Discussion: Texas Lt. Guv: Obama Won't 'Blackmail' Us Into Accommodating Trans Students

Another tip of my cap to our amazing President for another brave and brilliant two-fer in this election year…
A forthright and kind but still brave reading of the law and the perfect stick to poke our most imperfect beehive as summer’s about to heat up…

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Lame duck president? Not this one. How about steely eyed falcon?

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What’s this asshole Lt. Guv gonna do? Build an outhouse at every school in Texas to accommodate these transgender children? Once again, these idiot Republicans in Texas have no problem using taxpayer money to defend a case that they will easily lose, because…reasons. Shame on them.

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Blackmail? Seriously? Of all the possible word choices, this flunky came up with Blackmail?

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This is the GOP’s hill to die on this cycle? When even their nominee thinks it’s a bunch of baloney?

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The party of Denny Hastert stands ready to serve as America’s moral arbiter.

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He said that the debate over bathrooms “is the biggest issue facing families and schools in America since prayer was taken out of public schools.”

Who said that Republicans don’t care about education?

Oh, and once we’ve established a precedent requiring transgender people who look like men to use the girls bathrooms, it should become much easier for the actual sexual predators of Republican fever dreams to penetrate this sanctum sanctorum of American family life.

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As I’ve already stated, this is a solution looking for a problem.

People should use the facility they are equipped for, or get surgically altered. This will also solve the predator problem, as I don’t see many men willing to lose their genitals to shit or shower with women.

(As an aside…This is going to be the big “I dare ya” of the century among high school boys.)

Good to see someone standing up to this foolishness.

He said that the debate over bathrooms "is the biggest issue facing families and schools in America since prayer was taken out of public schools." (TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick)

Why doesn’t anyone in the media call out these assholes on this claim? Prayers were not “taken out of public schools.” Any kid who wishes to pray can do so – the prayer(s) just can’t be led by a school employee or on behalf of the school, the government, etc. This protects everyone from being coerced into participating in something they may wish not to participate.

“The schools in Texas get about $10 billion over our two-year budget of federal funds. A majority of that is for free breakfast and free lunch through the food program,” he said. (Same fool)

Nowhere in the letter did the feds even imply they’d let kids go hungry. Geeze – hyperbole much? And, again, why didn’t the press call him out on this?

The lieutenant governor said that the letter will drive parents to take their parents out of schools and participate in voucher programs. (Ditto)

Isn’t that what you people want anyway?

"The president is going to find Democrat families are going to … (Ditto again … same fool)

Sounds like you may have skipped out on English class, sir.

The derp, the derp! … My head hurts.

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"He said that the debate over bathrooms “is the biggest issue facing
families and schools in America since prayer was taken out of public
schools.”

I thought the biggest issue for families and their student children is getting and education being able to come and go and participate in school with out fearing for their lives.I could be wrong.

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Did I hit 88mph on the freeway this morning. This is the exact same freakout they had over letting those ‘damn negros’ into their bathrooms too. Can’t wait for them to start passing Trans water fountain and swimming pool laws too.

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Texas will “find the money”? Bullshit. They are busy stripping public schools as fast as these Tea Party Xianists can of funding: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20150318-texas-moves-up-in-spending-per-pupil-still-ranks-in-bottom-third.ece

Keep 'em stupid and they’ll vote for Trump.

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Pro tip: The Federal government exercising its Constitutional powers over the States is not ‘blackmail’. It’s how the country works. If you are concerned that this is not how the country should work, by all means fuck off and die.

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No matter how often you psot this garbage, it will remain garbage.

And it’s Dan Patrick—along with you— who’s promoting foolishness.

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Wow, this is super simplistic. Transgenders take quite a while to get to, let alone through, the surgical process. Kids usually aren’t surgically transgendered yet, I think; I believe the years’ long hormone treatments come first too. So let’s see, here’s a born-girl who strongly identifies as a boy, and whose caring parents permit him/her to dress and behave as a boy, and looks like a boy. And now s/he’s required to use the girl’s restroom, whereupon the girls will likely run screaming out of the room, and their parents will complain bitterly to the school. Sounds just great, doesn’t it? No, Obama has it right. If it looks like a boy, feels like a boy, and acts like a boy, treat it like a boy; and the converse.

What’s ironic about this is that many times a baby is born with both sets of equipment, and a doctor or parents will make the arbitrary decision to remove one set and call the child the other gender, when the later maturing hormones will make that choice absolutely wrong, but with no present legal way to fix it. So the child is to be punished life long? Let’s get this resolved now, for all!

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You can’t make me be a decent human being, you can’t! you can’t! you can’t!!!
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You must be a conservative troll who believes controlling the bathroom habits of other people is good policy.

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Temper, temper, temper your bigotry and ignorance may show…

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We won’t raise your taxes to provide your children with a decent education, but we’ll raise them in a heartbeat to promote our own social agendas. Got it.

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