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→ Former Democratic senator: party ’emasculates black men’
Black men are moving away from the Democrats and into the arms of Donald Trump because the party “emasculates” them, according to former party senator Nina Turner.
“The Democratic Party emasculates black men.”
Progressive activist @NinaTurner on why Donald Trump commands such high support among black men.
Last night’’s full show: https://t.co/gcy3Y1bhlU pic.twitter.com/qnV1IXVZXZ
— The Free Press (@TheFP) August 22, 2024
The Democrats’ elevation of black women as “mothers of the movement” is problematic and alienates certain groups — namely, black men — Turner, who served as an Ohio senator for six years until 2014, told The Free Press. The party also fails to use identity to advance a “social justice cause”.
Trump, by contrast, embodies a certain “bravado”, a “masculine energy” which is “still very much rooted in a hierarchical patriarchy”. Black men have indeed shifted to the Right, with younger black voters expressing much warmer feelings toward the former president than their older counterparts. At least Harris has the young female vote sewn up…
→ Gender surgeon attacks JK Rowling on trans issues
A British gender surgeon has claimed that J.K. Rowling makes “ill-informed” comments on “stuff that she doesn’t know much about” in a new interview with LADBible.
The surgeon, James Bellringer, clearly had his own blind spots, touting a dubious claim that one in five trans people will commit suicide “if you don’t offer them the appropriate help, counselling and, in the end, surgery”. He also said trans people are “born with their gender identity” when, really, a substantial portion of transgender people first experience a gender identity at odds with their natal sex in adolescence or later.
Leading UK gender surgeon says JK Rowling should stay out of his work
Watch the full video on LADbible’s YouTube channel pic.twitter.com/vKwiExKqOs
— LADbible (@ladbible) August 21, 2024
Bellringer conceded that “if you’re a woman and you’re beaten by […] a trans woman, that might hurt a bit,” but downplayed this concern by claiming women are routinely beating men in marathons (again, not true).
The most shocking portion of the interview was his scepticism of a different field of trans medicine. “I do worry about giving hormones to teenagers,” he acknowledged. “Are we actually preventing some of them from getting the brain development that would actually make them happy in their birth gender?” He added: “They’re going to be sterilised, they’re going to have operations, and it’s probably best to avoid both of those things.” Hard-hitting journalism from the minds behind “Cleavage Thursdays”…
→ Are Democrats warming to the death penalty?
The Democratic Party’s 2024 platform doesn’t mention the death penalty for the first time since 2004, a stark omission after formerly calling for the punishment to be reformed and then, in 2016 and 2020, abolished.
The Democrats quietly dropped abolishing the death penalty from their party platform. This is the first time since 2012 the platform doesn’t call for abolition and the first time since 2004 there’s no mention of the death penalty at all https://t.co/RhKtMJmmaa
— Jessica Schulberg (@jessicaschulb) August 22, 2024
Perhaps it’s part of the party’s law-and-order rebrand, with Kamala the Cop at the top of the ticket and a remarkable change in tone on policing matters. The new platform’s section on law enforcement opens with an ode to the police and insists: “We need to fund the police, not defund the police.” Indeed, the Democratic ticket has lost the support of Black Lives Matter. What happened to the spirit of 2020?
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SubscribeJ.K. Rowling’s tweets are about women’s rights that are threatened by laws protecting trans women. As a woman, she knows all about her rights and is fully qualified to post her tweets.
Let black men vote for trump. The real powers behind Trump have put axing the Civil Rights Act at the top of their list. Do the research on the 2025 plan and a new book—Up From Conservatism—that details repealing the Civil Rights Act. It also calls for ending any funds for for education advancing Black people—from primary school (Head Start) to historically black colleges. Food for thought, gentlemen.
1 dubious they are the ‘powers behind Trump.’
2.they don’t call for an end for funds to black people, rather an end to racially discriminatory tax expenditure.
You need to read up on the Heritage Foundation and the Claremont Institute. These guys are desperate to have Trump elected, so they can , with the help of the Supreme Court, begin changing the face of government. They are presently trying to take away Congress’s control of federal elections. They have 24 Republican states that have sent their argument to have states control federal elections. There are two precedents for keeping Congress in charge of federal elections, but the Court likes to ignore them. If the states win, the elections in November will be chaotic, and Trump will win or challenge Harris’s win.
Well, what’s wrong with that? As the country’s name declares, it is a federation of states. From this end of history, the accrued ubiquity of federal authority looks normal, but it’s not necessarily functional in terms of maintaining national cohesion or complying with the constitution as written.
…The Civil Rights Act has clearly outlived it’s original specific purpose of removing obstacles to black advancement. It has since morphed into a regime of full blown government mothering of racial and other ever expanding identities. The perverse result for urban black people, black men especially, is that they have become addicted to state provision for their lives, which is why they underperform on so many metrics.
If the Dems are dropping their opposition to the death penalty then we know which people they will be planning to use it on.
I’d imagine they have similar plans for “dangerous right wing extremists,” though in reality they’re largely fictional.
The Democrats were so written off when Sleepy Joe ruled, that I had forgotten how absolutely dreadful and riven with Nepotism and Hollywood they were. It’s all downhill from here for Comma, La.