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Actually it seems to have come from his terrible awful no good VP.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/25/pence-working-to-reverse-pentagons-transgender-policies/

Vice President Mike Pence and his staff have been working quietly to get Congress to roll back the Defense Department’s year-old policy covering medical procedures for transitioning service members, according to sources.

In a flurry of last-minute activity, House Republicans have submitted three separate but identical amendments to the 2018 defense spending bill this week that would prohibit the Pentagon from using government money to “provide medical treatment related to gender transition.”

Although I agree that he probably he tweeted it this morning as a distraction. And by the way…

Opponents claim that costs for the medical treatments that transgender service members may pursue would cost the Pentagon more than $3.7 billion over 10 years. However, studies from the New England Journal of Medicine and the Rand Corp. show that projected costs would more likely fall between $24 million and $84 million over the same time period.

That’s quite a difference!

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/politics/pentagon-transgender-recruits/index.html

Updated 11:39 PM ET, Fri June 30, 2017

The Pentagon is delaying a decision on allowing transgender people to enlist in the military for six months, according to a memo obtained by CNN.

“We will use this additional time to evaluate more carefully the impact of such accessions on readiness and lethality,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis wrote in the memo.

Mattis said “this action in no way presupposes the outcome of the review.”

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Oh my god, that’s real?

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White privilege time.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0726-shipp-damond-20170725-story.html

In this latest incident, even without video and before any witnesses have come forward, Justine Damond’s death has already resulted in the firing of the Minneapolis police chief. There are calls for better training of police officers. When the Black Lives Matter movement has sought such responses in situations where blacks have been killed, they have often been castigated as too-racially-sensitive troublemakers.

To people who ask me why everything always comes down to race, I respond: Because it does. That has been this nation’s truth since American European colonies were established on this continent in the 17th century.

Look at what is happening with the opioid crisis. So long as black and brown people were the faces of addiction and drug-related crime, lawmakers were perfectly fine with the tough law-and-order approach. But now that white people in New England and in the Rust Belt are opioid victims, there is a sudden interest in public health solutions rather than punitive measures. To persuade reluctant senators to sign onto a stalled Trumpcare bill that would replace the Affordable Care Act, there was talk of making more money available to address the effects of opioid abuse. They could care less about addiction on Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore. It’s all about white addicts in “Red State” America.

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TV’s Frink said:

White privilege time.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0726-shipp-damond-20170725-story.html

In this latest incident, even without video and before any witnesses have come forward, Justine Damond’s death has already resulted in the firing of the Minneapolis police chief. There are calls for better training of police officers. When the Black Lives Matter movement has sought such responses in situations where blacks have been killed, they have often been castigated as too-racially-sensitive troublemakers.

To people who ask me why everything always comes down to race, I respond: Because it does. That has been this nation’s truth since American European colonies were established on this continent in the 17th century.

Look at what is happening with the opioid crisis. So long as black and brown people were the faces of addiction and drug-related crime, lawmakers were perfectly fine with the tough law-and-order approach. But now that white people in New England and in the Rust Belt are opioid victims, there is a sudden interest in public health solutions rather than punitive measures. To persuade reluctant senators to sign onto a stalled Trumpcare bill that would replace the Affordable Care Act, there was talk of making more money available to address the effects of opioid abuse. They could care less about addiction on Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore. It’s all about white addicts in “Red State” America.

I do not know the full story, but I find it difficult to believe they just fired the chief before having any evidence as to what occurred. I doubt they fired him before witnesses came forward.

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yhwx said:

https://twitter.com/MattBellassai/status/890202592667676672

transgender people show more courage when they leave their fucking houses in the morning than donald trump has shown his entire life

Is husezni secretly Mike Pence?

While I totally disagree with Pence’s last statement “women in the military bad idea”, I don’t think it wise to house them together during basic training.

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Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

White privilege time.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0726-shipp-damond-20170725-story.html

In this latest incident, even without video and before any witnesses have come forward, Justine Damond’s death has already resulted in the firing of the Minneapolis police chief. There are calls for better training of police officers. When the Black Lives Matter movement has sought such responses in situations where blacks have been killed, they have often been castigated as too-racially-sensitive troublemakers.

