Posted on 03/23/2018 6:34:56 PM PDT by markomalley
The White House announced Friday that the Trump administration would implement its ban on all transgender service in the military "except under certain limited circumstances." It would also stop all use of Defense Department or Homeland Security resources to fund new sex reassignment surgeries, except to protect the health of individuals who have already begun treatment to reassign his or her sex. The announcement was expected, since it was part of President Trump's executive memo in August 2017 renewing a former transgender military service.
According to the White House memo, "transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria -- individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery -- are disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances."
The memo further states "the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, with respect to the U.S. Coast Guard, may exercise their authority to implement any appropriate policies concerning military service by transgender individuals."
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F*** the courts.
They have no authority whatsoever regarding the military. The CiC does, solely and completely as per our constitution.
In the aftermath of the Omnibus, aka The Trump Lame Duck Presidency Bill, POTUS is cynically expecting his base of ardent supporters to have the attention span of a squirrel. I suspect he his correct in that expectation.
But Hillary!
And I suppose you preferred to get out the Vaseline, bend over, and smile?
Thanks...
Believe me, I am not taking the stand that 50 billion dollars is a straight up good trade (it isn’t) even though I am sure some may see it that way.
My point is that when you are sliding down a steep mountain out of control with no way to stop towards a fatal precipice, you don’t haggle over the price of a pair of crampons, an ice pick, or a length of scruffy rope!
“on any charge they care to make up”
One of the things the libs can’t do is get caught in the Clinton syndrome again. They defended him to the max and when they got proven wrong, they took a real hit. Major rags, like the NY times, lost a really large amount of subscriptions due to being disengenuous. And the only reason in my mind that they didn’t get hammered more is that the GOP didn’t crucify them for their allegiance and lying.
I blame the GOP for that. They had the media that has been hammering them with misrepresentations for years by the throat and let them get away. Did Clinton lie to the world. Yep. Did the media try to protect him. Absolutely. And the GOP gave them a pass that Trump won’t.
So if they are going to get him, they better get a bigger boat because he’ll call them on it. He already has. And they got left behind when the plane took off. Trump is not a politician in the true sense of the word. He’s a businessman. Same species, different animal.
rwood
Strikes me as payback.
By that time too many forces will have been aligned against him so that no matter the size of his ‘boat,’ he cannot win any except a pyrrhic victory ...
“Why would any GOP voters stay home”
Americans have learned to make do with what they have. We have become complacent with our fake economy, our fake kum ba yah with our neighboring countries on the planet, our steady misconception of right and wrong and it’s position in time within ourselves, and our further spreading of this by the education of our children who are not even close to understanding the danger in the path we send them down.
And our representatives, by not pointing out the lies, cheats, mistreats, and the propagating of it to further an agenda that will destroy us and lower us into the same failures of third world countries, are a part of the failure. So if they do not speak up, the voters will stay home as their expectations have been destroyed and the bridge burned behind them. No where to go. And I have to rely at this point on the words of Al Jolson when he said, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” And we haven’t.
rwood
By his Constitutional authority as Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces. While the lawsuits will come, I suggest he ignore them and continue with this policy. As Andrew Jackson? once said, "They made their [erroneous] decision, now let them enforce it". This is just plain commonsense.
The stakes are too damn high to make one wrong move.
I disagree Mr. Trump guaranteed his impeachment... I think they were laying a trap for him, they were going to let him veto it and then override it, showing him up as weak, but he declined to step into the trap. Moreover, it would have left him fighting with Congress instead of driving his agenda forward.
However, the reason they say that is because the house doesn’t need “real” crimes to impeach, just “political” crimes and enough votes to make it pass—IF they take control.
I've been asking the same question, ON WHAT GROUNDS? I have yet to read any specifics from lead impeachment blowhard, Maxine Waters. Give me just one misdemeanor...just one since he took office.
“...makes me long for the days when they warehoused crazies in big institutions like Creedmoor....”
Look what we suffered under for eight years 2009-2016; Warehousing the crazies was easier to do when you didn’t have one entire political party - and some members of the other one - composed entirely OF psychopaths and crazies.
“... An irony is that the liberals who push issues such as mainstream of transsexuals in the military, tend to dislike the military in the first place tend to dislike the military in the first place....”
Not irony. It’s Strategy. There’s a reason behind it.
It’s done intentionally to demoralize and destabilize the one force they cannot completely infiltrate and control.
And it’s the one force they absolutely NEED to control in order to finish the Country and our society off and remake it.
Can you cite that? If true, that is one of the very few good things included in that horrendous bill. BTW, there is no such thing as a palestinian. They are Arabs from Jordan and some from Egypt. They started calling themselves that after Tran-Jordan was split up with one section called palestine.
Where ever they come from, they are a mean, hateful, barbaric, in-tolerate culture who's only objective is to kill Israelis - our friends and allies.
I followed all the horrific bombings/shootings of innocent Israelis at weddings, cafes, buses, marketplaces et al in the 90's before Israel built their wall. Then Israel unilaterally gave them the Gaza Strip. What did these poor oppressed people do first? They destroyed the Israeli built infra-structure. And yet the UN passes resolution after resolution against Israel for countering the pali attacks. If all palis disappeared tomorrow, I couldn't care less.
All the young fathers wanted to stay home and rear their children.
Sounds like the “exceptions” are a way to thwart evil Judges.
President Trump always keeps something in his pocket to throw to the media hounds. This will keep his budget signing embarassment to a minimum on the talky channels this weekend.
*APPLAUSE*
Wonder how many $’s this bs has diverted from real needs in our military.
BOL! Re the transgender bs. One of my wife’s favorite tv program has been Madam Secretary.
The program this year has jumped the shark and the rails. The writers have made the president mentally ill, used the CIA to entrap a senior conservative senator and used the CIA in illegal stuff here and around the world to do what Madam Secretary wants.
My wife has semi ignored my warnings re the above.
However, their new Transgendered It in the show has woke her up. The last show was rescuing LGBT’s, transgendered and whatevers from an evil government with the new Transgendered It having a leading role.
My wife said that was enough.
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