This is a consequence of America wanting to pretend that the rest of the government has to be funded in accordance with the constitutional guard against a standing army.

The only thing that Congress does that has a constituonal time limit is fund the army.

A scroll and quill is a pretty good idea, but it’d be better as something more squarish than irregular, I think.

If you’re covering for David Brooks, and we assume that Brooks is not himself a pedophile to be charitable, then you’re covering for whatever unknown pedophile Brooks is covering for.

This isn’t a court of law, it’s an international private forum with no binding consequence on anybody’s liberty. We don’t have to presume people doing shady fuck are innocent, since we’re not even accusing anyone of crimes.

Congress passed a law demanding disclosure of all files the government had about an infamous pedophile and child trafficer, with an explicit ban on redactions for embarrassed adults. Today they released a whole bunch of files, with essentially every adult in the pictures reacted.

Anyone who thinks this is a non-story is either a pedophile themselves or intentjonallh covering for child trafficing pediphiles. Especially if they are an old white guy who was definitely associated with the inhuman scum at the center.

We don’t know if David Brooks is a pedophile himself, but he sure as fuck isnt a journalist.

For this post, 'cause it’s the capitalization in the article

For the article, because either someone misunderstands the rules of capitalization in English or they are asserting Trump is equivalent to the God of Abraham.

The board is dominated by Trump, but not every last member. Key facts:

• The name is set by Congress and, just like the DoD, cannot be actually changed without an act of Congress.
• The board’s vote was only “unanimous” because they muted everyone on their zoom call who spoke against the not-on-the-agenda bullshit.
• Trump is a sex pest rapist who either sexually abused minors with his pal Epstein or did something worse.

If you think the “no kings” protests were ignored you weren’t paying attention to how loudly the right wing bitched about them.

Heck, it can be argued that their scale was why senate Dems let the government shut down over the ACA subsidies – and while I think how that shutdown ended was cowardly, it was also the most politically effective shutdown in US history. (There are multiple bills to extend those subsidies, and everyone knows which side is against them!)

Fight is steps 6 and 7.

A violent insurrection cannot be planned in advance, especially not on the internet, and will either be doomed to failure or will consist of extant political divisions and advocacy organizations militarizing or joining en masse.

(The only successful revolutions that weren’t extant orgs going to war were either not violent or so massive that “the whole nation” was the org going to war.)

And OP asked for advice about their trans kid. Child soldiers are a fucking war crime.

Why ban advertisements for drugs?

How would, say, a Superbowl ad for cocaine be any worse than one for alcohol,.mcDonald’s, or voting Republican? (All of which are at least as strongly correlated with bad life outcomes as speed.)

Thanks! (Fixed now.)

Step 1: don’t panic. The same garbage rule that is going to cost anyone on a ACA plan thousands of dollars next year will also hopefully keep MTG’s transphobic bullshit from becoming law.

Step 2: prepare to endure. Talk to your trans-kid’s pediatrician or specialist NOW about roll-your-own HRT and puberty blockers. (You don’t want the only person advising you on them to be an unlicensed internet pharmacist). Get a lawyer if you can or get in contact with your local trans advocacy group.

Step 3: prepare to move. Leaving a garbage red state for a brave blue state is good advice for anyone who isn’t a white nazi. New York and New England or the west coast. Not VA, PA or MI (Both lovely, too purple).

Step 4: prepare to flee. Do NOT keep your family here if elections are cancelled, civil war breaks out, or the post-truno POTUS is an even worse Christian DominionIst.

Step 5: talk to your kid about what THEY want. Children are just temporarily disabled adults, and they may surprise you.

Step 6: vote. Pick Republican or Democrat, and vote in EVERY election, general or primary, whether you like the candidates or need to just spoil your ballot.

Step 7: advocate. As much as you can, tell your neighbors and reps and random strangers that your kid shouldn’t live in fear or be tortured because some small-hearted bigot doesn’t know the difference between sex and gender.

Blue states like NY have statewide rules about trans care, so ifyou would rather live in a rural or small town they might still be a safe place to relocate.

(Edit: added the missing if)

Every now and again I see a comment on the internet that triggers my Dad response and makes me want to offer a virtual hug to a stranger.

(You are lovable and the world is better with you in it.)

Is the answer anything other than “pretty damn well against the weapons it was worn against”?

TV and movies often depict armor as if it’s little better than clothing, as if it wasn’t abandoned as soon as practical counter was developed. (And then re-invented as a guard against shrapnel and very-small arms…l

Why should abelsim be given latitude that we wouldn’t extend to racism, sexism, or anti-Semitism?

My opinion is that embarrassed bigotry in private is still bigotry. It’s good that those with such feelings recognize the harm that they bring (or at least the public shaming that they can suffer), but it makes for a simpler life to just excise such hatreds whenever you can.

When George f****ing Washington , inaugural president of the United States, leads troops into battle to assert the rule of law and congress’s ability to impose taxes it kind of sets a precedent.

America’s had a bunch of tax rebellions, though . It’s just that being a functioning democracy let us do it without anyone dying. (Save for two very notable exceptions.)

Like i said, the issue varys wildly by state or court.

Although part of the reason why men who ask for custody get it more than 50% of the time is that very often they know (or believe) they don’t have a chance and so don’t fight.

These chucklefucks have been screeching about civil war since LONG before Obama was elected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

As the guy who buys his own wine and isn’t that picky, I’d much rather open a $5 bottle than one ten times that price. Especially if it’s a sweet red; then I can get an order of magnitude more drink than the snob who likes sour grapes.

(And, honestly, $50 is way too much for a common bottle of wine. Even $30 is nearly in the realm of conspicuous consumption.)

I think we have a right to be judged fairly and not because of our gender or sex. But that’s a semantic point and I don’t want to quibble.

I do want to push back on excusing from women their responsibility for the society we live in, however. (Or just underline an implied point we may both share.)

Nearly every man I know values the opinions of women at least as much as those of other men. When a boy sees his mom belittle his father for being insufficiently manly, he hears a lesson that sexism is bad. When a man tells a boy that the way to get a girlfriend is to be a sexist jerk the boy listens, not because he cares about the con artist, but because he’s desperate for a girl who cares about him.

Men have a lot of the big levers of power, and do bear a proportionate share of our own blame, but we shouldn’t excuse women who use the power they have in ways that make our society worse.

We’re all in this together, and all need to do what we can to make the world we pass to our children better than the one our parents passed on to us.