How many counts are there?

You know those AR-15 pins the Repukes in Congress are wearing?

I think all the Dems should start wearing pins like these:



Available for purchase on Zazzle: https://www.zazzle.com/no_to_assault_weapons_gun_control_button-145735398281345213

NOTE: I am NOT affiliated with Zazzle or the designer(s) of these pins and do not profit from their sale.

Randy Rainbow takes on George Santos

Signature line question.

I added another image to my signature line tonight. When I go to my profile, the new image is displayed there (6 images total), but it isn't showing up in my posts, at least not so far. Any idea what would cause that to happen?

This little girl reminds me of my daughter. 😁

Bragg, DA probing Trump, received death threat letter with white powder

Source: NBC News

The FBI and NYPD are investigating a letter containing a death threat and white powder that was mailed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is investigating former President Donald Trump, law-enforcement sources told NBC News.

The letter was addressed to Bragg and said, "ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!” the sources said. It contained a small amount of white powder.

*snip*

It was the latest in what a senior law enforcement source described as "several hundred threats" aimed at Bragg and his office in recent weeks. A couple dozen of the messages were considered to be directly threatening serious harm to Bragg, the source said.

*snip*

In a statement, the DA's office said the letter “was immediately contained and that the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection determined there was no dangerous substance.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/da-bragg-investigating-trump-received-threatening-letter-white-powder-rcna76591

What a crass, tasteless, stupid, asinine, rude, crude, gross, appalling, obnoxious, disgusting, and

completely NON-reality based stunt! But it's also kind of hilarious! Why. Because Bobo implied that fetuses are not human!

The National Geographic Society defines an endangered species as "a type of organism that is threatened by extinction."
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/endangered-species/

The same orgzanization says "A species is often defined as a group of organisms that can reproduce naturally with one another and create fertile offspring. However, the classification of a species can be difficult—even riddled with controversy."
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/species/

And finally, here is a definition of the word fetus: "The yet-to-be born mammalian offspring following the embryonic stage, [which] is still going through further development prior to birth."
https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/fetus

In other words, a fetus is not a separate species. It is a pre-birth developmental stage, common to all mammalian organisms. A fetus is an organism of the same species as the orgnisms that provided its DNA.

The anti-choice crowd is constantly preaching that all organisms with human DNA, including fetuses, embryos, and even zygotes (eggs that have just been fertilized by a sperm, right now, this very minute) are human. They are very, VERY emphatic about this. They even want to pass laws about this. Is homo sapiens an endangered species? Hell no! Perhaps this could happen eventually if the effects of climate change are severe enough, but currently? No way.

Since a particular developmental stage =/= a species, it is impossible for any particular organism at any developmental stage to be an endangered species. If the species it belongs to is endangered, it could be considered a member of an endangered species, but that is a completely different thing.

TL/dr: Bobo can't call a fetus with human DNA an endangered species OR a member of an endangered species, without implying that it is not human, which would be a complete repudiation of a central tenet of the anti-choice credo!

In case you all haven't seen this....

"Blue Wall' Democrats urge the White House to give Chicago the 2024 DNC convention
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/chicago-2024-dnc-convention-blue-wall-midwest-governors-rcna76134

brooklynite already posted this in GD, but I thought it deserved to be posted here, too. Here's the link to the GD thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217752081

What are your tthoughts? Personally, I would be over the moon (for purely selfish reasons, among others ) to have the convention in Chicago!

These people don't believe being trans is "real."

They really don't. They think trans kids, in particular, are just "confused."

According to their theology, God made 2 genders, male and female, and however you're born, that's what you're "supposed" to be. (Don't even ask them about intersex people; I'm sure they don't even know what that word means.) Transitioning, therefore, is going against God's will, which means it's sinful. *clue pearl clutching*

These loons believe that anatomy is destiny. If you're born with female body parts, for example, that means you're female, which also means you are only allowed to have sex with people who were born with male body parts. (Intersex? What's that?) In their eyes, trans women are really men and always will be, no matter what. Trans men, likewise, are really women.

According to them, if God gave you a penis, that means you are supposed to use it to make babies with someone who was born with a vagina (and presumably a working uterus and ovaries, although that is by no means guaranteed). If he gave you a vagina (and presumably a working uterus and ovaries, see above), that means He wants you to find someone born with a penis to make babies with. Why? Because that is God's will; how dare you defy Him! *barf*

Changing your body to make it different from how God made you is going against his will, according to these pinheads. Even though changing one's gender isn't nentioned in the Bible at all, they're pretty sure it's just as much of an an "abomination" as they believe homosexuality is, because (like homosexuality) it involves using the genitals you were born with in a way other than reproducing with someone who was born with the opposite set of genitals to yours.

People who believe all of the above regard trans people (especially trans kids) as deluded and confused. They evidently think that if they can stop trans kids from receiving gender affirming medical care, those kids will somehow come to their senses. Or ... something. I'm not clear on how that's supposed to work. But since they also believe (erroneously) that a large percentage of people who transition regret it eventually, maybe they think anyone who is denied the opportunity to transition will eventually realize that staying the sex they were assigned at birth is what they really wanted after all all. (Yeah, fat chance, nimrods, it does NOT work that way.)

I would wager that they probably even think they'll be doing trans kids a favor by preventing them om receiving general affirming care. Yes, I know how fucked up that is, but we are talking about some very fucked up people here.

I know how gross all this probably sounds. Believe me, I feel gross just from typing it. But I think it's important to know what these people believe and how they think. Thr first step in fighting something is knowing what makes it tick.

Florida abortion ban: "These People Aren't Interested in Expertise"

The most consistent posture among those who would restrict abortion is to disregard pregnancy as a medical condition.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/florida-abortion-ban-six-weeks.html


Anti-abortion activists stand outside of a health clinic that provides abortions in Clearwater, Florida. Octavio Jones/Reuters