Trump just won the election

[zil2]

16 hours ago, LDSGator said:

What kind of LGBTQ people do you actually know? Because all of them that I know just want to be left alone.

 I’m genuinely curious. Do you only know radical ones? Do you hang out in Malibu or Cambridge? Not joking, I wonder wh there’s such a difference here. 
 

And talk to me about your actual, real life LGBTQ friends, not ones shown in conservative media. Do they (your friends) subscribe to this aggressive ideology? 

Did you watch the video?  It's not anti-trans.  The doctor is a psychiatrist who specializes in gender dysphoria.  He isn't opposed to gender transition of any sort (for adults), but is opposed to people going into that without someone like him to help them work through it.  He is opposed to merging all forms of "trans" into one indistinguishable mass (e.g. transvestite, transsexual, transgender), which has led to confusion among his patients.  He's explaining what he's learned from his practice and it explains things like rigid insistence on using the individual's pronouns and demands that everyone think the same way.

In short, it's an informative video if you want to have a better understanding of trans people, which should give a person more compassion.

This with eyes to see and ears to hear will also recognize Satan's hand working for decades (at least) to create the conflicts we now have on this issue.

[LDSGator]

27 minutes ago, zil2 said:

Did you watch the video? 

No, and since you didn’t answer my question either I’m totally okay with not watching it. 
 

Edited January 26 by LDSGator

[LDSGator]

1 hour ago, NeuroTypical said:

I know several. One of them is indeed a radical.  He has used the word to describe himself.  He has used his platform to support, defend, and normalize radical change as the norm. His platform involves speaking to a small group weekly.  I’ve heard him voice support for leftist violence on two occasions.  Once was a vague allusion to hold on to hate so it can be put to good use later, once was an attempt to get the group talking about political violence as something that is occasionally justified.  He’s urges anti-racism and  pronoun use, and normalizing ppl being able to openly live their full authentic queer life.  His preferred pronouns have moved about a bit, I think they’re currently them/he or something like that.

He’s young, in his ‘20’s.  He thinks he’s doing good things.

It’s obvious people like this exist, but the overwhelming majority of the LGBTQ out there don’t act like the person you are describing. They just want to be left alone to live their lives in peace. Like all of us. 

Edited January 26 by LDSGator

[mirkwood]

7 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

It’s obvious people like this exist, but the overwhelming majority of the LGBTQ out there don’t act like the person you are describing. They just want to be left alone to live their lives in peace. Like all of us. 

 

I know three.  One is low key in person (probably because the group is pretty conservative) and according to others in the group he is pretty radical on social media. 

The next one is at best described as unhinged. 

I had a co-worker who I was not around much so I do not really know how she acted, but her trans philosophies were (to my understanding) the reason she lost her job.  I'm going with radical on that one.

[LDSGator]

7 minutes ago, mirkwood said:

 

I know three.  One is low key in person (probably because the group is pretty conservative) and according to others in the group he is pretty radical on social media. 

The next one is at best described as unhinged. 

I had a co-worker who I was not around much so I do not really know how she acted, but her trans philosophies were (to my understanding) the reason she lost her job.  I'm going with radical on that one.

It’s a different world with different people, I guess. 

My encounters with the LGBTQ community have been vastly different than what has been described. 

[mirkwood]

2 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

It’s a different world with different people, I guess. 

My encounters with the LGBTQ community have been vastly different than what has been described. 

 

As some of us are saying with your example of the opposite of our experiences.

[LDSGator]

2 minutes ago, mirkwood said:

 

As some of us are saying with your example of the opposite of our experiences.

Yup. 

[NeuroTypical]

2019 - Governor Polis signs House Bill (HB) 1124, "Protect Colorado Residents From Federal Government Overreach" which prohibits state and local law enforcement from honoring immigration detainers/requests by ICE to hold a criminal alien already in custody.  The blue parts of the state rejoice that we've finally and officially become a sanctuary state.  
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/state-and-local/colorado-officially-sanctuary-state
 

November 2024 - Trump is elected.   Since then: 

- Denver Mayor being all loud in November and talking about refusing to work with ICE, he urges his constituents to protest deportations, claims Denver remains a proud sanctuary city and will not cooperate, says he'll be willing to go to jail over the issue.  
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/23/denver-mayor-protests-against-trump-mass-deportations
https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/denver-mayor-reportedly-vows-to-resist-mass-deportations-not-going-to-sell-out-mayor-mike-johnston-colorado-trump-tom-homan-illegal-immigration

 

