Reporters can get sued and barred from access, and judges cant. They are hindered from telling truth in order to be profitable and maintain the current standard.
Damn, that contained such fire I got burned...though one little caveat, I can't see there being an argument to say any transgendered person shouldn't be in the military simply for being transgendered. yes, they have medical needs that must be met with hormonal therapy but if you remove them then...
you can make an argument that everyone in the military who requires meds for a lifelong condition should be drummed out of the military based on the argument that somehow we can provide food, ammunition, supplies, etc all BUT medicine to a frontline.
And, reminder, most jobs in the military are non-combat roles. If you're having to surge your logistics people to the front lines, shit has hit the fan and that medical dependency is not an overriding concern for the immediate need.
sure, at most you can say a transgendered person can't be in special forces. my son is in the Signal corps doing Sat Com so essentially logistics but in a world with drones, long range missiles, etc. everywhere can be the front lines. a group of soldiers were killed recently in Syria/Jordon border
I think her case could be about mental health regarding the anxiety and depression rate due to the stress of being trans and alive in 2025 or about and medical issues that may pop up throughout transition, what with the military being so selective anyway, but I can't say what she's thinking obvi
Makes one wonder about the attorneys defending Trump and his policies. Are they true MAGA believers? Is it a point of honor to do anything their client asks, no matter how corrupt? Are they just mercenaries doing anything for the money?
I know not everyone is in a position to quit their job without a new one, but anyone still at the DOJ knew this was coming. So I have to assume they’re ok with it.
This fascist band could be heard marching months ago headed for the DOJ. However I feel for a DOJ attorney with their kids in college or a spouse with serious health issues on their DOJ insurance. That is an impossible choice facing many and ZERO choice for the new attorneys.
Project 2025 calls for Transgender to be “restricted”. So basically Project 2025 is a Christian organization bringing destruction to America Democracy.
Holy shit. A demonstration that completely eviscerates the argument? I would be amazed if this judge has ever lost a case except for political reasons. In a normal world, she should be on SCOTUS.
Does anyone remember a teacher doing this to a class room where all the children with certain hair color had their character and academic abilities maligned because of their hair color? She wanted to show them what it felt like. Huge brouhaha over it but, I thought it brilliant
Do any of these folks actually know a trans person? I do. “She” is now “He”, married, middle-aged, balding and tremendously happy. Other than that, there was really nothing to see here, people.
what’s amazing about that exchange is that the lawyer clearly knows he’s bring both dishonest and dishonorable for pay. “i can’t give a response to that at this time.” making everything the judge said… applicable.
It’s a “my personal opinion/beliefs don’t align with the argument being put forward” coded statement. Like, “Please don’t hate me. I’m just doing my job/what I was directed to do.”
Does that really matter if the information provided is factually correct? There's no difference from that than quoting it out of a law book or legal website. 🤷♀️
Wait so did the DOJ actually state in their defense that Tra s service members are liars and dishonest people with no integrity but they they can't back up why that is?? Am I getting that right? It's disgusting that's what they actually think of people who have risked their lives for this country.
Ah I see, I haven't read the full EO yet. So, he's basically projecting himself onto Trans Service Members calling them dishonest liars who lack integrity. Has he looked in a mirror lately?
He's never ever served a day in his life #BoneSpurs but he loves to talk shit about other people who have. This attack on Trans service members is especially evil.
I know it's a serious topic, but now I'm picturing the most petulant person on Earth being picky about service members. Ugh, that tattoo is too small. Boots aren't shiny enough, next! Red hair? Nope! Only the perfect soldier will be allowed to make the ultimate sacrifice for me!
It isn't disrespectful to mock or satire the absurd.
We're SUPPOSED to be the good guys. Not attacking our own people if they're somehow 'different'. LGBTQ leads to women leads Muslims leads to Jews leads to Blacks....EVERYONE CAN become a target for the politically expedient bigotry de jure
It'd be super awesome if you would include the Alt text for the images, so our visually impaired friends can enjoy watching this masterful beating along with us. There's a much larger character limit in the Alt text field, enough to contain all this.
The only one I can *possibly* think of is that in some positions, deployment makes it too difficult to meet their medical needs? Similar to how people who develop type 1 diabetes usually get medically discharged.
