That’s the issue I think. Liberals will argue that he had to sign the bill because America can’t survive any principled stand whatsoever. So if Democrats think that trans people are an acceptable loss, what are the rest of us going to do about it?
They’re a tiny percentage. But this is very much a “first they came for the trans” situation.
Liberals will argue that he had to sign the bill because America can’t survive any principled stand whatsoever
Yeah, I took this from the original post screenshot as well. But I got the impression that u/Clent is unironically trying to say that the Democrats aren’t at fault here, and I was very confused as to why they would express that in this post, or why it had positive upvotes.
Actually, it’s kind of weird that there’s a lot of “Ha! It’ll be worse under the Republicans, you’ll see!” comments on this post that is very uncomfortable, especially when the original post specifically talks about needing cis-allyship in these times…
So he should he forced the government shutdown? He can’t affect the budget choices of congress and the incoming administration isn’t going to do better so was he supposed to grandstand while all government employees suffer.
This funding was going away no matter what Biden did. Allowing harm to other people for no gain is deplorable.
Unprecendented geopolitical pressures had him signing this rather than any ill will toward lgbtq folks I’m sure. If only the Line-Item Veto had become law.
A line item veto is a far, far worse prospect. As much good as you think it could do with a president that had good intentions, imagine the harm that it could do in the hands of someone like Trump? Passing bills that are remotely bipartisan require a certain amount of compromise; if any of the people involved know that the things they wanted in a bill get stripped out by a hostile president, hen there’s absolutely no reason to compromise at all. That’s a very bad thing, since it results in complete gov’t shutdown and permanent gridlock even if you have a single party controlling every branch of the gov’t.
…but Biden signed this bill? Is he not a Democrat or am I missing something?
That’s the issue I think. Liberals will argue that he had to sign the bill because America can’t survive any principled stand whatsoever. So if Democrats think that trans people are an acceptable loss, what are the rest of us going to do about it?
They’re a tiny percentage. But this is very much a “first they came for the trans” situation.
Yeah, I took this from the original post screenshot as well. But I got the impression that u/Clent is unironically trying to say that the Democrats aren’t at fault here, and I was very confused as to why they would express that in this post, or why it had positive upvotes.
Actually, it’s kind of weird that there’s a lot of “Ha! It’ll be worse under the Republicans, you’ll see!” comments on this post that is very uncomfortable, especially when the original post specifically talks about needing cis-allyship in these times…
So he should he forced the government shutdown? He can’t affect the budget choices of congress and the incoming administration isn’t going to do better so was he supposed to grandstand while all government employees suffer.
This funding was going away no matter what Biden did. Allowing harm to other people for no gain is deplorable.
Unprecendented geopolitical pressures had him signing this rather than any ill will toward lgbtq folks I’m sure. If only the Line-Item Veto had become law.
A line item veto is a far, far worse prospect. As much good as you think it could do with a president that had good intentions, imagine the harm that it could do in the hands of someone like Trump? Passing bills that are remotely bipartisan require a certain amount of compromise; if any of the people involved know that the things they wanted in a bill get stripped out by a hostile president, hen there’s absolutely no reason to compromise at all. That’s a very bad thing, since it results in complete gov’t shutdown and permanent gridlock even if you have a single party controlling every branch of the gov’t.