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

[AnonymousBleep]

I really feel for ordinary Americans. It's bad enough on this side of the Channel, hearing daily about Trump's latest petty, spiteful, idiotic bullshit - that rant against the Bishop who asked him to have mercy on immigrants, the ridiculous and insulting attempt to blame 'diversity' for the plane crash - but living under it must be so much worse. And heaven help you if you're LGBT or a woman. Or an immigrant. Or not white. Or poor. Or anyone else Trump and his freakshow of a government despises. I moan about the UK all the time, like everyone else who lives here, because god knows it's far from perfect, but at least we don't have a government in charge who is trying to strip huge swathes of the population of their rights and citizenship.

Americans had 3 candidates to vote for. Two of those, one got 49% and one got 48%.

We have several parties and a voting system which relies on "this party got most seats even if they didn't have candidates everywhere"

It's not a comparable system

This is real.

But there lies the problems which dei policies were trying to address. Competent black people are regularly overlooked for jobs they qualify for simply because of their colour their names. Competent women are overlooked or nor catered for because they are women. The argument for dei is not to get incompetent people in. It's to create a fair system where everyone can thrive in. To create workplace policies where racism, bullying, sexism in their multitude of forms are not tolerated. To investigate structural barriers based on race, sex, (dis)ability and dismantle them so that all those you call a tiny minority can enter and thrive. But fox and the hard right have sold a narrative that it is about getting incompetent minorities in. FGS we don't even know why the crash occurred but minorities are to blame? How is that not 1939 level shit?

I get the sense that the minority you are most concerned about are the ones who identify as women but who are in fact male?

The restoration of single sex spaces and sports is a positive for female people and for homosexual people, if sex is displaced by gender then you have the absolute horrors of lesbians being told that they have to accept that males can be lesbians and the issues of males wanting to break the cotton ceiling.

I am also familiar with the Handsmaid Tale, both the book and the TV series. I definitely saw the irony of the way that women thrown to the alter of trans in Canada & other parts of the Western World in the backdrop partcularly of the TV show.

I don't doubt that things will be difficult for minority groups, I understand that trans people do not benefit from anti discrimination laws in housing and employment in the way that they do in the UK and I don't think that anyone should be harassed or victimised because they don't perform gender roles.

However when women are being raped and sexually assaulted in prison by male bodied inmates and when girls lose out to sporting scholarships and are called bigots for not wanting to be naked in changing rooms next to male bodies and gay or vulnerable children are being given hormones to prevent their bodies from developing appropriately and are having double mastectomies because they don't feel that they align with femininity then women have a problem. It is our job to protect women and children from such sexism and physical harm. It's a shame the Democrats failed to recognise the problem leaving Trump with an open goal.

In the meantime it's 2025 and the USA has a female in the most senior administrative role which is Chief of Staff. So I have no doubt that Trump is a misogynist. I can't stand what he stands for in the majority of his beliefs but I applaud him for restoring women's sex based rights and for halting the medical harm to children.

The Prime Minister has the authority to declare war. Parliament has no say in it.

Yes of course it did.

BUT the Democrats knew this was a likelihood and failed to act to codify Roe v Wade to prevent it.

Obama had even promised to do this pre- his first term election but didn't follow through.

Neither party has, when it comes down to it, acted to protect women's reproductive rights.

I am merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the Democrats in failing to recognise the part they played in failing to settle this once and for all.

@AnonymousBleep - I fear Reform is starting to appeal to the young. Much like Trump.

As reprehensible as Trump might be to others, he was voted in again by people who are heartily sick of what's going on in their country and are looking for change and results.

I saw that.

No wait I fell asleep watching Rambo and dreamed it. I guess you did too.

I have family in the US who are devastated

@Hoardasurass - I'm a woman. Still with Starmer.

What's GC?

What's devastated them?

Right.... What woman in her right mind would deny men the right to enter women's changing rooms?

Why on earth would any decent woman object to women's sport being taken over by men?

Obviously they must be far right to think women are allowed rights at all.

Sex differentiates at 7 weeks, but which sex the baby will differentiate to is determined at the moment of conception by whether the fertilizing sperm carries an X or a Y chromosome.

Americans don't care about you or your thoughts OP. They voted Trump in . It doesn't affect you so be on your way .

I get the sense that the minority you are most concerned about are the ones who identify as women but who are in fact male?

You'd be wrong.

1. Your language there is offensive
2. Transpeople are both FtM and MtF but funnily enough it's only one which gets attention
3. Transpeople was the issue brought up here. I'm very concerned for the rights and lives of women, disabled people, PoC, religions that aren't Christian and Gay/Lesbian/Bi under this man. They are all under threat of even worse suffering

And during that time the federal government was led by the Democrats more often than the Republicans. Yet the Democrats did nothing to pass a pro-abortion law. Nothing.

But abortions are somehow Trump's fault.

Is this a joke?
Because we all saw the assaults on the Capitol...

He's not perfect, but he's 100x better than the alternative on the ballot. It's not worth the effort and time of pointing out all the inaccuracies on this thread, so I'll leave it at that.

I’m pretty sure Trump said something about his personal views on abortion were that it should be available to all up to 16 weeks unless there were extenuating circumstances. Not that I agree with this but that’s what he said.

That makes him a predatory male but doesn't show that he intends to outlaw abortion dose it

Yeah… I don’t have the energy either I agree with you though.

He did say that. He's also had many different other views on abortion:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-many-abortion-positions-timeline-rcna146601

I live in the US, but I'm not a citizen. It's not so bad. Believe it or not, a lot of citizens like Trump & the US media don't make him out to be the devil.