To be really glad I don't live in America right now

Did you miss the bit where state by state abortions are being outlawed having a huge impact on women's reproductive healthcare rights? Women have literally died due to complications of unviable pregnancies where doctors were legally unable to intervene. This is not what anyone should want for women.

If you think your bodily autonomy comes from the fact people are trans then you don't understand what the term means

He is anti-abortion. He thinks that (men) have the right to tell a woman she must carry a baby full term. Must subject her body to all the stress and strain that entails. Must subject herself to the mental pain that can sometimes be the reason an abortion is required - rape, abusive partner.

That's far more damaging to women than trans people existing. And actually takes away their bodily autonomy

I agree with you. The point I’m trying to make is that we have to take control of this now before it spreads. The only way it can be done is making things better for people and give them some hope

Trump got less than 50 of the total "popular" votes. He gain key "swing" states by a fraction. He got in because the electoral college voted him in, which was always going to happen if those swing states veered towards him.

It's not a landslide victory.

You do realise that Trump has just given women their rights back by defining women in law as a biological reality. He's saved women's sports by banning men including those who id as transwomen, same with prisons where 15% of women prisoners are male and he's banned state funded child medical transition including irreversible surgery. Please can you tell me how he's removed our bodily autonomy?

I feel more sorry for us, who didn't even get a vote and yet now are going to be dragged into a war with these terrifying maniacs.

This is quite an important point - in their anti-trans efforts, women have voted for a man who thinks he has a right to dictate what happens with their bodies.

Trump is an awful candidate for women but they could only see he said "2 genders. No change"

Maybe we need to look beyond trans ideologies and see how attitudes towards them can hurt women

Wait, you have a lot of time to go off on a rant about another country's democratically elected president who is doing precisely what he said he would and then if someone disagrees with you, you rely on an logical fallacies rather than addressing anything they have said and accuse them of not being real?

Some hints and tips for the next time:

1. Don't start any thread, ever, and expect people to agree with you.
2. If you assume everyone who disagrees with you is a liar or a bot that means you are probably a liar and/or a bot. Projection is a very real thing.
3. If you want to engage in discussion, read what people have said and react to that, not what you wish they had said, inferred they had said, believed they should have said - only what they actually said.

We can’t say for certain that they won’t thats the issue. If Starmer doesn’t step up now more and more people will become disillusioned and veer towards them

The "older people" thing is interesting. I can remember people saying this when I started voting 30 years ago.

And yet, the right rises...

Nope former labour supporter now politically homeless the same as most gc women.
Nice to see where you stand politically though

I’m not a fan but have family in the US and they’re all perfectly happy. I don’t think they need pity from anyone. As I said, I’m not a fan but he has millions of supporters 🤷🏿‍♀️

Trump himself didn’t accept the result when Biden defeated him and led assaults on the Capitol. Please don’t mistake him for a democrat.

There are a lot of people who look at the UK and are glad they don't live here right now. We're not in any better a place.

You may not like Trump but there are plenty of people who think Starmer is no better.

If you're hard left you'll hate Trump, if you're hard right you'll hate Starmer. If you're in between you'll probably dislike both of them.

FWIW I think the diversity argument is worth investigating. Jobs like controlling aircraft should be done by the best people to do them. Diversity should mean that the best person gets the job regardless of their background, i.e. if the best candidate is a black lesbian that shouldn't matter, not that a substandard candidate gets the job simply because they are a black lesbian.

Oh don't get me wrong, he's batshit. The interesting thing is that voters thought that he was more normal than the Democrat offering. There's a lesson there on the dangers of focusing too much on identity politics that only affect a tiny minority of very left wing virtue signallers. Most people can see the problems with massive immigration and economies being ruined by net zero, politicians need to address that stuff or someone else will.

"The majority voted for this"
The American election system is different. It doesn't work like ours does. It's not really "the people" who vote in the president.

It's terrifying to see what's happening. And the scarier part is how far he wants to go outside America. Threatening to take Greenland by force for example. It will gave effects far beyond America if he really does attempt some of the things he's said.

Labour are absolutely NOT anywhere near as bad.