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Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned
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Wait.
Is he trying to reverse psychology something
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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Well I guess no more gender affirming surgeries for balding fat loser white guys also then.
Its almost as if he doesn't care about the reason and will make up anything on the spot.
Oh, and hes also a child fucker.
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I'm now fully convinced he's a dictator calling himself a "president".
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Trump will do a thousand crazy things to deflect from his children rapes. Look here! Look there! Look up! Look down! Look left! What a maroon. A dangerous maroon. (Not a misspelling but a Bugs Bunny reference).
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Surely this is the last group of people whose rights he want to remove. Surely.
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Do it. Shut down the government. At least we'll get rid of ICE this way
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Shut it down, pussy.
At this point, even the most die-hard republicans should be horribly ashamed by the fact this "man" is even allowed to participate in politics.
Eh, who am I kidding? Few bad apples spoil the bunch, and it‘s already happened worldwide. Trump has become only a symptom of the wretched corruption that is everywhere.
The Democrats should threaten shut the government down unless they release the Epstein files. Fuck it all, make the Republicans have to tell their constituents they were willing to shut the government down to protect the Pedophile in Chief
That would require the democrats to act as an actual opposition party, which they have basically never done.
EDIT: I apologize, I must make a correction, the democrat party did act as an actual opposition party from approximately 1861 until the early 20th century, but I don't think anyone should cite that as a proud example.
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Do it. Shut the government down. I don't think you got the guts to give away your power in protest, you orange bum
I feel like it's a misdirection. Like, this isn't what he really wants. This is a ploy to get/do something way, way worse. Or use this to cover up the Epstein files or something. He'll use the shutdown and a hot button topic to get what he sees as a big fish...
Eliminating all trans people is what he really wants. The genocide of trans people is already happening in the US. When trans people don't have access to trans-related medical care, they die at very high rates. When ~~trans~~ people are terrorized by their government and their neighbors, they lash out. When ~~trans~~ people are labeled as terrorists, there can be no peace.
The Mormons, Southern Baptists, and some Jewish groups just asked the Supreme Court to consider trans people exempt from equal protections clause of the 14th amendment.
The genocide of trans people and immigrants is happening. Now. Today.
Government shutdown is also what he really wants, because he wants unrest and violence to justify sending the military to cities to carry out his nazi terrorism, declare a national emergency, and hold a third term in office.
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Why couldn’t it also be what he really wants? What part of anything happening in the US and anything coming from the right could possibly signal that they don’t want this?
Conservatism is a cancer and fascism is perfectly happy to turn that knob up to 11.
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How dreadful! For many trans people it'll endanger their lives.
It all reminds me of what was happening in Russia over the decades, just smashed into an impossible timeline. Small steps lead to irrevocable disasters.
Shut it down so adults can start a new one.
Shut down the government because of 1% of the population. What a loser.
I'm actually for that, but a different 1%, that's actually hurting everyone.
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Gotta love that freedom and small government
What about the Epstein files? Someone should remind him.
Mike Johnson shut the government down to prevent the release of the Epstein files. Full stop.
lets refuse to fund his magic bed
Let him TACO this. His base wants other people to suffer, not themselves.