The Political Thread

[Tommy Shelby]

If this isn't more proof that we're heading towards a world war. Fuck this scary .

 

[Chris]

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/18/nx-s1-5421276/scotus-transgender-kids-decision

In a decision that plunged the Supreme Court into yet another culture war feud, the justices on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law banning all gender affirming care for minors. In the last few years, fully half the states have adopted similar bans, leaving the other half, so far, allowing gender affirming care in the form of at minimum, hormone treatments prior to a teenager turning 18.

The vote was 6-to-3, along conservative/liberal lines.

Supporters of the bill were predictably elated over the win. As state Sen. Jack Johnson, the sponsor or the bill, put it in an interview with NPR late last year, the state bars minors from getting tattoos, or smoking, or drinking and, as he observed, "We regulate a number of different types of [medical] procedures, and we felt like this was the best public policy to prevent kids from suffering from irreversible consequences, things that cannot be undone."

 

[Chris]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/18/world/israel-iran-trump

President Trump refused to say explicitly on Wednesday whether he would order U.S. forces to attack Iran’s nuclear sites, suggesting the possibility that he had not yet decided whether to join in the war between Iran and Israel. “I may do it,” he told reporters on the White House lawn. “I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”

Mr. Trump’s cryptic remarks were being watched closely for clues about his intentions as Israel’s strikes on Iran continued for a sixth straight day. The prospect of direct American involvement in the war has already added to fears of a wider conflagration in the Middle East, and led to rifts among the president’s Republican allies and supporters.

 

[Butters]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/18/world/israel-iran-trump

President Trump refused to say explicitly on Wednesday whether he would order U.S. forces to attack Iran’s nuclear sites, suggesting the possibility that he had not yet decided whether to join in the war between Iran and Israel. “I may do it,” he told reporters on the White House lawn. “I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”

Mr. Trump’s cryptic remarks were being watched closely for clues about his intentions as Israel’s strikes on Iran continued for a sixth straight day. The prospect of direct American involvement in the war has already added to fears of a wider conflagration in the Middle East, and led to rifts among the president’s Republican allies and supporters.

Probably the first thing he's said that wasn't a lie

 

[Chris]

And Trump just cut the Trevor Project from the suicide hotline

Cue republicans celebrating kids commiting suicide again, just like they have before with trans kids. And cowards pretending it's not happening if they have a moral inside them somewhere but still can't stop voting for these outright genocidal fucks

 

[Butters]

not familiar with the trevor project but im sure its a terrible decision

 

[Chris]

not familiar with the trevor project but im sure its a terrible decision

Suicide hotline for gay people. Veterans still need their own tho

 

[Butters]

Suicide hotline for gay people. Veterans still need their own tho

oh god, yeah that's about on par for them.

 

[Chris]

Hundreds of thousands of teens will be dead because of this within 2 years, that's not an exaggeration but people will say I'm overreacting. This is the shit that anyone who pretends to be a Republican that doesn't actually hate gays should be infuriated about but they'll stay quiet, already heard some defenses at work when someone brought up it had just happened

 

[Barry Poppins]

Hundreds of thousands of teens will be dead because of this within 2 years, that's not an exaggeration but people will say I'm overreacting. This is the shit that anyone who pretends to be a Republican that doesn't actually hate gays should be infuriated about but they'll stay quiet, already heard some defenses at work when someone brought up it had just happened

Dave Rubin somewhere just glad it isn't him they're targeting, just other gay and LGBTQ people.

 

[O-Blaze]

Hundreds of thousands of teens will be dead because of this within 2 years, that's not an exaggeration but people will say I'm overreacting. This is the shit that anyone who pretends to be a Republican that doesn't actually hate gays should be infuriated about but they'll stay quiet, already heard some defenses at work when someone brought up it had just happened

People fucking suck, that's just the sad reality of the world and I hate it. They will preach about love and shit like that, but then turn a blind eye to this. Ridiculous.

 

[Chris]

People fucking suck, that's just the sad reality of the world and I hate it. They will preach about love and shit like that, but then turn a blind eye to this. Ridiculous.

Anything to stop the woke and own the libs, we don't care how many dead kids it takes

 

[Butters]

I don't have any statistics or anything but I bet the need for a gay/trans specific suicide hotline is more popular than just the regular one.

Surprised they don't create a billionaire suicide hotline.

 

[Barry Poppins]

"Think of the children"

Unless they're gay, trans, slightly effeminate, liberal, independent from their right-wing parents, shot dead by their classmates, starving, a minority, sexually assaulted, or newly born. Then fuck 'em, bunch of ingrate losers who should be treated like property by their conservative parents.

 

[Chris]

I don't have any statistics or anything but I bet the need for a gay/trans specific suicide hotline is more popular than just the regular one.

Surprised they don't create a billionaire suicide hotline.

For so many reasons, especially for teens is my thing, they can become so much more extreme with their hormones and their tragedies are so much more preferable than adults who are still struggling after years and years. And it's very specific identity issues that talking to someone you relate to, helps way more than someone that doesn't understand.

Like there's a reason we have a veteran one, veterans usually can't really talk to other people about their PTSD from what I understand, so it only makes sense they can have a specialist to talk to as well.