Someone should try, but I don't think it will work today. There's a lot of real hatred of Democrats on the right, and the people with that hatred will cheer ... and Trump will listen to them and the legislature will listen to Trump.

Because if they crash the economy they can bring back serfdom.

Who or what will stop him if he refuses?

Again, an assertion you make with no data to back it up, which is not consistent with my experience of trans people.

I have no idea what the formal criteria are; I know what the people i love tell me about their experience and their inner lives. I can't answer this question.

Fundamentally though that's for the trans teen, their doctor, and their parents to decide ... Unless the parents are abusive or disown them

I'm your opinion, what should the trans community have done? What specifically do you think they did to induce this rain of terror?

That's normal when things that were actively repressed stop being actively repressed. We saw it with homosexuality and left handedness too.

Turns out when you don't punish people for being themselves and scare them into hiding, the apparent percentage rises.

That's some incredible revisionist history, there.

How does it feel to blame the victims of cruelty for forcing people to be cruel to them?

And how is that behavior any different from that of an abusive spouse or parent who tells their victims that their victims made them do it?

Like the people who find their campaigns, they've already surrendered.

I used to agree with you.

But this sort of messaging and rhetoric is why trump controls all three branches of government and we are shut out.

What we've been doing *failed*, and that failure has brought us to the edge of the collapse of the republic.

The tactics we've been using got us into this mess. On what basis do we conclude that not changing tactics is anything but surrender?

Orange and green, respectively

At the end of the day you are either indifferent to the harm your lies are causing, or in favor of it.

If I'm defensive it's because people inlove ste being attacked under color of law, and your nonsense is providing rhetorical cover for it.

I have a friend whose teen child socially transitioned. Today's EO would strip that kids school of federal funds and jail their teachers.

But my "routine" is tiresome to you.

Should I not be outraged on behalf of people I love who are now faced with mandated cruelty on behalf of the government?

Maybe. Or maybe I'm someone who is watching the full force of the federal government be turned on people I love, with it justified by the same sort of fictitious nonsense you are spouting.

If you have anything other than prejudice to back up your claim about trans people, please produce it.

Ok, so you are just slandering vulnerable people based on your preconceptions rather than looking at data or talking to the people you are slandering. Got it.

I have a lot of trans, queer, and nonbinary friends, and that statement is not true for any of them.

So either I live in a weird statistical anomaly, or you are spewing absolute nonsense and using it to hurt people I love.

So what's the basis for your claim?

Well moderated subreddits work well for this

This assumes that he is bound by the rules. But that assumption won't hold true; nobody will enforce them.

They will kiss the ring.

They have no power to stop it.

Who would stop him? Bureaucrats who are afraid of being summarily fired? A congress whose majority probably wants this but couldn't get it passed because the Senate wouldn't approve it?

The lack of lower wage workers can be fixed by making it illegal to not have a job, and by allowing full time work at fourteen.

On the one hand, fair.

On the other hand, what can I or anyone else*do* that has any effect on this at all?

I'm getting errors even trying to load your substack.

Cuddling is the best :)

Seems like it could be tough to calculate for products which contain imported parts. Certain industries are integrated enough that things go back and forth over the border multiple times.

Accurately assessing the total combined tariff on the final product seems complicated.