This new bill, signed into law by President Joe Biden, includes a provision that limits access to gender-affirming care services for the children of people serving in the military.
Democrats say the American public doesn’t need the 2nd amendment anymore, but here they are proving to your face that when push comes to shove, no one will be coming to help you when your lawn has a mob of 61 MAGA coming to lynch you for whatever delusional reason they manufacture.
We are on our own.
You’re gonna die of old age soon biden, but your garbage legacy will linger forever in the history books like shitting on the pages and slamming the book shut.
A cowardly empty shell of a man to the bitter end.
Enjoy hell you piece of shit.
I dunno man, rhetoric like that. Doesn’t sound like you’ll be the most easy person to share this earth with either. Better to figure out another way forward them encouraging civil war, no?
Agreed.
Biden’s legcy will be bringing a bit of the Israelis geniocidal hatreds home to rot the core of the US. Enshitifying the western world order and democracy itself with the same pathetic “bipartisanship” centrism and selling out that has defined his entire career and been a plague on all of us. An old white bigot with no relevance, intent on sitting in a chair that was always too big for him. At best he was not Trump. And thats about all he will be remembered for.
This guy was everyone’s hope?
I despised him before it was cool. So yay me I suppose.
No he wasn’t, he was a leaky bucket of water, but the house was on fire, so we took it.
Don’t rewrite history to serve your narrative, dipshit.
If you are a trans person in Cascadia, consider fighting for Cascadian indepence, or if you live somewhere else, fight for any indepenence movement you can find. Do not let your fear prevent you from dealing a blow to the United States, because it’s a worthless nation.
None of you read the article or the white house quote. This is a purposefully misleading headline. Bill was poisoned by gop, if he doesn’t sign it a shit load of other things are fucked, by design from conservatives.
None of you are adults, man. Gop is a cancer. You have to amputate your leg. Yes, you stop cancer spreading, but you lose your leg. Designed so that you’re fucked either way, but the other way, you die. Grow up.
Anyone outraged at Biden for this being played for a fool.
Good luck getting any future support if this is how you treat the leaders of the only legitimate party that is allied with you.
Which party is that again? Because I can’t think of a political party that is working to remove landlords, empower worker’s unions, and break up massive corporations.
Those are some random goal posts you’re tossing down but they only indicate you aren’t an well informed voter.
I’m sure Trump who runs several corporations, is a well known landlord and has well established anti-union views will do some amazing things to all those causes.
I agree that Democrats are slightly less evil. That’s a far cry from making them good.
Remember, the system will never give you the tools to destroy it.
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You’re not helping. Have discussions, not mockery.
Exactly right.
Are we talking about the Republicans or Democrats?
Because both are owned by the rich and fight against actual populism and the socialist policies that the vast majority of Americans support across the political spectrum?
https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/50343-national-policy-proposals-with-bipartisan-support
Why not veto, especially since he’s a lame duck?
That would have lead to a government shutdown since is lame duck he has nothing to negotiate on a compromise.
Many republicans voted against this bill because they prefer waiting for Trump to take office so they can pass something worse. They don’t care about a shutdown.
Idk. Seems pretty easy to get on TV and say “I’m vetoing cuz this one line is totally bullshit and not related at all to anything. Remove it and I’ll approve. The shutdown is your fault not mine”
And then the government shuts down. Trump takes office and immediately signs something worse. Meanwhile government employees go unpaid and the media finds something else to use to rile you up.
Trump’s gonna do what he wants. Planning around him is dumb.
Oh no defending the our rights will be inconvenient. Definitely better to just give in without a fight /s
Shutting down the government is not without its harms.
Sacrificing others for your ideology will lead to less support.
what support lol
“the only legitimate party” my arse. You still act like you are deciding if the youth and progressives have a spot on the floor next to the mighty democratic party table in case you want to throw us some scraps when actually you cant win any election without us, and have no power at all – at any level of government. You now also have a terrible reputation for being genociders, corrupt, our of touch with the working class, and lacking any sense of strategy. And lacking any dignity either. Even when trump drums up his own resistence against him (because god knows you’re not up to that task) you still cant win without your left flank. You arent even aware of what your numbers are. Pathetic.
So shut it. You centrists have gotten enough attention and you’ve done nothing with the opportunities you’ve been given, besides consistenly blowing it. You wont be in the drivers seat for a long time, and I think the general population is sick of losing because of your incompetence and unprincipled shenanigans.
