Under the amendments, the military will no longer pay for gender-affirming medical care for transgender troops, allow the pride flag to fly at military installations, or pay for personnel to travel for abortions if they live in a state that restricts them. None of these social issues have anything to do with Defense spending
Although I hate these alt-right house members, I’m confused at this statement.
They claim that the right is amending the bill so the military will no longer provide funding for the stated procedures and disallowing the pride flag, but then they say none of these issues have anything to do with defense spending. Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but it seems if the military is providing those things, it would come out of their budget?
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Tax payers and their representatives can choose how their money is spent, yes.
Gay rights will end up being gone if they could get rid of them. MTG is the most extreme.
Is she the most extreme or is she just the loudest? Because I would bet you there are people in congress who are to her right but keep quiet about it.
Mary Miller comes to mind. Illinois Nazis man.
People hear I’m on the Illinois border with Indiana on the Indiana side and say, “well at least you can get legal weed with a quick drive.” No, because it’s Central Illinois and “ain’t nobody gonna sell no wakky T-bakky in my town,” so if I want to get it that way, I have to drive 90 minutes. Chicago, very liberal. The rest of Illinois, Trump country.
For real, the state is saved by having Chicago in it, otherwise it’d be as much of a shithole state as the surrounding ones.
As someone who’s traveled the whole state, very accurate. Outside of Chicago and the collar counties, the only saving grace is Champaign pretty much. I do like Peoria since I lived there, but it’s a shithole
They have been using budget shenanigans to get their way for years, so this is only surprising if they are just getting to anti LGBTQ+ funding now.
Lots of people have been saying that this would happen.
They want to attack trans folks so they can attack the gay folks so they can attack the coloured folks…
It’s all about getting votes from their ignorant base. I guarantee you they don’t care about any of those things.
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Yep. Pretty much. There is a clearly define deference between the politician’s agenda, and the voter’s agenda. And that difference is belief. The politician doesn’t believe the bullshit. They’re selling it for votes.
The voter DOES believe the bullshit. Any they’re clearly buying it for the promise of safety.
Now to be fair, have minorities even really tried not to be victims? From what doctors say, if it’s legitimate bigotry, the minority body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. Link for the uninitiated
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You almost had me there. 😅
Given that they think gay and trans people could just, you know, choose to not be, I’m surprised none of them have said that before.
“If you don’t like being discriminated against for being non-white, just choose to be white!”
The military not flying the pride flag isn’t an attack.
The government should fly the american flag, and maybe their state flags. They shouldn’t be waving some government endorsed religious symbols. If the pride flag can be waved, what’s to stop MAGA flags from being waved at the white house and in military bases?
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It essentially seems like the LGBTQIA2S+ has turned to a religion. So yeah, the flag is equivalent to a religious symbol.
Well, they seem to have figured out kindness to others better than Christianity has in 2000 years or so.
When your religion is just bigotry wearing pious makeup, anything tolerant is perceived as an attack on that religion.
I mean not really. We just don’t care for public services and funding that is supposed to teach our kids math, instead teach them how to socially transition.
If you want to transition back and forth 100 times, we’re fine with that. Don’t take our money and teach our kids how to transition then act like you’re ‘being attacked’
If you want your kids to remain uneducated, pull them out of school and teach them everything you know.
Don’t mandate bigotry just because your church demands it.
The started by attacking trans folks, then they’ll attack the gays, then they’ll be back to attacking BIPOC. That’s how these turds roll…
who is ‘they’ and how are they attacking trans folks?
Anyone that is removing the rights of marginalized people. As a reminder you folks in the states only have conservative political parties so both of them can and do trample on rights all the time. There is no “left or right” in the States.
Shocking literally no one.
Let me be very clear—Republicans will use the power of the purse and the power of the subpoena to hold the swamp accountable.
-- Kevin McCarthy (Jan 15th, 2023 during his Speaker acceptance speech.)
The Speaker of the House literally said he was going to do this very thing. Why would anyone be surprised for him to do the thing he said he was going to do?
When The Cons tell you who they are we should listen.
They haven’t done shit about “the swamp”, look at GOP net worth in their first term. DNC too but not quite as across the board
Conservative cowardice in action. How much more can they do to prove to their voting base that they’re generating votes using fear?
