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Ask the mayor and the lifelong Republican owner of the company employing Haitians that defended them. Now they're both getting death threats and being told by the FBI to install security at their homes and buy guns. I wonder if they would prefer to be ignored?

Like I said, there will be some terrible outcomes. I don't like it, but this shlt happens every day. As for your second paragraph, yes, on the surface, I do not agree with states taking away parental rights. But I do believe in the nuance of evaluating individual cases. As an extreme hypothetical example, I would not have a problem with a 15 year old with gender dysphoria being removed from her parents if they beat her and keep her locked up because of her "affliction." Rules are good, and important, but they're never one size fits all. Everything in life has shades of gray.

Fair. The best radio stations now, I've found, are public stations. I am partial to the Current in Mpls.

You're probably right, but it's moot. Haven't you heard that we are in a post-qualification world now? Being qualified is soooo 90s. Zoomers fresh out of college all want $80k+/year starting. Bloggers know more about medicine than the CDC. Our last POTUS is a failed casino magnate. Everyone in the GC is either a football, financial, or political genius. Many are all three. Want more examples?

How do you determine what is problematic and what is not when the problem being presented is well beyond your expertise? My thought is that you listen to those that are experts in that area. They know more than we do about the topic. I'm okay deferring to them, many obviously are not.

See, now you're doing the same thing. You FEEL like it's a mental illness, but the professionals disagree: The DSM–5 articulates explicitly that “gender non-conformity is not in itself a mental disorder.”

I think most people agree with you. I do. But do we then just wait for the next disaster, at which point crooked opportunists flood the world with incorrect and potentially dangerous information without repercussion, and people die? I don't know shlt about Tiktok, never been on it other than clicking on a link once in a while. Supposedly there are any number of tiktok trends that kids see and participate in. Some of these are incredibly dangerous. We just let it ride? From a company owned by a geopolitical adversary? There are no easy answers, unfortunately.

I disagree with nothing you posted here. But again, I will not concede that this is a matter for the affected children, their parents/guardians, and medical providers. You want to point fingers, point them at the lazy, irresponsible parents or the providers not living up to their Hippocratic oaths. I'm okay with the gov't getting involved in interscholastic sports to prevent biological males from competing in the same gender- segregated sports as biological females. I do not think it should go beyond that, despite some terrible outcomes.

James Hetfield isn't the problem. Programmers at radio stations are. I love Metallica. I grew up on that shlt. I love Def Leppard too, and saw them in concert recently. But truthfully, if I never heard another DL song again as long as I lived, I'd be okay with it because I've heard them all way too many times. Appetite For Destruction might be the greatest hard rock album ever produced, but that doesn't mean I want to hear Welcome to the Jungle ever again. Because I don't. And because the radio stations are all owned by three companies and the music industry is so siloed, radio just gets more homogenous and keeps playing the same tired music. Spotify is your friend.

Thanks again. We agree on the bolded. The issue for me is that gov't is not sitting around the dining room table trying to figure out how to honor the wishes of a child that you love when you can't be completely sure that they even understand their own wishes. If my 8 yr old decided she wanted to be a boy, I'm going to seek psychiatric help for her, and possibly the rest of the family as well. If she's still sure about it when she's 15 and wants surgery, we can talk about it with her and make a decision in our best interests, whatever that is. Reasonably, I think 14-15 would be the absolute youngest age where that should even be an option. Ideally, not until after they're 18. But I don't want to dictate those terms for other people without having a thorough understanding of the details of each individual case, which is impossible. Better to err on the side of personal freedom, IMO.

On my eardrums, over and over and over again, even when I asked him to stop!

Thank you. That seems bad. Maybe he does deserve to be fired. I wonder how his performance stacks up against former Transportation secretaries, though? What have they done to avert things like this previously? And what can SoT do to prevent an FAA "outage" whatever that means? My guess is that road fatalities are not something he can meaningfully address. What authority does he have to compel the major railroad companies to adopt the reporting program? Can he fine them, cancel licenses, etc?

Damn, props to HT for this post. Out of character, and extremely prescient. I echo this 100%. Psychiatric evaluations are in her best interest. There may be underlying mental issues (bipolar was mentioned, but it could be lots of things). I feel for your family, your daughter, and you. There is a long road ahead and they will need you to be strong, even when you don't feel strong. Talking about stuff like this is important for your own well being. Ignore the d-bags around here. Best of luck. Sometimes being a parent is the suck.

Link? Nevermind, I don't need to click on anything from Breitbart, RedState or PJM. I'll just call your BS and leave it at that.

OMG GREEN DAY IS BEING CENSORED!!!! Wait, no they aren't. Maybe those radio stations can start playing music you haven't already heard a zillion times instead of Green Day. Nevermind, they'll just play more Metallica and Alice in Chains. Because everyone needs to hear Enter SandMan in the Box again.

What does he deserve to be fired for?

The whole medical community, huh? Can you verify this? Let's say I'm skeptical. Got some links?

He doesn't need a ground game. He has unlocked the magical political Konami code: Claim you've won and continue to do so, no matter what. 30% of Americans will believe it. Then add some gasoline, fan the flames, and let the chips fall where they may.

Does the Transportation Secretary have the power to negotiate with labor unions on behalf of the corporations paying them, or vice versa? No. This is a labor dispute, and has nothing to do with him or his office. I highly doubt he has any authority as an intermediary, either. This is a retarded thread. Muh gay homo, muh MSM

Exactly this. I'm sure it happens, but the "medical community" is not in cahoots trying to change everyone's gender.

You are not a transphobe. I don't think most people, of any political persuasion, are. Most of the negativity is just a lack of understanding of what those people are going through, but "knowing" that they are "weird."

Shooting people without cause is a crime. And the cause needs to be appropriate. Cutting a hole in a fence is not a crime worthy of potential execution. Ashley Babbitt was shot while committing a crime. You can argue whether it was warranted or not, but she was told to stand down by armed police and did not. Foreigners (assuming you meant illegal immigrants) are not invaders and are not committing acts of violence except in rare cases, despite the contrary rhetoric. The vast majority are fleeing their homes looking for better lives for themselves and their families, which you and I might also do had we not been lucky enough to be born here. By definition, protesting is a 1A protected act, not criminal. If protestors become violent, I suppose shooting could be justified, depending on circumstances. Probably not okay to shoot someone for trying to light a building on fire or yelling nasty things. I would not have a problem with cops shooting "protestors" that were violently attempting to overrun a police precinct. At that point, they are not protestors, they are assailants.

The game was in Ann Arbor.

I guess I believe you, but I haven't really seen it. The only (semi) valid issue I've seen brought up is that he's had 1.5 (second only counts for half, no shots fired) assassination attempts against him recently and has been vocal about being a target, then purposefully wades into a security nightmare at a CFB game with over 100k spectators.

Except everyone looks a lot closer to Uncle Jessie than Daisy, Luke, or Beau.