A WORD WITH ROTHSCHILD

[username]

There’s a transgender member in the senate on a committee and the chairperson of the committee kept referring to her as him (or “the gentleman from…whatever state). Another committee member protested that (the woman has been subject to this before and has remained largely silent; she doesn’t want the attention). Anyway they adjourned the meeting after 3 minutes.

I think that’s just fucking twisted. The Chairman justified it by saying that Trump has pronounced there are only two sexes in the U.S. but in every way possible SHE looks like a SHE whatever her gender was at birth. Idiocy.

[Duchess]

Sarah McBride, she represents Delaware. Those douchey dirtbags are unworthy of the positions they hold.

[rothschild]

There’s a transgender member in the senate on a committee and the chairperson of the committee kept referring to her as him (or “the gentleman from…whatever state). Another committee member protested that (the woman has been subject to this before and has remained largely silent; she doesn’t want the attention). Anyway they adjourned the meeting after 3 minutes.

I think that’s just fucking twisted. The Chairman justified it by saying that Trump has pronounced there are only two sexes in the U.S. but in every way possible SHE looks like a SHE whatever her gender was at birth. Idiocy.

Religious zealotry breeds a lot of things worse than idiocy.

[username]

There’s a transgender member in the senate on a committee and the chairperson of the committee kept referring to her as him (or “the gentleman from…whatever state). Another committee member protested that (the woman has been subject to this before and has remained largely silent; she doesn’t want the attention).  Anyway they adjourned the meeting after 3 minutes.

I think that’s just fucking twisted. The Chairman justified it by saying that Trump has pronounced there are only two sexes in the U.S. but in every way possible SHE looks like a SHE whatever her gender was at birth. Idiocy.

Religious zealotry breeds a lot of things worse than idiocy.

There’s religion in politics?!?!    True. 

My husband is a staunch atheist. He gets all twisted up on that subject. As do I but he can’t find anything positive to say about Christianity at least and I don’t think all Christians are zealots or hypocrites as he sometimes projects.

[Duchess]

The Christians that I know in life could not be more different than the Christians I encounter online. I don't even like using the word Christian when it comes to them.

[rothschild]

I'd stand with liberal Christians if they stood up against the corporate lawyers in the Democratic Party. Get rid of the corporate lawyers and the party could serve the interests of the American people. You can't serve opposing interests and that's why the Democratic party is too weak to defeat the religious extremists. It's beholden to interests that do not care about ordinary people.

I get that people want to believe that the Democratic Party = the good guys, but the corporate interests that control it favor fascism over democracy.

It's the corporate lawyers that fucked us over, not the religious extremists.

[MirahM]

I'd stand with liberal Christians if they stood up against the corporate lawyers in the Democratic Party. 

I will never forget the day I went over to the pastor's house, I was going to take their dog for a walk and the pastor's wife was there and was telling me how proud she was of her daughter who had just got arrested at a protest, or sit in at the capital. I don't recall the details or what they were protesting that day but she was so proud of her as she took had been arrested in protest in her life.

She sends out a weekly action list of political topics to call our representatives about. It includes protest locations, rallies and information on contacting representatives and requesting town halls.

I'll write to her and ask about the corporate lawyers.

The people in the little mountain town I lived in prior to here are the same way. They may be remote-but they aren't removed from what is going on in the world and were always ahead of the times  with introducing new concepts to the communities.