- Trump's border Czar Tom Homan agrees with the Denver mayor:  "me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing -- he's willing to go to jail, I'm willing to put him in jail because there there's a statute. It's Title 8 United States Code 1324 (iii). And what it says is it's a felony if you knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien from immigration authorities. It's also a felony to impede a federal law enforcement officer"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-jail-denver-mayor/story?id=116235385

 

- Last week, Denver mayor still being defiant, promising only bare minimum working with ICE.
https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/denver-braces-for-mass-deportations-under-new-trump-presidency

 

- 2 days ago Governor Polis says "We encourage every county to work with ICE." and "this narrative is false, that Colorado is in any way, shape or form a sanctuary state. We are not. There are cities in our state that claim to be sanctuary cities, but the state is absolutely not." 
https://krdo.com/news/2025/01/24/polis-says-colorado-not-a-sanctuary-state-after-sheriff-congressman-ask-for-immigration-changes-2/

 

Colorado's blue leadership is feeling the pressure, and starting to understand their jobs are on the line.

[Carborendum]

On 1/22/2025 at 11:35 AM, Phoenix_person said:

On 1/22/2025 at 10:57 AM, Traveler said:

...until the trans community is willing to report offenders, we must assume complicity.

Are you under the impression that they're not?

Anna Kasparian left the left specifically because when homeless people attacked her, all of her "friends" on the left refused to show any sympathy toward her because she was "shaming the homeless."

The left's tactics are all about the protected class of people are not capable of committing crimes.  That is why the male who claimed he was female was able to rape several female inmates and yet the judge demanded that the victims address him as a she/her (for "dignity").

[LDSGator]

17 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

Anna Kasparian left the left specifically because when homeless people attacked her, all of her "friends" on the left refused to show any sympathy toward her because she was "shaming the homeless."

Everyone is a liberal until they get mugged, everyone is a conservative until they get arrested.  

[NeuroTypical]

57 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

On 1/22/2025 at 10:35 AM, Phoenix_person said:

On 1/22/2025 at 9:57 AM, Traveler said:

...until the trans community is willing to report offenders, we must assume complicity.

Are you under the impression that they're not?

Anna Kasparian left the left specifically because when homeless people attacked her, all of her "friends" on the left refused to show any sympathy toward her because she was "shaming the homeless."

Here in Colorado Springs we had the Club Q mass shooting where someone killed many people.  The shooter was making daily international news, until the exact moment he filed court documents indicating demanding the court respect his pronouns of they/them.  I never heard the name "Anderson Lee Aldrich" again.   I also noticed the whole "respect pronouns or you're a bigot" narrative sort of got muted after that.

 

[Carborendum]

9 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

Here in Colorado Springs we had the Club Q mass shooting where someone killed many people.  The shooter was making daily international news, until the exact moment he filed court documents indicating demanding the court respect his pronouns of they/them.  I never heard the name "Anderson Lee Aldrich" again.   I also noticed the whole "respect pronouns or you're a bigot" narrative sort of got muted after that.

I noticed that he was still charged with 50 federal hate crimes because of this.

[Carborendum]

Jennifer Gingrich Portland States which have let biologically male prison inmates self-identify as into women's prison are now dealing with allegations by female prisoners that they are being sexually assaulted by them. It was revealed only last week that Washington state has had numerous reports by women that they are being sexually assaulted by some of the five transwomen put in their prison in the last few months - one of them an actual serial killer of women. This came out in a court hearing, after a DOC whistleblower stated that female inmates are "terrified" and the ACLU went to court to keep the records sealed, because they are the ones who sued to get the transwomen into women's prison in the first place. https://mynorthwest.com/2666243/doc-washington-correctional-center-women-men-tr ansfer/? In Illinois, a female inmate alleges she was raped the first night transwoman Janiah Monroe was put in her cell. Monroe's ACLU lawyer got her put into women's prison even after she stabbed a cellmate to death in the men's prison, then called the cellmate - and other women who also alleged sexual misconduct by Monroe - liars. https://www.illinoistimes.com/springfield/transgender-inmate-accused-of-rape/Conte nt?oid=11867999 We have no idea how many women are now being raped in prison by biological males who have self-identified into women's prison, due to the legal interference of the ACLU getting records sealed in multiple states. This bill makes NO exceptions for inmates who have been convicted of sexual offenses or even murder of women. It also doesn't specify any need for sex reassignment surgery, but merely says self-identification is enough. If passed, LD 1044 would give a sexually intact male inmate convicted of raping and murdering women the right to self-identify as female and be housed in women's prison. It beggars belief that anyone could think this a good idea. It is even more shocking that no witness who appeared at the public hearing, nor any legislator, appears to have mentioned the impact on the female inmates at all! It is as if they didn't even rate a thought to anyone. Unfortunately, the many of us who would have liked to testify at the public hearing in support of those female inmates never knew about it. This seems to have occurred due to the drafters of this legislation using a bit of clever language: they referred to transgender people only as "certain individuals" so that anyone searching for legislation on the issue by keyword would never see it. There was no publicity in the news about this bill at all, and yet the usual trans rights activists all seem to have been informed about the hearing. Of course trans people deserve protection in prison. But women in prison are not human shields to be used to accomplish this. Female bodies do not exist merely to be risked protecting others from male violence. Have some common sense and protect biologically male inmates in the men's estate. Women in prison matter, too.