Of course, it didn't seem to be a problem under the Biden administration, so why is it suddenly a problem having trans individuals serving now, other than hatefulness?
Yes, same for anyone who requires daily medication. That’s one of the only plausible non-bigoted arguments that could be made. And probably what she had in mind. But the statements of animus would make it clear those were developed post-hoc anyway.
i understand the desire to see this quote in the best light (they're arguing against a demon, after all) but if this was the case, they wouldn't have said "solid"
I suspect the argument would be something asking the lines of "because we don't trust our cisgender soldiers to not try to kill them after we've spent so much time and energy vilifying them".
A Biden appointee. Can anyone imagine “Loose” Cannon so succinctly making a legal point? I’m grateful Biden got as many judges appointed as he did. Quality & integrity in the judiciary matter so much.
does that mean we kick out DJT, have Charles III as king, and Hakeem Jeffries as the first Prime Minister of the USA ? i like this alternative reality ehehe :)
the british would be even worse, stop cumming over the idea of having people who are just as evil but with stupid accents putting the boot on your neck instead
The King is a figurehead and the Prime Minister would be elected, it's how Canada and Australia, and even, in fact, the UK work. And yes, it would be a massive improvement iver what is happening now.
Making a specious argument in court that you know is indefensible is an ethical violation. Next step is for every one of these judges to start referring these unethical Trump lawyers to their respective Bar Associations for disciplinary proceedings. Forthwith.
Absolutely concur. At a minimum it serve notice to other DOJ attys to not argue absurdities and will consume the lawyers time away from the handling of other nefarious Bondi DOJ fuckery.
About the only solid argument that someone could make is that anti-trans prejudice could impact unit cohesiveness, and that seems like a better argument for addressing the prejudice than for dismissing trained personnel.
Imagine a world where the Canadians, known for passivity and restraint, being more confrontational to the GOP/MAGA than the US Democratic Party leadership.
One of those is obviously hockey... I'm guessing the other one is rugby?
(as a childhood hockey player, I tend to want to protest that hockey's violence is overstated, but on the other hand some of it is basically a meme that the league keeps alive for whatever reason)
REYES: "In a commonsense way, ... how is this anything other than showing animus?" NOTE: court is asking a commonsense response.
DOJ ATTORNEY: "I don't have an answer for you."
Common sense question & the attorney does not have an answer for it; what do we make of his common sense??
For the record, it looks like the DOJ attorney here is Jason C. Lynch. He was hired during Obama's 2nd term, left early Trump's 1st, and came back late Trump's 1st and stayed through Biden term, for over 5 years now
Still clearly a chud! But not just a recent or Trump-only one
Oh, thanks, I was curious about that. I went looking and couldn't figure it out (I mean I do have a job I'm supposed to be doing 😄) made an assumption because the argument was so stupid. I guess this is what you get when you don't leave...you have to make the bad arguments for their stupid policies
At a certain point we have to accept that while most journalists support accountability and transparency and journalistic integrity, most of their employers DO NOT, and the threat of retaliation and illegal reprisals make those employers the gatekeepers of all truth and propaganda
I absolutely feel for the journalists who WANT to report clearly and transparently but are hamstrung by the corporate interests of their publications’ owners. It’s not like we got here overnight, though.
You're correct, there were in fact decades prior to this wherein politicians willfully ignored the fact that Rupert Murdoch was buying up every local news network from Maine to California. It has been over a generation since lawmakers mostly abandoned the pretence of regulating corporate actions
They system also hand picks for lame journos now too. Like, if you feel like shit reporting inaccuracies, eventually you're gonna quit and either drop out or go solo, then only the losers are left at the top
I don't. They should be banding together, leaving, and creating their own actual news organizations. With all the corrupt right wing media ownership there is a void to be filled for actual news.
If there’s one thing that will rile up almost any judge, it’s being given a transparently stupid argument by a lawyer who then can’t even coherently defend it. A lot of judges will come down *extremely* hard on any lawyer who behaves like that.
I'm so glad Reyes brought this up. I was so disgusted by the retro active decleration that I was suddenly dishonorable, without decency, a liar after service. It was despicable. And I'm sure if they hadn't been stunted in their execution, they would have literally attempted to change our discharge.
A lot of people are saying “why would you quit? Why would you quit?”
