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Tennessee GOP advances bill that would create public list of trans residents
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The GOP was always deeply fucked, but they had their brains completely broken by two things:
Completely losing the culture war on gay marriage. When they were assured by their insular bubble that it would never happen, because something something "[my] [g]od don't like it and fuck you if this is a secular country, I'm used to having xtianity centered in all things". Well, that bubble popped and while normal people reacted with a yawn, because it doesn't affect anyone but those getting married, and while cons pretend to be so unbothered by it in public, it eats at them still. So they are punching down on trans at the moment, biding their time.
Having a black President. They had to pretend for most of eight years to be concerned about things like long form birth certificates and BENGHAZZZZZI and tan suits and latte salutes and not wearing a tie and feet on the desk and Obama being "divisive" and ~~uppity~~, I mean, "arrogant", when they wanted to run out into the street and scream the n-word at the top of their lungs at him, really. They had to hold that shit in for the most part. Then along came Donvict to give them a permission structure to be their "retribution". Retribution for having to hold their tongue when it came to Obama, at least in mixed company.
Because of this, they spun to things like DEI and trans. They'll get back to the gays soon enough, if they are successful at rolling back anything that smacks of "DEI" and have pushed trans back into the closet and have unleashed enough violence on them.
For the younger set, they are now building resentment at women their own age that have economic autonomy and are not all that interested in dating/fucking backward chuds that want to take away their rights. That's probably the next wave of GOP awfulness we going to be dealing with - all these unfuckable assholes frustrated as hell that women have more education and possibly a better job than them.