Military to Trump: we won’t ban transgender service members just because you tweeted about it

[Dena]

Sailor, with your interest in politics, you don't really understand what the United States is about. In the last election cycle, neither candidate should have been running for office. To understand why, you should read and understand "The Federalist Papers" and the "Anti Federalist Papers". These are a description of the function of the Constitution of the United States, the guidelines under which all of our laws SHOULD conform. Needless to say, the Constitution has been pretty much ignored for somewhere around 80 years.

You are attempting to force the Canadian model of government on the United States, something which isn't a good fit.

There are good book with these documents corrected and annotated  but they can be found on line in their original text.

[Lady Sarah]

IMHO, the best possible scenario that could come of this is: enough of the American populace raise such an uproar, that proceeding with their hate filled agendas could seriously harm their careers.
Unfortunately, I cannot see this happening, for the reason that the same people that voted them into office, are the same types of people that would cheer for The Purge to be put into federal law.

[SailorMars1994]

Sailor, with your interest in politics, you don't really understand what the United States is about. In the last election cycle, neither candidate should have been running for office. To understand why, you should read and understand "The Federalist Papers" and the "Anti Federalist Papers". These are a description of the function of the Constitution of the United States, the guidelines under which all of our laws SHOULD conform. Needless to say, the Constitution has been pretty much ignored for somewhere around 80 years.

You are attempting to force the Canadian model of government on the United States, something which isn't a good fit.

There are good book with these documents corrected and annotated  but they can be found on line in their original text.

Which of the 85 articles are you most refering to in this regard? My best answer would probably be No.10 in this case?

In anycase, I still stand on my case. Trump is pandering to the worst voices. As I said, he is basically a powerful Homer Simpson

[Dena]

All of them, the principle of the Constitution is that it documents the powers the people gave the government. I find far to many laws we must live under that the Constitution (the people) didn't grant the government the power to make. This includes issues such as bathroom bills, heath care, medicare, medicaid and Social Security. The list goes on and on but almost every law passed by the government is unconstitutional. If it's a good idea, then take the time to go to the people and amend the Constitution to grant the government these powers.

The Constitution is a 4 page document. We have over 100,000 pages of laws. See the problem?

[AnneK]

IMHO, the best possible scenario that could come of this is: enough of the American populace raise such an uproar, that proceeding with their hate filled agendas could seriously harm their careers.
Unfortunately, I cannot see this happening, for the reason that the same people that voted them into office, are the same types of people that would cheer for The Purge to be put into federal law.

Here's a start:
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/08/06/these-americans-beat-donald-trump-and-saved-obamacare-they-say-they-can-do-it-again.html

[Deborah]

I've seen from a few second and third tier news sources that trump sent an official memo to the Pentagon on Friday.  Maybe we should wait until the first tier news sources and the Pentagon itself says something before speculating what's going on.  This actually affects lots of people here in a real way.


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[AnonyMs]

I came across this as an explanation for the ban.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/6/1687332/-An-unstable-commander-in-chief-Trump-s-ban-on-transgender-troops-was-result-of-a-tantrum

It's hard to believe, but then isn't everything these days.

[AnneK]

I came across this as an explanation for the ban.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/6/1687332/-An-unstable-commander-in-chief-Trump-s-ban-on-transgender-troops-was-result-of-a-tantrum

It's hard to believe, but then isn't everything these days.

Make American Great Again. Dump Trump!

[vegantranswoman]

he's a

< he may be but we don't have bashing on the  Forum please
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