You quit so you don’t have to stand in front of a judge and get spanked defending this administration’s bullshit like this. She stuck feathers up his ass and made him cluck.
Too obvious a conclusion that requires critical thinking and will only confuse the Republicans. Everyone knows that pronouns threaten our daughters in bathrooms, diminish our military readiness, and causes planes to crash.
Yeah that s*'s not going to fly for them it's another frivolous f God damn lawsuit buy them that's going to go nowhere f God damn Republicans these maggot Nazi cocksuckers. If I was a judge I wouldn't even go that far I would throw that f***** so far out of court it would break somebody's windshield
It doesn't sit well with a lot of people currently when used to refer to an identified individual (Where's Dave? They're over there), but that can and probably will change. Language is very adaptable. I fairly recently found out that a long time ago, English grammar did not allow you to say >
> "My house is being painted," the closest you could get was, "My house is painting." Obviously as time went on things changed and meaning became clearer.
I'm not going to put up with sealioning. If you actually want to know, these answers are available very quickly with an internet search. There are extremely thorough answers that will provide historical context and a bunch of other information. I'm not here to give you personalized education.
But sorry, language is not yours to twist as you like. It is part of the Commons, and we have dictionaries and grammar to codify its use. While you free to misuse language, I am free to continue using in standard ways.
I agree that the meaning of words is only useful if we all agree on them. That doesn't change the fact that language evolves, that there is a rich history of using they as a gender-neutral pronoun, and that you can accept a tiny bit of temporary discomfort in order to give someone their due dignity.
Your argument amounts to outright refusal to just get used to this. It can feel awkward, especially for older people. I'm about middle-aged. It's not exactly easy to make these kinds of adjustments, but I'm doing it. I have nonbinary friends that I care about, that I respect, that deserve dignity.
Sad that educated, experienced, competent, mature professionals are having to endure dealing with what equates to petulant toddlers on their mission of flooding our institutions with destructive, nonsensical, chaotic tantrums.
Thank you Judge Reyes.
Name a date and time for everyone who cares about America and our democracy to meet on the White House steps to effectuate a peaceful transfer of power back to we the people!
Actions speak louder than words! We need a solution not continue talking about the problem!
The whole pronoun thing is utterly ridiculous to me, but I don’t see how it affects people’s ability to serve their country or why said people should not be afforded the same rights (not special rights) as everyone else. The military is so much more than front-line soldiers going into battle.
I cannot believe one orange radical, and Elon Musk somebody who’s not even an American citizen is having this much influence on our government and our politics. Why is this being allowed to happen? What happened to separation of power? I guess that was all a lie too
Dear DOJ Attorney, please describe, in detail, at least one instance in which the enemy has stopped an advance to inquire the pronouns or gender identity of the opposing army. Please cite your sources.
I mean you have to be pretty wimpy to not be able to do your job because the person next to you wants to be called Jessica instead of Jeffrey. I thought our military was supposed to be tough, not wimpy.
I beg her pardon. What a wonderful lady. The dog marks her out as especially sound. I wonder if Scout was named for the character in To Kill a Mockingbird?
If someone born with a vagina can complete the same training with the same standards as anyone else, then give that man a fucking weapon and let them get on with, FFS.
WHO CARES WHAT THEIR GENITALIA IS?
And soldiers have been having sex for over 3000 years.
What's the fucking problem now?
Wait...
I don’t believe we will get there until the Felon defies SCOTUS. He will illegally defy lower court orders that he has appealed but when he defies SCOTUS? It’s time.
Martial Law will be the result and the Military brass and enlisted will face that choice
it is infact on the path of becoming a reality, as trump continue to disrespect everyone at every level, his need to take over many lands that are allies with is insane,
heck, i feel the army would refuse to obey him if he ever ask them to go and invade canada
Have to hope that is the case but The Felon is undefeated at lying and Goebbels level propaganda. It seems farcical now to think he could get anyone to agree it’s a good idea to invade Canada but it was farcical that he could become POTUS the first time…and then again after Jan 6.
The time to start organizing is now though. Building community support networks like time banks (trading skills for goods or other skilled labor), community funds and gardens, food banks, underground libraries, and resistance networks, etc. for self-sufficiency is necessary right now.
