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Trump cabinet choices and other appointments

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Nov 12, 2024.

  1. SuraGotMadHops

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    They/them's mental health was already effed with gender dysphoria confusion and illness.
     
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    It would appear you have the opinion that a person with relevant experience and credentials should be treated as mentally ill if they are transgender and therefore should be disqualified from a position in government. I don't share your views.

    Also, I believe the word you are looking for is "Their", not "They/them's".
     
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    Time Warner Center.
     
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    and then Obama tried to make fun of him and everything changed.
     
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    . They are mentally ill. They are pretending to be something they aren't. Men aren't women. We bd of story and people shouldn't support it. Especially in children
     
  7. SuraGotMadHops

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    Their, they/them's....it's all make believe anyway.
     
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    As a medical doctor, I'm pretty sure she knows better than you the differences between males and females. She's not a child and how she chooses to identify and present gender-wise is her business.

    In any case, my original point stands. She isn't a cabinet appointee, she is well qualified for her current position, and pointing to her to rebut the lack of qualifications for someone like Gaetz for AG or a crank like RFK Jr. for head of HHS is silly.
     
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    Well, there's disagreement over who gets to use a given pronoun (which I'm not going to argue), and simply incorrect grammar. I was just pointing out the latter.
     
  12. GOATuve

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    It doesn't matter. I know the difference between a man and a woman. .
    As far as nominations, I might not agree with everything (I do like Tulsi) but anything was better than Harris
     
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    https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/11/...gued-his-immunity-case-for-solicitor-general/



    SCOTUS NEWS
    Trump taps lawyer who argued his immunity case for solicitor general
    By Amy Howe
    on Nov 15, 2024 at 12:18 pm

    D. John Sauer argued on behalf of Donald Trump before the Supreme Court in April's Trump v. United States. (William Hennessy)
    President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he intends to nominate D. John Sauer, who successfully argued in the Supreme Court earlier this year that Trump is entitled to broad immunity from prosecution, to serve as the solicitor general of the United States.

    Trump made the announcement in a statement on Thursday evening, calling Sauer a “deeply accomplished, masterful appellate attorney.”

    The 50-year-old Sauer has many of the credentials associated with others who have served as the country’s top lawyer before the Supreme Court. A Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Harvard Law School, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit for Judge J. Michael Luttig, a conservative star who has since become an outspoken critic of the president-elect. Sauer then went on to clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia and spent five years as a federal prosecutor.

    In 2017, Sauer became the solicitor general of Missouri, a job he held for six years – and one that allowed him to take conservative, and sometimes controversial, positions.

    During that time, he made his first appearance as an advocate before the Supreme Court. In Bucklew v. Precythe, he successfully defended the state’s lethal injection protocol against a challenge by an inmate who argued that executing him would violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment because of the likelihood that he would end up choking on his own blood.

    In December 2020, Sauer led a group of states in filing a “friend of the court” brief supporting Texas’s unsuccessful efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in four battleground states won by Joe Biden. Sauer wrote that Texas’s allegations “raise important questions about election integrity and public confidence in the administration of Presidential elections,” but the justices concluded that Texas lacked a legal right, known as standing, to bring its case.

    And in 2022, Sauer (along with nine other states) challenged the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate for workers in federally funded healthcare facilities. The Supreme Court declined to take up his petition for review.
    more at the link

     
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  15. SuraGotMadHops

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    I have many medical doctors in my family, and they all think gender fluidity is bulls***
     
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    There is no their/their :p
     
  17. SuraGotMadHops

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    "Their" is plural possessive, just further goes to show that someone who is non-binary (lol) going by they/them is beyond absurd and is grammatically incorrect by itself. It's all lunacy any way you slice it.

    Is Dr. Levine medically educated? Yes. Is he also mentally sick? Also yes.
     
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    Are you talking about "gender fluidity" or the idea of biological sex not being a strict binary? I know doctors/scientists often disagree on whether biological sex should be conceptualized as a binary or not. I've seen the arguments on both sides of that debate.

    As for "gender fluidity", what is the scientific argument against it? It's a psychological disposition with underpinnings that are complex and not that well understood. If sexual preference can be fluid, I see no particular reason to doubt that one's sense of gender identity can also be fluid. Transgenderism has existed cross-culturally going back to antiquity. Seems like it's just something that can exist naturally.
     
  19. SuraGotMadHops

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    Code speak for mental illness. It is a mental illness.
     
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