On Tuesday, May 19, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2616, the “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act,” by a vote of 217-198. The bill would hand the Trump administration enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that “teaches or advances concepts” related to transgender people, codifying into federal law the anti-trans definitions from Trump’s executive order 14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism.” It would also require public schools to forcibly out transgender students to their parents before using their pronouns or chosen names. The bill is significant on its own terms for the harm it would inflict on transgender youth if it became law. But what made Tuesday’s vote especially notable was the eight Democrats who joined every Republican to pass it—the largest Democratic defection on any standalone anti-trans bill of this Congress.
Right wing party members vote for right wing bill.
Is there anybody surprised by this? The Democrats are only “the left” by American standards. The rest of the world has them centre-leaning right wing.
I guess we just need to vote D harder. 🤣😭
As opposed to what, exactly?
No. I’ve said the same thing for half a decade. Any candidate unwilling to form and carry out policy positions that move the party from right to left that actually benefits the working class at home and in the countries we bully aren’t getting my vote.
And how does you not voting for a Harris hurt Donnie?
No. Voting for these types helps the far right and corrupt businesses. You put yourself in that mental prison all you want. I’m not and I’m not stupid enough to imagine it any more.
Yeah, you might want to look up Frederick Douglas.
Ex-slave, Douglas was a big advocate for abolition.
In 1860 Douglas had a choice between supporting a candidate who was for immediate abolition, or supporting Abe Lincoln. Lincoln wasn’t advocating instant abolition.
Douglas decided that it was smarter to support Lincoln. Lincoln has a much better chance of winning, and Douglas would be able to advocate his stance to the actual President, instead of being locked out.
That’s a bad example because Lincoln was an abolitionist himself but you’re applying it to politicians that don’t agree with your stance.
166 years ago, the corruption was easier to spot and check, and people with the right and will to keep and bear arms and the will and ability to use them to “water the tree of liberty” weren’t just the ignorant hicks, even if they did buy into the lie that sold the revo.
Hack job argument, it was clear to many at the time Lincoln didn’t like slavery, it’s why the south was so wound up about it near him. Douglas knew this already and tried pushing Lincoln to go for it, completely different situation. If you hate both side of leadership, leave the country For greener grasses.
You’re right that you aren’t that stupid. You’re stupider
Dunning and Kruger
Did you meant left to right?
I said what I said.
Leaving that shithole.
There’s something called a primary.
Which they famously always have
Yes and right now there’s a lot of momentum favoring progressives, so be sure to vote in the primaries, and if your district isn’t running any progressives, consider running yourself
The Dems used to be to the right of Canada’s Conservative party.
That’s not because they moved to the left unfortunately.
Bingo. There is no left party in the US, despite what MAGA has been brainwashed to believe. And, a giant issue in the US is having two parties only.
And no, it’s not that both parties are the same across the board. That’s a libertarian cop-out. There are clear policy differences.
However, one issue which unites both parties is money. Both parties are bought and sold by corporations, and that needs to be handled. Crucially: there is no system in place to allow voters to correct this.
There are two parties of billionaires with only a very small number of non-shared members, yes. Which is why the billionaires don’t really care who’s in power. They care only to push the drama that distracts the public from the reality of the country. That helps ward off the guillotines.
Yeah, agree. It feels like more than an issue with two-party voting itself in some/many ways.
considering most of the Ds are actually DInos, AND NOT “democrats”, its just mostly 1 uniparty. they have AOC, and bernie thats about how much they will allow in the party, and another platform said, aoc and bernie is likely only in the CONGRESS because they take the heat off the gop/DNC so thier parties dont get taken over by more “progressive/leftist” candidates. why do you think they railed on Madmani(butchered his name) so hard, it something they dint APPROVE.
both parties make backdoor deals that never reaches the MSMs, likely they compromise on somethings to make it look like they are fighting against each other.
Center was Clinton, now they’re right. All of them.
And there it is, the real reason nobody trust America anymore.
Not simply the trans persecution, people have their opinions and feeling about the topic and YADA-YADA, This isn’t about that.
It’s clear Americas politician are ok with Donald even if they pretend to hate him in front of the cameras, weak people in office only looking out for themselves. That nation can’t be trusted.
I don’t blame people for not voting, the idea I have to vote for one of 2 shit birds because “democracy” is braindead and willfully ignores the issues at hand, to the people who feel this way I would them tell them to leave the country For a socity that would appreciate them, it’s the only change they can make in their live that will actually help them.
Literal Nazi shit.
When I said both are the same, no one wanted to hear it. I didn’t mean vote for the regressives, I meant it’s time for guillotines.
People of course, twisted it to mean I was doing a whataboutism.
Well, even a mentally disabled man like me could see it coming years ago!
I know who I won’t be supporting but rather actively against. You don’t care about people that I love, get the fuck out.
It’s be nice if the names were all at the top of the article. But I did see a couple of names skimming through (I woke up late and we have a guest to entertain). I’ll come back to read it later to learn more.
Once again, go to hell, bigots.
Vote blue no matter who! 🤪
Democrats say they can’t just be the party of pronouns. WHAT ARE YOU, THEN? “The party of greed and corruption with less overt racism” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
They are not against supporting trans people. They are more about finding shitty excuses to withhold money Stirring the hate pot is just an added bonus for them.
stopping indoctrination and protecting kids act
Hey, I want this act!
Be it of course that the act should indeed protect children from religious indoctrination
They’re the same party in a different color, FFS.
Of course they did.
let me guess these Ds are actually DINOs, not really surprising.
They’ll sell their own kids into transgenderism if it advances their career. And sell out transgender kids if it advances their career.
The only way to stop this is to eat their kids. But that’s murder…so you really gotta eat their cum.
For the good of society, please eat their cum, someone…anyone!
what
Kronos your cum