While the DOJ purges are objectively bad (and you should be terrified), the purge of competence in the face of vigorous opposition attorneys and skeptical judges is going to lead to more exchanges like this.
The attorney isn't saying it. The attorney is the poor sap forced to defend the executive order saying it. In fact it looks to me like the attorney agrees that it's horse shit: they didn't say they don't agree with the judge. They said that they *can't* agree - seems deliberate to me.
Everyone keeps saying Trump has total control all federal law enforcement. I had not heard what you are saying. I hope you are correct. It may come to that.
He does have total control of all *federal* law enforcement. But a federal judge may be able to tell *local police* to carry out an arrest for contempt if the U.S. Marshals refuse to do it. This per @kathryntewson.bsky.social.
Mind you, the U.S. Marshals refusing to arrest someone a federal judge told them to arrest will be such a clear disregard for the rule of law that it may get us enough Republicans to impeach & remove.
What if every member of the military, be they born male, female, hermaphrodite, transgender or non binary are ALL called 'Mr' and 'he' and 'him', they are 'Sir', it is 'his' and are addressed to in a group as 'men'.
They are the US Military, not matches on a dating app.
Problem solved.
tRUmp and Elon, wasting OUR tax money on lawyers to defend the indefensible.
WE, btw, will also be paying $$$ damages to civil servants illegally fired without cause or coherent policy.
And here I thought things like technology, weaponry, training, pay and benefits, and quality of life for servicepersons and their dependents affected military readiness.
I dunno… Judge Reyes might need to go ahead and buy that box of cigars. Because knowing the magnitude of the MAGA infiltration problem we currently have within our active duty military ranks… It may not actually be all that difficult for the DoJ Attorney to produce one or just one🤷🏼♂️
The corrupt trump regime will find an officer…. Remember they got a Lt ( higher than a captain) to be trump doctor. And repeatedly lied about trump weight & height & medical Rxes etc) Judge should have known this history. Give a better dare. Find me a General that was in combat w an LGBTQ…
The military is less prepared now because of trump and Hegseth. Our allies also don’t trust us and will not be willing to help us because of trump, Vance and Hegseth. I would imagine Rubio isn’t a great selling point either. What fucking international disaster.
They are, so without bringing skeletons from the closet, I just decided to req independent eval from OIGs about the nuclear mass firings mayhem regarding readiness at NCR , DHS and DOE ..
Musk's rule for efficiency can be ok his hiena den while he blames everyone for loosing bil, here isn't!
Our military is run by a low level major who has a history be abusing women and being a drunk. The sec of def scares me more than someone who has different pronouns.
I can’t get over the fact that he managed to give a press conference so disastrous caused US defense industry stocks to drop 10% during a war that’s driven demand for their products to *record* highs.
I’d’ve thought it impossible to shake confidence in those stocks without nukes falling on the USA
Those stocks are also probably being affected by Trump forcing our allies to develop new arms industries which will now compete with our own for sales.
It’s a growth market for arms sellers, but not necessarily the ones in the US. 😉
Hegseth was out in front & triggered a drop all on his alcoholic lonesome
Vance and Trump have made it worse.
There is something about the Sec Def doing it though, idk. Most of us don’t really expect politicians to be military experts. Our own Sec Def tanking our def industry is a special fuckup
So the people yelling about waste in government are paying attorneys to argue in court that the largest and most lethal military in history is being brought to its knees by a few thousand of its 3 million members asking politely to be referred to by their preferred pronouns? Is that right?
Yes, because the US military isn't 100% manly men, they're going to get their asses kicked by the 100% manly men army over in Russia. You know, the one failing repeatedly in Ukraine right now, but Trumpers will tell you is WAY tougher than the US?
The obsession with loudly proclaiming that Russia’s military is full of hypermasculine built alpha males who will make us their whimpering bitch is so fucking homoerotic it belongs in a leather bar with as little clothing as legally allowable.
All you need to see to know there's some sort of crazy homoerotic subtext behind their "manly men" bullshit is Tucker Carlson's "masterpiece", "The End of Men". If you weren't told what it was, you'd think it was a gay porno...
They mistake abuse, even to the point of murder, for masculinity. They're abusive trash trying to feel good about being a deeply dysfunctional menace to other Americans.
