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Trump cabinet choices and other appointments

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

  1. durvasa

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    "Their" doesn't have to be plural possessive. "They" doesn't have to be plural.

    "I received a text the other day from an unknown person. The message was very angry and unhinged. They must have been having a bad day. They need to get their emotions in check." See -- I used "they" and "their" as a singular. Perfectly normal and correct English. "They need to get they/them's emotions in check." isn't.
     
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    I could have made the exact same statement with regards to sexual preference. Do you consider homosexuality or bisexuality a mental illness as well? That used to be a rather popular viewpoint.
     
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    lincoln
     
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    obama made fun trump because trump kept lying about obama not being born in hawaii.

    and in your mind trump is such a childish snowflake that because obama mocked him for lying that it caused trump to flip on so many of his core beliefs and principles.

    yall are so weird!
     
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    They didn’t want their kids getting their balls cut off
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    I believe it is. I have a few friends that are homosexual (both male and female) and all of them have suffered some sort of early life trauma that I believe manifested itself in that way.

    When I explain my thoughts on this to most liberals, they accuse me of being a homophobe or transphobe. I am not. I have zero problem with these people, they can do whatever they want. I just have thoughts on why they are homosexuals or trans...but I judge them the same way I judge anybody else, by personality and how do they treat others.
     
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    Alright. I don't see gender identity and sexual preference any differently as far as assuming one has a mental illness because they are one way and I'm another.

    When you or someone else refers to Rachel Levine as an example of a poor appointment by the Biden administration to rebut the very questionable nominations by Trump to very important cabinet positions, I don't see that as judging Levine by their personality, or treatment of others, or (most importantly) their actual qualifications. It just comes across to me as a mean-spirited attack on trans people for being "weird".
     
  8. Scarface281

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    remember when the Doctor who produced Obama's birth certificate was in a plane crash in Hawaii not long after, where she was the only one out of I believe 9 people that died? Not even by drowning either, but a heart attack while wading in the water for rescue.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/wor...ertificate-dies-in-plane-crash-idUSBRE9BB165/

    The pilot and seven other passengers survived the crash with various injuries, U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue controller Darin McCracken said, adding that one of the injured swam to shore. A spokesman for the Hawaii Department of Health said Fuddy's deputy, Keith Yamamoto, was among the passengers who survived the crash of the Cessna 208 Caravan...

    Fuddy released to him copies of his original certificate of live birth in Hawaii. She said that "in recognition of your status as president of the United States," she was making an exception to her department's policy of only releasing a computer-generated certified copy.
     
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    we have friends, dad's an emergency room physician, whose older son has transitioned (not sure if he made the ultimate sacrifice).

    dad thinks it's bullshit.
     
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    thought I saw the Christopher Columbus statue out the window.
     
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    Trump is such a childish snowflake that he ran for president, defeated Obama's handpicked candidates, permanently undoing Obama's legacy.

    Hate the player, but don't hate the game.
     
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    A 65 year old woman had a heart attack after her plane crashed. Probably spiking the hell out of her heart rate along with a flood of adrenaline. Then she has to swim. It is totally unbelievable this 65 year old woman had a heart attack. Oh and it was 2 years after you ****ing clown.
     
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    The implication is probably that the plane was made to crash by Obama to ensure .. duh duh duh ... the truth doesn't come out.
     
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    Yeah sure.
     
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    Future Madam President 2028
     
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    She is rogue from X-men...
     
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    Levine IS weird and unqualified, doesn't mean I think he's a bad person, just not somebody I consider mentally stable or qualified for a leadership position as it relates to mental and physical health.
     
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    She appears to me to be a high-functioning transgender person. I don't see any signs of mental instability (unlike, for example, the President-elect). Not an expert, but her qualifications on paper all seem fine to me too. Anyway, we disagree and that's that.
     
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