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Sarah McBride laughs off Trump’s anti-trans executive order: ‘He just declared everyone a woman’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I want people to try to be less pesimistic, the point is that technicalities like this will waste time. Every one of these exectuive orders is going to be challanged in court, and while the GOP controls the higher courts, these cases will start in the lower ones. With any luck, the lower courts will stay the order until things can get resolved. Every appeal, every challange takes time to process and judges are under no obligation to resolve things quickly.
The goal currently isnt to try and overturn the order, thats just pissing into the wind. The goal is to waste their time for 2 years and hope the house flips, if it does, we can send 47 back to his golf course for the rest of his term because he wont be able to accomplish anything.
The Senate flipping is also a very real possibility in 2026. There are 22 Republican seats up for grabs and only 13 Democratic ones.
Man, I'm tired of people calling realism "pessimism." It's kind of a huge problem actually when you think about it.
And then we'll have Couch Fucker McGoo as president.
(not intending to kink shame)
Nobody likes Vance. He'd be a completely ineffectual president. Which is preferable in my opinion.
I'm, not sure about that. vance is probably a lot more likely to be worn as a sock puppet. drumpf will at least give them a hard time everytime he doesn't want to do something.
Yeah, I'd rather have a puppet Vance than a party completely kowtowed by a rapist felon.
25th Amendment
I'm into weird TF porn, so now I'm thinking about being turned into a woman/couch hybrid, it's kinda hot ngl.
I mean I was kinda hoping agent 47 would be incredibly busy this term. I can imagine a level set inside the inauguration with the dinner and all that.