 -- Testimony given at Maine Legislature

Edited February 3 by Carborendum

[NeuroTypical]

Glad to see this particular evil seeing some daylight.  Because that's how you stop this particular evil - by dragging it into the daylight.

Shame on the ACLU.

[NeuroTypical]

This got lost in the last several weeks of executive orders, and needs a bit more visibility:

 

[Carborendum]

45 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

This got lost in the last several weeks of executive orders, and needs a bit more visibility

For those of us who don't have access to Twitter, what is it about?

[zil2]

5 hours ago, Carborendum said:

For those of us who don't have access to Twitter, what is it about?

It's a video of Trump signing an Executive Order, with the audio replaced (presumably with AI, since it's the original voice of the dude who handed him all his EOs, telling him which they were) saying: "And lastly, sir, we have the executive order ordering the unsealing of the sealed portion of The Gold Plates which will be returned to earth and translated by Russell M. Nelson", and then Trump saying, "That's a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for a long -- for years -- for decades.  And everything will be revealed..." (in an appropriate tone )

 

...gave up too soon.  At the end, he hands his aide the pen and says, "Give that to Martin Harris" (though the Martin Harris is obviously AI'ed).

Edited February 5 by zil2

[NeuroTypical]

In real news, here are the President's tax priorities he just laid out to the Rep legislators:
1- no tax on tips
2- no tax on SocSec
3- no tax on overtime pay
4- renewing the tax cuts
5- adjusting the SALT cap
6- eliminate all tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners
7- close the carried tax deduction loophole
8- tax cuts for made in America products

[LDSGator]

1 minute ago, NeuroTypical said:

In real news, here are the President's tax priorities he just laid out to the Rep legislators:
1- no tax on tips
2- no tax on SocSec
3- no tax on overtime pay
4- renewing the tax cuts
5- adjusting the SALT cap
6- eliminate all tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners
7- close the carried tax deduction loophole
8- tax cuts for made in America products

All of those are my economic dream. 

[NeuroTypical]

15 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

7- close the carried tax deduction loophole

Hadn't heard about this one.  

https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2021/10/close-the-carried-interest-loophole-that-is-a-tax-dodge-for-super-rich-private-equity-executives/

I'm surprised he's targeting "private equity barons who get away with murder" at their low taxes.   I don't know enough about it to have an opinion one way or the other, but I just was not expecting something like this.

I guess Blackstone had 2 billion of this in 2020?  That name seems to make lots of people mad.

Edited February 6 by NeuroTypical

[Traveler]

20 hours ago, NeuroTypical said:

In real news, here are the President's tax priorities he just laid out to the Rep legislators:
1- no tax on tips
2- no tax on SocSec
3- no tax on overtime pay
4- renewing the tax cuts
5- adjusting the SALT cap
6- eliminate all tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners
7- close the carried tax deduction loophole
8- tax cuts for made in America products

 

20 hours ago, LDSGator said:

All of those are my economic dream. 

I believe all citizens should be taxed on their economic increase – similar to a tithing tax for the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.

 

The Traveler

[LDSGator]

On 2/7/2025 at 1:28 PM, Traveler said:

believe all citizens should be taxed on their economic increase – similar to a tithing tax for the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.

In my dream world, there would be a flat tax along with a national sales tax. I’m also a staunch believer in the “sin tax”. We should heavily tax porn, cigarettes, booze, gambling, weed, etc  

[LDSGator]

If you are a tax/economics geek (not an insult, I’m one of them) and want to know my real thoughts on taxation, read Progress and Poverty by Henry George-and anything by Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. 
 

If you want to know what I am repulsed by (economically) read anything by Paul Krugman. 

I’m also repulsed by the band Kiss. @mirkwood finally converted me. 

Edited February 8 by LDSGator

[LDSGator]

I should add that a land tax is also fine too. But that’s about it. Land, consumption and flat.  Income tax is abhorrent 

[mirkwood]

2 hours ago, LDSGator said:

I’m also repulsed by the band Kiss. @mirkwood finally converted me. 

 

Finally.