Well screw you sir. Screw you.
US President Donald Drumpf says transgender people cannot serve in "any capacity" in the military. He tweeted that he had consulted with military experts and cited "tremendous medical costs and disruption". The Obama administration decided last year to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military. But in June, Defence Secretary James Mattis agreed to a six-month delay in the recruitment of transgender people.
The timing of this transgender ban is almost as interesting as the move itself.
Why now? With the Drumpf administration being buffeted by the Jeff Sessions political death watch, the ongoing multi-prong investigation into the Drumpf campaign, the healthcare drama in the Senate and the impending Russian sanctions bill, perhaps the administration decided this was a good time to change the subject and rally conservative forces to his side.
Republicans have long used cultural issues as a wedge to divide Democrats and energise evangelicals. As one White House insider acknowledged, this is straight out of that playbook. While Mr Drumpf campaigned as sympathetic to LGBT rights, he needs the traditional religious conservatives to stay loyal to him now, more than ever.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40729996
Don't let the fucker distract from what the GOP is trying to pull. That's why he dropped this bullshit out of the blue today. To give the GOP some cover. Now, this is godawful shitty but the timing is strategic. Broadly he has the authority to order this, but forming a coherent policy from this tweet is going to be hard, maybe impossible. This is Trump's go-to play. Be outrageous about future shit he might do to distract from the immediate awful shit he's already doing.
ReplyDeleteOh, it's a race to the bottom indeed.
ReplyDeleteI think the best response here is not outrage, but a cold enduring anger which is not easily diverted from its target. In the short term, that would be senators and reps, state and federal. Long term, trump or his protege's campaign.
ReplyDeletePlussed because of the two sentence introduction to the post by Rhys Taylor.
ReplyDeleteBenjamin Baugh what is the GOP trying to do this time?
ReplyDeleteMatter Beam wreck the ACA
ReplyDeleteThe story has been updated :
ReplyDeleteIn a series of tweets, Mr Drumpf said: "After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail."
Is that why they let Chelsea Manning free?
ReplyDelete(I know that's not it, but just consider, if transgender prisoners also can't serve...)
Ahh, here's the answer !
ReplyDeletenewsthump.com - Donald Trump bans transgender people from military after distressing 'pussy grabbing' incident
Which was narrowly blocked in the Senate because a few Republicans decided to grow a conscious and do the right thing.
ReplyDeleteThis sort of reaction only comes from draft dodging jackasses. Trump knows dismounted drill, he went to a military school (because his father couldn't handle him) , Donald Trump can maneuver on a parade ground.
ReplyDeleteBut the actual military - I believe this is true of every combat unit of any nation I've ever encountered - will grind every last bit of individuality off you. It's actually quite nice, once you're used to it, you're just a finger on a hand. Unit cohesion becomes a sort of personality, hard to describe, a sort of collective personality. I remember my drill instructor Nance yelling at us "There is no black in this unit. There is no white in this unit. You are all green. The US Army is an equal opportunity employer and I hate all of you equally."
We had two gay men in one of my units, we only found out because someone blabbed about having seen them in a gay bar. This was in the day when being homosexual would get you kicked out with a bad discharge. They weren't involved with each other, but the entire platoon had an informal meeting with them both. They were good soldiers, our unit cohesion had an unspoken rule, "Don't let the fart out of the sack" - nobody talks about problems within the unit to anyone outside the unit.
The two gay men, they were okay, we were going to protect them, to do otherwise would be a disgrace to our unit. But the SOB who blabbed was given a dressing down.
See, Trump understands none of this. He's not a soldier. He doesn't understand how to give orders to soldiers because he's treacherous and blabs everything which comes into his tiny little mind. You'd hope, being president, he'd be able to instill some unit cohesion in his own team, but he's no leader of men - or women, either.
My 10 year old son and 8 year old daughter said "wow mommy, that's really low. Even for Donald Dump!"
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