Exactly. All the so-called money they are saving is going into all these lawsuits. So you replaced waste with waste. And this lawsuit isn’t a power grab. God help us.
Fascists lose their minds when anyone is polite or kind. We all realized some time ago that assholes are the problem rather than the people they want us to hate, and the assholes among us really want to go back to the brainless old ways.
Also one of the most technological militaries in history where most battle is done by drones and cyber warfare, which requires intelligence not brawn. I know we still need physically strong ground soldiers but what’s really going on?
Yep. Because it was never about "fiscal responsibility" or "small government". Rather, it was always about cruelty and oppression of others for their own personal gain.
That's what the American system was built on, and that's who will always benefit from it.
Not only that, but who actually refers to anyone by pronoun? Isn't it usually by rank or last name or something generic and non-gender-specific, like Soldier?
still need some way to indirectly refer to people without sounding weird
oddly enough I don't recall conservatives getting mad in 2016 when the military renamed a bunch of titles to gender-neutral (anti-tank missileman is now anti-tank missile gunner, etc)
When in doubt, they/them it out. It's been that way forever subconsciously anyway... so it isn't a problem at all unless someone wants it to be one, IMO.
Once you actually know the person directly, it's as easy as can be, as long as you aren't suffering from cranial rectosis.
literally started doing this to a coworker one time when a celeb came out as nb and used they/them. my (cis woman) coworker was like, "Why does it matter??"
so the other server and I kept he/him'ing and Sir'ing her for the rest of the day.
The MAGA position that we can't (or shouldn't) tell others which pronouns to use for us seems a clear indication to me that they believe the speaker (not the person being talked about) gets to decide what pronouns are appropriate. So, until they correct me I will be using they/them for the President
I hear you, but I think avoiding intentionally disrespectful language increases the chances it has a positive impact on someone (though likely not the President or any member of their administration. Plus I know I could use practice speaking with the singular they so I become less awkward with it.
The courts are so sick of trump and his thousands and thousands of court cases. He has abused and misused the court system as long as he's been alive.
I bet he has the record of being involved in the most lawsuits and court cases in history.
So, the DOJ attorney could "Not Agree with that here." Meaning he does agree with the statement. However, because he represents the government, he feels obliged to support whatever ridiculous pronoun thing they want.
When I served, enlisted, my superiors routinely asked me how I wanted to be addressed: Rank and Last Name, Last Name only, or first name. Funny, how that is ok, but using words like he, she, you, they, him and her, will somehow cause the complete collapse of the military.
It's amazing to me that this is an issue. I grew up in the military, and served for a short time. As far as I can recall, all ranks are gender-neutral. I really don't recall there being a rank of captain for those who identify as male, and captaina for those who identify as female.
Army veteran here. I promise you that the majority of those who have served and currently serve couldn't care less about what someone identifies as. We cared more about competency, respect, and readiness. A lot of us considered each other family and there's nothing we wouldn't do for each other.
Yes, Judge, that is exactly what they're saying. Preferred pronoun usage of aprox 1% of our military will seriously alter the readiness.
No cigars for them. More like the clown car.
lol the “I’ll give you a box of cigars” is so perfect because it’s like “if you find me a dumbass who agrees with you you still won’t win this case but I’ll buy you a shitty gift”
Read it all together. "If" does the heavy lifting here.
If pronouns substantially negatively impact the military, we have a big problem because that would indicate that our military is incompetent.
She's not saying they are incompetent. She's saying the assertion is ridiculous.
What the GOP don't realize is that the military basically runs on 'proper pronoun' usage. It's part of discipline and structure. It's Sergeant, Private, Sir/Ma'am etc. We have entire regulations on proper address based on rank, gender and position. God help you if you incorrectly address someone.
What blows me away is that MANY minorites and LGBTQ+ SUPPORTED them Republicans & Cheeto & now they're f*cking them all! It wasn't like they didn't know what their plans were. But I guess everything's worth it for the sake of the economy! How's that working for y'all MAGATs???
The military is lessed prepared because of white nationalists.....this is a smokescreen, like usual. Counterattack. No on gives a shit who is in the foxhole beside them as long as someone is there.....
Years ago I was involved in a case where a UK government lawyer was arguing that a Treasury 'value for money assessment' should be taken into account. Except it wasn't in evidence, and the gov lawyer admitted even he hadn't seen it.