To people who ask me why everything always comes down to race, I respond: Because it does. That has been this nation’s truth since American European colonies were established on this continent in the 17th century.

Look at what is happening with the opioid crisis. So long as black and brown people were the faces of addiction and drug-related crime, lawmakers were perfectly fine with the tough law-and-order approach. But now that white people in New England and in the Rust Belt are opioid victims, there is a sudden interest in public health solutions rather than punitive measures. To persuade reluctant senators to sign onto a stalled Trumpcare bill that would replace the Affordable Care Act, there was talk of making more money available to address the effects of opioid abuse. They could care less about addiction on Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore. It’s all about white addicts in “Red State” America.

I do not know the full story, but I find it difficult to believe they just fired the chief before having any evidence as to what occurred. I doubt they fired him before witnesses came forward.

I think you’ve missed the point, which is that the cases aren’t treated the same when it’s a black man vs. a white woman.

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TV’s Frink said:

“In God We Trust” shouldn’t be on official currency anyway but don’t get me started.

I’d like to hear your argument on that. Not necessarily that I disagree. I’m just curious.

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yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

“In God We Trust” shouldn’t be on official currency anyway but don’t get me started.

I’d like to hear your argument on that. Not necessarily that I disagree. I’m just curious.

Admittedly it’s not a terribly well thought out argument but it makes sense to me.

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TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

White privilege time.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0726-shipp-damond-20170725-story.html

In this latest incident, even without video and before any witnesses have come forward, Justine Damond’s death has already resulted in the firing of the Minneapolis police chief. There are calls for better training of police officers. When the Black Lives Matter movement has sought such responses in situations where blacks have been killed, they have often been castigated as too-racially-sensitive troublemakers.

To people who ask me why everything always comes down to race, I respond: Because it does. That has been this nation’s truth since American European colonies were established on this continent in the 17th century.

Look at what is happening with the opioid crisis. So long as black and brown people were the faces of addiction and drug-related crime, lawmakers were perfectly fine with the tough law-and-order approach. But now that white people in New England and in the Rust Belt are opioid victims, there is a sudden interest in public health solutions rather than punitive measures. To persuade reluctant senators to sign onto a stalled Trumpcare bill that would replace the Affordable Care Act, there was talk of making more money available to address the effects of opioid abuse. They could care less about addiction on Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore. It’s all about white addicts in “Red State” America.

I do not know the full story, but I find it difficult to believe they just fired the chief before having any evidence as to what occurred. I doubt they fired him before witnesses came forward.

I think you’ve missed the point, which is that the cases aren’t treated the same when it’s a black man vs. a white woman.

*sigh*

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S. H. Sanders just read a piece of mail from nine-year old Dylan in today’s White House press briefing. Dylan wants to be the president’s friend. I bet he’s going to be super disappointed when Trump disavows him in public and calls him “weak.”

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Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

White privilege time.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0726-shipp-damond-20170725-story.html

In this latest incident, even without video and before any witnesses have come forward, Justine Damond’s death has already resulted in the firing of the Minneapolis police chief. There are calls for better training of police officers. When the Black Lives Matter movement has sought such responses in situations where blacks have been killed, they have often been castigated as too-racially-sensitive troublemakers.

To people who ask me why everything always comes down to race, I respond: Because it does. That has been this nation’s truth since American European colonies were established on this continent in the 17th century.

Look at what is happening with the opioid crisis. So long as black and brown people were the faces of addiction and drug-related crime, lawmakers were perfectly fine with the tough law-and-order approach. But now that white people in New England and in the Rust Belt are opioid victims, there is a sudden interest in public health solutions rather than punitive measures. To persuade reluctant senators to sign onto a stalled Trumpcare bill that would replace the Affordable Care Act, there was talk of making more money available to address the effects of opioid abuse. They could care less about addiction on Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore. It’s all about white addicts in “Red State” America.

I do not know the full story, but I find it difficult to believe they just fired the chief before having any evidence as to what occurred. I doubt they fired him before witnesses came forward.

I think you’ve missed the point, which is that the cases aren’t treated the same when it’s a black man vs. a white woman.

*sigh*

I’m serious.