Trump drafting LGBT Executive Order

[Miles Archer]

Link to tweet

Follow up: Admin source says LGBT EO could affect federal employee benefits & protections & adoption agencies that receive federal funding

Link to tweet

More: EO could allow fed employees to refuse to serve LGBT based on belief marriage is b/t man & woman or gender is immutable from birth

Link to tweet

[Initech]

1. Is there anything we can do to stop this shit??

[NightWatcher]

2. If you want to make money, buy stock in Sharpies and poster board.

So in two weeks time we've protested for women, against a Muslim ban, and next up pro- LGBTQ.

But no, to answer your question, all we can do is seize the streets.

[dflprincess]

19. I have been thinking of moving my investments (okay 401K but "investments" sounds more impressive)

to pitchforks and torches or maybe tar and feathers.

Maybe both - diversify a bit.

[pangaia]

28. At least go into cash AT HOME like $100 dollar bills !!

[Equinox Moon]

30. Next up...

Internet freedom.

[Old Vet]

3. One thing about our LGBT brothers and sisters, They dont take shit and are extremely vocal

[TrekLuver]

7. And they know how to organize so really not a good move Trashpot. I can't wait until he pisses off

the veterans. And I can't imagine the military is happy with him right now.

[LW1977]

9. No we don't!

Resident Trump can fuck himself with the prickliest cactus!

[C_U_L8R]

4. How many more ways can Trump shit on our Constitution?

And when can we throw this dispicable deplorable out?

[sarcasmo]

5. Super Bowl protest.

[TrekLuver]

6. Ok good I'm glad they gave Pence's Priorities some equal time. I mean this is part of the

purpose he's sold his lack of soul and hung around the party.

[Takket]

8. i don't see how cutting funding to agencies that adopt to LGBT could even be remotely legal

[Idoru]

10. A lot of these EO's...

Are just for show, they will wind up in court for the most part or take years trying. Still it is important to show resistance. Time for a new hat design.

[cynatnite]

24. They're red meat for the base...

I don't have much going on. A trip to DC sounds nice this time of year.

[pangaia]

29. It doesn't matter if it is legal in a dictatorship.

[elehhhhna]

11. Unconstitutional EO. Again.

[Initech]

12. I really wonder how many of these before he gets impeached?

He's destroying our freedom and shredding the constitution line by line. It's getting fucking scary.

[Drahthaardogs]

13. If this is true, I read it one RoguePOTUS hours ago

Which may legitimize that Twitter account

[Cha]

15. WOW!

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

20. They also posted that people suspect Bannon is pushing Trump to provoke protesters

So they can send in the National Guard.

Republicans need to impeach that orange fucker NOW.

[roamer65]

25. I don't think the National Guard units will side with him.

Many, many are minorities.

[Rex]

14. Textbook moves.

He didn't wait at all to push his fascist agenda.

[brettdale]

16. Not sure on USA LAW?

Can trump make it illegal for gay couples to adopt.

Could he ban gay marriage.

Could he make it illegal for people to ban gay people from their places of business?

Please tell me he cant do that.

[Hekate]

22. This was a specific area mentioned by Obama that would be hard to undo. However....

.... Team Trump has indicated a complete disregard for law. They seem to believe that EOs are something the Mad King can just fling about like tweets and government will happen. Or something. So, I'd be nervous.

[Hekate]

17. Thanks for the heads-up

Wearily,
H

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

18. He really wants to see the protests double in size

And get really, really nasty.

[dflprincess]

21. Lucky for them that the LGBTQ community and their allies

have never organized to win a big political fight before.

If they try this I think it may outdo the women's march. If only because once they go after LGBTQ people women's reproductive rights will be next.

I. HATE. THEM. ALL.

[Hekate]

23. Women's reproductive rights was there from Day One. Hence the Women's March.

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Let's have each other's backs. We'll be stronger by far together.

[dflprincess]

26. We know they're on the line

but as of the Women's March there had been no EO affecting them.

Now he's reinstated the ban on abortion even being mentioned and I'll be he'll try an executive order going after Planned Parenthood, but LGBTQ people seem to be next on his list.

But, to your point and to quote Ben Franklin, "We all hang together or we will surely hang alone."

[Hekate]

31. Trump reinstated the Global Gag Order on Day One. The Women's March was already planned....

...but we knew in advance. Team Trump TOLD us what they planned to do all along. Hence the Women's March.

As regards the Global Gag Order, it is a political football. I think Reagan started it. Then every time the WH changes parties, it gets yanked (Bill Clinton) or reinstated (Dubya) or yanked again (Obama) and finally reinstated yet again (Trump).

This is indeed done by Executive Order. The reason for this is that neither party has a sufficient majority any any one time to simply pass it as a law. Especially the Dems. So this is quick and easy and makes a statement that the Men in Charge are pro-life or conversely pro-woman.

It is a political football with women's very lives.

[MFM008]

27. He will throw out this supreme court nomination

tomorrow to change the subject.

[jmg257]

32. Any word on this yet?

[Lurks Often]

33. "White House says LGBT protections for federal workers will remain"

Yes, Trump kept Obama's EO on LGBT

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-considers-reversing-lgbt-protections-for-federal-workers/2017/01/30/06160150-e736-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?utm_term=.08e9f3fbaf29

As usual the MSM got it wrong again by predicting Trump would revoke the LGBT executive order.

[jmg257]

34. Cheers - thank you! Very good to get past that notion. nt

[Lurks Often]

35. Stop believing everything the press says, they aren't even doing basic research before lying

Most notable example were the news stories that Bannon's appointment to the National Security Council required Senate confirmation. Five minutes of research showed that story was bullshit as there are at least a half dozen people on the NSC that do not require Senate Confirmation.