The judge asked "But I should take it into account?"...
I served in the military for 40-years. The judge is right. I’ve seen it all and gays and trans and women did not degrade combat readiness. On the other hand, some Republican politicians worked hard to degrade readiness.
Alternatively, they worry that gay men would make them feel as uncomfortable and objectified as they make women feel on a regular basis. Which I sometimes wish would be the case, let them feel how the other half live, but in reality is just them projecting 🙄.
Same here brother. Ten years as a lawn dart. 3 gigs in Iraq. The most savage unrelentingly violent soldier I ever met was a gay man. The type of man that would gut a MAGAt for slurring him and try not to get any juice on his boots.
Hi, trans veteran here, served in the nuclear mission on the Strategic Automated Command and Control System at USSTRATCOM, serving in Trumps first term. I remember being called "too unstable to be trusted with nukes."
Our first names are the designator of our branch and we honestly could give 2 shits less about what's in your pants. Can you do the job or not? If you can call someone a new rank every couple of years, using someone's correct pronouns isn't going to kill you.
I am positive that Congress’ refusal to build the army new logistics ships is doing far more to harm to our readiness than literally anyone’s email signature.
But shipyards are on the coast, so they’d help costal cities, and Republicans can’t have that. Better to try to eras trans people.
Look at Michael Flynn. He is an absolute batshit crazy asshole and he’s emblematic of a significant part of Army culture, and I fear what will happen now that Soldiers like him have no guardrails for their worst impulses.
One would think that if it did have a negative impact, it would be the person with an outsized reaction who is the problem. After all, if you can't keep your cool when learning that the person you thought of as “he” should be called “they” how are you going to keep your cool in the chaos of battle?
And some Republican politicians used bullshit excuses to get about five deferents and then had the unmitigated gall to suggest that unprotected sex was his “Vietnam.” #ChickenShit
I was in for less than a year and I understood this. It has no bearing whatsoever.
The thing that pissed us off the most about trans folks in the military was that the ban came down after an openly trans cadet was accepted to the academy and we weren't sure if that appointment would be honored.
Nope. You’re wrong. 🤪🤣 It’s likely because they had the G.I. Joe doll with the Kung Fu grip & used it to knock down their sister’s Barbie dolls that makes them think they know more than generals and the veterans who have served and who have actually took on & returned fire. 😊
Of course the attorney cannot agree because they have zero expertise in the topic at hand and zero evidence to prove their bigoted position. If not for a racially diverse military we would have literally millions more racists in the US than we have. This is indisputable & military leaders agree.
He mentions soldiers with no common sense. Doesn’t he know that the majority of 18-25 year old, don’t have any common sense. Why? Because they don’t have real life experiences. But y’all steadily enlist essentially children & expect they’ll be real world ready & that won’t happen.
Anyone who thinks the US Military will remain neutral or even on the side of the Constitution, democracy or God forbid the rule of law forgets what Peter Strzok pointed out and MSM hid for fear of its consequences.
Rtd Gen. Mike Flynn's role in the insurrection, ostensibly led Q. Lied to FBI about his Russian contacts, convicted.
His brother, serving General Charles Flynn was alleged he delayed calling the National Guard. Army said he wasn't there, then recanted. Further allegations of Army cover up. Trust?
At least his brother isn't in control of our Army combat forces anymore. Flynn spent a whole bunch of time in Dearborn stoking them to unite in their hate of gays and socialism. Flynn is the head of the snake. Trump is the face.
One is not consoled. Not if the majority of them are Army & Marine, considering the disbursement of them all hell could break loose. Military law. Navy brass aren't capable of much. That leaves the Airforce to prevent larger scale activity. Moreover, martial law arguments for safety steer complicity
Especially for an organization that has SUPER-idiosyncratic rules about how different ranks are to be addressed by different honorifics or titles, depending on the inter-relationship of who is addressing who. Try to call an NCO "sir," see what happens.
You need to read what Reyes said again. Reyes was challenging the Executive Orders assertion that using different pronouns for less than 1% of soldiers significantly reduces lethality. That’s a lie and we know from the DOD own studies. But if that was true- then the military is incompetent.