I am not responsible for political realities. Being upset that I can see things you cannot is not a progressive attitude.
Kids have same silly believes about political greviances as they do towards sex; every generations thinks they invented it.
Joe Biden over here complying in advance.
Well, with the incoming terrorists that will be running things in a few weeks, brace for a lot more.
I don’t know what it’s going to take for people to truly acknowledge that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were never progressives to begin with. So much time and energy has been spent trying to convince trans people that they’re good and they would protect our rights and they care about our well-being and want to protect us.
But here he is signing a literal anti-lgbt rights bill as one of his final actions in office. Why isn’t he making a last ditch concerted push to safeguard trans rights? He could do that you know he’s the president he could be trying to do something right now to help us. But even so he isn’t. He truly never did care about trans rights.
Ha, us fools are so blind. It really is both sides, and we’ve all been bamboozled.
Well, not that bamboozled
Once again, i shall post this meme
We just gave the presidency and both houses of Congress to Republicans. Apparently this is what America wants.
Democrats lost because a big chunk of their base was so disgusted at Democrats’ behavior that they stayed home. Do Republican politicians start capitulating to Democrats en masse every time they lose an election? No. They look at their base and ask what they can do to get their votes back. Democrats in response to losing just try even harder to get Republican to vote for them.
Doesn’t sound like much of a base if they won’t even show up to vote.
I’d love it if the Democrats were farther left, but the left doesn’t consistently show up when it matters or else we wouldn’t be looking down the barrel of another trump term.
Well, we only had two choices 🤷♂️
And both of them were shit. The difference is that Democrats aren’t excited to vote for shit.
You’re correct. It was a steaming lump of an election. We can place the blame firmly on Biden for not bowing out early enough to have a primary.
However…
Not voting is voting, unfortunately. If they don’t like the options, they should do something about it—otherwise stop complaining like a child and vote.
But it doesn’t matter now, the right wing won and they cleaned up enough to ensure they have control for the next few decades. Let’s just hope they are truly as unorganized as they seem.
Not voting is voting, unfortunately. If they don’t like the options, they should do something about it—otherwise stop complaining like a child and vote.
The election is already over and I already voted for Harris. The sanctimony of being second worst is useless now. Next time, Democrats should try not being shit. For fucking once.
Agreed.
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This is who he is, a pushover.
What should he have done instead? Send the bill back to congress? What are the consequences of not getting this bill done?
I think it’s pretty well known that the democrats do not have spines.
That’s not completely true. They never budged on supporting Netanyahu’s genocide.
That and how many campaigned as transphobic this election?
Whoever could have predicted this. The Democrats will throw anyone under the bus.
Fuck off Joe. Stop doing Trump’s dirty work for him.
Pocket veto that shit.
This whole thread is fucking disappointing. Yes it’s super shitty that tricare isn’t going to cover trans kids. We just had a budget showdown where Elon fucking Musk tried to tank the entire nation. Biden signed this shit and said he hated that he had to do it because it excluded trans kids.
I’m no Biden fan but holy shit get your course corrected and get ready friends because this ain’t shit compared to what’s to come.
Agreed. The political ignorance of the common American is why it is so easy able to drive these wedges.
Anyone pissed at Biden about this is not a politically smart person and are easily manipulated becuase they not only lack political intelligence but lack the ability to gauge their lack of political intelligence.
They could have just not funded the government/military, I would be fine with that.
Yea they could have. But Biden didn’t shut down paychecks for regular folks right at christmas…
You’d be fine with that.
Yeah, they did deny lifesaving care to trans kids, and you support this bill for that reason alone.
That’s a fuck ton to read into someone just saying we should pay people… but the trans BUT THE TRANS! No one is disagreeing with you but yourself. Well also the GOP… SO WHAT ABOUT THE TRANS!!!
I mean for fucks sake we just had Elon Musk wave his dick around and influence this legislation and this whole thread is blaming Biden… some smooth brain shit going on here.
Biden had ample opportunity to end these budget hostage sessions, but he rejected them all.
When did Biden control legislation? Did I miss him giving multiple vetoes to previous bills? The hell does this have to do with him and not every republican screwing up congress?
If the DNC had chosen to run progressive policies we wouldnt be here. But they didnt and here we are.
