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Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

Trump has achieved the ideal about which Nixon could only dream: the imperial presidency. No one will stand up to him, and the Extreme Court has declared that he is above the law (and immune from prosecution). This one-man authoritarian rule is altogether beyond what the Founding Slaveholders and Misogynists had in mind, but Slimy Sam, Long Dong Silver, and the Three Stooges will conjure arguments "proving" that everything is constitutional. What a disgraceful, disgusting excuse for a government, and it's getting worse with every passing day!

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Jim's avatar

Your assessment of the EO regarding gender ideology is wildly off the mark. The EO was written in very clear language, using, yes, scientific understanding of biological sex (and the existence of only two.) This EO overturns one issued by Biden on HIS first day in office, an executive order that destroyed many hard-won rights of girls and women, and made a mockery of Title IX. By substituting "gender identity" for "sex," women's rights to single sex spaces, sports, prisons, and much more were tossed in the trash by Biden. This also threatens the rights of lesbians and gays. Lesbians especially have had their spaces, dating apps, etc invaded by men claiming a "woman identity." Feminists such as Kara Dansky (lifelong Democrat, one-time counsel at the ACLU) have been telling the Dems for years that this policy is insane, and would come back to bite them in the ass big time. See her book "The Reckoning," and read her Substack for more on this. There's a reason Trump's campaign ad "Kamala is for they/them, Trump is for you" resonated with so many people. Gender identity ideology is understood by "normies" (ie, the overwhelming majority not marinated in Judith Butler-speak) to be crazy. For the new administration, whatever else it does, to clearly state that men are male, women are female, and that it's not possible to change sex, is a positive move for women's rights, child safeguarding, and for basic sanity. The sooner we put gender woo behind us, the better.

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