Exactly- what ever “deference” a POTUS is owed should fail bc of lack of evidence & connection to the supposed goal. Pretextual for sexual animus gone overboard.
HOLY SHIT.
This level of “Gimme an effing break!” from federal judge is wild.
I sense the federal judiciary is NOT down with the gaslighting…
IMO, parenthetical message from judiciary being delivered to Trump regime:
“This is court, this ain’t Twitter. You don’t get to bullshit ad nauseum here.”
Remains to be seen, when the dictat…I mean president, plus a full house of stooges…er, representatives…wants an impeachment to develop a serious bite, what happens then?
As a Veteran who worked in Munitions, we once had to keep coming in on Saturday’s to work, cause the boys wouldn’t stop drawing penises on everything. In the dust on the buildings, in the pollen on the trucks. Military readiness is a joke.
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Finally someone publicly pushing back in a public venue with a sound and robust rebuttal to the hate spewing out of our WH.
Judge Reyes has got this 👏👏
so as a father of a son in military, it is a little scary.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-troops-killed-jordan-american-service-members-syria/
The lawyer jokes write themselves.
I am Elijah, the forerunner to the return of Jesus.
Myself & Jesus both returned as women & marry each other soon.
The entire gov. knows this - the entire gov. is lying right to you.
She is not some brainwashed toady accelerationist.
Thank you Judge Reyes for performing your job to the highest standards and thanking our people in service as well.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/politics/charles-littlejohn-trump-taxes-leak/index.html
The prosecution filing is linked in the article, and you can read their argument starting on page 7. Seems like Judge Reyes accepted their argument.
"You're NOT good enough to die for me".
This is a national disgrace upon us all.
We're SUPPOSED to be the good guys. Not attacking our own people if they're somehow 'different'. LGBTQ leads to women leads Muslims leads to Jews leads to Blacks....EVERYONE CAN become a target for the politically expedient bigotry de jure
Everyone of the arguments they would use to do this could ALL be used against Trump.
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what was suggested is having the british government assume sovereign control of the united states
which is as retarded as the united states invading canada
But are we going to ignore the "people can make a solid argument..." part? I disagree with that part.
There's a reason our two national sports are "the famously violent one" and "the even more violent one"
(as a childhood hockey player, I tend to want to protest that hockey's violence is overstated, but on the other hand some of it is basically a meme that the league keeps alive for whatever reason)
DOJ ATTORNEY: "I don't have an answer for you."
Common sense question & the attorney does not have an answer for it; what do we make of his common sense??
Still clearly a chud! But not just a recent or Trump-only one
"You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it..."
Trans ppl: outlive these bastards. Dont let them bring you down. So many of us are with you. We will bury them (politically) together!
Outlive them!
If there’s one thing that will rile up almost any judge, it’s being given a transparently stupid argument by a lawyer who then can’t even coherently defend it. A lot of judges will come down *extremely* hard on any lawyer who behaves like that.
Bro from the DOJ is so fucking cooked
You quit so you don’t have to stand in front of a judge and get spanked defending this administration’s bullshit like this. She stuck feathers up his ass and made him cluck.
"They" is plural so it is improper to apply it to single individuals.
"I don't know who did this but they messed it up."
And that's just one of a million examples.
😜
Sounds dehumanizing and actually evil.
You just hate being corrected for ungrammatical language.
If you call someone "it" to avoid using their desired pronouns, you are an asshole.
"They is a member of the Homo Sapiens species."?
"Person" is a term for a "human". But note: "person and "human" are masculine gendered terms.
Using "it" as the singular ungendered pronoun is simpler.
But sorry, language is not yours to twist as you like. It is part of the Commons, and we have dictionaries and grammar to codify its use. While you free to misuse language, I am free to continue using in standard ways.
The only gender free pronoun is remains "it".
Thank you Judge Reyes.
Actions speak louder than words! We need a solution not continue talking about the problem!
*And though I appreciate folks sending me alt-text in comments I don't need it myself. lol It's up to folks like Kyle to provide it.
from https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/district-judge-ana-c-reyes provided up-thread
WHO CARES WHAT THEIR GENITALIA IS?
And soldiers have been having sex for over 3000 years.
What's the fucking problem now?
Wait...
Sure. You keep telling yourselves that.