Better than picking disposable section of society to throw under the bus in the name of compromise, why do Trump’s work for him?
THAT IS picking disposable sections of society to throw under the bus. What are you taking about?
“we just had to do whatever Trump wanted otherwise ‘regular folk’ might get affected slightly”
The only thing it’s denying is surgery that could cause sterilization. A thing that is pretty rare for children to undergo.
HRT can cause sterilization. It’s very safe, but it can. The UK conservatives just banned puberty blockers on the claim that it could cause sterilization. There’s nothing reasonable about this innocuous line. It’s a carte blanche to stop all coverage.
Is that ever performed on minors for gender reassignment reasons anyway? It seems like a weird thing to ban. What’s next, are they going to make it illegal to perform GRS on dead people?
It is, but it’s not common. There’s a metric fuck ton of hurdles that have to be jumped through, so it’s basically just a dog whistle used to justify banning any gender affirming care.
Ah, so same playbook as abortion with those scary ‘late stage abortions’ that are basically exclusively done to rescue people from dangerous and nonviable pregnancies.
Exactly
With allies like these on Lemmy who the fuck needs enemies. So anytime we want to throw trans people under the bus just add it to a funding bill? Would y’all be singing the same tune if these provisions targeted gay people? Black? Jewish? At what point does an anti trans law cross the line for y’all? How many rights do we have to lose before you’ll speak up?
Anytime you want to pass a measure that doesn’t have quite enough sort in congress, you add it to a funding bill.
It’s the easiest way to add leverage to your demands, with the way our legislature currently works.
I mean, they’ve already signed off on wholesale genocide, it’s pretty clear they have no lines left to cross.
Bro… the genocide. All lines have not only been crossed but erased forever as the Democrats ratchet the USA to the right.
Bro… the genocide.
Quote of this century. As we move into Trump 2.0 and the horror thereafter we will have “Bro… the genocide”.
Right up there with that comic of folks in a post apocalyptic hellscape saying “ but at one point we had profit for shareholders…”
Throw the baby out with the bath water. Cause bro…
They start with the weakest and most vulnerable and then they work their way out to the rest of us.
I don’t like Biden at all but this one is finicky.
You may not like to hear it but but placing limits on funding for it they make it harder for the next administration to act against them since most political power is in the purse. No dei? No dei firings. No “misappropriation” of health funding, no health funding cuts or firings for having trans kids. Moreover it means if they do transition privately the government would have to create a novel argument to prevent private and or criminalize actions that amount to speech which would be difficult.
“If we send the Jews to the camps before Hitler takes power, Hitler won’t be able to do his Holocaust!”
Yes of course everything is literally Hitler.
Trans people were among the first victims of the Holocaust. When the same groups the Nazis exterminated are being explicitly targeted again for annihilation, Nazi references are entirely appropriate.
That person probably bombed the analogy portion of the SATs too.
“It’s s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but damn near impossible to win with a stupid person.”
If the first Trump term didn’t show you that unwritten decorum rules like this mean exactly fuckall, I’m not sure what it’s going to take
It’s not unwritten or decorum.
Fuck you, I know how to spell both of those things
I don’t think this is Biden trying to hurt trans kids, I think this represents the democratic party being too tired to fight for everyone’s rights - shrugging their shoulders with a sigh and saying ‘whatever’.
I don’t think this is Biden trying to hurt trans kids,
I think he is. He gets no benefit of the doubt after a year of genocide support.
Maybe that “tiredness” comes from the Democrats being fucking older than dirt, and having made absolutely zero attempt to pass the reins on to younger, energetic politicians.
The Democratic Party has been punching downward for decades now; they deserve no sympathy whatsoever.
Nah, this is arguably the smartest thing the second dumbest party has done in years.
Stop openly fighting, they thrive on that. Do smart sly shit they aren’t at all intelligent enough to pick up on.
Stop openly fighting, they thrive on that.
“Shhh. Just lie back and enjoy it” - Democrats to anyone to the left of the anti-trans bigots they just lovingly kissed the asses of.
They didn’t really though, what did the anti trans people actually get here aside from effectively being thrown a fairly high hurdle.
The first step in a long line of capitulations.
Fantastic non answer.
‘I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: “All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth.” Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.’
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
My comment was another section from the Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
I was adding more context. The entire letter is worth reading though.
