teskeinc said:

This is Autumn Cordellione, he strangled a 11 month old baby to death. He is serving 55 years in prison  He wants a sex-change operation in prison. In Kamala’s America he/she/it gets one……on the American tax-payers dime. It’s not medically necessary, it’s an elective ($100,000) procedure. 

https://cbsaustin.com/amp/news/nation-world/inmate-who-strangled-11-month-old-will-get-taxpayer-funded-gender-surgery-judge-rules-autumn-cordellion-lgbt-transgender-affirming-care-lgbtq-midwest-law-legal-justice-federal-court-baby-strangle-male-female

curmudgeoness said:

This is comparing apples and oranges.

A clearly disturbed person committed a heinous crime and is serving a lengthy prison sentence for that crime. Yet, because this is the US, they still have certain rights, and they are trying to exercise those rights. This is a good thing. It is good and proper and American that even people convicted of the most horrific felonies still have some rights and protections! This isn't Russia! Who here is the least bit exercised about the man executed tonight by the state of Missouri, despite many assertions that he was innocent? Are we okay with that? I'm not!  

On the other hand, we have a clearly disturbed person who has been convicted of some crimes, charged with dozens more, and has yet to be charged with others -- fraud, sexual assault, etc. They also mishandled a pandemic, leading to hundreds of thousands of excess deaths; invoked a mob and attempted to overthrow democracy; and, if re-elected, would cause millions of people in a free country to lose their freedom and or their lives; would do the same to the people in Gaza; would attempt to deport and/or detain millions of immigrants in this country; would use the levers of government to persecute and prosecute his perceived enemies; would attempt to stifle a free press; would deprive half of the country's citizens of their bodily autonomy; would weaken if not outright destroy international alliances and threaten global stability; has a life-long record of bullying, racism, misogyny, and fraud.

I wouldn't want to interact with either of these people. They both pose a threat to society. But that's where the similarity ends. In the first case, that looks to me a lot like the system working the way it should. In the latter -- wow.

Enough with the ingenuousness.  I'm a small-c conservative, which means I'm a big fan of civil liberties, strong defense, fiscal responsibility, and standing firm against Russia and authoritarians, generally. Tossing the Constitution; denigrating our all-volunteer military; spouting harebrained, half-baked "economic policies" (200% tariffs are not a thing); spouting racist conspiracy theories; rolling over for and openly admiring dictators: these are not conservative stances, they are postures signaling weakness, not strength.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Targeting the Haitians who have come here to work and to build better lives for their families is what insecure bullies do. It's not Christian, and it's not American. Embracing hate, anger, and revenge is toxic; it's what weak, stunted people do instead of working on themselves and their issues. Stoking your rage and directing it against enemies, real or perceived, won't actually make you feel better; it will not fill the hole inside you, it will not build anything, it only destroys.

I was raised in that sort of environment, with the performative cruelty and cosplaying toughness, the pettiness, the paranoia. It's corrosive. And now I see that behavior being flaunted and praised and excused and waved away, on a national scale, and it just makes me sick to see it.

curmudgeoness said:

Merkin Baller said:

Whether it's trump & his campaign threatening our democracy and stoking violence, or Harris and her campaign calling out trump for threatening democracy and stoking violence, it's clear both sides have a problem with violence and need to tone down the rhetoric. 

Did the NYTimes pitchbot hijack your account? 

Merkin Baller said:

Whether it's trump & his campaign threatening our democracy and stoking violence, or Harris and her campaign calling out trump for threatening democracy and stoking violence, it's clear both sides have a problem with violence and need to tone down the rhetoric. 

teskeinc said:

This is Autumn Cordellione, he strangled a 11 month old baby to death. He is serving 55 years in prison  He wants a sex-change operation in prison. In Kamala’s America he/she/it gets one……on the American tax-payers dime. It’s not medically necessary, it’s an elective ($100,000) procedure. 

https://cbsaustin.com/amp/news/nation-world/inmate-who-strangled-11-month-old-will-get-taxpayer-funded-gender-surgery-judge-rules-autumn-cordellion-lgbt-transgender-affirming-care-lgbtq-midwest-law-legal-justice-federal-court-baby-strangle-male-female

Gern Blansten said:

teskeinc said:

This is Autumn Cordellione, he strangled a 11 month old baby to death. He is serving 55 years in prison  He wants a sex-change operation in prison. In Kamala’s America he/she/it gets one……on the American tax-payers dime. It’s not medically necessary, it’s an elective ($100,000) procedure. 

https://cbsaustin.com/amp/news/nation-world/inmate-who-strangled-11-month-old-will-get-taxpayer-funded-gender-surgery-judge-rules-autumn-cordellion-lgbt-transgender-affirming-care-lgbtq-midwest-law-legal-justice-federal-court-baby-strangle-male-female

Correct me if I'm wrong but this seems to be the narrative a lot of duped low information voters are pushing. This person was already under doctor care. They aren't receiving procedures BECAUSE they are incarcerated. It's just that the treatment they were receiving will be continued in prison. Just like if they were receiving chemo or dialysis treatment.