Wow, pretty sad when he hasn't taken time to rehearse the trumpanzee rule book of quick retorts.
Can bet the he/she gets canned sooner rather than later if anyone tells trumpanzee. Unless, could it be Habba showing her great skills again?
All of which can be used to describe any gender 🙄🙄
Why are unauthorized disrupters violating their constitutional oath?
Yes! Call them out in their BS.
Martial Law will be the result and the Military brass and enlisted will face that choice
heck, i feel the army would refuse to obey him if he ever ask them to go and invade canada
what the fuck?
All these people have are bullshit arguments. If they can't get it in front of a judge in Texas or Florida it makes everything harder for them.
They are the US Military, not matches on a dating app.
Problem solved.
WE, btw, will also be paying $$$ damages to civil servants illegally fired without cause or coherent policy.
Love her flipping it upside down and throwing it in their face.
Silly me 🙄
Musk's rule for efficiency can be ok his hiena den while he blames everyone for loosing bil, here isn't!
I’d’ve thought it impossible to shake confidence in those stocks without nukes falling on the USA
It’s a growth market for arms sellers, but not necessarily the ones in the US. 😉
Vance and Trump have made it worse.
There is something about the Sec Def doing it though, idk. Most of us don’t really expect politicians to be military experts. Our own Sec Def tanking our def industry is a special fuckup
I wonder if these geniuses could point out which flag draped coffin of a service member is gay or trans
They are willing to sacrifice their lives in service to country
That's what the American system was built on, and that's who will always benefit from it.
Every time.
Hell, I only knew my best friends first name because I had to write paperwork on them when I became a Sgt and ended up shift leader.
oddly enough I don't recall conservatives getting mad in 2016 when the military renamed a bunch of titles to gender-neutral (anti-tank missileman is now anti-tank missile gunner, etc)
Once you actually know the person directly, it's as easy as can be, as long as you aren't suffering from cranial rectosis.
give Republicans the respect they deserve and call them the incorrect pronouns!
so the other server and I kept he/him'ing and Sir'ing her for the rest of the day.
"It" is a fine gender-neutral pronoun for animals or people who act like animals.
I bet he has the record of being involved in the most lawsuits and court cases in history.
Pronoun weren’t used it was last names and title
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-2024-veterans-voted-trump/ar-AA1tRjo3
No cigars for them. More like the clown car.
A breath of fresh air!
Do they just surrender or start having crying fits?
Not “I can’t agree with that here” because I don’t actually believe it.
And they have such a hard-on for DEI.
Fuck them .
If pronouns substantially negatively impact the military, we have a big problem because that would indicate that our military is incompetent.
She's not saying they are incompetent. She's saying the assertion is ridiculous.
Image with alt text:
Exchange between DOJ attorney and Judge regarding pronoun usage in the military.
Kiss My Ass should just go to Cancun
That’s just sweet
Just Reverberating on my feed with laughter
The judge asked "But I should take it into account?"...
i.e. you know it's insane, I know it's insane, but here we are, that's what I was told to say.
But that case was about money. Not people's right to live their lives as themselves
But shipyards are on the coast, so they’d help costal cities, and Republicans can’t have that. Better to try to eras trans people.
The thing that pissed us off the most about trans folks in the military was that the ban came down after an openly trans cadet was accepted to the academy and we weren't sure if that appointment would be honored.
These.
Padron Churchill Maduro.
But I quit 5 years ago.
Fucking Trump!
https://youtu.be/BlEq0zDISVc?feature=shared
His brother, serving General Charles Flynn was alleged he delayed calling the National Guard. Army said he wasn't there, then recanted. Further allegations of Army cover up. Trust?
We'll see what happens, I guess.
Followed by drop and give me 50!
It's like the US has turned into Bizarro World. WT actual F?
https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/district-judge-ana-c-reyes
kind of lazy of you not to tell your readers who Judge Reyes is
She doesn't give me hope, but she makes me want to fight.
Thank you for this, @brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social
He made a vile assertion. Back it up, dude. Prove it or take it back.
This level of “Gimme an effing break!” from federal judge is wild.
I sense the federal judiciary is NOT down with the gaslighting…
IMO, parenthetical message from judiciary being delivered to Trump regime:
“This is court, this ain’t Twitter. You don’t get to bullshit ad nauseum here.”