U.S. Politics, November 2024: GARBAGE DAY!!

honestly none of this is anyone’s business, it shouldn’t even be an issue, and her statement didn’t seem like it was “folding” at all— it seemed like a carefully worded “go ahead and be dumb about it, i am here to govern and yall are too worried about my gender so who is the fucking weird one”

otm

Being the sole trans person in Congress while the majority party ramp up a genocidal campaign against your community must be incredibly challenging. I can't fathom the pressure she's under or the emotional effects of being so directly targeted by fascist psychos you also have to work with. Approaching her decision with compassion is absolutely the right thing to do. But I also have compassion for trans people who are alarmed by McBride framing a blunt and very ugly attack on her rights and her womanhood as a "distract[ion] from the real issues facing this country."

i suspect most trans people are pretty tired of every conversation they have being about their gender. in any case i’m just in awe at her strength

As a queer guy who buckles against the terministic screens through which the right and often well-meaning left view me, I understand McBride's dilemma.

It’s terrible but I understand her not wanting it to be the issue that defines her right off the bat. She’s going to be the first trans person a lot of members of Congress have ever interacted with, can only hope some of them learn something from it.

yeah fair points, and like I said I'm not comfortable criticizing McBride. I was echoing others' views tbc, but I can also see how that would be annoying.

if you missed it though, Mace is doubling down with a new bill that bans trans women from women's facilities in all federal properties (govt, parks, museums)

yeah it's about more than just McBride now.

Good on Fetterman, I guess.

There’s no job I’m afraid to lose if it requires me to degrade anyone.

If that’s a defining issue for a voter, there will be a different candidate.

We have a bathroom in my office that anybody is welcome to use, including Representative-elect Sarah McBride. pic.twitter.com/Y8ZZbzFVq6

— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) November 20, 2024

One way or another I feel like we're likely to get SCOTUS rulings on trans access in the next few terms. I'm not optimistic about how that turns out.

this stuff is going to look so insane several years from now. take a look at mcbride. this is who you want using a men’s room at a national park? and you’re concerned about people’s SAFETY?

to be clear it already looks insane, but i mean like, even to the brainwormed

I'm afraid the issue is that it *doesn't* look insane to the brainwashed. Hateful bathroom bullshit like this is 80% of what my Trumper uncle spouts off about. The "there is kitty litter in classrooms!" crowd eats this shit up, unfortunately.

Also so telling that it's only about trans women, they never even mention trans men — who all these rules force into women's bathrooms.

otm

Gaetz has withdrawn himself from consideration as AG

So he’s resigned his position and doesn’t have a new one — is he gonna start a podcast?

hell yeah lol

xp

that would be the smart move, it is very lolsome that he resigned from congress because of this

Cemetery Gaetz

It worked out for everyone. He got to resign “for a job” instead of “because my pedo proclivities were about to be written down in an official report,” Trump threw a bone to a loyal soldier, they think the libs were owned etc.

is gaetz allowed to run in his own special election to get his seat back? lol

That’s kind of a bummer, was hoping he would waste a lot of time in the confirmation fight.

Win win win, only missing the final win of Gaetz tripping and falling head first into a woodchipper.

isn't this how it was gonna play out all along?

Gaetz was probably a nominee Trump thought he could get through if Rick Scott became Majority Leader.

Gaetz congressional ethics report was never officially released and the Justice Department never brought charges against him unfortunately though

Well, he's no longer in Congress and he won't be the AG - I consider this a net win, regardless of what's in that report

Time to shift focus to tanking the other cabinet picks.

already on it

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report made public late Wednesday.

yeah the hesgeth thing is pretty bad. Additionally, Linda McMahon is being sued for facilitating sexual abuse of children at the WWE now. I think both of them are dead in the water.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/politics/pete-hegseth-police-report-defense-secretary-trump/index.html

maybe we just pay her a little something until this whole 'me too' thing blows over

the lawyer said he was fearful that the woman was poised to make an allegation against him during the #MeToo movement that might have cost him his job as a Fox News host

This story is bananas

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-is-this-member-of-congress-claiming-its-illegal-to-peel-bananas-in-a-daycare

Hegseth is next and then Trump is left w/his political capital to spend on RFK. not gonna happen.

Never fails to amuse me how all these conservative activist GOP goons (Hegseth, Vance, etc.) spend so much time in California hippy towns only to portray themselves as heartland rustbelt heroes.

cf how they're all ivy league postgrads who decry higher education, family value activists with 3-4 failed marriages, christians who murder innocents abroad, etc.

hippy towns are creepy man

I missed that Trump nominated as deputy attorney general the lawyer who represented him in his felony trial.

why can't a general attorney be attorney general?

They've information civil, constitutional, and criminal

cf how they're all ivy league postgrads who decry higher education

our union line on this is "they're not telling their kids not to go to college, only yours"

xp - lol Neando

The Dickado

so Gaetz can re-enter Congress in January, since he was reelected... but then the ethics investigation will be immediately restarted
what will he do?

not hopium, probably not him

2 ambulances were seen leaving Mar-a-Lago, according to pool report. No word on who it involves

— BNO News Live (@BNODesk) November 21, 2024

🚨 #BREAKING: Multiple ambulances and vans carrying Secret Service agents have just been seen leaving Mar-a-Lago, per pool reports

It’s unknown who is being transported, but as always, keep President Trump in your prayers pic.twitter.com/gZw0VeeB3X

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 21, 2024

"as always"

Oh I am praying, but not how Sortor wants.

lol @ the folks noting, in alarm, "he hasn't on Truth in more than 3 hours, not a good sign".

"posted"

please god please